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Here is the incomplete set of pictures that went into making my lift.

My strut tops are a piece of 70mm long 100mm diameter thick wall steel tube. One of the other Ausubaru members sent me some top plates he had cut on an oxy profile cutter. I welded the lot together and that was the front. For the rear I bought some 35x8mm flat bar and took it to college and heated it up with the oxy to bend it to the required profile. Then welded a piece of 25x4mm flat bar between the two 8mm pieces to help locate it and bolted it all in place. It is nice and warm here still, it summer. Last week we had temps over 110° F but this week it has been all storms and rain. I actually went in search of mud to play in yesterday but wasn't too successful. Prior to this year we have been in drought for about 3 years and whilst still drought declared have had decent rain lately - it all just soaks straight into the ground!!

Yeah, fair enough we have bad tyres, even worse are our tyre options... A lot of the lifted subes I see definitely have MT tyres, but then a lot have AT's too, but the main thing is dependent on where you live and the intentions of the use of the car. My primary aim is to go beach fishing. We don't get a lot of rain here so mud isn't commonly seen, therefor AT's suit my needs better. As for the springs, isn't the Baja just a uted Outback? Won't springs for the outback suit it then? And as for 10 lifted subes in one place, there would easily have been more than 10 lifted subes at the last BYB BBQ held in October of this year

Settle down big fella! At least our taste is good enough not to sell the Baja here... Oh yeah, bring on the swampers!!! we don't get any little swampers here Also, you won't find the Scorpion Springs advertised as Scorpion Springs here in Australia, we know them as King Springs because that is who makes them. Every time you see a cars specs as having 'king's' then that is what we are talking about. Ben (from the land of the lift kit)

If you have a Leone then I take it you are in Australia or Europe, if you are in Australia, give SSS Automotive a go, they will get a box from Japan for you. http://www.sssautomotive.com.au Regards

Go for a PK Davis lift, can't go wrong!! I built my lift kit myself, from 2" square alloy bar. The wheels are from Scorpion Subaru (http://www.scorpionsubaru.com) and are fairly pricey, but they are a 14x6 rim and are the right offset for Subaru, they are specifically made by the company here in Australia.

After 9 years of driving Subaru's I have finally got around to putting a lift kit in one!! It is a 2" body lift, 3" strut tops, 1" longer rear coils, Scorpion 14" rims, BFG AT's in 27x8.5. Just passed rego today and is fully insured with the modifications. Looking forward to some serious beach time!!

Hi, Does anyone know what the power rating of the SPFI EJ18 with dizzy is? Thanks

If any one here just happens to be visiting Brisbane, QLD next weekend keep in mind that the annual AuSubaru cruise and BBQ is being held on Saturday 16th October. Starting from the Strathpine SC on the northside of Brisbane and heading via the windy roads to Somerset Dam. If you are interested in attending then the details are here http://www.ausubaru.com/ausubaru/html/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=447 If you need any further information then please post on that thread or contact any moderators directly. I am fairly certain we will all be there this year. Maybe with a bit of luck some of us Aussies can make it to the WCSS one year!! Ben

Corky Bell wrote a very good book on turbo's. It had a section on water injection and its place in the world nowadays (as opposed to WWII tech). Makes for very interesting reading.

First thing I do when I see a subie sedan approaching is to look underneath the front. You can plainly see the exhaust pipe either doing the Y thing, or coming across the front of the engine sump - you work the rest out We only get turbo pre 88 sedans in Australia, so if a wagon has a turbo pipe sure thing it will be an enthusiast!

Wombat They are bastards to hit as they are very stocky solid animals. They will often do more damage to a car than a Kangaroo. Luckily you don't see as many of them as you do Roos

I am not sure of the bullbar, although it looks like a TJM one. There are several manufacturers of bullbars in Australia so it could be any of those. We kinda need good solid bars here, it isn't to protect the car from brush, its for kangaroos, wombats, pigs, pedestrians, emus etc etc Good place to mount a winch and spotties too. The wheels are Speedy Desert Rat's they fit the subes, but the offset is all wrong, the centre hole is also the wrong size. But they are cheap and are a 14" rim, so they end up on a lot of subes, so many now that the cops don't even really look at them. We don't have as large a range of tyres in the 14" size as you guys do, mainly because there just isn't the market to support it. The most aggressive tyres we can get in our size is the BFG MT style, which a lot of manufacturers copy. I have a set of Goodyear Wrangler TG's in the shed ready to go on my wagon when I get the lift finished - they are a fairly aggressive M+S tyre. We can get Swampers here, so long as you want 33"+ sizes. The other thing too is that we don't really have crazy mud here (gonna get flamed for this comment...) that really needs hardcore tyres. I have been 4wdriving for close to 10 years as a driver, and 20+ years as a passenger and I have only ever been bogged in mud once. This was in a 78 Landcruiser with BS Desert Duelers on it. My dad had a Pajero (Montero?) with AT's on it that we drove the Bloomfield track in Far North QLD during the wet season, and whilst it was slow going and crawling sideways a bit, we never once had to get out of the car. I think I could fairly confidently say that even if we could get 28" Swampers here, the only people buying them would be for pose value. The Snorkel is made from SS pipe, and what appears to be a Safari intake. Head over to the AUSubaru forums and search for Snorkel, there are a few more pictures of it getting around over there. Being a 4" lift kit it will be one of Brett's BYB kits. We can't legally remove a cat in Australia, however only post 1985 factory unleaded cars are required by law to have one fitted. Therefore, Stinky's MY does not need to run a cat by law. However, he could legally fit one and run unleaded fuel if he chose. Don't need a winch, subes are too tough for winches Although I am considering one, to help extricate my Bro'in'Laws Sammy, for when he gets stuck

