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Brian, My motor is built and running like no other. With my front mount IC and 93 octane I have no signs of knock @ 10 psi. The T3 turbo and my homemade equal length header give this car crazy top end and the 9.5-1 comp make great low end...Its absolutly amazing! Air/fuel gauge is on the way and when that is all hooked up I will see exactly where I am so I can connect fuel to my 5th injector and up the boost a bit more. It should be pretty nasty.

what can i say...its cheap fun:brow:

Wow. I just read my previous posts. No wonder nobody could understand what I was saying. My typing straight sucks. Sorry about the confusion. Im an idiot and its the week before finals. :-\

Im new according to how many posts ive written. Ive been gathering knowledge from this site for more that a year now and just have not spoke up. Reasons mainly being im a full time college student away from home. Suby is a home and vette is here with me. No camara to show off all my awesome stuff and everyone on this site is so crazy about showing proof. As for what I was say about the $55 blocks. I got to the junk yard and buy an NA block. I slap all of my turbo stuff on it and WALA. Ive done it sucessfully three times. I have two cars so I can afford to blow up these motors as often as I want and rebuilds are so cheap. 383 stocker was 6K . Ive gotten so good at rebiulding these motors now i can pull mine and a junk yard motor and take both apart and put the new one back togather in the same day and drop the new one the next day...Thats how that last 2 hav gone anyway. I took a little more time with meticulous cleaning on the most recent. All in all...DO IT...dont run 15 psi and Dont hydrolock it and you will be golden:rolleyes:

oh forgot to mention (but not to discourage you) the motor that Im about to drop in is my 3rd NA with turbo stuff. First one went from stupidity (15 psi) with stock fuel system. Didnt knock when it was cold outside with 93 octane but virginia weather and an 75 degree januanry day and keer pow. Oh but she rolled. Second went to even morey stupidity. Hydolocked the motor after changing the intake gaskets. A little too much coolant leaked into the ports = blown headgasket. Both motors where built carlessly in one day solely because im cheap and dont like waiting. Gotta love these subies:brow:

Ok...Im not new to this board by any means and I do have a little knowledge in this area. My 87 RX I found at a dealership in good ole farmville VA (Where I attend college) was $300. Couldnt go wrong! Got the car running with a new fuel pump and fixed it right there on the lot. My project car had started! I drove the car stock for a while but it felt entirely too gutless. Also own a corvette with a 383 stroker so i guess i can see why. It had developed overheating problem so the first thing I did was grab a 9.5-1 comp motor from a loyale with 30XXX and slap all my stock turbo stuff on. Then I added a front mount, 2.5 inch full exhaust, cone filter, boost controler. Boost was set @ 13 psi with 93 octane. This thing was awake! Low end = 1000 times better, top end was about the same. To make a long story short, the turbo block is new going back in my car simply due to the fact that i can get the NA short block for $55 at the junk yard and OEM headgaskets for $55 shipped for genuinesubaru.com. If i keep my heads in shape I am money and for the price i will drive these motors til they look like yours:lol:. * side note...ive just finished my new NA with all turbo goodies. MODS= front mount from daytona turbo, T3 turbo, 2.5 inch downpipe and full exhaust, 1.75 inch equal length header, extra injector triping @ 9 psi and water injection triping @ 7 psi. I get home in a week for Xmas break and she is getting dropped and fired up asap!!!!! ****GO FOR IT, you WONT be disappointed****

Sounds to me like you might have a clogged fuel tank...inside the tank there is also a filter on the end of the tube that sucks the fuel up and out of the tank and to the fuel pump...after months of this problem in my 87 RX I took out the tank and cut it open to find a ton of sludge and rust...Cleaned the hole thing out and welded it back shut. It ran great for about a month before my welding slag got caught in the same filter and clogged it again...Bought a new tank of a a guy on this board for $20 and havnt had a problem again. I DONT reccomend cutting open the tank and rewelding in...it was a real pain in the *****...good luck

You are the man! I will get in touch with you on monday so we can work something out. Again...thanks a ton! Cody

Sounds great! I got to school at Longwood U in farmville, which is about 45 min away from richmond. I am heading home today so I will be gone all weekend. Ill give you a call some time next week. Please let me know how much you want for it. Thanks alot Cody

Well ive been having a horrible time with this gas tank problem. I have taken my original out, cut it open, and cleaned out all of the slug and rust that was in it. I rewelded it back togather and same ****, another cloged fuel pump from welding slag! So I go to the junk yard and buy a gas tank tht looked clean on the inside. I could tell that is was clean on the inside because the idiots punch three 3 inch holes in it to drain the gas before it hits the yard. SO i get this perfectly clean tank home and back to welding I go. Finish and slap that baby on. Two days of great driving a bam. The fuel pump starts huming loud as can be. I forgot to mention my 87 rx had been sitting at a dealership for 5 years. Thats why the original tank had 3 inches of gummed up gas and rust in the bottom. To make a long story short im in need of a gas tank. Please help!!!

Hello! I recently purchased a 87 RX. The only upgrade i have done to it was a 2 3/4 exhaust. When I excelerate i seem to be hitting some sort of fuel cut at around 3K and my car backfires...then it will start to ecelerate again it tries to climb through the RPM but around wont climb any higher than 4.5K rpms. I have no clue what can be doing this...at first I thought it was a bad O2 sensor so i disconected it. Still does the same garbage. My turbo is running on all stock with the wastegate connected. I have replaced the fuel pump two months ago. If anyone has any suggestions I am all ears. Thanks