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Congratulations! You've now made your cylinder temps higher, your oil more acidic, and your exhaust dirtier! Oh and yer intake air will now have lots more grit in it and be more likely to suck in water! So Much Winning!

Hey Giles, thanks for replying! I thought after it - geez that was a bit rash of me to ask about how deep your pockets are!! I’ve got too many projects! Some of the small ones are: - fitting an auxiliary tank to our NP Pajero/Shogun (new to the family, love this car!). Other ongoing projects are - and you’ll probably recognise these: Ruby Scco: my off-roader. Redback Brum3y: (power windows, six gauge “long” analogue dash, rust repairs, respray someday and an EJ conversion at some point) ^ she’s already got AC and I’ve fitted PS and some nicer seats from a Honda Integra DA9. This is my ongoing project, I just want to get it going - need a good engine! This is a Subaru RS Liberty turbo. Can’t wait to have this going, get it on club reg (this year is the plan!) then start tidying her up while we enjoy driving her. Thise rims are now on my sister’s Gen3 RX liberty wagon that I maintain. It’s a very nice car to drive and recently clocked the 400,000km. I also look after my mother inlaw’s targa brumby “Sunnie the Burmby”. He’s got the long dash, electric windows and basically everything I want in mine except the EJ and a respray... So just a few on the go! Glad you asked?? I’d love to be giving the RS and the brumbys the same treatment your giving this vortex. And your budget is pretty reasonable. That’s about $AU6,000 (roughly). Keep up the garage time, I can’t wait for mine to kick in regularly again! And a happy Easter to you too mate! Now at dinner in a little town called Maldon for their easter fair and street dancing that starts in a couple of hours. It’s always a ripper night! Cheers Bennie

Good morning Guys. Bennie. Your right I'm going as quick as I can. But I only have this one project on the go. I give all all I can, this is normal for me. Im lucky that I don’t worry about what I’m spending on the car. But I have a budget and hope to stick to it. £2-3,000. Not a huge budget. I crawl all over ebay daily. All labour is free of course. I’ll even spray the car myself, I’ve done it all before but with my Alfa Romeo. I wasn’t happy with ‘professional’ spray job, so I learnt to do it myself.. via YouTube. All takes time. what projects have you got? sparkyboy... are those digital dash pics of your car? I’d love to fit one in my car... but I believe it’s not as easy as you’d think.... :-( anyway.. I goto work.. ( my proper job) for a few hours... then I’m back to garage try and improve my poor 1st day welding skills! Have a good Easter guys! G

After researching further, I'm inclined to use some Gumout Multi-System PEA cleaner in a couple tanks of gas per this Scotty Kilmer video: http://y2u.be/gg9ppeUMpK4 I may even use an endoscope I have lying around as a borescope to check the pistons before and after the treatment. If so, I'll post the pics here afterwards.

There’s nothing lucky about it, the leverage (the engagement points are a larger diameter from center than the nut diameter) and engagement characteristics aren’t enough to damage anything. I get it, I’m an engineer, wondered that too, and was careful to pay attention to engagement, etc and I’ve done it a zillion times. Nothing to it. But yeah there are plenty of other ways to do it. The sprocket is easily damaged, I’ve seen damaged sprockets: marring of the teeth and bent guides on the side. Take care against those issues and have at it.

My 14' okie gator airboat. Powered by an ej20 turbo, has a 2:1 belt drive with a 10 blade warp drive prop. It does great out here on the st johns river, just got done test driving it for about 3 days in a row. I have a few questions for you guys but ill wait till tmrw. Till then, heres the boat ! Ill take some vids tmrw too.

Okayokayokay... if you're having fun watching me obsess over it (sicko), I've got one more bone I can toss you for now. I threw the 'scope on the three wires that are used for communication between the two modules, and at first glance it doesn't appear they're running anything as complicated as the synchronous serial protocol I speculated about earlier. I haven't done much with it yet - just watched the lines when I enabled and disabled the security system - and I think they just strobed one line to signal the change of mode. I'll have to read a little more closely to see how many different states there might be and try to correlate that with how the state change signals might be encoded, and look at the microcontroller's data sheet to see what the pins (on each board) serving those three wires are capable of. Other than getting in and out of valet mode I haven't been very interested in the security module, so I don't get yet what-all sets it off. The easy thing to do on the bench is just give the shock sensor (that little grey box in the upper right) a little rap, but obviously there are a bunch of other conditions that can trigger it, so they'll represent different messages being passed. We'll see about all that later.

How recent is recent? a few weeks ago I swapped a new engine into the Beast Then I made a new custom exhaust that never goes below any crossmembers... Swapped an LSD and new rear axles into the Beast Then I replaced the front struts after I broke one of the tops wheelin and replaced both front axles while I was in there I welded the bumper mounts back onto my rusty Brat, then patched some of the larger holes in the bed... Did a lot of welding on Robbie's car before the Subaru show... -Bill