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Where’s @GeneralDisorder these days? I miss his blunt input on things like this. Buy an ‘80’s Chevy he’d say! I hope he’s ok. Cheers Bennie

OK, Mr. McBRAT, you owe us an update on the life this beast has been living

Got it all back together, driving it for a few weeks and runs maybe even better than before - sounds much better without the worn out water pump rattling - , no leaks! BUT didn't pass CA smog (engine light is off when motor is running) and was 2 degrees to advanced so reset it and ran a bottle of " CRC Emissions System Cleaner" .. double your money back... in a half tank of gas so going to try to pass test again. Thanks everybody for the support

Brat is still alive and kicking.....

That’s the era where they (SOA) really tighten up with dealer stock. Dealers are told to destroy parts or at least damage them as they throw them out. So finding 80’s and later NOS is more tricky than 70’s. But Carl Porter is the big man these days for NOS since I’ve been getting out of this habit slowly. He’s here once in a while. Find him in FB if you haven’t already.

I dropped the idle at 210F+ to 800 and it still hasn't stalled and I don't think I've stalled it starting out. Also had someone help me tune the PID on the cruise control, we got that very smooth now. Wound up zeroing out the derivative gain and the integral gain. Actually flipped what the integral gain was doing from the base settings and that may have helped even more. Had a bunch of friends help part out the black Outback. Base of passenger side A pillar was more cracked than I expected especially since the windshield wasn't cracked. This is a good example of why I considered the car totaled. This evaporator has actually been flushed out a few times. That white thing used to be a round washer sealing the bulkhead fitting in the fuel cell for the main pickup hose. We got most of the wiring harness out intact. We cut a few things for the rear taillights and the doors before we realized we could/would remove the entire thing. Mainly I wanted to keep the portion from the ECU to the engine so we could potentially swap that EZ30 into something else. Wiring harness pictured weighed 51#. This is after we put away/threw away a lot of parts. Not much left on the shell aside from the bumpers, some glass, and the headliner. Hopefully will be picked up momentarily.