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I used to rev my loyale to 7500 rpm's (damned civic's) and never had a problem with the bottom end in it....Keeping in mind...VERY TEMPERMENTAL when it comes to oil. If you have the lifters ticking, that usually means the oil pump is sucking air from somewhere. The only engine I have heard of throwing a rod was on one of our ice racers....it ran out of oil...

Synthetic oil will make it run cooler if anything....more friction modifiers. the thicker the oil, the better it lubricates. Here's a tip.... 10W30...is like SAE 10 oil when cold and SAE 30 when hot. thusly, the higher you go....10w40, 20w50 the thicker the oil gets respectivly. Synthetic oild resist heat and have more friction modifiers in it to allow LESS engine running friction, thusly less hot. ALSO synthetic oils come in rediculous mixes like 5w50 and 10w60. Unless your making 300 hp in a 1.8 L N/A, I highly doubt synthetic is needed. I don't even run synthetic in my car....I find (and heard) closer to a straight grade oil is better for turbo's (eg 10w30, 10w40, 20w50 or just SAE 40). I ran synthetic a few times, but found that the kendall 10w40 makes more oil pressure than the 5w50. To each's own. Oil is oil..as long as the engine is getting some, all is good. OH YA btw....subarus don't need a whole lot of oil pressure to run properly. I sometimes see only 30 psi at 3000 rpm.... Subaru recommends no lower than 10 psi at 2000 rpm.... (for the ea82's anyways)

hummm...twin turbo twin throttle body??? lol I was just thinkin, with the spyer intake injector housing's it'd be a sinche to make up new plenums and twin throttle body's. Just getting them sync'd is the fun part....But of course only one PROPER tps needed.... Humm gears are turning....lol

ok this is rediculous! a new guy joins the board, probably doesn't know much about cars, (if he knew anything he would know that this convo would have turned into such a debate) and all he asked is why subaru's sound the way they do. HERE IS THE ASNWER! it's all in the exhaust header! AND NOTHING BUT THE HEADER! It is very uneven in legnth between the cylinders. EVEN THEN the older EA81 and 82 engines have siamese ports, meaning each cylinder exhaust port joins to one bigger one right in the head....hence only 2 pipes comming out. If you want your ru to sound like a honda, you first have to seperate the 2 ports in the head, then run EXACTLY EQUAL legnth pipes to a 4 into 1 collector....then you'll have your honda. The sound of the engine comes from where?? the exhaust. It all boils down to where the sound pulses meet. If one pulse joins on top of another pulse, you get a loud pulse. It's like cars on a highway.....4 cars leave all driving the same speed each car leaves 180 seconds (degrees) after the other....but all have different distances to go....one car will probably run into the other when the highways join, and the other 2 will probably be WAY BACK somewhere close together...you make all those highways equal legnth....all the cars get in line...the same distance (time) apart. V- engines are a different story and I am not going to get into that. Basically HO's and Inlines are the same engine, same crank (generally) and CAN SOUND THE SAME. But don't cause subaru uses uneven headers and honda's are closer to equal. ANd just cause it's a performance exhaust header doesn;t necessairly mean it's equal legnth....

The dimples around the seal are to help hold the seals in. More than likely the seals popped out of the housing (like they so often do) and the displaced material by the dimples sort of crimp the seal and persuade it to stay where it belongs.

ya I agree, go 2" exhaust. But if all your worried about is the loud glass pack, change that. I went with a 2.5" inlet and outlet turbo muffler on my N/A loyale and it sounded good....not loud, just a deep sound too it. Not too annoying. As for the tinging...it's a double wall exhaust (stock ones anyways) and when the pipe cools, the difference in contraction between the 2 walls, and the heat sheilds makes that noise. No problems though....that sound is normal. If you don't like it, single wall pipes tend to not make that noise. Then again, usually single wall pipes (aftermarket stuff) doesn't come with all the fancy mud and dirt catchers (heat sheilds) the stock pipes come with.

holly crap?!? you torque it that much? I don't think tighter is always better...maybe for coppers or something, but on stock gaskets? I think subaru recommends 47 ft.lbs on stock gaskets....I dunno I am just a stupid kid, I don't know nothing Never mind....I though you were talking about subaru.....

when I did my swap to 5mt 4wd the pedal box was an easy install....after you remove the dash and steering column....I am not sure if it was done in his case. Subrat why didn't ya go 4wd??? It's really easy to install all the stuff needed for the rear drive line....or was there no tranny available?

ya no thanx....megasquirt 2 is lookin better and better every day....

cessna's are cool! and I though you were doing the head liner in that all-crap?!? what are you doing here yappin to me?? LOL (jokes)

common now....twin side outlets are better! lol

THis is true...don't get yer pee all hot now...

You guys ever look into new chips for the computers? Did you know that the computer has a socket already soldered into it for a chip trans-plant? I am wondering, since the subaru boys used to run rally with these cars I wonder if there are a few re-mapped chips out there somewhere... They built the computer for a new chip....I'd expect to be laughed at calling subaru about such a proposition, but ya never know. Any Ideas? I wonder if STI even existed "back in the day" LoL Hummm GL-10 STI....has a ring to it... Or for you RX boys Rx-STI I especially like Loyale RX-T...may she rest in piece... *sulk*

Is that so? well I guess my supplier of info was a little off. That being said, here is another question....Any ideas on how reliable nuts compared to actual bolts holding down heads are. Meaning a bolt has what...2 or 3 inches of thread to bite on, where as you have about 1/2" of thread on a nut...I'd assume that the 20 or 30 threads on the end of the bolt would hold a little better, even in aluminum, than the 6-8 threads in a nut...Any Ideas??

ya I noticed that too....being an RX awd tranny in that? Should have the good ratios in that one. I had an RX tranny in my GL-10, ended up chewing 2nd to pieces....ya....waiting to get the bucks for a gear set...I really liked that tranny