Mr. Carb

sorry, I need to correct my last post, I'm not only posting it in the off topic section but also in the "Older Generation of Subarus" section.

Hey, I thought I'd post a link that shows pictures and progress of my new 1984 Brat. Alot of people I know like to see pictures, so here they are. http://www.eskimo.com/~carl/garage.html

Austin managed to pick it up for 200 bucks, I can't argue with that price. Anyway in the off topic section I'm gonna be posting a link to the new section of my homepage I'm adding this morning, wich is going to be updated daily or everytime we work on it, as to it's progress. and I'm gonna keep the before and after pictures. So anyone can see how it looked all the way through the entire process.

Yeah! Austin is suposed to get them up here today, it's blue, verymch like yours there, not bad, it has a t-top, orginal rocker seats in the back with seatbelts! it's a very dirty car though, it needs scrubbing inside and out, the guy who owned it was a bad smoker, left cigerette ash all over the carpet and dash, and the windows are all brown from the smoke stains.

heh, I was the one looking for a wagon, the brat was dirt cheap, and I didn't know it was mine until Austin had me help him toe it to his house, it has almost no rust, just some on the tailgate that was rear ended. I decided not to argue cause it's in great condition, no dash board cracks, no windsheild cracks... seats were shredded, along with the front carpet, but no biggy. only thing really wrong with it, is a bad engine. it's not the car I was looking for, but atleast I can get this one fixed up and sell it at all other cost, but I think I'm gonna hang on to it for a while if I can.

ok cool, I thought it would just be a neat toy, and yes so when I unlock the door it unlocks the door for the passenger. When I'm inside it's no problem, thats why I'm not worried about electric windows, I have alot of experience in electrical wireing, so wireing these things in is no problem what so ever for me, I don't care how the wireing harness is, as long as I have a +12 volts from the fuse block, and a ground (the car) I'm set. That firs post was my bad, I ment to say to take the electric locks out of an ea82 car. but I'd only need two of them sense a brat only has 2 doors. so I figured with 2 locks it'd be a piece of cake. I have to pull the doors apart anyway because the windows are jamed in various places.:cool: thanks for the help:-)

I have almost no experience with Subarus, but, I was curious about this, I noticed how most of the door lock systems are almost the same in most of the ea81 subarus. if not the same, I was wondering if anyone knew about taking an electric door lock system out of a gl-10 or gl of somekind (any ea81 that has electric door locks), and sticking the electric components into an 84 brat? it was something that cross my mind, seems how I have to pull most of the insides of the car apart anyway, I thought it would be nifty if I could stick electric door locks into it from a parts car that has them. Thanks for any help.

From my experience with car speakers, and other audio systems, it's very typical for stock stereo systems to be very low in wattage, the speakers may look beefy, but they're probably really only 8 watts. One thing that really determands the truth about the wattage is the size of the voice coil, and the size of the wires going from the terminals to the speaker cone. The bigger they are, in theory is the more power they handle, and it's usally the case. From my little experience with looking at the speakers in most of the subaru's austin has had, and the ones I've seen at PAP, They are generally very low powered speakers. Unless they're not stock speakers. Hope this information was helpful.:-) I'll take a look at a brat, and see if theres any other speakers in them besides the door speaker, but I think gravelRX awnsered your question as to if theres any other speakers.