baccaruda

hurry up and put my wheels on it

maybe the valves need to be adjusted? assuming that the dist. cap and rotor are from the dealer, maybe you should swap in a different distributor, or maybe the camgear that drives the distributor is defective. or the coil/etc?

latest update.. I just grabbed one of these off of a nissan truck at the junkyard. it wraps around the front of an EA82 car perfectly. I'm going to chop the bottom tube off to save weight (i'm not hardcore enough to need two tubes ) and for turn signals i have something like this in mind: this is of course after i finish the EJ22 swap and can actually drive the car. i will be receiving my lift kit next week and then i will reassemble the front suspension. i figured: the car has no engine in it. i have to tear apart the front end to do the 5-lug conversion, and to lift it, so i haven't put the 5-lug legacy parts on yet. right now i'm going to go finish cutting the adapter and redoing the foam on the heater box-thing and then take them out to the secret subaru lab so i can mark the adapter for the top 4 holes that have to be tapped. i also will change the two axle boots on one of my legacy axles as well as swap the wagon's old EA82 struts/RX springs into my Brat, and thus free up the EA82 strut tower tops for the Legacy struts, for the lift, which I get next week. I also want to start tune-upping the front end of the Legacy engine as well as changing the rear main seal. then as soon as I get the flywheel machined, I will be good to stick the engine in and start headaching over the wiring.

that's really nice. if you want to add an e-brake for the rear (assuming you have rear discs) don't forget that (I think tex or corky) found an exact replacement for the stock rear caliper, that accepts E-brake cables. what's one more lever?

i think that the flywheel is the same. verify that before you get rid of it

the distributor swap is a myth. it was disproven, i think by skip.

whoops. well, what's going on with the jackie chan car then?

WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY... WE CAN REBUILD HIM!

we should stalk Jackie Chan and find out if/when he'll be in Seattle.. it would be awesome to get some pictures of him with the refurbished car!

it's either a 17mm or a 19mm.. i know it's 19mm on EA82s...

that's easily one of the best looking (individual) subarus ever. i've seen one or two of those in spokane with only the front spoiler.. one red one turned up at the junkyard a while back and i pulled an LSD out of it as well as the spoiler i traded to richierich. i had seen it for sale with a blown motor, for like $1200 or so, before that.. none looked as nice as that one though.

you should check the gas mileage just to be sure.. how do the plugs look? i suggest checking the coolant temperature sensor, especially if it seems to start OK. also try disconnecting the catalytic converter and next check the valves maybe..

it's just a tube of rectangular steel with the ends capped. there's probably hundreds of those on every type of 4x4 rig out there; it doesn't look like you're claiming it to be original and i doubt anyone else would.

since you'll have to compress the spring anyway to reassemble the strut with a new top, you should probably compress it before you do anything else. that's what I'd do anyway. but i also happen to think that i look fantastic with all of my teeth i would also change the other side's top as well...

"Tri-Flow" would be a better choice for that than WD-40... reccomended to me by a bicycle enthusiast, for the hubs and such.

that hatch might have a turbo but it didn't come that way from the factory. the only OEM-ish turbo hatch is "quattro-san".... http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=23639

the EA82 SPFI intake will fit on an EA81 carbureted engine. it flows a little bit better and does require a few other small modifications. I don't have more info on that, sorry.

i just finished putting another engine in the brat. this one DOESN'T have a cracked head i kept the car's original intake hooked up and swung it off to the side and swapped long blocks. now (aside from the timing being off) the gas pedal is permanently floored. I can chase down the won't start/timing issue tomorrow, but I don't know much about carburetors and that's kind of the way i like it... I'm pretty certain that the throttle cable is NOT kinked or twisted (unlike me, har har) but i'm going to disconnect/reconnect it tomorrow to make sure. any ideas about what else might be responsible for this?

hey andrew. i still have the exhaust on my car. sounded great with an EA82T and open downpipe, now I get to see how it sounds with an EJ22. soon. funny how parts get passed around here isn't it! Chux, you NEED to wash that car! when it's dirty, and with those wheels, it looks too much like mine did! enjoy.

that's a cool idea.. (either ben or marnix) in oz buys really luggy tires and screws bolts into the lugs.

I think Jerry may have done this? I'm not sure. I recall reading something about him drilling out the control arm to accept a larger ball joint, which is what you'd have to do anyway - the body is too narrow to easily accept EA82 front control arms without causing geometry problems.. also I sent you a PM.

i'd think that you could wire in a switched relay between the front wipers' intermittent circuit and the rear wiper's regular cicruit. turn on the front wipers and turn on the relay and you wouldn't need to have the rear wiper switch on at all. just make sure you wire it to the rear wiper's ON terminal and not the SQUIRT terminal! yes, I've daydreamed about this for a while now.

park it in your friend's front yard?

hehe. well the last time i drove a subaru with bad power steering, it was my friend Justin's car.. his car was a friggin basket case. He got that car stuck more times than i can keep track of, and that was usually immediately after it had been airborne. it wouldn't surprise me if his car was "exceptional" in the way its steering felt. just for the record, to defend my injured masculinity when I put the RX tranny in my wagon, I had to bench press it up there, wiggle it into the pilot bearing (that SUCKED) and then hold it in with one hand while i put the nuts on the bottom studs. I felt like Popeye after that, with the endorphins in my arms.. the next day I felt more like Olive Oyl though

sounds like you need to catch that "here lizard lizard" that's eating your car's wires!