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  1. tallwelder81

    hey, you mentioned in a post that you can do mandrel bending?? if i can do all the mig welding myself, what would you charge me to fab up a nice low roll-bar for my brat? and finish off my exhaust? i have the exhaust the shape and location and angles i want, so u could just copy mine. i just want it to be mandrel bent. please let me know if u can make it happen! thank you!!

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    p.s how do the ea82 spfi pistons compare to the ea71 pistons? dont the ea71 pistons have the same effect on compression? i see ea71 pistons on ebay ALL the time, they are very common. i have never seen ea82 spfi pistons for sale. please advise???? also, thank you for taking time to give me advice.
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    maple valley, washington. yea i had intended to just shave the deck like .02" wouldnt that have the same effect as the longer pistons? what kind of cam would you recommend for mostly highway and city miles? from what i gather, there are just 2 ea81 cams from delta. a low rpm torque and a high rpm horsepower cam. do they affect gas mileage? i dont mind doing the porting, should only be like 3 hundred cash. for a basic street port job. not sure about the injection. one of the main reasons i bought a brat in the first place was for simplicity and i have a survivalist mentality. i need at least one reliable vehicle that i can fix or McGyver in case of zombie apocolypse or world war 3. or just a Red Dawn thing. since we cant depend on patrick swayze saving us these days. i never understood the benefit of a single point throttle body injection, over the basic carburetor. is single point injection REALLY any better than a carb? yea i know a late 90s and newer MPFI system is superior in performance and fuel efficiency. but even a brand new system is all computers and circuits and plastic. my impression of fuel injection on a rough and ready, git er' dun kinda truck, is that by the time fuel injection technology was developed enough to be worth the trouble, it had become TOO developed to work on for me and neighbor jim bob and lil joe down the street. am i wrong>? maybe i am. i am always open to others opinions. keep in mind my mechanical skills are limited and basic. im not a limp pansy yuppie that needs to take my truck to the shop anytime i need an oil change or spark plugs. i grew up taking care of that stuff with my hands, callouses and dirty fingernails, etc.... but i rebuilt my first generation, 1967 850cfm quadrajet a few years back, and it BARELY got done. it was REALLY testing my mental abilities. big and heavy and dirty, okay i got it done. small and precise and ten thousand tiny parts, no thanks.
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    i just want my ea81 cleaned up and smoothed out, get the intake matched to the heads, the weber matched to intake, the heads matched to exhaust..... i figure i can do all the bowl work myself. who does a good multi angle valve seat? at least 3 angle. which brings up a good question. are the ea81 seats 3 angle originally?> or just 2 angle? it doesnt need to be a fancy shop. i know there are guys on here that do great work right in their garage. just be aware i am on a budget here, i am not a microsoft executive. my brat is stock, i just have the weber conversion and a magnaflow catalytic converter setup. also, i know im throwing 5 hundred questions in one thread, but kiss my butt,,,, does anyone know of a good mandrel bender i can hire? thanks ahead of time!! p.s. ive said it before and im sayin it again, i am a good/decent mig welder with all my own gear. if anyone on here needs help, let me know, i wont chew you a new rear hole, people on here have been real generous towards me, id like to pass that friendliness on.
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    dont be sorry dude. aint no thing, lol.... my phone died on saturday and i cant find my damn charger.... i will probably swing by tomorrow around 11 or 12.
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    i came by in my gold brat about 11:30 today. knocked on man door of garage. didnt know if it was cool to knock at the house so i just took off. so i am looking for maybe an even hundred horsepower. mostly aiming for midrange. no racing, no hardcore rock crawling. just a stock brat with a little improvement here and there. i really like the brat. i can see myself keeping it my whole life, so i just want it to be solid and reliable. been thinking of diamond plate over my rocker panels. would look cool and beefy. i just wonder if it would promote rust. i dont have much rust. been lucky in that regard. i want to do the 5-spd dual range conversion. rear bumper. side sliders. i have the push bar/skid plate and need to install it all. but yea.... maybe u should throw me your cell number so i can call before i just drop by. i felt like i was trespassing, felt kinda guilty bein there, lol....
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    oh WEIRD dude..... i just mapquested your address. my sister and family owned the house at the end of your road, the one thats empty and trashed now. at the powerlines/tracks. your next door neighbor is hella cute, man, i dont know where she lives now, but she works at the matket i grew up next to. sarah. VERY pretty brunette, short girl... small world i guess. that is really awesome that you have such a rural property. that elk run area went to ************, in a very yuppy way, in the last ten years. i already knew, but when you look at it from overhead on mapquest, its even more of a harsh reality. damn crackerbox development neighborhoods..... my place looks like yours. OLD maple valley. real maple valley. so where are you from, you implied in your post that you moved from somewhere else. hope i didnt step on any sore toes?? but i still stand by my opinion about the new neighborhoods.... sorry,,,,, let me know when you want to meet up, if you do. im a good welder, i do mig, and gas, but im learning tig and will be certified in a month or two.
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    MAPLE VALLEY!! 83 brat. im down in the deep valley, right off hwy 169. close to cedar grove road, same side as the tavern. im down to make new friends, especially friends who love real cars and working on them. sick and tired of all these prissy bastards with brand new f350s who never haul more than a latte grande. ive got a few different rigs. but im a BIG BELIEVER IN "only two reasons to drive a big truck". 1. you need to actually HAUL things. 2. you are insecure and want total strangers to think you are a big hard man. anyhow, pardon that rant.... heh.... yea, i am down to meet up and bull************ at least once. if we get along we can be neighborhood buddies. i get a lot of free time in november cuz the weather sucks. well, it was super nice for 2 days. record temp highs < 74 f >. just PM me on here. p.s. not to sound like a user, but is there any chance of your new best friend using your car lift for a few hours? LMAO:lol:
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    i would like a pair of sliders for my 82 brat.

