mellow65

i looked under the passenger seat and i swore i didn't see anything that looked like a control box of some sort. but then again i wasn't really looking for one i was just looking to see if there were wires running up to the lap belt for the passenger side belt too. i will check tomorrow

I have a 94 legacy and the stupid put your seatbelt light on will not stop flashing. I have checked both drivers and passenger switches in the passive restraint system (aka anoying automatic belts). I have checked the the drivers lap belt switch and even tried to bypass it. But nothing, the damn thing will not go off. Has anyone had this happen before. And short of pulling the bulb out has anyone fixed it. Any ideas I am willing to try. thanks

but i would need adapter plate, new clutch, axles and other bits. i would like to just keep with the ej stuff

the making of a suby rwd would put it in open class, because it was never an option. it has been asked over at rally america second i just bought a rally car, been going through it, and doesn't really meet the rules for the class it has been running. and to go to the next class up in an awd would put me with the big boy factory guys. so go backwards a little, G2 is an open NA 2 wheel drive class. so being in that group puts you with cars of similar HP and I think would be more fun because of the looseness of the rules. so really i would be starting with a finished 90 legacy awd and making it a 2wd. kind of the same route the Burens G5 impreza went, started as a 1.8 awd then went to a 2.2 turbo fwd and is kicking rump roast in their class.

i thought about that, but i just don't think that would hold up

I like the 4.11 idea better, but i guess you take what you can get. im shooting for group 2 rally, it's a open class NA 2 wheel drive class.

that was my first choice but they are hard to find and the gearing is different. but i will throw a wanted post up and see if i get any response

this is on a 5 speed, but still finding a fwd tranny is harder then finding a awd tranny so if i found a fwd tranny i could just use that. but i figure i have the tranny that is in my car now and if i can use that with out to much headache i would do it

my thought was to remove the rear diff and just leave the outer axle part in the hub just to hold stuff together. are you thinking that by removing the drive line it would allow the output shaft to move around more then it was originally supposed to. i could see that. what if you removed just the part of the drive line that went into the tranny and somehow kept it there, like welding it or something. but assuming you smoked your center diff would the rest of the tranny work fine.

i know i was going to get someone asking. its all about the rules, well rules about the racing i will be doing. fwd cars get to compete with other similar powered fwd cars and if you want to do some upgrades to the car, you can still be running with similar powered cars, awd cars have to play with turboed cars and have no chance in hell, if you do upgrades to an awd car, you now have to run with the guys that have no spending limit. some people call it crazy, i call it rally

im sure someone has done this for one reason or another. probable because it is much easier to find a 5 speed awd tranny then it is to find the fwd ones. what kind of process does it take to do it? and could it be just as simple as not hooking up the rear drive line and literately smoking the center diff. I know that's kind of the crappy way of doing it but would that work.

are your ears bleeding from that exhaust yet. good to hear it i want to see that thing run.

Or maybe someone knows, i am trying to find the weights for these cars 93-95 impreza sedan and coupe, AWD and 2WD 5 speed 90-94 legacy sedans 2WD and AWD 5 speed maybe someone has gone to a truck stop lately and weighed there car or maybe someone knows where to find some info online. its for one more of my hair brained ideas

not to completely change my mind here but could i bring them out tuesday. i will be out in that way on tuesday and could stop by. i mean i will do it tomorrow because i said i would, but i would have to make a special trip just for that. But if you need them real bad tomorrow i could still come out.

k i can bring them out tomorrow

an alternative even to ordering them is find your local VW performance shop, (we have one here called discount import parts) and ask for the Acorn to Ball lug Adapter. i was able to get in the same day a full set of 16 for $12. this is what I got.

it's ok i guess if i feel i need a set of mud tires, I will probably just get a set of swampers so i will just rock the ATs right now.

well it's not on their website. so i talked to a couple people today about the kumhos and they were all saying that they were getting rid of the 27x8.5x14 MT but they were replacing it with this tire. and it should be availible in 27x8.5x14. but i just have to wait till they come out. and im sure they will be spendy.

dang that was the tire i was hoping to use. why is it when i get ready to get tires kumho discontinues that tire i want. Now it's happened twice. Well I guess i will look for other stuff.

I am looking to get a set of Kumho MTs to put on my 14" pugs that I just got, but am having a hard time finding a place to buy them. Even online it seems like no one has them. i am looking for the 27x8.5x14. any help would be great.

hell there are tons of them out there. and they don't have to be from just old stuff. look in legacys out there, most of those came with cruise. The one in the picture you can send me a couple bucks for and I will send you it with the plug for the harness side too so if you ever needed to take it out you could. let me know and doing the micro switch would work, but you would have to make stuff. why do that when you can just unbolt something and then put something back in and then run some wires and you are done.

here i will aid with some pictures. you can see there is a switch on the top with the green wire, that is the clutch safety switch, that is the switch that doesn't let your car start with out the clutch pressed all the way down. The bolt with the nut on it below it is the spot I am talking about. the switch that went there was only there when the car was equipped with cruise control. So if you put the clutch down it would shut off the cruise. You can see on my 94 loyale it didn't have cruise so they just put a bolt there. If you replace the bolt with this a cruise control switch you now have a second switch that can be used instead of your neutral switch on the tranny. I got this one off of my 84 hardtop that I am parting out. It is just a simple closed open switch. Closed when pressed and open when released. The neutral switch is the same way, closed when in gear and open when in neutral. So think of it this way, clutch all the way up, button pressed, ECU thinks it's in gear, press clutch down, release switch, ECU thinks it's in neutral. It's not perfect but it apparently fools the ECU enough to work You would just have to run the wires from the plug that did plug into the tranny neutral switch and splice it into this switch. Here is a paragraph that GD wrote that explains it better.

picked up mine and crushedtoys today. it's dancing banana time:banana: :banana: Those guys have to much fun out there. i was looking at their deuce and a half military rig. and then albie was showing me this thing they are going to tow behind it, it's like a ball turret but on a trailer and it fires 4 50 cals. that thing is going to be sweet when they get it all done.

its not the clutch switch you use, you use a switch for a cruise control, more or less when you put the clutch down the computer thinks your in neutral. which would work. and yes it is kind of a "kludgy" but that's the way of the subaru. as long as it works that's all i care about. If you don't find your answer by this weekend, I might be trying to pull my motor and tranny out of my 89 so I can take some pictures and put them up for you

in the US here 88 and 89 ea82 4x4 were all spfi and DR except the DLs they were push button