bratman18

NGK plugs only! Subarus love em and most others cause problems!

As long as the weather is decent I plan on sleeping in my Brat!!:banana:

yup! We got those in the US for 89 only on the EA82 cars!

go into the meet and greet section and you'll find a post about The Carlisle car show. I plan on going with my Brat! Check it out!

Oil the body! Any cracks and crevices and holes on the top and bottom of the body. Just oil it with basically what ever you can. I use NAPA chain and cable lube, it soaks in really well. Others spray used motor oil. But if you do this and wash it often, it won't rust for a long time. I know you don't have to worry about it as much where you are but it still wouldn't hurt!

Man I guess I'm just lucky! I use it in my RS because of the leaky HG's and I added a little to my Brat because of a slight leak in my heater core. Both blow heat great

As long as you don't use too much stop leak you will not see those results! But it sounds like your doing it the right way anyway!

Think you can make it to the show???

ahhh that makes since now. But how do you see on the night rally's?

You mean John's car? Yeah that thing is sweet! It's too bad all that stuff happened. He did do some nice work! It's funny I talked to him right before I came to this forum, he told me to come on here. But anyways, he was supposed to hook me up with some motor mounts for my Brat. He said that he would send them out and guess what....he never did. Luckily no money was exchanged! But he seamed really cool and down to earth, and for the 2 hours I talked to him, he had some great ideas about subys. He told me to come to USMB and also told me that he wasn't very popular on here. He had said that he had wronged a lot of people and was slowly trying to make it right. But it's too bad that it went as far as it did:-\

Sweet! Looks like fun. Nice wagon, looks like you need a headlight!

Sweet!! Good luck on getting the tranny! I love this project, it's so much different than any other on the board! I can't wait to see it work!!! You should get it done by May and drive up to Carlisle for the car show!!

Yeah just DO NOT drive it anymore! I think the motor is fine but you'll obviously need to replace the turbo

Yeah honestly I hate it out here for that reason! I'd take broken windshields over rusty bodies any day!! Send me a rust free body!!!

I would simply get one that has no rust, and then use your good SPFI motor in that one. I guess pick the cleanest one for the cheapest amount of money, and then put your good motor in. If you put an SPFI in a car that was/is carbed then you'll also have to swap the wiring harness as well!

yeah all great points, but I hadn't even thought of that stuff because of the rust issue!:-\

yeah bring your lifted Loyale definitely! If you can pay for more spots that's great too!

Yeah I can understand that. But no truck will get the gas mileage that the suby can/will!!! And it's an old suby, you'll be unique, especially on this side of the country!!

That all depends on how much he wheels it!!

That's awesome! I wanna do it!!

Yeah I religiously check and fill my coolant!! I don't let it get low enough for that to happen! But I will definitely be doing something to fix it when I have more money!

Can't say much, you're more than welcome to search. But here is his old suby... http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3047150

I don't know if posting dead animals is allowed or not? I would maybe ask one of the mods or admins first. But I would like to see it! Thats a big one!! My dads a taxidermist so I get to see a lot of nice animals!

Yeah I wouldn't continue to drive it. Oil smoke is not good to be coming out of the engine. There is a chance that the turbo went and that it's leaking oil down onto the exhaust, but still I wouldn't continue to drive it. Get it checked ASAP

Heat shield on the exhaust rattling and the whirring is most likely a rear wheel bearing