    they dont need to be SUPER hardcore. i just like to play around sometimes,

    nothing too extreme. my concern is the unibody design of brats.

     

    is a unibody really storng enough to be a foundation for sliders?

     

    a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. and bolting or welding

    12 gauge pipe onto a 20 gauge rocker panel, its just a bit pointless......

     

    please let me know. THANK YOU

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    are you selling that canopy, or what? you said you would post pics, but your post has 3 responses, and yet..... nothing.......

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    i am a welder, i can make some nice seat mounts for you. plus i am only like twelve minutes from the near end of north bend. i have material also. and it will look and perform at least as good as the oem mounts. maybe better. but i dont want cash. i just want a fellow sooby owner to help me with my brat. scratch my back. i like to bypass the CASH aspect of business whenever possible. horse trading is more honorable, in my eyes. i dont need many parts, mostly just another set of hands. i DO have some 390mm pug wheels that need restoration, sanding and painting. let me know dude. i can weld it up quick. maybe an hour. maybe 2 hours, maybe forty minutes. the only thing slowing me down on work is i need to cut material with a blade. i dont own a plasma cutter. im workin on it though so we will see how that goes.
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    at the risk of FURTHERING the off topic posts, i wante dto ask you guys. WHERE is a good place to get a d/r five spd? also.... where is a good place to get a ea81 rebuilt? i just want it new. nothing too fancy. maybe an extra twenty horse. does anyone know if CCR does performance upgrades? oh yea, one last questo, where do you get a hi flow Ypipe for the ea81? magnaflow has NOTHING smaller than 2 inch into 2.5 inch.
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    i think the southwest king county <renton, auburn, maple valley, black diamond, etc etc> guys should meet up one day. i know there is a brat meet. i am talking less official, just a small casual whatever thing. we can do it at my place, my firepit is piled high for a killer bonfire. or whatever. maybe cheeseburgers or beers at a lake? a mud run in the woods? you tell me.
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    maple valley, wash. the REAL maple valley, not the pansy little particle board crapshack starbucks end. 82 brat, mostly stock. anyone feel free to hit me up anytime. i can shoot in my backyard, legally.
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    not to worry, i am not a big drinker/. i just know ellensburg gets hot and a cold beer would be nice. is anyone bringinga barbecue setup? i just have a coleman stove, and my teardrop trailer. no plumbing, just an icebox and the propane stove. id be down to bringa little extra meat. is it every man for himself rules, on food?
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    i plan to go, and id love a rollbar. maybe a bull bar also. i would want my roll bar to fit the cab as tight as possible. is some responsible drinking acceptable? i wont get tanked and run around without my pants, scouts honor
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    excuse me if this is a dumb question with an obvious answer, but WHAT is the benefit of a single piece driveshaft? is that just for less rotational losses? less reciprocating weight? unsprung weight? please explain it to me, i will accept being laughed at cuz as i write this, i already get the feeling the answer is day 1 logic.
