Naked Buell

Hey guys. Need all your input. Jump down in the Vehicles for sale to check out all the pics of my baby. I definitely want it to go to one of you guys. Maybe, General Disorder. She needs the EJ conversion and the 5 lug swap and some tweaks Rick. Let me know guys. I appreciate your knowledge and input.

If it is like most of the Nissan Maxima's, it should fit. I've seen guys do that mod.

Hey thx. I did find what I was looking for at Napa.

Snowing like a banshee here. About to go to town in the Subie and find me some right ones. thx carfreak. I was hoping someone had a part number but I can scan the books. Thx

Hey guys, have a 85 Brat, I'm looking for the little fasteners that slide onto the interior trim piece and then you snap the whole piece in. Any ideas??? Not the normal size ones, the baby version ones.

I'm also sorry to hear about your father. Mine is getting up there too and has fallen off of 2 ladders that have changed my Dad in ways only a son can understand. Please don't think what you write about fixing or what you have found out and put on the site is pointless. When looking how to do something, I look for your threads first. I like how thorough you are and with the pics too. It helps out a lot and please please don't stop the great work. Your Subie Brother across the globe, Naked Buell, aka Joe PS, I'm looking for the little plastic push on fasteners for the interior trim around your head, its in a 85 Brat. Not the common size, the little ones that slide onto the trim itself and then you just pop the interior piece on. Any ideas to find them? Amazon has the normal ones but I can't seem to find the little ones.

Ohh, you guys crack me up. Thx for the laugh. I'm up in Washington State in the mountains north of Spokane. We are good up here. Everyone stay safe and thx for the laugh during a trying time.

Honestly, unless u found someone who had one in good shape u would be better doing an ej swap. I know, I know, but parts and power and fuel injection, better to save for that up grade. Without an oil pump the motor is obsolete. That is what i had to face myself. My 85 Brat has an 2.2T.

I would put a remote switch that only u know about, that shuts power off to the column. No power, car won't start. And, yes, I hate thiefs too.

A cool 80 wagon GL would be a cool find and Ej update.

Just waiting for the muddy roads to dry up so I can take my trailer over there and rescue her.

Well if pump is pumping, take off the line right at carb, have someone crank and see if you are getting fuel right at the carb and then work backwards.

I will put that on my check list.

Life does keep us busy. High school and homework and some chores doesn't look so bad when you look back.

Hey guys, I have two wagons, ea82's and the neighbor said I could have if I take them away. I did see one with a 5 speed push button 4wd, I will let you guys know more when I comb over them. Anything you guys might be looking for, let me know and I will see what we got. Thx guys.

U know Numbchux, it would be really useful to actually take the time and revise the write up with things that we have learned and that works better. Just my 2 cents.

So I am putting the interior center console pieces in the 85 Brat and with the new Sti 5 speed, the shift is further back, or closer to you, and a quick shift. Does any have any pics of what they did for console ideas?

I was going to go check it out, we are in "Break-Up", with all the melt off, roads are crazy, better have 4wd in some parts. Plus the guy was sick so I was waiting for him to get better and roads. He said it was going anywhere. I am getting more and more excited to go get it. I will keep you posted.

So it has been sitting for 20 years and the guy said he didn't have any spark, and he tried 4 coils. I am thinking it is the fuse box.

Nice job. A must to keep the Brats on the road and looking awesome.

Welcome to the Brat family of nuts about Brats

I kept the stock SS down pipe off turbo, and then it is going to be custom new exhaust all the way out, MagnaFlow. I had one on my 02 Wrx. It sounded awesome.

Check your ground connections. You could even run a separate ground to make sure you have a good one. For them all to be having problems, I'm thinking ground, only because I have had that problem before and it was the ground.

So I have the 85 Brat, in the instrument cluster on the back there is two plugs coming off the top. One is the VSS, yellow and black, What is the other one? Light Blue and white wires?

Hey guys, I have a 2.2T in my Brat. It has the stock plastic expansion tank on the engine. I had the stock Brat radiator modified for the coolant hoses for the Ej motor. I have the small coolant line coming off the drivers side of the engine that originally went into the white overflow tank, which I don't have any room for. Can I just take that coolant line and connect it right to the Brat radiator cap overflow nipple? Or do I need that overflow tank? The engine came out of an auto tranny, I am not sure what the manual versions had. Does anyone have a pic or manual diagram? I was thinking, if I just fill the Brat radiator to its normal tab level inside the radiator and then connect the line from the motor to the cap nipple, would that be okay?