Caboobaroo

Depending on where you get the major parts from (tranny, pedal cluster, instrument cluster, driveline, etc) it'll be fairly cheap. I would try sourcing the parts here on the board first. Secondly, is this an EA81 hatchback or is it an EA82 coupe? Benefits for both vehicles would be, lower highway crusing RPMs, better mileage, more power to the wheels, plus the luxury of it being a manual. If its an EA81 hatchback, then you'll need certain parts to get it to work, plus there is a board member who makes a special kitto fit a d/r 5-speed into that body style and to keep the look of the stock EA81 4wd shift linkage. I believe his kit runs $100 but you can never tell that the 5-speed never came in that car.

Oh man! Thats the big brother to my old '79 4wd wagon! Mine was a DL but it had all sorts of options. Plaid interior, quad headlights and woodgrain interior trim. I see yours has the different cluster, roof rack, and I bet it has AC in it too:brow: Sweet ride man! These old Subys have one thing going for them and its not speed by any means, its style!

I shoulda thought of that! I guess thats what happens when you're trying to think and are really sick at the same time:rolleyes:

sweet, I know what I'm doing this weekend hopefully!

I WISH it was 55 here! The high today in Laramie was like 9 degrees.... this morning it was like 3, yay:-\

ok so I have 2 carbed EA82s in parts cars currently and I was wondering if one of them would work in place of an SPFi engine? I would put all my SPFI intake and such onto it but I wasn't sure if the compression differences would make it that different...

no real power differences (maybe like 1-2 hp), MAF is different, disty, and a few bolt on stuff. Yes, pre '87 had gen 1 heads for sure, most of them up to '88 did when they started using gen 2 heads and gen 3 heads, are mainly current NOS and replacements for cars under warranty back in the day (like '90). Cams were also different I believe and there's something else I think is different but I cannot remember. Blocks are all the same, heads are the same, cam cases and covers are the same, intakes I believe are the same and so is the exhaust and the turbo as well.

Well I know of the maroon one, drove it once as well before we swaped trannys in it. Last I heard, he was having major issues with it since his daughter had it in SD as well. Guess he finally gave another one up from the collection, but thats ok, he still has the silver one:brow:

+1 on that or the exhaust won't fit right...

are you getting his maroon one form him? Congrats Tim!

I believe thats the purge solenoid but I'm not entirely sure. I'll see if I can get a look at one of my intakes tomorrow in the light to be sure of it.

I have a spare core portion of the heater but not the box. I'll need to clean it out seeing its full of dirt from sitting. If its just the core, I got one and would only cost you shipping (roughly 15 bucks or so).

I can't come hurray:rolleyes: stupid snow screwing up my life right now... bah

sounds like you need to replace the accelerator pump inside the carb.

HAHA... yeah I remember that one!

and BMW used it in the '80's and so did a few other german car companies...

a pic would really help with the little box you're referring too since I have like a million intakes around here. The easiest way to get the heat shields off is a cutting wheel. If you cut them right, you can reuse them and tack weld them back on into place so don't get too carried away.

or some of us have Subarus that hate us:-\

the stock headers like to crack right where the second head comes into the flow, heading up to the turbo. If yours still has the heat shields on it, it'll hide the crack but it'll still be there. If you have a significant exhaust leak before the turbo, you'll get hardly any spoolage from it, especially on a TD04...

lookin at roughly $200. All I need is the valvecovers in, not the intake or all that jazz.

if some of you guys that go yardin a lot come across one for cheap that is a known running (ie body is trashed or major bodywork would need to be done) let me know. I can take care of ya guys as well:banana:

Here's what I was going to do waaay back in the day... twin turbo EA81 into a '79 4wd wagon, d/r 5-speed, lowered, and paneled:banana: I was going to source a couple turbos from the canadian model of the Pontiac fireflys (1.0L) and put those on there...

That's not helping the situation Mike... tempting me with yet ANOTHER car...:-p Yeah I kinda figured thats why it wouldn't want to start either:brow:

I finally did a compression test on my coupe ('87 SPFI, FWD auto) and the #1 cylinder failed badly. Pulled the valvecover off of the passenger side and it appears I have a dropped exhaust valve.... argh... so now I'm looking for an engine since this one has 256k miles on it and I bet its going to be a bit tired...

sounds like the same problem going on with LUVMYBRAT's maroon t-coupe in South Dakota (his daughter is driving it). ECS light flickers and it surges... he had a thread goin for a little while on it. Lemme find it... Here it is... http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=66498&highlight=t-coupe