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    just for the record, its NOT a crime to drive less than a thousand miles each week. people all over the world walk and ride bikes or buses when it is convenient. i LOVE my brat and classic cars in general. so dont get me wrong or think im a tree hugger car-hater. but damn, why is it that so many people are shocked when someone only drives ten or even eight thousand miles in 12 months? i got my 09 tacoma prerunner 5-1-09 and just last weekend <march 21-2010> broke 6 thousand miles. its OKAY to spend time OUT of your car once in awhile. i garden, weld, hike, bike, kayak, make sweet sweet love to women, lol.... cars are awesome, especially cars that a real guy like all of us can work on without G.M.s budget and equipment and bill gates computer knowledge. carbs are COOL when they work. im just saying.... enjoy ALL of life, you know, not JUST cars. life is great. doesnt take internal combustion to enjoy that. especially for americans. even with all the crooked politics in recent years, americans still have it made in the general scheme of things. so appreciate it and dont take it for granted, you dummies.... LOL...... ok, ill step of the soap box now. sorry for the rant.
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    i saw a post where you did some headwork for a guy. do you do that for anyone with cash? or was that a close friend?

    i am not really rich, but i would like to get my ea81 a little cleaned up. mild port work, a deck shave, maybe some bowl-cleanup and i dont know if you know how to even out an exhaust manifold. im not sure what he actually DOES to them, but a guy named greg gessler is famous for getting the stock iron manifolds on buick 455s to run more evenly and smoothly.

    if you are willing to work on my heads, please let me know what you would charge for the work. thank you ahead of time!!

  20. tallwelder81

    can u find out if those oregon tires are still available? and are they new or used?

     

    do you think they would send me pics and possibly ship them to me?

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    hey, you got your cash from me and you are still trying to help me. i appreciate that. most guys are real friendly til you buy what they want to sell, then they are M.I.A. lol....

     

    so i just wanted to say thanks. by the way, if you ever make a few hard boiled eggs, your chickens will LOVE a few bites. lots of important nutrients they never get from commercial feed. like calcium and vitamin D. i dont fee dmine eggs every day, but if i make some eggs and i remember them, i will toss a few bites out on teh porch and they LOVE it.

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    are those tires still on ebay?

    you never mentioned the actual WHEELS?? can i get them from you?

    pleas ecall, i need to get off of here now.

     

    thanks man!!

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    yea i can come to you. id rather not drive that far, but if i need to i am willing to. i dont know about tires. something streetable but still capable on logging roads. the tires on them in the pic look ok i guess?>? when i first messaged you i had more cash. now, 10 days later i am kinda strapped. if i gotta drive up to bellingham, that means another 50 cash, MINIMUM, for gas and food, and also my entire day to the point when nothing else will get done that day. if you have more than one set of tires, could u send pics of both, please?> thank you

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    my cell is 206-914-1246. my name is mat.

     

    the sooner we can do this, the better, for me. thanks again!!

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    i will take the wheels, the 390s. yelm is not too far for me from maple valley. please hold them and let me know when i can get them, please. thank you!! also, if u can point me in the direction of some 390mm tires? does anyone make A/Ts? or only street tires?

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