MilesFox

downshift or decelerate as you come into the turn. stab the brake right before you steer, this moves the weight to the front axle, allowing the back end to kick out, as you come to the apex, nail it and let the rear tires do the talking!

there will be a small bolt off to one side if you are over looking it. there should be 5 bolts!

if you wouldnt ming going to bonners ferry idaho, you can take a peep under my wagon. i'm sorry for my lack of a camera with most of my work! some of it is still yet to be believed!!!!

Yo!, may i suggest that instead of chopping and shortening your ea82 axles, go ahead and do a ea82 lower control arm swap. but that requires cutting a portion of the ea82 crossmember and welding it to the brat. for example. imagine the brat with the lower control arm out. there are 2 sides to the mount, which the bolt goes thru. what you do is cut the rear side off the EA82, and weld it BEHIND the rear one on the brat. this will locate the lower control arm back. the reason for doing so is the brat control arm is straight, and the EA82 bends forward. by moving the mount back, you keep the suspension geometry the same. this will allow you to use the ea82 axles. this will also make your front track wider, and set your caster forward. there is a diagram floating around the board drawn up by one called RGUYVER. he is the one who pioneered the mod. but i havent seen him on the board for a while. he is the one who put spfi on an ea81 motor and turbo'd it! in a lifted hatch with the suspension mod I have done the mod to my wagon. also, with the ea82 lower control arm, it will allow you to use the bigger ball joint on the EA82 knuckle, using the larger EA82 brake rotor and caliper. i also used the ea82 strut and spring, modifying my existing strut cap to fit the new strut. and after doing that, you will need to use the ea82 tie rod. the mod is supposed to swap out the inner tie rod, but on mine, i had a manual rack, which that idea didnt work. you can lengthen your existing tie rods about 1 1/2 inch. you can use the ea82 outer tie rods, or use the ea81, but using ea81(from the brat), you will have to ream out the hole on the knuckle. in my opinion, do that rather than cut the axles! you can also swap rear disc to the back, just bolt on, or even swap in a set of ea82 rear trailing arms with a little bit of trimming. please respond to my suggestion, and let me know your consideration!

well, judging from the manner in which the motor was pulled from my ride, you know, throttle cable still connected to the pitch bar bracket still connected to the pitch bar and just floating around, i dont think the previous mechanic wouls have known how to totally remove an air system components. no lines no switches. if it DID have an air suspension, i would be able to tell by looking! the last time i looked at your sedan i noticed the 5 spd and commented on the conversion. but my compliment was met by a dismissal, because since it was already 4wd, its not a conversion

on the downpipe after it comes off hte turbo, there is 14mm bolt that holds it to the side of the transmission. check to see if it is there. there is another bolt that holds the rear of the downpipe, right before the flange, to a bracket that comes off the back of the transmission

tell me about it. my car will be delivered to tha state line so i dont have to deal with idaho!

there are a few of us in the indiana, ohio, and michigan area that meet every so often. we usually meet at jim's place, about an hour and a half from columbus so far with this local crowd, we have lifted 2 wagons, done 2 2wd to 4wd conversions, 2 ea82 engines in ea81 body conversions, a few auto to stick conversions, and 3 TrashWagons, have an RX with a semi-lift and 16 inch wheels, 3 Brats, an impreza, a legacy, a new legacy, and have gone thru many parts carsand countless off road adventures! this weekend we are swapping a turbo motor into a 4wd wagon hope you can meet with us sometime, we had a swap meet last year, and we need to meet again next year to make out Subaru Alliance meet annual

if you have seen my 'scoop yet, i have another piece of sheet metal pre bent to fit without trimming. i'll let you have it if you wanted it. I can most likely give you the GLF hood, if i can have the old one back as "core" right now the glf is going to be parted for the BRAT, but it will need a hood if it goes back together with different parts. so far josh is in control of the GLF, it was traded as credit for the RX, and the suspension is reimbursement for robert's suspension getting junked. but for the moment the GLF just sits there, the hood dismounted. the only thing its doing right now is keeping water off the motor. but a big piece of plywood will substitute!

