ShawnW

If you have access to another ECM I would try that. Seems a little bizarre to have 4 that drastically different at once.

I won't likely ever do yellow again. They look awesome in person but bad in pictures. They also show stains rather badly but then again that looks kindof cool depends on what you stain it with. Moab dirt would look great. Please step up and buy one so I can move onto the next color and style.

It doesnt work with the ea81 Power Steering pump. Its alot easier with just the alternator and not the A/C compressor.

What is the car doing completely off the trail?

Come out to Denver and get me.

I wish it was closer to Westminster I would fix it for you.

What about switching the front hubs out and swapping the rear brakes to the car? Are they so different that it wouldn't work?

Agreed but also cringe a little. Look at that car. Thats an M5. Amazing car and not cheap. People show other peoples property absolutely no respect and door ding it, key it, and other crap. Most of the people I know that own one of these cars are pretty nice guys and gearheads but I would tend to think that there are quite a few rude and stuffy people driving them that only drive it because it says BMW on it and they don't know hardly anything about it. Most people can't park their car to save their life and bring people to park like this so that they can get out of the car and when somebody does what GD suggested doing they might have a chance to get in/out of the car somehow.

Seems like you are attacking that car like a bull in a China shop. Why are you changing all that just to put 4 cams in it?

So not trying to be a jerk but why did you change it at all if it ran before? That or maybe you popped a fuse for the battery hot/ign on wires to the ECM. Be sure you have a fuse on these if you don't already.

Make sure you aren't concluding it wont start because its hot. If you floor it does it backfire or anything? Take a spark plug and plug it into one of the spark plug wires and lay it on solid metal and then watch it. Id probably start with the coil if it isn't getting spark. You can test one with a volt meter.

I dont think they are sold separately if you are talking about the piece that is on the edge of the glass top itself. If you are talking about the gasket that is exposed when the glass is removed from the roof that is probably still dealer available.

Almost every one I have seen has been completely rotted away inside because they didn't leave anyplace for crap to not collect inside the bumper in the winter.

Like the ABS sensor rubbing or something like that?

Another vote for End links. You can check ball joints rather easily with a prybar between knuckle and control arm and watch for movement.

Junkyard? I have gone in and bought 5 for 10 bucks. Not hard to remove.

Chances are pretty good that if it chewed up the hub the axle is also damaged. Along with the tapered washer.

Why don't you drive it up to Cheyenne and back? I have had a couple old Subarus that wouldn't pass and had been thru countless short trips and no long ones. This cleaned the engine, exhaust, etc out and made it run great. I also run Premium around here in most of my cars it seems to be worth it for the gas mileage if you have a good tight engine. 44K is pretty subtle and I doubt it would sway your readings at all.

You can turn the rack off the car with a rag and vise grip. Rotate it all the way to one end and then start counting rotations. When you reach the other end take your total and divide by two. Set it at that point. Install and tweak with the knuckle from the column to the rack or by unbolting the steering wheel and airbag (careful here!) and set wheel back to center. I usually take a moment to consider doing front struts as well since you are going to need an alignment. You might get away with it if you take all the tie rods and such but even then its a different car that you got the rack from.

Honestly if you have the means to weld/mill the intake I would certainly be tempted to do that. Especially if you can make it so you can use the tall air filter for the Weber. Different hitachi....the ea81 hitachi and the ea82 hitachi here are slightly different but I don't know over there if it would be. (assume you are in AUSTRALIA) but that could be a dumb assumption.

Sorry. A severely low tire could make this feeling for sure. I assume you remembered to plug in the AT connectors when you put the engine back in. Its amazing how many things work even though the electrical stuff isn't plugged in. Im not saying the trans would though. Fuse holder: Its just there to make a connection of a wire. It doesnt matter what fuse size it is at all I believe it just grounds a wire even. You can drive around a pretty long time like that and I have helped wire up switches to the dash for people that felt they got better gas mileage with the rear electronically switched off. I disagree that it helps but I didn't mind doing the switches. I personally think that if you have a 2500 pound car going down the road and you have and engine moving it that it doesnt matter if 2 or 4 wheels can power it down said road. If you were to remove all the 4wd pieces like driveshafts, differentials and rear subframe pieces to make the car lighter then maybe it would help.

Thats exactly what it reminded me of the first time I drove it!

Cool car. I personally love that color. That rear differential is awesome. I have never seen a Subaru of this era with that gear ratio let alone an LSD unit.

If the plan is to make it a Dual Range I would buy a whole parts car that is wrecked. I assume you would have an early version of what we call a Legacy here that has a D/R 5 speed. Gut the whole car and put the trans and engine in the hatchback. The rear diff would work even. You are going to need the rear subframe from a 4x4 including a very hard to find hatchback 4wd fuel tank. The tank on these is shorter than the others. I think the rear suspension and subframe can come off any ea81 body vehicle. The gas tank is going to be a pita to get there I am afraid. Heck pretty hard here too as most of the yards punch a hole in the bottom. If you want a motor/shortblock shipped there I could check into it. Lots here.

I got hassled for it here glad to hear they are more reasonable out there.