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Door handle for what year Legacy and which side? Front or rear? Glad to do that. We could have you over and have a door handle party!

Your mechanic would have had to "reset" the tensioner to install the timing belt properly (or replace it). They can be re-used numerous times from what I understand if they have been re-set. I would ask the mechanic what he did; if he didn't re-set it, then I'd have him do it over with a new one; this is a critical item and needs to be working properly to avoid an issue. With your interference engine a timing belt "accident" could trash your engine.

Here's a link to the story and results: http://www.stpr.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=424 Pastrana and Block DNF; Tanner Foust 2nd and Andy Pinker 4th overall.

Website is down for "repairs". They are trying to arrange credit card payment for on-line pre-registration and something went "south." Email apparently through the website also. Should be back up tomorrow sometime.

Hey, Spark....glad to hear from you. Keep in touch. Anytime you need work on your car, come on over.

I've done at least a dozen of those swaps including two Brats which I'm still driving and never needed to change a proportioning valve change.

Found this on the ORG website: Rally Against Parkinson's - Jul 5, 2008 Organized By : ORG (Oregon Region) The Oregon Rally Group Presents: The Rally Against Parkinson's July 5th, 2008 Entry Fee: $25.00 gets you the rally, regularity laps aaround Portland International Raceway, a chance at fabulous prizes and a free barbecue dinner. Poker hands will cost extra, price is TBA at this time. Start at 10:30am to 11:00am from any Portland Metro Area Subaru Dealer you choose! Teams meet up at Portland International Raceway by 11:00 (roughly) for registration and regularity legs start at a little after noon. You must start at a Subaru Dealership, please do not come directly to PIR. This is a tour rally, no traps, no tricks and a nice scenic and fun drive. This is an excellent event for the novice team to begin with. It will be challenging enough for experienced teams to zero controls. Running concurrently with the rally will be a Poker Run. Best hands and low ball hands win prizes donated by top rally drivers, top rally teams and many local establishments. All vehicles welcome that are street licensed with two occupants. This is an excellent event for vintage cars as a warm up for the Monte Shelton as there are no gravel roads. All proceeds go to Parkinson's Resources of Oregon. For more information contact johnelkin@comcast.net

Here's the pic of the new fender (came off a wagon). Just a trace of the old pin striping that didn't match; interesting how sunshine will wash out the original color. Hardly noticeable, and certainly better than that botched touch-up job.

My wife is the BEST cook! Anyway, I will have to back the car out of the garage maybe since I forgot to take a pic of it earlier.

Russ was kind enough to come by yesterday and give me a hand installing and cleaning up a replacement fender on my "pristine" Brat. Car looks so much better. Thanks. The bad ugly: Anyone looking for a cheap Brat fender?

Not usually wet and muddy; the first event this year was, but the next two were pretty dry. Current weather patterns could have another wet one, but we won't know until it happens. A pleasure to have someone "non local" at the event. Welcome to the great Northwest.

Yea, I don't know how that happened. I noted the discrepancy between the ORG date and SCCA date back in March and notified ORG. Apparently ORG folded on the date and never updated the calendar until recently. I'm sorry you'll be missing this.

I can fax you the pinout drawing from the '97 Impreza (EJ22) if you drop me a fax # by PM if you think that would help you.

we need a firm count of people who are planning to attend and compete in the Fathers Day Rally X. We need at least 15 racers to make the payment on the facility, and more we have the better and more fun as well. please post back if you plan to attend. If everyone will talk at least one of their friends into commin out and racin, kickin your friends butt is fun! Reply to prglist@yahoogroups.com. Thanks, Jon pilot of the flyin pickle

That's not the kind of weather that's common near Seattle, but this is the reason I'm selling the Brat....I really want to get the Forester and the Impreza into the garage overnight. Hail can happen anytime, but at least the cars will be protected while I sleep.

June 21 and 22. Two day rallycross featuring tough competition, fun, and excitement.....maybe even a little rain to make it more interesting. http://www.oregonrally.com/Event_Detail.cfm?EventID=551 And for those of us that are doing a rain dance (like me): http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=Hillsboro%2C+OR A more detailed view of the monthly weather for the Hillsboro Airport area: http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KHIO/2008/6/9/MonthlyHistory.html#calendar

You can register almost any car for truck plates in WA. All you need to do is go to a commercial weigh station and get a certified weight for your car and bring it to DOL to register and they'll register it as a truck. My '91 Legacy wagon was registered as a truck so I could park at the truck loading/unloading spots for my work. My two Brats are currently registered as passenger vehicles. By the way, a truck registration costs slightly more than a passenger version but that's not very much.

Yea, if you can measure it that would be great. I have two Brats and I can compare what you get on the wagon to what I measure on the other Brat. I've got a OEM y-pipe (used of course) that I can install, but I don't have the rest of the system yet and I'm hoping the wagon exhaust interchanges with the Brat.

I think I know the answer to this but need a bit of confirmation from others who have tried it before. I want to replace the exhaust system on my other Brat from the y-pipe back to the muffler. Parts are a bit rare for the Brat, but I'm thinking that the parts from an EA81 wagaon ('83, '84) would be the same. Anyone done this and could confirm it?

Actually, Bonine works better. I never needed it, but always had it with me.

Judging from the dust in front of you, looks like you were catching whoever was there. I can relate; back in the day, when I co-drove I had an iron stomach. Never barfed on a stage rally or fast gravel tsd event. Only barfed once on a short Saturday nighter with my wife driving. We had gotten to the start late so we skipped dinner; I found out my stomach didn't like being empty....I just opened the door and let it out. My wife started to pull over; I told her not to bother and just keep going. Lesson learned....always have a good dinner before any event.

Carl, I put an inquiry in to autotrader with the following: 1982 to 1987 Brat Any distance from 98021 $100 to $10000 price range. In the whole country, they only had ONE listing. http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?ct=p&car_id=244948521&dealer_id=62645685&car_year=1985&model=BRAT&num_records=25&systime=&make2=&start_year=1982&keywordsfyc=&keywordsfyc=&keywordsrep=&keywordsrep=&engine=&certified=&body_code=32&fuel=&awsp=false&search_type=used&distance=0&marketZipError=false&search_lang=en&make=SUB&keywords_display=&color=&page_location=findacar%3A%3Aispsearchform&min_price=100&body_style=TRUCKS&drive=&default_sort=priceDESC&max_mileage=&style_flag=2&sort_type=priceDESC&address=98021&advanced=&end_year=1987&doors=&transmission=&max_price=10000&cardist=1720 Good grief that's an unbelievable link!

Thanks Rob. I don't know why I didn't find that when I googled "auto appraisers".

As a few of you know I have my "nice" (as opposed to working) Brat up for sale. I'm having an issue with my insurance company since I really want it insured for full value whenever someone test drives it. Only way they will change that value is with a professional appraisal. Anyone know of a company (preferably Subaru savvy) that does that in Western Washington? What does one pay for an appraisal of this sorts?

Yikes, that sounds like an awful lot of money. I don't remember the price of a new HB and I don't think there's more than an hour's labor involved in replacing it unless the woodruff key/channel was damaged also.