Flowmastered87GL

Man you've taken that hatch EVERYWHERE!

Found this DEEEEEEEEP in my hard drive. Maybe WCSS8???

Here is the body mounted on the suspensionless chassis... so it will be taller than this... and I have to stick another axle on the back... but shows the size of the tires / body and the width and stuff. Hope to have it done by WCSS14 so I can haul beer around camp in the back of it

Yes all the tires are going to have ballast. If its too much I will pull some out. I'm sure I will be snapping driveshafts left and right. Only time will tell.

No, but they do have 4 ounces of lead inside each wheel as ballast to keep it shiny side up. I just eyeballed it... its gonna be slow enough that the wheels don't have to be perfectly balanced.

Is that a 2.5GT front end on the Outback??

Got a chassis kit and 8 wheels today. Built ONE of the eight tire/wheel beadlocks. Took a little over an hour to get it all tightened down straight and true. This ONE tire/wheel is $45 But worth it... I will have the coolest mobile 8 wheel drive dakar truck / mobile beer cooler when I am done

That was the inspiration to my scale brat. (I even have IFS and solid axle rear too)

Those aren't diesel??? Still sweet though

Nice duct tape Covering a CEL?? Congrats on 300K

Mmmm college money.... Still paying for mine

The body parts set just came in I still need Frame, electronics, wheels and assembly. This is roughly how the first 2 axles will be sitting in relation to the body. I will have 2 rear bodies for it. One will be a low CG "trials" body for comp use. The other one will be a dakar box style... which will work as a beer cooler.

Its all in where you live... I have REALLY good dealer afew miles away that gives me wholesale on parts AND knows their old scool stuff too The Joys of the Northwest where 3 out of 10 cars are a Subaru

Manual transmission?? I run 80W90 Gear Oil

Its possible... I got 31 MPG in a 98 Impreza doing 70-80 MPH from Reno to Portland.

Or just buy a bottle (and bag) of crown and drink it while you are engineering the bag into a shift boot.

Looks like a 93-97 Impreza cupholder to me. Neat that you got it to fit. The best place you will probably find is going to be down near the shifter/center console area. Or on the doors.

My 87 GL had one, its a small square about 1/4 inch in size. I suppose its possible its burned out, I usually used my odometer for fuel range anyway as I had so much crud in my tank. The gas light in my Baja rarely comes on as I try to gas up around the 300 mile mark so that I am never left unprepared should I ever need to drop what I am doing and drive across town or something. If you really want to find out if it works, take a gas can with you and keep driving til it comes on or it runs out of gas. Just be aware that you may need to change your fuel filter after doing so if you end up out of gas.

EA82 is a 85-89 DL/GL and a 90-94 Loyale. The kinda square boxy ones. Before the legacy but after the "brat" body style. This is an EA82 (my former one in fact)

Make sure to get new clips for the throw out bearing (they are like 2 bucks each and hold the bearing to the fork) and also get a new rear main seal. Preferibly from the dealer. I would agree that PIA as Turbone mentioned is a good bet. They have supported the local Subaru community for years and I have never heard anything bad about them.

If you are going to wheel it, I would take the last ad, the $1000 outback. Especially since it has a new head gasket. Make sure they did BOTH sides though. That 1997 outback is a ticking time bomb for head gaskets unless they have recently been done.

One of the trouble spots on the old legacys is the automatic seat belts (if its equipped with them) The sunroofs can be a pain too. They work when THEY want to and can often leak. The automatic transmissions are decent if people have kept up on the fluid changes. I still would take a 5 speed though. The turbos are decent, but if you are going for reliability and efficiency you will get better mileage (on regular gas) with a normal 2.2 liter. I always joke that I would love to DRIVE a turbo. But OWN a non-turbo. For the record my Baja is non-turbo because I am trying to rack up major miles on it.

Pretty much do everything in there: Water Pump Timing Belts Timing Belt tensioners All the oil seals Valve cover gaskets intake gaskets might be a good decent idea (they arent too hard) oil pump gasket (often called the mickey mouse gasket) oil pan gasket Fuel filter if you have not changed it already Plugs if you have not changed them already Pretty much at this age regardless of mileage, if you cant prove it was done it may be a good idea to do it. Check all the hoses too and the accessory belts and plug wires for cracks from age.

Regarding disliking AWD (for efficiency purposes) I have owned about 13 Subarus (which is actually a pretty small number for the board) My 87 GL never really got any better than 25MPG (it was carbed) My 1998 Impreza with AWD 2.2L got 31 highway. If you REALLY want dual range, find a 90-94 legacy 5 speed with a blown transmission (which will be tough actually) and swap in a 5 speed dual range. The legacy will pull hills SO much better than a GL. I loved my old GL's but they are outdated and the timing belt design was flawed. Plus a hill plus the AC going for the pets = bad idea. Another idea is an Impreza wagon. They are roughly the size of a GL and I know for a fact that you can get 31MPG in one if you drive it right. You can often pick them up cheap too. Personally I think mileage is rather irrelevant. Once a car is older sometimes its nicer to have 200K all highway miles on the car than only 100K city miles. It will probably have less wear on its major components if it was taken care of right. Most of my cars were over 200K cars that I picked up for $300-400 and did a major tune up on and then they were good go to for a long time. An example is a $300 88GL I bought years ago. It had been sitting for 2+ years. I took it all apart, installed all new seals and gaskets (including head gaskets as thats why it was parked) and I think it had 240K ish when I sold it. When the guy who bought it was ready to upgrade to a legacy he offered it back to me with 318K on it and it still ran perfect. Now if the car has seen lots of rally/gravel use the high mileage may hurt. My 87GL had 321K when it finally died and the suspension was totally shot and it would not even come close to holding an alignment. Though it saw lots of extreme use.

No turning back.... bought $220 worth of parts so far... then need to sell some (selling the little tires that came with that frame, and the bare frame), and buy more stuff like 4 more shocks, wheels, a body, etc.