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That does it, my bumper is definitely getting chopped off. Looks sweet! I think the black rims really dress it up. How big do those measure out to? They look like a 28-29, judging by how hard it was to cram 27s under my imp. I'm really fearing for my clutch. A D/R is gonna be necessary if I'm gonna try to offroad it.

I really don't see how the camber can be set on an ea81. . . It all just swings like a pendulum. Clocking the torsion bar will gain you some clearance under the diff. But it will make it super tight in the rear, and you will lose up travel. Tire wear won't be affected. Prop wear? not sure what you mean, the drive shaft can take quite a bit of angle. Axles will only complain if you use shocks with longer down travel than the stock ones. Here's what an ea81 looks like with a PK/BYB 3 inch lift in the front and no lift in the rear. Only the torsion bar clocked. I chose to do it to my first lifted hatch. I've found that in order to get the best performance out of an ea81 lifted rig is to unwind the bolt that tightens the torsion bar. Just let it relax, your butt will sag a little, and your wheels will be mush free-er to travel. You'll lose a bit of clearance under the diff, but who cares. You only need as much as the y-pipes or skid plate in the front. After all, that area goes thru first.

Wishin' ya a Happy Six Six Ed!! I sure hope I'm as baddass as you are after I age another 30 years.

No, bumpers won't help your angles. Your radiator/core support is your approach angle. If you protect it with stuff, you lose even more approach angle. Your Y-pipes will always be there.

Whether you want to argue or not, I think your statement is full of crap. You've got me pretty pissed off, and I'm not gonna bite my tounge. Where exacty in the clip to you see my brat have wheel hop? If so, do you know what wheel hop is caused by? Not by bad driving or "thrashing" but by having bad shocks. I assure you, mine were replaced with new ones. And spitting rocks comes from spinning the wheels. Wheels spinning comes from no lsd or welded diff. You'll notice that once the wheels spun, I let off the gas. I suppose next you'll tell me you've never spun your tires. You know what, I'd believe you. You know why? Cuz you've neve once showed me a pic of your ride doing anything off road except lifting a tire while you posed for a pic on the way down a hill. I'll bet you that you've never ever had a chance to wheel in a place like that spot in the clip. If you had any idea how steep and crazy it is, you would have never made such a comment. Nor if you had seen as many big gnarly rigs as I have break their stuff trying that climb. The video is due out soon. My bet to you is this: If you can produce a vid of you doing any kind of decent wheeling in your brat that doesn't invlove you spinning your wheels, I'll send you a copy of the video free of charge. I'll pay for shipping and everything. If you cannot produce a vid, then you have to stay out of any thread I create from here on out. How about that? We got a bet? (it's my opinion that everything you know about wheeling you found on the internet, you have very little first hand experience.) (articulation)

Not lately, but I have.

They'll do a lot if you know how to drive them too. FYI, that was the first one I ever lifted. It had over 200k mile on it. I bought it from the local Subaru only junk yard, thye had used it for a deliver vehicle for years. It never broke, I didn't put any dents in it. I can't say I've ever "thrashed" any of my Soobs. I can say I've laughed at others doing it though. I've always been able to drive my cars home, I've only used my AAA twice, and that was to tow buddy's Soobs that were broken. When I sold it, it made the trip to Texas without a breakdown. That's almost 2000 miles I believe. It's down fall was getting rear ended at a stop light by a car traveling over 50 miles per hour.

You really need to quit talking bad about that kit and take a look at the Ozified web site. The kit has been re-designed in the rear. Also. He's talking about an ea81, so your knowledge of the ea82 kits, whether on the mark or not, is irrelevant. period. I've installed 13? or the BYB/Ozified ea81 kits and I've never seen one have a defect. I've only seen bolts fall out, and that's because the user didn't go back and retighted them after a day or two. Scott's my buddy. I've never installed one of his kits, but I do know that Noah complained it was not that easy to install an ea81 SJR kit. The only problems I've had installing the Ozified kits was with rusty bolts. The "horse shoe" in the rear has been replaced by a longer shock.

Here's a bunch of group shots, meets here and there. Mostly in chronological order. The Hatch Patrol before we knew it. The first actual HP 4X meet ad EC. Mike W had the only lifted Soob in the country. On the way to Walker Valley Browns Camp Tillamook Greenwater, Greenwater Greenwater The way back over the pass after Nachees. Another trip to Walker Valley On the way to Reiters Out at the Cabin Evans Creek Evans Creek Cabin, Evans Creek Evans Creek HPMeet 1 Reiters Pit Evans Creek On the way to Evans Creek Snoqualmie Summit, Greenwater, Xmas Tree Run #? THE PEOPLE Still know most of these guys. Meeting at Ken's to plan the HP Meet The HP Meet, Some HPer's at my boy's 2nd b-day last 01/07.

I can do that. Gimme a minute, I'll whip out some good ones. For now, here's a few that I thought were worthy, I had to pick out 80 of my favorites. lol. Looks like you already posted a bunch of them though. http://hatchpatrol.com/

Subaru eater. . . gulp gulp gulp.

This is from the trip I originally took to the park to scout it for a venue. The mudpit area is not just a little corral, it's a bit bigger. Here's a view of a guy trying to climb the banks on the side of the mudbog drag area. (note the entry to other pit along the right side)

That's your problem. Just use a paper towel or a paper nampkin to soak up the moisture in there. Do it again after 15 minutes to get the remainder. You should be fine. (and don't tell him to seal his disty, cuz water on the outside will condense into the inside and then it's a mess to take apart)

WCSS7, 8 who's counting. . . ? And sorry to burst your bubble pal, but you ain't the first guy to save a Toyota with your Subaru at a WCSS. . . Anybody care to guess just who the guy the arrow is pointint to? I'm curious to know, with it to do over again-long drive home and all, if he would take his Soob into the good part of the mudhole?

Get ready. Your car sounds similar to Flowmaster's GL. Ask him how it faired in the slop at WCSS3. . .

I'll bring both of my rides, the imp and the Toy. The imp cuz it's a Soob and will be fun to get muddy. Not too sure if it'll have a d/r by then, time's getting too short for me to do stuff to it. It should be one of the crowd's favorites to look at anyways. The Toy cuz I can't see it being possible to regulate the mud hole. By that, I mean the WCSS can't rent that part of the park and it'll be open to everybody. I'll bring it with it's open diffs and the Soobs can show it up and make the crowd cheer like last year. (or the other way around, who can say?) That and the 8k WARN on the front will yank the stuckest Soobs out of the hole like nothing.

roflmao

huh? This is just a trailer/teaser, I've got a guy going thru 6 hours of footage that I sent him. He's making a full length vid. Should be out soon. . . The toy vs brat.mov 5.6 MB plays fine, not too sure about the bigger file. http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/default?user=digeraticomputing&templatefn=FileSharing1.html&xmlfn=TKDocument.1.xml&sitefn=RootSite.xml&aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en Enjoy. EZ

Happy Birthday Mick! You beat me to 40, but you didn't beat Ken. lol Cheers.

Sure, why not? Anybody else have cars they wanna bring? Ferris?

Toy's R Us is where I got the chassis. I bought the upgrade with the "compound" gears and the tires. I cut the hummers up and matched them to the imps. The wagon is a Hasagawa, the sedan is a Revell.

In the works.

Yeah, I'm sure he will. My sister has an impreza too, she'll probably make a showing. . .

I missed 1 and 4.

I hear you guys. 3 was where I showed my first lifted Subaru, the silver brat aka Secretmobile. 9 should be where I debute the first lifted (by kit and strut/spring) impreza in the US. (I think)