MilesFox

a below 1000 rpm idle for a soob is considered normal. about 700 or 800 rpm it will say on the specs sticker under the hood. as long as it doesnt stall you are good. is your alt bad? if nothing dims at low idle then you are good to go!!!

rust belt! every soob i have seen has at least some but of rust at thr front of the framewell. all i have seen have held up for everyday driving. most of the front structure will be at where the inner engine bay and strut towers meet the firewall. it doesnt really rust too bad around where the bolts go through if you want to build a frame have LIFT in mind, but the sheetmetal will actually make the body stronger. as long as the jack doesnt stay with the car when you lower it(as in a scissor jack) , you are ok! when i had to get the axle from that yard in wisconsin it actually took longet top find a solid spot to jack it up than it did to pull the axle! i know how your rust plight can be! the soobs around here never came with rocker panels or rear side storage(behind the wheel) wheel well arches are always gone, too

simple green will do wonders! use it about 1/4 to half strenght. a bottle of simple green will go a long way! use it under the hood and see what happens "a vacuum line diagram? where did that come from?" use a terrycloth towel. try scrubbing the walls in a factory break room! you could use green label "the works" too, but it is a harsher chemical. cut it down by at least half

aside from valve grinds and such, at least do the oil pump seal and cam/front crank seal. all are accessible by doing a timing belt job. about 25-50 bucks in seals will do the trick! the rear seal should be done if the motor is already out of the car. you will kick yourself if it springs a leak by ignoring it!

it is supposed to run at a fast idle until it warms up, then drops rpm. maybe it has to do with a temp sensor or a thermo switch. something to consider.....

i put a 5spd behind an ea81t. i tried a 4wheel burnout, spun all four tires, but i was actually in 2nd gear high. much faster off the line, and sine the turbo will pull rpm's, it will get you top mph. but the turbo doesnt have bottom end torque, it had high end horsepower. but it will pull throughout its rpm range!, picking up at about 2500 rpm. it will fit with slight tunnel mods, but i had a lift in mine. but i do have a 5spd in a normal 83 wagon with an ea82 motor......no lift, got it to fit!

trashwagon7 ?

you could take your best example of a subaru from indiana and rank right up with the rustiest examples out west. rust is something you acept and deal with around here. and they are like "what is a ziebart" not really, but it might as well be that way................ you should see some of the ford tempos that run around. i'm talking about rust holes in the roof! i bet they dont sell any bondo out west! people drive around cars a lot worse than the ones in junkyards out west thats fer sure!

they suck so bad that you have to put in a 2wd to replace the 4wd with the bad diff. but the good thing about them is torque converters and pumpshafts will interchange with eachother. one of the annoying things is having to remove a flexplate off every motor you get, so you can bolt on a flywheel! its like the automatic was an afterthought, so that people who couldnt drive a stick would still buy a subaru!

its like on an ea82, i prefer the 85-86 style whel. the 88 wheel we refer to as a dildo wheel (one of my friends calls it that) and he deeboed my 86 sedan wheel, and i want it back! i told him if he were going to part off my car, i would rather haad him take the whole thing! brian, it reminds me of my 84 wagon, unoficially trashwagon2, i had a delco tape deck unit from a grand am mounted to the door, because i ran out of room on the dash and console with all my wires and switches! i was bumpin sonic the hedgehog reorded from the sega! you should get some shag carpet is that big copper wire on the passenger side the main wire in from the battery, you know, the post about running one through the firewall?

i would say it would be better suited for highly modded turbo setups and such, but too expensive for geneal application. an accel superstock coil with 8mm wires and .050 gap would work good as a general application the coil as roughly 30 bucks and the wires come as "make your own" and arent too much

i know, but they are still under the hood! nothing like bass ackwardsing it! i just pulled a doors windpw/lock/speaker wiring harness, after i remombered that the power window motor unclips from it! and i hate when i leave the damn 7/8 wrwnch on the crank pulley when starting the car trying to get the timing right!

after replacing the switch on the passenger rear door, the window worked, and with the driver door switch. the front passenger window was a bad motor. now they all work. but i have found that whatever windw is unplugged from its swwitch, it wont work at the drivers switch either

on my wagon i have to give it a little "push" as it closes up. this is what was up with jim's wagon. a little push fixed it

if it wew an outback or impreza wouldnt thes post be in new generation?

hail naw! gut it all you polease. i would suggets you replace it with a y-pipe off an ea82 spfi. it will flow better, and fits the same. but you will have to leave in a dummy o2 sensor to plug the hole it will fit on you rtranny exhaust mount and fit on the existing midpipe. the front part comes down farther, because of the crossmember of an ea82, but it well still fit like it's supposed to

scotch brite does it all! so does wd-40. do all your front, cam, and oil pump seals while youre at it. do you have the turbo gaskets? if you have to re-use use hi-temp copper silicone sealant, use on new gaskets too. replace the rubber hose from the turbo to the intake. we just did a whole gasket set on a turbo motor just to have that hose blow out!

i am next pt ;ooking at it right now! i am at jim's for the weekend putting wrenches to soobs. what is the "wrench" you say? well thewrench over here was getting a deadbeat non running turbo to run like new, 2 brake jobs, front and rear, and getting power windows to work. the "wrench" is a good thing. we are getting a carb fom an 87 ea82 and will be putting it on(if it has its original manifold) 86subaru is the name you seek. personally i think a carb has more fuel delivery potential. if you are gping to mess with woring harnesses you might as well go with mpfi turbo! i'll let jim describe it to you jim goes by 86subaru on the board, but his login is "guest" rather than member, because of transferring over and his internet provider, or something like that. pm me and send me an email, i will be doing a lot of the work on this BRAT It has the axles off my last TrashWagon!!!! it needs a little work as far as driving it back to florida. but if a trashwagon can make it to washington.............. well, anyeay, if you caould make the trip that would be grand!

the bolts for the bumper are under the hood!

but the xt6 motor is based off the ea82 engine in design, so wouldnt you think turbo pistons would swap into the 6?

i hope you know that Miles Fox has put the wrench to this ride! i'll have it all fixed up--i know this brat personally and am working on the carb i already know what it will take t put spfi on an ea81. it would be easier to put an ea82 spfi if we had a whole donor car to part from. if so, you can have the spfi already installed before you make the deal!

i am goung to be burning a cd-rw to keep my web page workings on. i will be downloading all of my old websute stuff, and making new stuff. i am asking for permission to use some of your pictures, websites, and write ups to work into the content. if you want me to use your stuff post a link or email links or files. i will have access to this burner and online connection thru tomorrow only.

i guess no one has taken the time to piss with an automatic!!!

tranny=gearbox hood=bonnet motor=engine tire=tyre english is one of the hardest languages to learn. too many of the same word means different things, or too many different words mean the same thing!

so no one knows? i guess i'll find out the hard way. then i will know!