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So you *think* your hatch does it in about 18 seconds....but you *could* be mistaken and it could *really* be doing it in 2.3 seconds.

Got a thumbs up from a homie G showing off his STI to his other homie G's as I set off a parked car's alarm while going down the block in 2nd gear. Tested my 0-60 time for the first time since owning the vehicle. The clutch is eh, so I'm trying not to beat on her much. I got a dazzling 18 second 0-60 time. Beat that suckas!

I use it to grease a frying pan when making dinner. Good stuff, that.

I don't really have much to put into this thread, but here's some encouragement, it's real cool you're ripping into your own engine, just take your time and pay attention to every detail, and you should be top notch. As far as the tick, I have read (and I'm sure you have too) that some people who do a rebuild have to run their engines for a little while, maybe even rev it up a bit, to get everything to seat and/or for those lifters to do their little finicky dance before they stop yelling at you. Good luck, I hope it gets sorted out.

Just failed inspection! w00t! A big red rejected sticker is better than my out of state half torn off inspection! At least for 30 days anyway Then it's off to the "How much do *YOU* want.....to put a sticker on this car" guy....

yes!

Will everyone PLEASE stop staring at me like I just read this thread from beginning to end over the past hour and a half? it's NOT FUNNY!...... By the way, this was a beautiful build to read through for the past hour and a half. Bravo.

Totally want the GL-10 door decals to throw on my GL

Good work saving it Pictuuuures

Try pushing on each corner of the car to bounce it. Maybe you just have a squeaky suspension calling for some grease.

Yeah, it's def a 15+ gallon tank. If I fill up when my light comes on, I get about a 12 - 13 gallon fill. I have pulled into a gas station so low it was beginning to buck and sputter, and that fillup was 15.5 gallons.

Yeah, there's two bikes back there, three people in the car, about 800 pounds in the trunk and another 400 pounds on the luggage rack and roof. It was bottomed out the entire drive. Now my back suspension is shot and I slide around on the highway over the tiniest bumps lol. It's a blast in the rain.

Just cos nobody seemed to notice it, my 2 cents, is that the new bumper looks pretty awesome. Big improvement.

cos I'm bored. Still so proud this thing got me from jersey to nevada and back. (OVER) LOADED.

Crack a window open a little bit and remind yourself; "This is a 20+ year old car" =P

If you feel like you can do it yourself, then do it yourself. Believe me, the last thing you want some rinky-dink shop to mess up is your wheel bearings. My front driver's side bearing was bad since I bought the car (87 GL) and I had a shop do the work. I gave them a tub of mobil 1 bearing grease and told them to dump the whole thing in there while they did the job. Well, my bearing is shot already (10k later) and the whole hub assembly is loose. I just keep tightening up the castle nut and put a new pin in till I get the money to take care of the job. The bearings got so bad they wore out my hub, so now I need a new hub. Anybody? Anybody? haha

What the fu** is the internet?

Was your car utilizing both pulleys on the now-fried alternator? Because I (could be mistaken) have only ever seen single belt pulleys. I just swapped out an alternator on the loyale and the replacement was a double pulley. I was like wtf, but I just used one of them (inner).

Coming down the block..... It's a porsche! It's a lawnmower! No! It's...oh. It's just a subaru. =P I really shouldn't get on the forums till I've had some coffee...hahaha:drunk:

on a side note, however, is it *really* all that unpractical to just throw one on our cars and leave it at W.O.T? How fast would we go? 70? 80? 90? Just kiddin, and yes I know. Our cars are capable of speed; they just take awhile to get there. I've hit 97 in my GL I probably would have been doing 100 if I had this aerocarb though! haha

man.....*sniff*...that was beautiful man.....

I bought an 87 GL in April and drove it from New Jersey to Nevada and back for burning man and all I changed were the spark-plugs. I was also carrying about 1,000 pounds of ************ in and on it. And at points couldn't get above 35 mph going over the mountains. When I got back to Jersey the water pump blew. :-D

Actually, they're not nearly as complicated as they seem. Mechanically, that is. They're pretty simple. I rebuilt a rochester 2bbl carb on my Nova last summer, and the whole process was a breeze. A very dusty...rusty....dirty breeze.

I don't know how easy it's going to be for you to find a light blue 85-88 in excellent shape let alone for the work required to fix it. This is just food for thought and you don't have to take my advice, but if I were you, I'd just take whatever you can get in the mean-time just to make it look better if your state is stringent about sharp edges on vehicles, and then take your time to find the right parts. Pulling off the body panels to get to the skeleton underneath, and then to start straightening it all out, is quite a job. That's unless you're going to have it done in a shop of course. The girlfriend had her 93 loyale for less than two weeks, and it was MINT, and she drove it into a light-post. Same side too. Very similar damage actually. I used a hand cranked come along winch strapped to an F350 super duty to pull the innerfender wall back into shape, and then just went to town with hammers to straighten the rest out. Came out pretty good. Either way, good luck with your endeavors!

Just a curiosity question; standard transmission vehicles were available with pushbutton 4wd?