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sweetness, i really cant wait to see it done. you gotta bring it down this way some time when its finished. i have many cookouts here in frederck md. you are always welcome to swing by. i look for any excuse to break out hte grill.

that is definatly one of the more interesting projects ive seen lately. i cant wait to see how it turns out. looks like it willbe a fun ride when its done, all i ask is that you put a large turbo in that thing and make it a runner. i know it can be done, ive seen some crazy merkurs out there.

i know that some stores do carry some cheap products, but for a store to tell you that they wont give you any money back for a defective product, that is just wrong and plain horrid customer service. at the store i used to work for, if some one ever brought back a defective part, it would be replaced with no questions asked, as long as it had documentation and there wasnt user error involved. i would suggest that you get in touch with their corperate office and file a complaint as well as put in a request for compinsation, talk to their customer relations people, they should point you in the right direction. good luck man, hope it all goes well.

hey gary, have you tried a chemical flush? prestone makes a product called zerex, or something like that. but they have three products, there are two cleaners, on is a quick flush and the other one is the heavy duty anti scaling cooling cleaner. then the third item is the system protector. it helps prevent scale build up and keeps the rest of the cooling systm in good shape longer. id try a normal flush first then go in after with the heavyduty cleaner, thenwhen you get it all together, add the protectant. its good stuff.

thanks will, that just reinforces my wanting to get a real lsd for my car when i get it back to life.

get an old school sedan or coupe, like the late 80's gl, dl, rx, loyale, ect. for $5000 you can get the car and do a wrx engine swap and five lug conversion. they out handle imprezas and seem to just be more fun all in all. i personally have more fun when my 86 rx uis running than i usually do in my 2000 impreza rs. then again, the rx is also turbo, so that only makes it a lot more fun.

havent played with phantom grips yet, how well do they work? how well do they hold up? and would it be worth it to go with that or just get an actual lsd?

second that..

sounds like the ditsy shaft is stripped where that little screw threads in. ive had it happen a couple times, but its not too hard to fix. you just need a large flat head screw driver, take off the rotor, look down through the shaft and you will see the larger screw that holds the top half of the shaft together, just unscrew that, find a new one from the junk yard and replace it. its not fun to have to do it, but its about hte only way i know of to fix that.

duplicolor make a rim paint that works really well. i have it on my pugs that are on my rx. ive been through mud, snow and gravel, the paint is still good as when i painted em.

that looks like great fun, wish my old school suby was running. i miss being able to play off road. keep up the good work and have fun.

cant wait to see how this turns out. looks like it will be fun once its done.

well, here be mine, even though its currently dead. and here is my impreza

aw yeah you know ill be there. hopefully i will have the rx up and running again by time it comes around this year.

check the hot wire on the alt, i had to replace mine last year. its not hard to do, just make sure it isnt burned or heavily corroded. just cut it back past any damamge and splice in new wire, make sure you use what i think they call "underhood weather tite" connectors, they work like a normal crimp on splice until you hit em witha lighter, then they work like srink wrap witha gle mixed in. i havent had any chargine problems since.

you would be well off to get a used td04 from a wrx, they usually sell from $75-$200 depending on milage and the seller's attitude. i think i paid like $90 for mine with less than 20k on it. you just gotta look around, try nasioc, there is always someone upgrading their stock turbo.

the idea of running another cooler might work to help with heat removal. just be very careful about how you route your lines and make sure that if you run a small radiator, you mount it where it will get plenty of air flor and will have somewhere for the heated air to escape. i woldnt reccomend just plugging the lines as they do run some pressure when your moving, as i found out when on of those hoses ripped.

there is a chance i night have been there at least once in my travels. i was born an raised in va beach, then movied here to maryland when i was 14. i also have family all over the state of va. mainly in the southern bit of the mountains, mostly all off of the blue ridge parkway. but yeah, ive been all over the state.

dont have a brat to sell you, but if he sells you one for $1000, let me know and see if he will sell the other for the same. i am still looking for one. btw, how far ar you from central maryland? i see that you are in va, where abouts?

holy wow, i was right, it was the plenum. lol. go me:lol:

sounds a lot like a clamp loose on the intake betwen the turbo and throttle body. mine did that to me once on the highway, took me 20 minutes of searching to look at the plenum where itmounts to the throttle body, it had popped out when i was getting onto the highway.

sounds a lot like what my rx did before i installed the larger injectors. i am running the 83 nissan 280z turbo fuel injectors in my rx. that fixed a lot of the hesitation issus i had.

they sell units that i wont have to hack my wiring harness apart? i plan on having one of my stock ecu's gutted for the harness connector and then made so i can plug it together instead of running all the wires indevidually. granted, i know ill have to wire up a few bits here and there, but i dont want to have to rewire the dash, again.

you certainly have been busy with that thing. i am still waiting to save up enough to get the parts to rebuild my engine. i still need to figure out what i am going to do about getting the engine management, i want to go ms, but i am horrible with building electronic bits.

thats not right. i need one of those.