carfreak85

Just what I was looking for. Any type of grease that you recommend?

Your car looks pretty... I want an EJ-RX....

Has anyone else had the problem of loud, squeaky wiper arms? It for sure isn't the blades, but I'm not all sure what could be needed besides a regrease. What grease to use and where should it go?

When I have a little more money, I'd be down for a set or two of those... Freaking sweet!

Mick, you kick butt!

Anyone make progress on their gen 1 EJ swaps? All I've done is day dream.

Another happy owner of Jerry's kit. There are a few different floor pan stampings depending on what transmission your EA81 came equipped with. I had the on-demand 4WD Auto and I had to grind the mounting tab mentioned on the transmission in the original poster's website completely off to gain enough clearance to eliminate trans-to-tunnel contact. Other than that, I am reminded of the money well spent every time I drive the car.

I hear ya, and don't worry, this is an old picture and no subarus or people were hurt during the installation of those rear disc brakes.

Details? Pics? Also, in that thread you linked to, you mention that using EA82 control arms gives you too much negative camber. How much are we talking here? The reason I ask is because I need to use EA82T axles for my transmission, and getting more negative camber in the mean time, so long as it isn't outrageous, would be a great side effect.

Here is a photo of the Rancho shocks on an EA81, same part number as previously mentioned.

Sounds like you have the same issues I did with my conversion. The problem is that the prongs for the bulb are in different locations then the wires in the plastic connector that connects to the bulb. What I had to do was slide the wires and connectors out of the plastic housing and reorganize them so that they worked with the bulb's internal wiring layout. Well actually when I say I did it, my Dad, who was an electrical engineer, did it for me. Thanks Dad! So don't ask too many questions about anything too specific, because I don't know the answers!

How did you do these rods? Did you add EA82 control arms like on your brumby?

I like the roundies a lot. Gives the EA81 a unique look, but depending on the body style EA81, I don't think any of the headlight set-ups look bad. I like my quad lights because if a rock knocks one out, it wont necessarily take out the adjacent lamp. But like I said, looks great. Are those aftermarket lenses or OEMs? Look aftermarket. REALLY like that bumper too. Might have to copy it, lol.

Got you waiting with bated breath though, don't I?

I had the exhaust made originally with the stock downpipe. Then I got a 3" downpipe from BoostedBalls and I was too cheap/lazy to buy a matching 3" muffler.

Get one of these from me when I start reproducing them.

This guy knows his stuff, so listen to him. I run a header with 1.5" primaries to a 1.75" up pipe and a 3" downpipe to a 2.5" exhaust and muffler on my EA81T and it works great. That same system on my N/A hatch would be suicide. Don't go any larger than 2.25" for your secondary pipe, not sure about the primaries on an N/A EA81.

Another reason for that could be that your car is 2WD, and low to begin with. I would agree that driving around will help settle the struts and springs. What have you done about stiffening up the rear? Also, cutting those front springs by .5 or 1 coil is my next project, albeit, starting with RX springs.

Both, one on two different cars, notice the blue and tan dashboards.

The V6 in Saturn's suv, that's a Honda.

Ahhh, wish I had seen this earlier. I too have ditched the factory front EA81 speakers for something nicer. Twice actually, with both speaker sizes in question. In both cases, I didn't want to cut corners and risk some annoying vibration after everything was buttoned back up. The 4x6"s sound better, they actually have a little bump where as the 3" speakers are just for mids and highs. I had to redrill the new speaker's chassis for the stock bolt spacing (tip, use the factory speaker's mounting holes as a guide to drill holes in the new speaker).

Cool. Glad that at least one other person on here dumps their EA81 rather than lifting it. Might want to use a more precise tool for measuring thicknesses. The difference between bars was tiny in any case, just enough to make it noticable while driving.

What a freakish and sad day for Subie fans around the globe. From what I've read about the withdrawl, there were a couple of reasons for the pull-out. First was the economy. They, along with pretty much all auto manufacturs, are expecting to lose sales in the short-term. This is one way to avoid falling into debt, since hardly anybody ever gets rich from auto-racing. I forgot the exact quote, but the Fuji-employee who announced the withdrawl said that Subaru had met its exposure targets from racing in the WRC. It seems that enough people know about the beauty of all-wheel drive that they don't need to "prove" it anymore. I'm just sad that I won't see any flying, blue, boxer-powered, factory-backed rally machines anymore...