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lol!!! I might go, not sure yet:burnout:

I dont know how great it is, some of the numbers are known to be slightly off. I would use it as a rough guide more than anything.

they are good road trip seats, ie they will not totally ruin your back from a several hour trip in a stiff car. looks good.

sounds like a HOT NA combo. DOHC flow, compression out the rump roast, should be pushing 200hp with a good exhaust and some cams. SOHC heads are 50cc. CR calculation, just because I am bored. all #'s taken from ejcalcs http://wac.addr.com/auto/obs/turbo/ejcalcs.html with thin gaskets: 616+46+4.5+6=672.5cc@BDC 46+4.5+6=56.5cc @TDC 11.9:1:eek: with thick gaskets: 616+46+11.8+6=679.8cc@BDC 46+11.8+6@TDC=63.8 10.65:1 a little safer... but where's the fun in that

I was wanting to do a ghia but then I started looking into how much it would cost and how much work to do it right... NOT cheap. but I was pricing all new kennedy stuff, a porsche 901 trans(you have to rip the gears in a car like that and a type 1 trans wont take even an ej22e abuse) all the piping, plus cutting up the car. lots of work.

dang, that is cool.:cool:

interval shminterval. just examine it. if it is at 60k and has no cracks, run it. check it every 10k or so, the covers are easy to pull.

they sound uber simple to make for this fact: the bottom holes line up, ea-ej. so you first make those holes, mark the rest, and do it up. you can use 1/2" plate

sorry, you are correct the GL's were watercooled. I added that to the list after writing the aircooled bit. gs1100's, viragos, and xs1100s are definitely aircooled. bike motors tend to go cheap on ebay if you do not mind buying an engine sight unseen or parting out a bike can get you a cheap motor. a bike engined justy would weigh 1500lbs or so. and even lower would be possible with some cutting. there are many bike engined cars, but mostly minis which are light as heck, and lotus 7 type cars which are even lighter. personally I would use an R1 motor as they are proven in cars, watercooled, make a ton of power, and can be had for a grand.

3 reasons a bike engine would be cooler: weight(~ 170-250 lbs for complete bike engine setup) revs 6sp sequential shifting though any swap into a justy would be totally bad rump roast. there are several large bikes that use a shaft drive, but are all aircooled which wouldnt be the best for a car suzuki GS1100 yamaha XS1100 yam virago 920 honda GL1000 aka goldwing(eh mudrat357?) etc etc these older motors are available for under $500 all day(oftentimes much less) and can possibly take some boost because the CR is quite low, at least on the yamahas. the real issue in my mind is wether or not the trans could handle any kind of abuse when you triple the weight it has to move.

I'd say examine real watercooling setups and plan yours from there. though a subaru radiator would for sure be big enough. nothing succeeds like overkill right? plus, what would be cooler(lol) than having subaru parts on your welder?

Ive seen a hippie bus that had the top 1/2 or so of a 60's microbus welded to the roof of the schoolbus as a sort of upper story. looked way fun to ride in.

you may be able to go to a phase II ej22, but they are single port exhaust(yuck) and ej22e's are by no means infallible. just look for a good used ej25. there are a ton of soobs up in alaska arent there, and cars dont last very long?

reverse: electric motor attached to one front axle or to the driveshaft somehow the best part IMHO would be the sequential 6sp. I would do an older GS1100 with a small turbo maybe 10psi or so to not break the trans. yet get a little torque as well. also would be cool to just cut a hole in the rear floor and mount the bike trans output straight onto the justy diff.

I would think a TIG would boil the oil more readily than a MIG because as it is slower, a lot more heat gets transferred to the piece. its benefit is the really good puddle control you have. I have heard of drilling a hole in a strut to drain all the oil out and tap it for a screw. actually that is to put thicker oil in the strut as cheap rump roast's sports struts. NOT advisable unless the strut has for sure lost its gas charge. or you could go with strut inserts. not sure who makes them for ea cars but there has to be an application that would fit, and maybe gain you an inch or 2 of travel.

couldnt you cut up an old brake rotor for a 1/4" spacer? Ive always thought about it but never had the need to.

you can bet that most any BC/BF NA 5mt awd legacy will be 4.11. any turbo legacy will be 3.9. impreza will be hard to say. I have seen 4.11 and 3.9, and only heard of some 4.44's.

cool! what thickness is the material of the ea82 plate, and have you had it survive any hard hits?

did you use blue masking tape or the regular stuff?

subaru is just ridiculous on their parts pricing. theyre not mercedes'.

that is a SAFC? IIRC they can be used to compensate for larger injectors, and will probably work pretty well with an older system that doesnt "learn" like obd2. I have seen them installed on several obd1 cars too. I used to have a write up of an install on an impreza but dunno. they are way cheap too, like less than a bill but they are kinda old school and ghetto. they use a bunch of knobs you turn to tune it right?

why not get some rally tires that are cheap and common? such as kumhos or silverstones? you can get takeoffs from prorallyists for a decent price, and there are several teams in the puget sound area.

matty, just cut the C pillars off and use the floor unibody to attach the frame rails. that way you can keep the trunk functional, maybe with an open basket where the rear seats used to be for gas cans/tires whatever, then use the trunk to keep other stuff safe from the elements/theft. or, just keep the rear seats intact ala our alaskan friend. BTW grant, you are a madman. that Ford is crazy, wanna post some specs? and are rockwells going to stand up to those tires?

ej22's are very solid engines, less prone to stuff like popping head gaskets(a moot point IMHO given the new MLS gaskets that are available), are available cheaper, and use slightly less gas than an ej25. all of that appeals to a lot of the old fogey types. but I would NEVER swap an ej25 for an ej22... unless of course it was of the closed deck variety and/or had a snail attached. they are all good though.