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Water intake; I'm currently pulling the engine out of a 2005 Baja which choked on water. Even with the box in, it injested enough water to trash the engine.

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Way to go Mary. The brats are beautiful!

Sadly, SCCA has succeeded in driving my Brat out of contention. As much as I think I might be competitive in the rain and mud, with good conditions I haven't been competitive running against Imprezas, Legacies, and whatever else was running in Prepared AWD. I went looking for a suitable Impreza and this one came along with enough potential to consider parting with my other "show" Brat (which will go on the market as soon as I get around to it....hopefully by WCSS8). It's a '94 4 door coupe, 1.8 engine, AWD with 5 speed manual; around 125K miles on it. It came with the 16" wheels and 205/55-16 tires, KYB GR2 struts, H&R springs, 22mm rear swaybar, whiteline bushings, front strut bar and a battery relocated to the trunk. Added bonus were the studless Alpin tires mounted on stock wheels and the Thule rack system with snowboard carrier. The extra goodies prompted me to jump on this rather than wait for something less expensive. I will have to replace the springs since 2" less ground clearance is not good for rallycross. This should be a fun car and make the long trip to Portland much more pleasant. I'll be keeping the rallybrat since it is too useful to give up.

Simplest possibility is that the castle nut was loose and stripped out the splines on one side. After that check on what Craig suggested.

More photos here: http://www.chaserace.com/photo/20060521olympus00.html

Bow Wow in Lynnwood sells the EMPI adapter for the EA81 (not sure about the EA82). I have some custom adapters that were made by a board member that I'd consider selling. Come by sometime and look at it if you like. ---ed---

Sadly, an EVO won the Sunday event; it would have won the Saturday event also except for a co-driver error. Although I don't think the car made much difference; I think it's all with the driver and the two fastest drivers on this weekend were running EVOs.

Some really great photos of the rally this past weekend by Wayne Flynn. A chance to get some exciting shots for your library for not too much money. http://www.pdxsports.com/photos/showindex.asp?folder=2006OLY Here are more with cars getting air on the ORV section: http://www.pdxsports.com/photos/showindex.asp?folder=2006OLY_Jump

I'm headed south to work the Olympus rally. Apparently, they are planning to run a stage through the old Thurston County ORV park.

I've been running a weber on my '84 Brat for three years without problems overheating until a water hose let go.

I've owned this '91 wagon as my daily driver for the last three years. The car is perfect except for the stupid automatic seatbelts; I'm amazed no one has been choked to death with these yet. Not one of Big Brother's brighter ideas. Besides the choking hazard and annoyance, the glider mechanism has started to fail (yea, I know it's been 15 years!). I was thinking about replacing the mechanism with one from PAP but I'm sure it's just as bad as the one I have now (and I haven't bothered to inquire what new costs). I found out a while ago that Canada wasn't required to have these automatic belts and used a standard lap/shoulder harness. I do use my seatbelts so I inquired of a Canadian member if he knew of any Canadian wrecking yards that might have donor belts for my car. A phonecall to a wrecking yard on Vancouver Island that specializes in Subaru only found a set of belts with all the hardware and trim and $200 for both sets got me the belts. Thanks again to dominical1 for the help in finding the yard and getting the parts. Installation is pretty straight forward as long as you're careful removing the seats and the trim. In spite of the fact I didn't see the old parts come out, I managed to get everything back together properly. The old headliner doesn't quite match up with the new trim but I don't really care about that. The new belts are comfortable and don't chafe across my neck like the old ones and the stupid retractor is gone. Slight update. I had done the driver's side first and was happy with that side even though the trim pieces didn't fit all that well (much narrower since they didn't have to clear the slider track). Now that I'm doing the passenger side I'm finding that the trim pieces don't mount the same way. In retrospect, you just need to drill a large hole on the original column trim piece to allow bolting in the seat belt fitting and then re-use the original trim. You have to live with the un-used slider channel, but everything fits much better.

Check the ebay/CL forum; I just posted a '92 Legacy which needs a clutch for $300. Other than that, there are 8 early Legacies at the Lynnwood Pull a Part as of yesterday. They're getting $175+ for the engines if you pull them yourself. I bought a running '90 Legacy recently with a bad transmission for $450 with a JDM engine with 50K on it; that engine is now in my current daily driver and the rest of the car went to Pat's haven for retired Legacies.

Tex, not dumb; we've all been there. Just think, you're older and wiser now. Good luck with your other projects.

Not sure how it is with the Justy, but is there an adjustor for dimming the dashlights? If so, is it turned all the way down? Sorry, I had to ask.

Weird, my stock '91 Legacy wagon has stock disc brakes front and rear. My wife's '97 Impreza has front disc and rear drums. The tradeoff is that the handbrake was moved to the back which I like better.

Currently I have a box-stock EA81 in my '84 Brat with a slightly larger free flow exhaust and and weber. Added to that I have a 5 speed d/r conversion gearbox. With that, I have no problem running 65 to 80 mph and up on the highway; car goes uphill (South Center I-5 hill) with two 200+ pound people in the car and about 500 pounds loaded in the back at 65 mph without downshifting from 5th gear. The weber, gearbox and exhaust are all easy and relatively inexpensive. Car runs just fine with that. Drop me a PM and I'll send you an address and 'phone number. You can drop by on the weekend and drive it since I'm right next store in Bothell.

XT6 alternator is capable of 90Amp output; stock EA82 will only deliver 60Amp output. However, better than what you have now and would tide you over until you repair yours.

For the computer challenged among us: http://www.oregonrally.com/files/RallyCrossScoring_060507.pdf Hot times for qman and zap. I didn't do so hot in my class, but managed a respectable showing overall in the morning run. I wonder what they did to the afternoon session to make the course almost 15 seconds faster for some cars that ran morning and afternoon.

NipponDenso.

Who's adapter did you get? Redline, EMPI, or homemade? Sadly it's normal for the weber's front left to just touch the ignition wire cap on the distributor. They seem to all do that with the Hitachi distributor; rumor has it that doesn't happen with the ND version.

The manifold is "cocksided"--the adapter fits straight on the manifold.

Not a lot of rain, but a great time. Four runs in the morning session and watching qman and zap in the smoking Impreza, .....priceless.

YES!

Both Turbone and northguy's suggestions are good and likely causes for what you have. But if that doesn't fix it, when's the last time you changed the fuel filter? You have two (sort of)...one is under the car next to the fuel pump (everyone forgets about that one) and you have a fuel separator (looks like a fuel filter) in the engine compartment (driver's side near the firewall). Try that next. Good luck.