Hotrod For Lifw

Forged rebuild kit at www.ramengines.com and performance parts at http://www.ultraflight.dk/subaru_ea-81_performance_parts.html (lots of cool stuff on her from dual intakes with a carb a piece or dual intakes with fuel injection.)

Whats this about spinning the piston on the front brakes to get it to go back in. i have an 81 subaru brat gl and ive done the pads twice now. all i did was break a c clamp each time and had put the old pad over the piston and beat it with a hammer till it was in flush. did i mess some stuff up dong that? thanks matt:banghead:

Hey guys im looking to find a company that i can order a brand new electrical wiring harness for my 1981 BRAT GL if such a company exists. Can anyone help!!!!!!!!! Thanks in advance, Matt

Thank you!

Yeah all and all he was pretty nice about it. He just needs to be better imformed about such things. they put the young cops that dont have a whole lot of experience with situations like the brat, so they dont know the seats are legal.

Court is the 13th i cant wait! Im going to love proving that cop wrong!

My passanger was 14 years of age!

Well legaly its not a cargo area it was imported as a passanger compartment! I do have to plaque on the drivers door that says its an MPV and meets all safety requirements at time of manufacturing. it doesnt say anything about the seats though. i have brosure pics that some of my good friends from the Great Subaru BRAT club. The only thing they say about the seats in the back are that they are stock. I would bet more than half the cops here dont even know what a brat is. the cop that wrote me the ticket didnt know more than it was a subaru and it is registered as a light truck 12m regular even though it says BRAT right down the side on the decal, on the ticket he wrote Make:Subaru Model: Truck. At least he wasnt a real wongleflute about it he is just ignorant of the fact that the brat is legal to have rear passangers since it is the only "truck" exempt from the no passangers in the bed laws. My ticket started out being for "No DL in possesion" cause i lost it! "No proof of insurance" cause my policy just restarted and i hadnt recieved insurance cards yet. and " alow passanger to ride where not intended" I kind of put on a sad face about the No DL ticket since it was the only one that could stick and he said "since you have been so cool with me i will go ahead and take that ticket off" he took the time to talk to others about it and they all said that they had never heard of the brats the jumpseats being legal. He said if i prove him wrong when i take it to court he will state in court that he was wrong, which is going to be freaking sweet making a cop groval in court! I actually just thought of something else that can prove my case! What does BRAT stand for? Bi-drive Recreational All-terrain Transporter! I have court set up for Thursday July 13th. I was planing on fighting it as soon as i got the ticket but then i thought what if i lose thats another 75 bucks for court costs then i talked to sherrif and immediatly went to the court house to fight it! Thank you everyone again for your reply`s Matt

The 78 definitely looks savable. It has less rust around the wheel wells than my 81 does. I cant wait to have this thing sand blasted and the body work done with a nice metalic black paint job with the brat steciled in a brite yellow! Good luck with your new toy! Matt

Hi all i have recently recieved a ticket from an ignorant Wichita Police officer for allowing a passenger to ride where not intended(The BRAT jump seats) I know the seats are legal, but i just have to prove that in court. I called the sherrifs department and talked to a very helpful deputy that told me i was right when i said the jumpseats are a legal rear facing passanger compartment. He said that what he would do is take some snap shots of my jumpseats and get something off the web stating that they are stock seats intended for transportation of passangers on city streets, and not just for sitting in while at the lake hagin out with some friends. I am wondering if the owners manual that i dont have for my 81 BRAT GL would say that they are for transporting passangers on the street. Does anyone know? Thank you all for your replys in advance, Matt