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Might be headed your way soon - looking at property in Wisconsin. LoL. Need a few hundred acres - my entourage includes a 100% disabled combat vet that can waiver property tax. Looking to get a fleet of M1078 snow plows with sanders out to the upper northeast where we can cash in on the shortage. But yeah - as regards where to get the equipment (old GM's and military hardware) - you buy it out here on the west coast and ship it in. I'll use my contacts out here to facilitate that once I'm in the area. My M1079 (my mobile house) is a 2008 from the desert of Kuwait and Texas. Zero rust and I'll ensure it stays that way with Amsoil HD metal protector, etc. GD

"it's more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow" "Stand on it 'til you smell stink!"

good luck with that... if it gets driven on the roads in the winter, it WILL rust. Insidious stuff... not to dissuade you from coming here, but i would budget in a cheap rump roast winter beater for those snowy months. that would imply you had something worth spraying to begin with.. not something easily come by locally. Importing something rust free is also not easily done when on a very limited income.

When I lived in the rust belt Midwest we only used Fluid Film by the gallons each fall. It was an annual autumn ritual in late September that we pulled each car into the garage and gave them all a good shot of Fluid Film misted anywhere we could snake a hose. It made a very noticeable difference over the years. I later moved to Phoenix and left all of that nonsense behind. I still use Fluid Film in the small rattle cans if I'm storing engine bits for the long-term.

WI rust will make maintenance a pain in the #ss.

Thanks, Moosens! I tried posting this to my Subie facebook groups but for some reason it wont let me? I must be in facebook jail again for something. Let me know if you happen to come across one.

Update: I've taken the Wagon up to the Mountains, and to Work. So far the new set up with the fuel pump wired to a manual switch is working well.

do it lol

Half that much HP at the wheels will twist the Brat chassis up like a pretzel. We did a rally build that was in the neighborhood of 175 WHP and after driving it around the doors no longer closed properly and it had to be fully caged. Even with proper instruction and quite a bit of experience the driver put it hard into a tree and killed it. I personally lost control of the stupid thing twice on test drives. Ended up in someone's lawn narrowly missing a mailbox and on another occasion I spun it around 180 degrees into the grass adjacent to an on-ramp...... Honestly terrible handling vehicles if you give them power and the chassis is limp like wet tissue paper. Just don't. It's a Japanese farm truck. GD