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**Happier update! ** Well, it looks like the FrankenSubaru is alive. These are the latest updates : -I got the new ECU a remanufactured unit by Standard of Canada. -Following advise, I changed the oil and also flushed the cooling system and replaced it with ready mix Coolant. -I completed a brand new wiring installation for the radiator fans. This included fixing the auxiliary fan (for the AC circuit) and the wiring for a main fan with a separate relay, yet both share the same signal from the thermo switch, making them start simultaneously but fed from different sources. They work spot on, by the way, the thermo switch is for a Hyundai that opens at lower temperature than the standard Subaru switch boiling hot head gasket killers! -I found injector #4 leaking again. It was working but there was a leak around its base. FGS! So I got another injector from the junkyard. This one worked fine. -I found green corrosion on the connector of the throttle position switch. I cleaned it both connector and leads. And did the same for the MAF's connector and leads. With these fixes done the car started right away and to a somewhat smooth operation. So I worked on: -Idle adjustments, this was really a PITA, that included swapping a MAF, throttle cable adjustment, idle screw adjustment, ignition timing, new rotor and distributor cap. -Next is a second "field test", as I went for a spin around the block and noticed that dreaded hesitation and sputtering when going uphill. At this point it SEEMS better and more stable at idle, and when ramming the gas. Early conclusions: I'm yet to really know what was the real problem in the first place. I went through so many systems and so many fixes, that I just wonder if this car is so sensitive, complicated and badly aged, that it developed all these problems. After all tests I'm overdue to take it for the mandatory yearly inspection so it's street legal. That'll be next week most likely. Early thanks to all the great USMB members that helped me out! Special thanks to @idosubaru @DaveT @naru2 @john in KY I'll post more updates soon

No issue with the oil at all. I realized last night why my initial reading was so bone dry and completely inaccurate: I was parking facing steeply downhill after I had tried to compression the car when it first failed. Yes, serious facepalms all around here. But, hey, I'm not a guy that ever learns stuff the easy way. Just a funny scene from a funny show called Medical Police: Doctor: We need guns. Guns Dealer Friend: Sorry, I'm out of that game. I didn't realize how much guns hurt people. Doctor: You didn't realize guns hurt people? Guns Dealer Friend: Not until I got shot. I'm an experiential learner.

His web site is still up..... we are trying to contact him about a pair of them. One for me and one for one of my tech's that also has a lifted EA81 hatch. GD

i rode a ktm duke for a while. im 6'2" and it felt smallish. my brother is 5'9" and it fit him like a glove. great bike, way more then enough power to move my fat rump roast dont put them in a river though lol. they dont like it

Nice!

And one vote for good old Front Wheel Drive Subarus. What we all started off with in the 70’s , folks my age anyways. And to me living in New England and all a simple FWD Subaru manages easily 99% of daily driving throughout the entire year/cycle. Ride on !