carfreak85

My signature Enkeis weigh about 8lbs apiece.

I'm interested in YOUR Enkeis! Want to trade 6 13x5.5" enkeis for your 4 14x6" wheels? :cool:

I had no idea they were known for spinning rod bearings. Do you have a link to somewhere where I can read more about this phenomenon?

I need to find a replacement for one of those C-clips. I was just driving along minding my own business (about a year ago) when my car makes this terrible grinding noise. I thought that my 4WD transfer gear had finally gone out (remember I've been running RWD). Turned out that the differential stub shaft had worked its way out of the diff.

Dealer master tech took a ride with me a few months ago... Rod knock. We're just waiting until the engine lets go, or we get in a good enough place financially to take care of it.

+1. Well put Sir. If all four lock up on ice, the ABS computer should momentarily release brake pressure to all four corners, then do the pulsing thing. But in the defense of the manufacturers, how much traction do you really have on sheet ice?

Small update, we tried putting the 1400 in but found that we could not get the engine to turn over by hand.... Oh well. Looks like the 1600 is next to get dropped in.

Final conformation on the problem I was having: The plastic connector for the air temperature sensor had melted on the down pipe, shorting the relay. Sweet... Now I have a bunch of spare ATS relays for no reason.

Very late update; I installed the washers behind the latch mechanism as suggested, but that only partially solved the problem. I still get some weeping from the rear side windows on my hatch.

Bump for new users. My new favorite mod is the Baja car cover my BRAT now has.

Got a specific part number for that wagon/beetle window seal?

Addco?

As per my 1984 FSM: Non-turbo is 20mm or 0.79 inches Turbo is 22mm or 0.87 inches

Wait a second, how do you get only a 4HP difference? 84-65=19HP Check your maths again. 84HP on big-valve EA81s, 65HP on my 1980 1.6 BRAT.

I didn't take the time to read all the responses to this thread, but I do have one concern about your plan. I can pretty much guarentee that at high RPM under load, you will be flowing more air with the EJ18 than any N/A EA82. That one little injector might be large enough to compensate for a few mods on an EA82, but I think you're asking for trouble retrofitting that system on an EJ of any kind.

Here are some multimedia pieces that I did over the summer for our school newspaper's online content. FSAE: http://westernfrontonline.net/2008072210215/multimedia/inside-wwu-sae-baja-team/ Mini Baja: http://westernfrontonline.net/2008070710167/multimedia/the-nuts-and-bolts-of-western-s-formula-sae-car/ Scooters: http://westernfrontonline.net/2008072910242/multimedia/rollin-with-the-hamsters/ Let me know what you think!

Sweet! Can't wait to see it lifted!

I'm in. Still have a few 4-lug cars stashed at my place.

Thanks for the kind words guys. Its nice to get positive feedback on a project I put so much time into (specifically polishing those damn Enkeis for the WCSS). The airdam is a NOS Kamei spoiler originally built for the EA81s. I wish I had found it on another make of car though, then maybe I could find some more of 'em! As I've said in the past, I plan at some point to make molds and copies of it, but as of now I don't have the fundage. (Thinks to self: Well, I might after I install that EA82T in Ben's wagon...) At least I have a garage to start this project in now. [/hijack]

Well duh! Hahaha, those are my autoX tires and they will see very little street use, but I have put a few dozon-or-so miles on them thus far. Based on that, I've had ZERO rubbing anywhere. And my wagon is lowered pretty significantly. I'm running on 5.5" wide Enkeis and would hesitate to put on anything wider, the tires are really bulging off the wheels as it is. Because we are so limited in wheel widths, I would suggest against the 215s, unless you can test fit a JY 215 on a subie wheel. The only sure fire way to know is to test fit 'em on your rig and go hit some bumps.

I got this size: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=90314&page=2

If you're EA81 was a manual, you will need to remove some material on the engine side bell-housing. If the car is or the engine was an automatic, the bell-housing will be larger to fit the torque converter. I used the same mix of parts as TheBeastIDrive and McBrat, but I did have problems with the bolt holes in the EA82 flywheel being too big. I had to install shims to keep the flywheel from knocking around. If I were to do it again (Which I will when the RX trans goes in) I would use an aftermarket lightweight flywheel off a WRX modded to fit my EA81 and possibly the WRX clutch if the EA throw out bearing will work. Barring that, I would turn the stock flywheel and get a heavy-duty aftermarket XT6 clutch kit.

You didn't read the second page, did you Rob? Here's a link you lazy bum! http://rides.webshots.com/album/82375733opxCiZ?vhost=rides&vhost=rides&start=24

Here is my updated 2WD version. Let me know what you think. http://ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=75090

Bump for reply to post #54.