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One of the tabs on the anti-rattle clips had bent over and was making contact with the rotor on the XT6. Yay, no more squeak! Then took a pic after the monsoon storm: DaWedge! by subynut, on Flickr

That's quite the load you have there! Replaced the brake soft lines and bled the brakes in between rain drops on my sister's Roo. Reinstalled the engine cover and splash plates on the XT6. I also discovered why the PandaWagon was making interesting sounds on the left front - the c-clip has gone missing on outer CV making all kinds of weird sounds. Pulled that and will be getting that taken care of tomorrow.

Looks awesome!

Nice coupe!

Oooh...it's pretty....

The reason it was going rich was because the Helmholtz resonator that usually sits in the fender is missing - the EJ resonator or air box do not fit in the EA chassis. Well, not without alot of fabrication work - one area I lack. What doesn't help is the phase I ECU goes open loop at 2/3rds or more throttle. When it hits open loop, the ecu just goes mad rich and the smoke begins to billow. The not too smart computer is all sorts of confused with all that extra air turbulence. It has to do with the resonances of an NA EJ engine. Check out Williaty's thread on Nasioc. I also read many a thread on Nasioc and rs25.com that the Phase II EJ25s loose their low end torque when the air box (or torque box as some call it) is replaced with a CAI. (Which I did with the straight through design - even though I had it pulling air in from the fender. The intake sounded soo angry with that setup - which was not helping my lead foot syndrome) So, I figured since the Phase II EJs need the torque box, why not use it to see if that could take the place of the Helmholtz resonator the legacy has. So far, it's looking like it has. More data logging required..... I will be shortening that elbow to see if I can feed the filter opening into the fender. Engine bay air is quite hot - especially in the desert. The piping is still larger than the throttle body, so, it's effect is minimal. I did loose a little power above 5000 RPM, but gained smoother low and mid RPM power. Easier to drive it in parking lots - which has been my only complaint with this EJ swap. Until I go standalone, I want to keep the ECU happy and I found that this has helped the ECU out. Has it negatively effected my high RPM power? Some, but it's only till I can get the standalone ecu.

Registered and time off approved. Whoo hoo!

Changed the intake on the PandaWagon once again... This gave me excellent throttle response but the ECU would go pig rich and billow clouds of black smoke at WOT above 2500 RPM. Was not going to do.... So, I came up with this idea: Throttle response is a little delayed, but not too bad. No more clouds of black smoke, no more puffs of blue smoke when getting back on the throttle after high RPM decel, cruise control is calmer, and the intake is quiet. The ECU is much happier with this setup. Till I MegaSquirt it and it will all change again!

I think the EA81 radiators are taller and narrower than the EA82's. But I'm sure with a little fab work they could be retrofitted to fit.

I have a stock single row EA82 radiator with two 10" pushers controlled by the EJ comptuer in the PandaWagon and it has no issues whatsoever with heat. Cruising through the desert heat on the interstate or blastin' through the Rally-X course - no heat troubles here.

Nice Knopper!

How on earth do people jam those in? When I have put the axles on backwards, that pin comes to an abrupt stop. Do they live by the "Get a bigger hammer!" rule?

Snow! While I'm cooking in 95*F weather here in the southwest USA.

The rears are 6.5", the fronts are somewhere around 5.25", but not exactly.

Changed the oil in PandaWagon and Wedge.

Nice, goblewagon!

Hey, that's gotta add at least 1500 more HP, right?

13.8V sounds a little low. Isn't the output voltage of the alternator supposed to be around 14.7V?

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Had a scare this morning....I lost my blinkers. Neither side worked! It worked last night on it's test drive. What gives? Turns out, when I vacuumed the car out after the test drive, I managed to put the emergency blinker switch half way between the off and on position which caused the regular blinkers to not work!

During the winter I evidently can. This is the first time I checked it after buying the car back. I knew the previous owner had advanced it to give him more upper rpm oomph, but I didn't think it was that advanced. However, I did notice that it was quite sensitive to fuel quality.

It's EFI, so, I plugged in the green plugs, checked the timing and it was close to 30* BTDC, so I dropped it to 23*. Stock is 20*. This was after I let it warm up to operating temp.

Nice Touring Wagon!

Put the XT6 back together: New t-belts, coolant and vac hoses, t-stat, radiator rodded out (70% blocked ), cleaned out the intake manifold, and brought the timing down by 5* to help it handle the hot dry air of the summer. Now my hiccup when I blip the throttle is worse than before.