86BRATMAN

My 90 ls wagon was a peppy little(not really) runner. Ej22, 4.11 5mt, and stock 14" alloys. It pissed off more than a few ricers. If you can get 14's over your brakes, you'd notice a difference because of reducing the rotating mass. Any and all rotating mass you can remove without damaging reliability/driveability will make a difference in power transfer and gas mileage.

Not true. The transmissions in the early ones are made like toothpicks. Get to upgrading and "driving spirited" and they break, well, like toothpicks.

Well thats not very impressive. I know two people from a local forum putting down 495 and 520 awhp respectively on stock internalled STi's, with the proper support.

I will NEVER paint another damned silver car. I don't care how much the offer is on it. I can paint black, andother "hard" color all day long. F*** silver.

I test drove a 97 impreza L way back, and I'm pretty sure it had rear discs.

How will that help on his legacy?

That part I don't get either. I was just throwing out another opinion. It would help if somebody had a feedback carb, or cruise control car that wouldn't mind tracking down the wires. Neither of which do I have.

Or, if you are still using the stock ea81 lower control arms, grab some ea82's as that will put you about to 0 camber. You'll have to do some more fabbing but, whats another hour or two on some radius rods with what you've already accomplished. If you've already switched to different lca's disregard my previous statement. And look at the upper strut mount bolt on the knuckle for some adjustment.

Never tried the egg trick, but I've heard it works for a temp fix. Now the real question here is scrambled or over easy?

Motor, tranny, reliablity are all the same, unless you wanna talk ej18 impreza, then its just reliability the same. Suspension is different components, but design is fundamentally the same. There are more off the shelf upgrades availible for the 93-01 impreza than the 90-99 legacy from what I've seen. Generally the 2 door impreza will weight anywhere from 200-400 less than a legacy, depending on options and such. If I were going for a tunable car to mess around with, and looking for the easier to find stuff, I'd get an impreza.

You've got the right set of wires, the yellow/red and black on the black connector are speed sensor. Like you said you speedo works. So it sound like the problem is in the power supply. This is just a theory here. Feel free to elaborate if you have an idea where I'm going. Ok, Subaru uses yellow/red stripe wires as the power imput for its wiring systems, almost asuradly throughout the years. Should that one not be hooked up to some sort of power supply of X volts, and then the black one would be left to be the signal wire to the ecu. Does that make sense to anybody else?

I could see me having to do an ad like that one day

The one and only thing I find better about the PK/BYB lift is that it has the steering extender included

I see... JDM is good... Awesome stuff man, where did you happen across them?

I don't think you can pull it apart that way. IIRC there are bolts holding the halves together in the coolant pathways, or that may just be ej's

Honest mistake. Engine codes are somewhat ambiguous as to whats inside. The ea71,81,82 all variants share the same bore. Ea81-82 also are the same stroke.

My parts 86 std had that motor, but its still sitting in my dad's "other mechanic" shop. I'll probably be paying him a visit. Just to have a rare historic piece.

Look damn good panda'd out. I've always like that look. What pully is that?

You think you could give us a conparison of a black and the white on the same side? I would photoshop it but I don't have the program anymore.

Just for consideration, I've had great luck with fel-pro gaskets myself. Used on different makes, as well as subaru in the past. Without any problems at all.

Are you going to use the 5-speed still?

I don't think the white is a good look at all for the wrx wheels. Black or keep them silver, would be how I'd go. Actually, I'd go black.

Now that makes sense to me:dead:

In my 86 brat, it also had two connectors, one black plug with the y/r and black wires, the other blue with light blue and white wires. I'm not sure what the blue connector does. Best guess looking at what it connects to is that it trips the egr light for its reset. On non feedback carb systems, General correct me if I'm wrong please. Anyways it looks like this...

I've heard of doing this before and put in a bit of research when I had my 95 wagon. Basically you would weld the center diff just like to offroaders do to their rear diff, remove the front axles, and bolt the outer join back in the hub to keep the wheel bearings happy. Drift away.