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Spotted in Beaverton, OR by Kevin Talley, on Flickr I saw this out in Beaverton, OR off 185th and Edgeway does anyone recognize it?

Welcome! Look forward to meeting you saturday.

Still waiting!

Kind of in a pickle! I had to order a new carb and it wont be here until tuesday. I am hoping I can get it all dialed in and running before the 16th. If not I will be there either way just in my forester

I can come tinker with ya this weekend if ya want Unless my weber gets here then I need hands on my brat lol

Looks like someone has been busy!

Brat looks good! Hope to see a lot of progress pictures with it!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24542568/How-to-Keep-Your-Subaru-Alive

Let me look for it. Ill post it if I can find it!

well after some debate I decided to just pull the trigger and order a Weber Carb kit From RetroRoo! Will post pictures when it gets here!

I love finding parts on rockauto.com that nowhere else has!

Still debating. Either just black or do a similar color way as it is now just nicer. Last of my worries tho

I saw that =)

sorry for the late response yes it is I picked it up from Autozone Part Number: PS123 After jacking the car up and looking at the oilpan I discovered the back bolts are blocked by the front crossmember. So this project has been put on hold until I can figure this out...WHy are easy tasks becoming more difficult? So I went and picked these up from Pooparu Sunday and went for a nice drive with my daughter. Stripes by Kevin Talley, on Flickr But then when I leave work monday I start having problems again. I go to leave the parking lot and as soon as I let off the accelerator it dies on me. I get it started again by going WOT when I start it and limp it off the road into another parking lot. After that I am messing with it to see whats wrong and I can't figure it out the only way I was able to get it to stay turned on was by cranking the idle up to 2000rpm and on top of that according to my vacuum gauge and tach and just listening to it it was all over the place. The Vacuum gauge was reading anywhere from 10-20 my tach was reading anywhere from 1000-2500 and well I am sure you can imagine what it sounded like. well After a little bit of tweaking I got it as steady as I could while I was on the side of the road in the rain and dark and limped it home. It started to do the Knocking noise in 4th around 2000rpm again that I previously thought was a vacuum leak but everything I can think of is sealed off and sealed off well with caps and hose clamps for added peace of mind. So with that said I drove it home in 3rd and parked it. Sorry if none of this makes sense its the best I can describe what happened. I was told to check my fuel filters, look closer for a vacuum leak, Maybe a jet came loose or got clogged from my rebuild or maybe timing issue. Any thoughts or ideas before I go tearing things apart?

For what it's worth I worked in a Bicycle repair shop that was similar to this idea. In my experience with that you have to make sure you have a competent staff because you are going to get just about every type of customer from the person who has never done anything but switched the car from park to drive to very experienced people who may know more than you(which isn't a bad thing sometimes). The hardest thing I found in our shop was small tools disappearing. Doing a complete inventory at the beginning and end of the day of all tools was the only thing I found the helped cut back on tool theft. We also tried "leashing" tools to the work stands but that might be a little harder in this case. As far as pricing went depending on what the customer needed to do our prices Varied. For the most part we were about half the cost of taking it to a shop and having someone do it for you which I always seemed to think was fair enough. If they needed help from one of the staff prices generally went up 10-20%. As far as hours go that all depends on what works for you..if you can make this a success and be open 7 days a week during "normal" business hours that would be great. I know personally having something opened Sat/Sun would be amazing as most repair shops seem to be closed on the weekends here in Portland for the most part. So again not the same thing but same idea with a different type of repair shop. Either way if this helps or not Good Luck sounds like it could be awesome!

Finally Got the Vacuum Gauge installed this morning. And by everything I can tell everything is running and working smoothly. Its staying steady at 20 when idling and when I accelerate it drops to about 10 and when I release the accelerator it goes to about 22 then back to 20. Pretty neat to see whats happening. Vacuum gauge works by Kevin Talley, on Flickr I am also suspect that my oil pan gasket is blown out because I can see a tear and oil is leaking from it. So I picked up a new one, a K&N oil Filter and a new Pressure sensor switch. I am hoping it will be dry enough tomorrow to get all of that done and out of the way. Some new things for the brat by Kevin Talley, on Flickr

Anyone going to the auto show this weekend?

Yea I do have a vacuum gauge that I am planning on installing soon. I didn't do it when I did the carb because I wanted to do one thing at a time so if I had problems I wouldn't be trouble shooting more than one thing. I plan on putting the vacuum gauge in on my next day off. But on the bright side I drove her in to work today and it was 25 degrees and I didn't get the usual rough start and idle as I was before I did the carb. Also, it was the first hwy test and didn't seem to have any problems at all so as for now it has been a success.

Nice BRAT! Come hang out on the 16th with us! https://www.facebook.com/events/486500811400504/ http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=138205

Yea ill agree 650 seemed a little low I tweaked with it again today and it seems much happier around 800-900. I'm pretty happy with this turn out and can't wait to see the differences when I finally go with a weber.

Untitled by Kevin Talley, on Flickr So yesterday I got the Carb back on and did a little tweaking. Took her out for a drive and she ran fine except would stall on me when I went to N and came to a stop. So I pulled her over and figured I wasn't getting enough fuel or something so I messed with the idle and mixture and got her to where she sounded healthy and was running about 650 rpms at idle. Now not knowing what I am doing at all I feel that after that she ran pretty good. I am able to tell a difference in how much smoother she runs. I am sure I will be tweaking things here and there. Any tips on how to properly tune the carb?

Yeah figured as much. Well I have the next two days off to play around with it