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If you can ship to whakatane put me down for 2 of them. My honda could use more power and Waimaks' other brat needs a new engine. KELTIK

When i picked up my wagon - the paint on the wheels was nasty and half stripped. The car originally had white alloys but the previous owner decided to spray them silver. Using only a wire brush, some sand paper and a dremel i managed to get them back to a nice smooth finish. 4 coats of chrome spray and 2 coats of clear lacquer later - they looked new! It took me 2 nights to do all 4 wheels and 9 months / 70,000kms later they still look good. Im sure a pro shop couldve done a far better job but this cost me $40 and a few hours work. I would post a pic but my wheels are covered in mud and brake dust so it wouldnt look all that appealing. KELTIK

Ive owned an XT, very easy to spot in car parks. Its one of those cars you have to look twice at - very versatile and very easy to work on. And it goes pretty well - we get 60mph easily out of 2nd gear KELTIK

i think a billion people have posted this q. just have a look with the search and i know you'll find some answers. KELTIK

The wheel alignment shops here have always done a 4 wheel alignment on my car with it lifted off the hoist. All 4 wheels off the ground. Their alignment measuring gizmos hook onto the rims not the tyres. I took my wagon into the shop with my spare on the front wheel and they swapped it for the original rim during the alignment despite the fact the original rim had no tyre on it at the time. KELTIK

Speed sensing wipers? My favourite feature; The Digi-Dash KELTIK

OMG another guy from wales!! Woo Anyways - the Vortex didnt have a WGDS and from what i know, ausubaru hit the nail on the head with his post. KELTIK

My old Suzuki Jimny did this too. When nailing it up over sand dunes the rear diff would slam around making one helluva noise. If you kept it up for long enough the gear stick would start slamming into the dash. To this day i have no idea what caused it but it Didnt happen in 4WD, and the axle/tranny mounts were good. The car was a 1999 so there cant have been much wrong with it. Also if you've seen Bullit, Steve McQueens Mustang does it when he smokes his tyres in reverse I cant believe i actually found a pic of that KELTIK

Yea actually i have noticed that! Also noticed my trans will "lock up" when im accelerating. Also noticed my ATF sits at the same level on the dipstick with the engine stopped/running/in drive/in neutral....... Bloody Hondas KELTIK

I retract my earlier question, found a thread explaining that the trans oil pump is driven off the engine not the....other one (whatever youd call it). So yes i was a bad boy and DONT do it! And no, my transmission isnt perfect (never has been) and its possible the towing contributed to this. I mean honestly - how much harder is it to pick up a car trailer from the local garage. Thirty bucks for a hire trailer compared to hundreds for a transmission. KELTIK

Woo i was lucky! But in my defence i never said it was a good idea. Still it was better than leaving my wagon on the rough side of town. Im interested in what your saying about the fluid getting pumped around, i had my transmission in drive whilst towing - wouldnt this have a similar effect as engine braking and decelleration? I've read all about how an auto tranny works yet i still cant figure this out? KELTIK

I realise everything ever written says "NO you can't tow Autos...Fool!", but i've had to tow my Honda Auto for 20miles in neutral and it didnt blow up. I dont know what the technical reasoning is for saying "no towing" with autos but i think if you keep the speed down and the distance minimal it should be ok. KELTIK p.s - i accept no responsibility for tears before bedtime if this advice gets you in the brown stuff.

Yup that looks like a Blown Head Gasket to me. This probably would give you starting issues. Hows your oil/coolant looking? KELTIK

Amen KELTIK

Its not a big problem but i'd love to know what causes it. Waimaks noticed this on his EA82T after a coolant flush; With radiator cap off and engine running, the coolant sits at a steady level in the rad. But if you rev up the engine - the level drops as the throttle is opened and rises again as soon as the throttle is closed. As the engine is winding back down to idle, bubbles appear at the rad cap as if there was a scuba diver in the rad letting out a few breaths. Theres no over-flowing or dramatic coolant spraying everywhere, just bubbles. :-\ Now you may be tempted to scream "BHG Fool!" but i ran the same test on my Honda wagon, the family Merc Sprinter, my bro's Toyota and got the same results. I repeated the test over 10 times and each one i got bubbles, where's the air coming from? Does this happen to you? Am i crazy? KELTIK p.s - i should mention none of the aforementioned vehicles have any known mechanical issues.

I like the Rack! "Preperation-H feels good on the hole" KELTIK

Well i just spent the day with John wringing out his soobys. The vortex seems to like 4-5k shifts and doesnt mind 6.5k, but the EA81 Brat sounds painfull after 5.5k :-\ but it keeps pulling. As an experiment my bro had the rev-limiter removed from his 8v SOHC Vauxhall Cavalier, gave it 8500rpm shifts for a month, then stripped the engine. No mechanical failures and everything was shiny clean. I used to be afraid of high rpm, then i bought a Honda KELTIK

I MUST make one!! Hehehe if i can't buy another Subaru ill have to make do with a paper one. KELTIK

The old Vortex had about 200k mi on it, the Honda's got 160k mi and is still going nicely. KELTIK

Found this pic lying around, im assuming its an EA82. That your arm Brian? I think a guy in our town blew the EA82T he had in his RX - bent a rod. I dont think it was quite this spectacular however. KELTIK

Well if you pay my air-fare ill be on the first flight out! But seriously although doing this much work on your car seems hard, if you follow these fellas advice and work carefully and logically - you'll get there in the end. As for your problem - im not a suby expert yet, but your CTS (coolant temperature sensor) is located on the passenger side of the throttle body. if you pop the wire off it and give the contacts a clean up it should help. KELTIK

I had this problem with my EA82T, it would turn over and fire occasionally but wouldnt start, leaving it over night seemed to make it better. Assuming your compression is good it must be an ignition problem The remedy that worked for me; First up i checked the battery connections - and sure enough they were corroded as hell. New connectors, cleaned the terminals and added a temporary ground from engine. Cleaned all the plugs up and gapped them then cranked for about 10 secs with my foot flat on the floor. She did eventually fire up and threw out a huge wadge of black smog but it fixed the no start problem. Also try popping your fuel line off the engine and pumping some into a can, on the vortex we got about 100mls of nasty brown fuel out then clean stuff - were assuming that was compounding the problem! KELTIK

Yup my old vortex had a dirty CTS and needed foot on the floor to start it. Just cleaning the connectors made such a big difference!!! It starts after about a second on the key now - no gas, hot or cold. KELTIK

Yup im on the case - the seller is worrying me now. She has another listing for a 90cc go-kart and has a $800 reserve on it. So i dread to think what the reserve is on this thing. But if i don't get it theres always the vortex option. Either way ill be glued to my keyboard in the last 10 mins of that auction. KELTIK

Well i've been wrong before......but you've gotta admit this is a very similar car. If indeed it is a different company i think there was some copying going on. KELTIK