K9WAGON

Does anyone out there have or know where to get this header http://www.theavatar.org/archive/3_2_369.jpg Has anyone tried this ? Does it hurt the spool up time ? I had heard that Skip might possibly be making these? Any info will be greatly appreciated.

Hi again I want to incorporate the longest possible travel struts in the lift I am doing. So between all 3 generations , which one has the longest travel . It would seem to me EA82's have the most travel but I have never had the chance to compare all 3. I measured the travel of my gen 1 Brat's front struts at a hair over 3 inches. As for the rear on the Brat lift I will be using a narrowed EA82 rear end. . I will narrow it down to just an inch wider than the stock trackwidth. Hopefully this will allow me to use the old Brat axels and keep my tires under the body a bit more. Is there a particular EA82 that has longer rear shock travel? I don't mean taller shocks off a 2wd, unless they have a longer stroke than those off of a 4wd. Thanks, ... K9wagon

Ok after thinking about it, i have decided it would be best to throw a gen2 rear suspension under it to make the lift easier . The older style torsion bars overhang the tires thus necessitating wheel spacers and all sorts of P.I.T.A. things i dont wanna deal with . So will someone with a EA81 series get me an axle width measurement ? I need a rough idea of the differances in width. Measuring from where the torsion axle bolts onto the body on each side will give me the info I need to start planning this insanity . Help me get it rollin again! Many thanks K9WAGON

Hello . I have to replace my transmission and th e passenger side rear suspension since it is bent , and i figure since I'm going to be ripping it all apart i may as well do a 6 lug conversion and lift it as well. So my question is, has anyone lifted a gen 1 before ? If so, are there any kits ? Thanks K9WAGON

I do not belive they are interchangable .. XT computers use a different plug .

I put my stock 81 brat on a ramp , didnt get any pics , but as I remember, it scored a 310

Please see if you can get your hands on a TCU for this 89 XT6 I cant find a replacement anywhere. Your help is much appreciated

Nothing happens. No power light. Nothing. I unpluged the TCU and I got the same results. Now I have checked all other connections and I cant find a thing. I can get voltage through the TCU harness but I think Im looking at a bad TCU. This car had a alternator blow up on it and it fryed some of the electrical so this could be one of those things.

The transmission will not shift into any gears other than 3rd and reverse. You can put the shifter into 2nd and the light for 2nd does not not come on, nor does the 1 hold light come on when I depress the button. The car starts off in 3rd gear and stays there regardless of vehicle speed. I am trying to figure out how to diagnose this since i'm fairly certain its an electrical issue .

The reason I think it's the tcu is because everything used to work fine then the alternater went out in a bad way and sent a large voltage spike through the system and wiped out many various components. I belive it fried the tcu . I have checked all the fuses. I bought the car not running from the person who was driving it when the alt went .

Ok i got the tcu out , Now i need to try to find another one to replace it with . What other cars use that tcu ? Does anyoner have one that they wnat to part with . Thank you for you time.

Where is the tcu located . What other cars have the same tcu ?

I have a 89 XT6 2WD automatic that I am working on for a friend . The transmission will not shift into any gears other than 3rd and reverse. You can put the shifter into 2nd and the light for 2nd does not not come on, nor does the 1 hold light come on when I depress the button. The car starts off in 3rd gear and stays there regardless of vehicle speed. I am trying to figure out how to diagnose this since i'm fairly certain its an electrical issue . Does the ecm control the tranny or is there a tranny control module ? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I have 2 turbo wagons, which I am attepting to make into 1. The donor car was a running 87 gl with hot wire mass air flow. I have modded it hevily and now that it has served me well as my test bench, I want to put the motor and possibly the injection system into an 86 GL10 Turbo, that has all the bells and whistles including the digital dash. It is running the metering door type fuel injection system. I pulled the whole wiring harness from the 87 donor car hoping it would simply plug into the dash wiring of the 86. The connectors are the same , but the 87 harness is missing a ton of wires that the engine harness from the 86 has. I suspect this has to do with all the options the GL10 has. So my question is this: How moddable is the metering door type injection? Whats the most boost anyone has run with it before the air door runs out of travel? I was running 14 psi of boost through the hot wire type before I pulled the engine and dismantled the donor car. I would occasionally have annoying problems hitting the fuel cut, but overall I am of the opinion that the hotwire system is a better system due to the fact that the computer has full control over the timing. The other system appears to use vacuum and weights to control timing . Will this be affected by increased boost pressures? I would like to know the pros and cons of both systems. I will be running 14 psi again hopefully . I use a JDM WRX air to water intercooler to keep things from detonating, so I am hoping to be able to mess with the timing curves. Any help would be very appreciated Thanks

I'm looking for some 15" pugeot alloys . I'm near San Jose Ca. Car Specs: 87 Turbo Wagon, ea82 turbo @14.7 psi (1.0 Bar), XT "Spider" tuned port tunnel ram intake manifold, Ported heads, Air-to-water intercooler from Japanese spec WRX, Fiberglass wrapped both the up-pipe and the down-pipe (boost comes on sooner now), modified air intake (removed the silencer), high performance radiator, Home made high flow exhaust system, XT struts at all 4 corners (I think the rear spings need a stiffer rate)