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Audio/electrical help? 88 Subie DL SoundWagon
el_freddo replied to Thomas88DL's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
While you’re at it get an EJ to help drag all that extra weight around reliably! (It has to be said!) Cheers Bennie -
Thanks for the update! Cheers Bennie
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Audio/electrical help? 88 Subie DL SoundWagon
el_freddo replied to Thomas88DL's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
There are alternator upgrade mods documented on the forum, they might be worth looking into as a supporting mod for your audio. Wysubey is correct, you need a spacer block for a CD head unit. I used a piece of wood that was shaped to fit, it’s temporaray I said as I fitted it over 10 years ago! You can buy plastic professional looking spacers, they should still be available but I haven’t looked in ages. Cheers Bennie -
Trouble Starting 83 Brat GL
el_freddo replied to divinicus's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
The coil the dude mentioned is used with points. If you have electronic ignition in the dizzy (eg no points in the dizzy) then you don’t need this coil thingymajiga. Cheers Bennie -
Have you looked into your TPS (throttle position sensor)? You can remove it, pop the cover off (drill the plastic tabs on the mounting plate) and clean the contact slides and tab arms. These can sometimes gunk up and cause TPS reading issues for the ECU. Have you checked codes? I’d be starting there. Cheers Bennie
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Fair enough! Do some google searches, I’m sure it’s been documented somewhere as to how you trick the ECU. Otherwise the other way to go is aftermarket ECU if you’re that way inclined. Tunability goes through the roof. Cheers Bennie
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Isn’t this exactly what @heartless did in the second reply?? I bet if everyone ignored the initial request because we don’t have the info the OP wants to read, the first reply would be from the OP with something along the lines of “really? No one? No info?”. I’m keen to see this strut delete. The only one I’ve ever seen was on Phinzinza’s MY wagon that he used for jumping (and I’m talking HIGH!). He added an upper wishbone to hold the top of the hub where the strut usually did the job. Not road legal, not worth yours or someone else’s life on the open road! To me the fabrication required for a strut delete is way more effort than swapping springs on struts or building a strut/spring combo to put on the vehicle. If the idea of spring compressors scare the bejesus out of you from some past bad experience, maybe you need to make something like this to do the work with: Cheeky Russians have their spoob sorted! Quick, safe and easy! If you’re looking at fabricating a strut delete in a Subaru I’m 100% sure you can build a device like this and sort out your current suspension. Cheers Bennie
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What he wants is a basic carb runner and has a good EFI long block to use. I reckon he needs to swap that long block for a NA long block. The EFI heads mean nothing to him. Cheers Bennie
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You’re going to have to trick the ECU to think that the auto is still there I reckon. I know this works on earlier models but really don’t know with the later stuff. Why didn’t you just swap for a manual vehicle? Cheers Bennie
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Because what you’re asking just isn’t done commercially!! The only bolt on option is to go for a set of coil overs, but unless you want racer-boy-hug-the-road-“fun” then you’re flat out of options other than to go buy a “truck”. So basically, like everyone said previously, it’s buy all the parts and build it yourself (DIY) or buy all the parts and go to a suspension shop to have them put together and you can decide whether you fit them or they do. Youll want a 4 wheel alignment after all this work is done. Have a nice day, Cheers Bennie
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You’re clearly keen on the swap so you’ll have to take measurements and work it out for yourself. I bet my $2 on the dashboard being longer than the impreza one. So you’d have to look into cutting the legacy unit down to fit, then make it all look pretty. If you’re only after the instrument cluster it might swap over with wiring repinning of some plugs. Door cards. Measure, work it out. My gut says different. Cheers Bennie
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EA-81 Fuel injected engine
el_freddo replied to wain lee's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
Why not get funky and run the EA82 MPFI system with those heads? The only real mod needed is to the dizzy and that’s well documented. Then it’s the wiring loom. But yes, you could run the carb on the efi heads with injectors as plug. Cheers Bennie -
EJ22 swap with UEL headers?
el_freddo replied to ClassySoob's topic in Old Gen.: 80's GL/DL/XT/Loyales...
Use the stock EJ mid pipe section that those equal length Y pipes use, then go custom from there. Ruby Scoo above runs the gen 1 Y pipe with a welded on cat back exhaust that’s custom for the L series, lift and EJ. Using the factory EA exhasut with an EJ should only be a stop gap as it’s very restricting. Cheers Bennie -
Sounds like a dead crank angle sensor in the dizzy to me - ECU doesn’t know when to hit spark and doesn’t know when to fire injector. That said, I’m not sure that the SPFI ECU signals the dizzy to fire since it’s still in the mechanical spark mechanism era. Have you checked for codes yet? Cheers Bennie