Kostamojen

LOL! Awesome

Gen 1 brat? Get AT LEAST 195's on there!!!

If my babelfish is right, this is one of those weber manifolds for sale: http://page13.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r52812579 However, that price is like $1,000

Not much to report, another rainy day today, still just working on painting/restoring individual parts. However, I've been re-assembling the 72-77 full OEM parts manual that was donated to me into new binders in nice clear plastic sheets to keep the pages from being torn any worse than they already were, and I discovered that If I do want to use the gearing from the ~82-83 FWD transmission I need a 1300 FF-1 transmission case... Now I did see one of those transmissions on the Japanese Yahoo auctions but I double checked and it appears to be gone (hopefully to be re-listed later). If I can get that case, from what I can tell, the gearing will swap in perfectly! But thats only if I can get one of those cases... (the stupid 1100 transmission doesn't share any parts with the other FWD transmissions, other than the 1000!)

EA61 = 1100, actually most closely related to the EA52 (the first boxer from Subaru, also known as the 1000) EA62 = 1300, only used up to 72 and a little in 73 perhaps EA63 = 1400, basically a bored out EA62 from what I can tell from the part numbers, and used with both 4-port (until 74) and 2-port heads.

Thats an interesting idea... ...but for someone else, LOL! I don't really have room for "wide" tires/wheels on the FF-1.

Another set!!! http://page17.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/v89043735#enlargeimg

The offset on these would probably be close to working for the FF-1, might still need a little bit of a spacer. I'm going to stick with my wheels though.

Hmm... According to that translation one of the rims may be damaged beyond repair

http://page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f71990968

Good news! The spacers showed up today. I'll take some pics during the weekend, but they do look like they will work Bad news... I dismantled that EA63 I had sitting around, hoping that maybe I could use the pistons/liners in the EA61 block... No go Almost nothing is compatible between the two motors, just the crankshaft perhaps and thats it. I can't even use the EA61 heads on the EA63 block. So if I want to run a larger displacement motor, I'll need to find EA62 or EA63 4-port heads. But right now, its looking like i'll be rebuilding the EA61.

Ya, I see those magazines on Ebay every time I do a search. I've already downloaded a couple pic of the articles, so I figure I don't need the magazines, lol!

Official EA63s (IE Sports model 1400's) numbers per Subarus technical specifications: Dual carbed, 93hp@6800rpms, 10.0:1 compression ratio. 93hp converts over to 69kw, so he would be correct. I can photocopy the service manual if you don't believe it...

Woot!!! Looks great

bump cause dans289 obviously missed this thread...

What carb are you running? Stock hitachi, or something else?

Woot!!! I saw someone posted in my thread, didn't expect to see pics of the spacers They look great!!! Awesome job!

Small update... Ed from the 360 club hooked me up with some original FF-1 tools (including a few tools I NEED for transmission/engine building, along with tools for bearing installation/removal and such)! I'm so glad I was able to find some of these, it will be a life saver for this project And I am still working on the car albeit slowly, heres a photo just to give you an idea of some of the parts i'm restoring along with whats going on with the car at this point:

They finally updated the website. Good stuff, has even more pics too!

Well the 4x4 and FWD models from those years have different power numbers, but I'm not sure what the physical differences are. I do have the parts manuals and service manuals from the 70's if we need to cross reference something.

From a junkyard. Thats about your only option Unless someone knows a shop where they custom make them?

No problem. I'm glad my thread can be of assistance to someone BTW, those latches have a couple of different versions, including locking or non locking, and recessed or non-recessed. I'll probably go with locking non-recessed.

That sucks That dent will take a bit of work to fix too...

How about these?

Alright, time to decide on something else... Should I go with hood pins, or hood hold downs (IE the external "jeep" kind) or both? There are some good flush-mounting, locking hood pin devices out there that are intriguing. And I can mount basically anything to this hood the way its set up.