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Good luck with that. Its a lot harder then you might think, seeing I've blown two engines in my turbo RX already. Unless you plan on putting a fuel injection setup on it, you'll have a heck of a time getting the carb to work properly , even with a draw though setup... Also, where would you be getting a stroker kit for an EA71? Planning on dumping a ton of money on some Ram Engine stuff are you?

No, garners started off brown, then went to primer grey, then to another color I think but I can't remember what it is now...

There, I fixed it for you Jeff;)

Well Jeff... it needs the basic tune up parts anyways so I might as well get some and put them in while I'm at it. Its not like it takes more then an hour to install plugs, wires, cap and rotor.... I'll pull the intake boot off and clean it out real good and look to see if I'm getting fuel into the TB...

ok I'm going to pull the plugs, get new ones with new wires, cap and rotor to see if that helps because they need to be replaced anyways. Timing belts are spot on, I already made sure of that. The oil in the intake boot is still kidna bothering me... bad PCV valve possibly?

what color was the Brat?

I haven't pulled the plugs yet or done a compression test. Weather here has been getting colder so my tools are making my hands freeze very quickly. As for the fuel pump, it doesn't cycle at all when the diagnostic connectors aren't connected, only when they are does it cycle. I'm also going to check my fuel pressure as well here in a couple days since we're supposed to get some better weather coming our way.

Bump... I gotta get this car running before I freeze to death!

With any newer engine swap, you'll need to swap the tranny, no matter what. You can go ahead and put an EJ22 in there with the AWD tranmission but its a lot of work and time, but in the long run, you'll have tons of power and the luxury of the AWD setup.

Looked at it compared to my EA82T catback and looks to be the same, or close to it...

I have yet to check spark but when I pulled the boot off the MAF to put starting fluid in it, there was quite a bit of oil chillin in the ribs of the boot. Also, it sounds like it doesn't have enough compression on one side since the engine cranks over faster then what seems to be normal. I'll be pulling the plugs and doing a compression test to see if whats going on. Car has 256k miles on it and the guy I bought it from said it just died on him one day.

Nope not yet. I went out and plugged the green connectors together. Fuel pump was cycling like it should with them connected. I then disconnected them and turned the car back on. No sound from the fuel pump at all, even after sitting there for a couple minutes with the car on. I'm going to spray some starting fluid down the TB and see what that does...

guy drove it out here from Oregon a few weeks ago so I don't think bad gas is it. It has a brand new fuel filter on it too so I'm ruling that one out.

thanks for the compliments guys. After I move to Washington, I plan on putting an EJ20G in this car, which was kinda the plan for my RX but I need something driveable now, instead of trekking my mountain bike to work in 6" of snow...

probably the easiest thing to do is to take it to a local part store that carrys a variety of seals. Then, see if they can match it to anything that they have. If that doesn't work, check out JC Whitney as well. They have a ton of different seals and you can buy it in feet from them.

Cool! I'll have to try that when I'm not too plowed like I am right now....

well this is a stock EA82T catback with a large melon shooter on the end of it. Should be fine I would guess...

yeah I got a melon shooter on the very end of it. I figured it was probably going to bolt up, just being lazy so I'm not rolling around on the cold ground for nothing

I'm gonna guess but the green connectors are going to be under the dash on this one? If not, they're going to be behind the driver side strut tower correct?

Today, I decided to jump into my coupe a little after I got off work. Symptoms acted like a blown passenger side timing belt because timing sounded to be off. I pulled the timing belt covers off and looked. Passenger side timing belt is a little loose but not that bad. Belts look to be fairly new as well. Checked the disty cap and rotor. Cap looks like it should be replaced, along with the rotor because of carbon build up on both and the cap seems to be worn pretty good on the contacts. Car sounds like it wants to start but it doesn't want to. I'm thinking it might be a bad fuel pump because when I turn the key to "ON", there's no sound from it at all. I've never really worked on an SPFI car before but shouldn't it cycle just like a MPFI turbo fuel pump? I have a spare I can throw into it so no worries. Do you guys think its a bad fuel pump? Car is an '87 GL coupe, SPFI EA82, FWD 3AT

Yup, I had to get myself something for my birthday!

EA82T would go nicely in there. There was a fellow on here awhile ago that put an EA82T engine into his '79 Brat. It was very powerful, especially since there is a little more upgradeable parts for it, plus the forced induction will help with the higher elevation.

But it won't outrun my IROC-Z:brow: Ain't no replacement for displacement:-p

Yup, but do they bolt up to one another or are they different? Shut up Jeff:-p

Edited my original post with pics!