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i found mine work great with only 3/4 of the head seated, it only happens on about 2 per hub. the template makes me nervous, how can you center it on the wheel? you gotta use a wheel as your template. but you cant just take a drill bit that fits in the hole and hope its centered either. i had to build a special tool to center/drill them send them to me. do you have rear discs? if so, its alot easier.

ok, how bout this, if were building an adapter plate, why not mate the ej22 to a toyota tranny? super duper gearing! i just think with the toyota stuff, it would be almost as easy as building a lift under the thing. just as much cutting and welding. but more bigger better cooler meaner...

im not completely sure about the ranch shocks. but to find my 4 inch longer shocks for my hatch, i just had to look in the book that napa had. it shows all dementions of the shocks... turns out chevelle shocks work good for a 4 inch lift. i had to swap rubber lower bushings, and slot the top mounting holes. but they have worked great so far.

i think you need a toyota tranny/tcase, 22r and solid axles... the ej will fit easier than an ea82, and way easier than a er27. um... note morganms avitar... that wagon is thoroughly beat.=] after one more winter, its gonna be even flexier.

i have fed alot of hp, with big tires to my subaru. i have noticed a couple seems around the front strut towers pulling apart a bit, but im not worried about it. i think the windshield would crack if i was bending the body that bad, right? tell him to look at the stinkin cherokees, they have unibodies, and you can run circles around those dorks.

its all dropped 4 inches in the rear. the front is the only thing different. the tranny is only lowered 2 inches.

make sure hes done it before, and make sure he doesnt ghetto it up. i've seen some bad ones....not mine.

napa had the ones i wanted... in stock

you guys are pretty paranoid, and you must like to judge people by their described appearance. maybe he was some subaru freak, thats on here every day. you should take an offer to buy as a compliment. check out my profile... i wont sell you any drugs

the xt6 flywheel fits exaclty the same as the stock ea82. if you can run an impreza/legacy clutch on it, you could run that same clutch on any ea82 with the big clutch... the xt6 flywheel is lighter, but you could make it even lighter if you did your own, or had it done. i guess it has to be rebalanced if you just spin it on a lathe...the xt6 is already balanced. i've ran the xt6 flywheel, and an ea82, and ea81 flywheel, all on the same motor and car, and i cant tell the difference... but its not a turbo dragracer either...

like i said, my hatch weighed as much, and was throroughly offroad. now i weigh 250 more lbs. but has twice the hp. and twice the ground clearance. i just dont want anyone runin those atv tires on a subaru. truck tires fit well, and last very long time, since the subarus dont weigh nearly as much as the vehicles the tires are designed for. i like to over kill, not run on the edge of whats considered safe.

i have a legacy radiator in my ea82 wagon, and in my ea81 hatch. both required pretty extensive modifications. not for stock use =]

hose it dooder!~

your loosin me here, why would you build something you cant drive on the street, that weighs as much as a stock subaru? with stock sized tires?

so.. it weighs as much as a hatch

my hatch weighed 2100 lbs, at its lightest. no way to make it any less. thats exceding the limit of these tires. whats that summer weigh, about 1800? my favorite kind of tires: ones made for trucks, that are bigger than stock.

oh ya, lights make all the difference.

get a lift and big tires first. thats the first step. low range is great by itself, just give her some more power, or throttle.

wish i coulda made it, my tranny stoped shifting smoothly the day before we would have left. i think it was afraid of the mud again... i've never broken a rear axle, and i do some crazy stuff on the street, with my big tires, and big motor. chux, just imagine if you had a welded rear :-\

i have enough trouble keepin my big six cool with the radiator up front. on top would be hell imo

i think its too thin too. my dad uses it, but hes not haulin stuff around in a trailer. if your gonna keep it that way, at least re enforce it every couple inches.

if your thinkin about doin it for the xt6 to fit with a radiator up front... it wont work. i had my tranny elevated about 1 inch, and it ate through front axles like crazy. i now run my tranny lowered about one inch, to keep the axle angles down. rwd, it would work fine, cept the shifter would be where your e brake is...

i guess the AA lift broke a rear axle =/

the tranny is only 2 inches farther away. 3 and nothing works, 4 and... well, i dont run a shifter boot or console anymore =]. they did the lift with only 2 inches lower tranny to keep the shifting as close to stock as possible.

this was not a joke. pay particular attention to loose tranny mounts. or cut that floor.