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It's official: it's alive and street legal. It passed the periodical inspection with flying colours and minor marks. (oil wetness, corrosion in chassis.. Etc) It behaved well despite old fuel in the tank that I know has still some contamination. It climbed up the hills weakly at first but then it improved. I know now it needs to be used! Thank you all for the support @idosubaru @Rampage @88SubGL @el_freddo @1 Lucky Texan and the rest of the members who gave me ideas and help. My conclusion goes down to that clogged tank, and a chain of misfortunes for such a rare car where no one would understand its proper operation. I will: Burn up all the remaining fuel and clean the fuel filter or replace it again if needed. Place an injector treatment for good measure. Have a hydraulics hose made for the steering rack and address the leaking. (it's not the engine, it's the steering rack) I'd probably work on the body and continue a paint job detailing and polishing. Fix the radio console so I can finally play some old tunes while going about town. VID-20210205-WA0002.mp4

I posted this link into my build thread but it probably gets no attention there. I made a short video of me ripping around in my hobby built loyale. Car is no professional race car neither am i rally driver. I just built it for fun and i like driving around in my country side place.

check suspension components carefully... you have ruled out the immediate obvious stuff. bad strut, worn bushings, wheel bearing, possibly even an axle problem could all contribute to a shimmy quick & dirty test for a wheel bearing, check the hub temp after driving for a bit.. frequently a bad bearing will cause the hub to be significantly warmer than the rest

I’d scour around for JDM if you can find one. Are they completely nonexistent? Call them and ask? There’s a handful of JDM Subaru importers they shouldn’t be hard to find - eBay, google, etc.

so installing a new ECU, and one of the tasks at hand was to find the 4 injector wires that go from 4 wires, to 2 , and back to 4 (so dumb, lol) had to take the fender off and take the loom apart.. yay. lucklly i found it, also found the resistors for the injectors

that red wire is going to give you problems in the near future as well.. has damaged insulation that is pretty obvious in the picture.

I have 40+ years of experience as a certified advanced level Master Tech and I am still employed in the field full time. I own a 1989 GL10 Turbo wagon (EA82T / 4EAT) in good shape along with a pretty good stash of extra parts. I own 2 other EA wagons as well. One is a lifted 1983 GL wagon with an EJ22, custom built 3.9 full time dual range trans, and a clutch style LSD rear diff. The second one is an AWD 1992 Loyale with an EJ22, EJ 5MT transmission, and a 5 lug conversion. Both cars have 4 wheel disc brakes. According to some people I must be an idiot too. Do I care what other people think about me, my cars, or what I do? Don't think so. I do what makes ME happy. I still hang out here and enjoy the USMB a lot. In my opinion this is one of the best resources online for older Subarus. I still check in here almost every day but I rarely post here anymore. Some people that post here seem to have moved on from EA Subarus and are down on our old cars for some reason. People world wide are restoring cars every day that are way harder to get parts for than an old Subaru. I say do what YOU want and what makes YOU happy. Will you make mistakes? Yes. Will you learn from them? Yes, without a doubt. I know I have. I am following your thread and enjoying it. Please keep it updated

yay my parts all showed up! i mean, dang my parts showed up, lol

finnaly got some parts in, finished up the intake manifold and its ready to go on the car now! hopefully that will keep intake temps slightly lower, we shall see!