Its easy as guys, MY describes the EA81 cars, (some of which had EA71's) and L series is the EA82 powered cars. We never had EA71 engines in the L series here. There are very few pre MY cars here but if they do arise they are usually just referred to as the model code, eg a 1978 Brat is an L88. Stinky - love the 4" kits, you gonna be at the bbq?

Hey - that diesel idea isn't too bad, wonder if it would work in practice... My point of view was coming from doing the hack the two cylinders off and have a ~30hp power supply to drive a non subaru application (small tractor) Other options include a sherpa 2cyl too - just that I have a good ea81 complete engine and a block in the shed... Was looking at it this afternoon and I could hack the cylinders off between the piston sleeves and the crank webbing, then link up all the water galleries. The half of the engine to use would be the one with the dizzy in place, that leaves the water pump lacking - nothing an electric water pump can't fix though... I think a sherpa 2cyl would do the trick very nicely though...

I have heard of half a dakdak being used as a two cylinder motor, any chance of this working for a EA81? I realise a bit of fabrication work would need to go into it, but is there anything that needs to be looked out for with regards to oil and water passage? Just another crazy Ben idea......

Hey Qman, Can you do us Aussies a favour, we are having a who's bigger than who comp over on AuSubaru right now. When your brat is sitting on level ground, what is the measurement from the concrete to the sill just in front of the rear tyre? http://www.ausubaru.com/ausubaru/html/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=1893 Thanks

Very, very nice Qman. Good work!

Fit some 2wd sedan rear springs, they are a lot softer than 4wd wagon springs so will reduce the skipping in the back and give better weight transfer onto the rears for grip...

Theres a bloke in Australia that has an RX with 286hp at the wheels. Factory heads. Goes by the nick of QikRXTurbo on the ausubaru message board.

Ok, now I understand what you are talking about! You can get any engineering workshop to make that modification for you. All that is involved is to mount the hub on a lathe and cut the wheel locating lugs off and make the centre a standard size (I do 54mm) then mark out 50mm from the centre and then move the hub to a rotary table on a mill. The mill is then centred on the marked 50mm radius line, now, when the rotary table is turned the mill will always be above the line. The hub is then centre drilled, and drilled out to 13.5mm and then reamed to 14mm, then the rotary table moved 90 deg and repeated. Then new studs are pressed in and the next hub finished. You shouldn't pay more than $3-400 to have this done. I know that Mark Haybittle Engineering in Sydney was charging $660, but that was some time ago.

Are you talking about a 4 stud or a 5 stud conversion?? I did the 5 stud conversion by importing the xt6 stuff to Australia, this was ridiculously expensive and there is better ways of doing this. You can get a conversion done to Liberty brakes for similar dollar value, and get better brakes in the process. Have a chat to a automotive engineer that has brakes experience, and also take as many photos etc of what you can get and they will be able to sort something out for you.

WestOZZY - take a look at http://www.ausubaru.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi It's an Australian board and there are members there that live near you and others have put VF12's onto EA82's. I would like to say though, if you are not intending on changing the ecu at the same time it will be more pain than gain - you should look at a smaller turbo such as the VF10 or VF08 which make boost at lower RPM. There has also been good success with TD04's. The STI exhaust should fit, at least the front section - I had a EJ20 Turbo in an L series like yours and used the factory dump pipe and a custom tail end. Both of those items are selling for a good price, if you buy them and they don't work, you should at least make your money back...

Yes, I was talking about a new throttle base for the hitachi carb, but if it is the venturi size that is the issue then fair enough. As for the interchangeability of carbs, This weekend just gone I swapped the throttle base from an EA81 carb onto an EA82 carb (as the EA82 one was leaking). The base had a 28 primary and a 32 secondary on both carbs. The EA81 carb I believe was from a brat/brumby although I can't be certain as the motor was in my '82 coupe which I am dismantling. Anyway the only difference in the base was the EA81 had a idle mixture screw and the EA82 one did not, no problem though as I just adjusted it until it ran smooth, it does idle a bit high but I think I may have bent the butterfly swapping it over (but that's another story...) I guess an efi system is for me, I can't handle these carb things :-\

Would there be any advantage to enlarging the stock throttle bodies to 32 and 36 rather than the 28 and 32 of the stock carb? I have the tooling and ability to make a new throttle plate to replace the stock hitachi item with a larger bore and mechanically operated. Question is, would it be worth it? What about if it was say 32/32 so you get the advantage of the larger primary, but the suitable metering of the stock sized secondary? Any thoughts?