14mm, the same as the wrist pin plugs. i have an S*K hex socket, it was about 14 bucks

however loud the 'bomb will be is dependent on where it is on the exhaust. i got mine right behind the y-pipe, and some 3 feet of 3 inch pipe after that. idles real quiet, but rev it up and it sounds kinda ricey, but very deep in tone!

my trashwagon is an 83, it has the brake booster and master cylinder off an 82, which has 2 reservoirs, which is the same unit in pre82 gen 1's. so you got the whole brake booster off an ea82, if i read correctly. from what i have messed with, i have noticed the pedal boxes for ea81 and ea82 bolt up to the firewall the same, and of course, the brake booster studs go thru these holes. so what is in the turbo brat for a transmission?, and where can i find the pics? milesfox@yahoo.com

my 87 gl-10 turbo wagon doesnt have air suspension. nor the wiring or air lines that so is equipped withy air ride. is mine an odd one of the bunch? unless you were referring to xt models......... pushbutton single range 4wd---actually RWD since i busted the front axle! jim's turbo xt has the air ride lines, but someone swapped the struts out for conventional units...........

Did cruise around in a FWD wagon though! Josh!

i chunked a front axle cutting a donut to the right(that side with the bad axle) so now it broke, runnin in 4wd off the rear axle. the front steering feels lighter without the torque steer of FWD, but it tents to push the front end around if you dont press the clutch while making hard cornerings. but rear drove is fun in its own aspects. its not w4d, but more fin than FWD but drifting turns is a little easier in a fwd, because you can pull the front of the car into the turn rather than push the rump roast end around the turn. but i anint bitchen- but my luck is i lose 4wd right before it snows!

chevy rims will work. supposedly they have the wrong offset, but they will work good enough to drive on. the set i made were on the trashwagon, then my sedan, then the 2wd to 4wd conversion, and now on the RX. they got 205/55 rubber on them, and are wide as a steamroller! they do shimmy a little but, but that is all relative to how good evenly you grind away the center to fit the hub, and using the right lugnuts. otherwise it may wallow out the holes a little. but now they are balanced and have 21mm nuts, they are a lot smoother at 75 mph

there can never be enough switches in a soob! so far i have pulled a hrness from a 78 brat, the harness from an 87 carbbed wagon, and a turbo harness from an 87 gl-10. i got a good idea of what you have done. we put an ea82 carbbed motor into an 81 GLF hardtop. the motor fit without mods, and we drilled out the 2wd 5spd flywheel to mate with the ea82. some of the wiring we will have to figure out, switching to a distributor without the external wiring, and an internal regulator alternator. but some of the existing wiring so far includes house wiring with a plug in as a connector and a wall switch! fun little things like that to make the car interesting as it works. one thing that still strikes my curiosity is the ea82 fitting between the (gen1)78 Brat framerail. my buddy wanted to put an ea82 in his 78 brat, and another guy said it wont fit in there without mods. so what was involved to actually shoehorn the motor in there? and what are you running for suspensions. if i read right you are using ea82 ssupension pieces? i got ea82 parts in my 83 wagon, with some mods. i am interested in your design to compare!

most of your off-the-shelf motor flushes and injector cleaner addatives are usually some kind of watered-up kerosene of some matter. personally i hate atf, but that is atf dripping on me,while working on an automatic. its one of my least favorite fluids to have on me. but that dont mean i wont try it! but on that topic, my least favorite fluids to be covered in goes as follows. gasoline engine coolant engine oil brake fluid ATF Gear Oil bearing grease there you have it, in that order!

i cant help but peep the 83 wagon there in the background. what brat? i see a wagon! it looks just like mine used to. and i want it back:boohoo:

this girl at work said i looked like johnny depp. ever seen fear and loathing in las vegas?

so what did you do about putting the ea82t between the framerails. i have put ea82's in ea81 bodies, but was told that they dont fit in ea71 bodies. i am going to help attempt a turbo swap into an spfi 4x4 wagon this weekend. i believe there is a lot of the wiring harness that has to be separated from the rest........

yo! finally see what the 86 looks like. what was so bad with the hood that you needed a good one. the one off the glf is available, it has a little surface rust, but its straight!

its proof that its not a 2wd to 4wd 3-door procalimed to be an RX. yup, its real, mmm hmmm, yes boys... the grass on the RX is from the carbola. i guess someone called the police, and the sheriff said there is nothing he can do about it, and the mayor could care less. but the mayor doesnt know we shortcut thru his yard every now and then, or towed the wagon thru it for that matter. i guess if the mayor sees soobs being worked on across the street, he probably thinks that none of them run and immediately dismisses them. we got a re-elect sign in the yard anyway!(yup, right across the street!

loose axle nut?

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