carfreak85

Did DLs ever come from the factory with rear defrosters? The reason I ask is that a previous owner may have installed a rear window with a defroster grid but your car may not have been equipped to operate it. This might explain why you can't find a button for it on the dashboard.

Was that picture taken at Bellis Fair?

I think that you should put the NS oil in your transmission and the regular Redline oil in the diff. Do a search for redline oil in the old gen forum and I'm pretty sure thats what you'll come up with.

Yes, go on...

I love the fact that I have such an easy car to work on and even when something goes wrong, it is such a breeze to fix. I also like how our cars are built like legos, I mean in a few weeks I will have the 5 speed DR tranny out of an '85 wagon, a WRX downpipe and intercooler, Legacy turbocharger and rear LSD, XT6 rear sway bar, EA82T rear disc brakes and almost all those parts are bolt on!!! The handling is amazing for a car with such poor front camber, and it is the BEST winter car ever! I can pass people in the unplowed lane in the mountains at 50+ and when I get to work I hear everyone else complaining about how their trucks were all over the road (Happened today actually!).

Those wheels are SWEET!!! Kinda remindes me of the General Lee.

Does anyone know if any struts from any other manufacturers will easily retrofit to our cars? Looking for something that is shorter overall and that can be found in a performance variant.

I saw a silver one with red targa stripes in the Cost Cutter parking lot in Bellingham a few nights ago.

I agree, my subie is UNSTOPPABLE!!! A friend across the hall as an Audi A4 1.8T and I would go so far as to say that even with hardly enough tread to be legal, my car was better in the snow than his car. He had studded snows on, but with the same on my car I know, I could keep up. Can't wait to get my rear limited slip installed!!!

What was the part number for your alternators? I can't seem to find what model to ask for to get the correct part. Please let me know!

I beleive the shifting pattern is the same regardless of right or left hand drive.

My wagon did the exact same thing!

Started snowing here around 11am, and hasn't let up yet!

Those Hella lights look SICK! How did you mount them to the bumper?

Sounds interesting, since I have no idea what a VF-12 came off of. I know the VF-11 is from a legacy turbo, but I've never heard of yours.

Wow, I wish we had 4 inches in Bellingham! Just 1.5 here...

It looks like it belongs on an EA81. I can't think of ever seeing a factory brushguard for any EA82.

I haven't gotten wild in either of my hatches, but my turbo wagon get tail happy with a little provication on wet roads. Its awesome!!! Lift throttle, turn in and she'll slide all day!

Sounds like there is a small crack in the head that, when it gets hot, closes up and leaks less.

If you help organize it, I guess it can be where ever you want.

Be careful about decking the heads, if you do it too much the intake ports will be too close together for the intake manifold to bolt on. Just a thought.

EA71 1600 or EA82 SPFI pistons will raise your compression to about 9.0:1. Do some mild porting on the intake, exhaust ports and intake manifold to clean up the terrible casting flash. Other than that, a weber and exhaust work will help out a lot.

I could probably be persuaded to help. Just let me know when things start up, when and where to be!

I think it would be really cool! What do you think shipping was on all those parts? And would the new steering shaft interfere with the turbo set up at all? Pics?

Good luck finding one though!