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Finally gat to talk to my local independant Subaru machanic who has been working wonders with Subaru's for years. He confermed that it is the cat and it is the front cat due to it doing most of the work. As far as the superstock coil doing nothing, I beg to differ with you. After replacing the coil, there was a significant differance in performance and stoped the pinging and knocking. Also as far as burning out the ignition module, I also asked about that, and he informed me that it was fine and would do no damage. The only thing it might do is make me replace my cap and rotor more often.

Trust me, I don't want to replace the cat if I don't have to. All I want is for the car to pass DEQ. So far the things I have done are, replace the injector with the one out of my 94 engene (I don't know if it factory or not due to the PO replaced it be fore I bought the car), removed the clutch fan and rewired the electric fan, replaced the coil with an accel superstock, put in NGK plugs the are one step hoter than OEM's, and replaced the muffler with a turbo muffler. The engene still ping and knoks slitly when going up steep hills, but not real bad. I always thought that was from running to rich, but was not sure what was causing it. Is there anyway to check the O2 sensor? I have talked to two other friends that are mechanics and they both say it sounds mor like the O2 sensor. They said it wouldn't matter how hot or cold the engene was, if it was going bad it would make it run rich.

when I took it through DEQ, I disconected the electric fan and I don't have a clutch fan. The engene temp got up to nearly the red from having to sit for so long. I figured the temp sensor had to be working to get that reading, and the cat had to have gotten pretty warm.

OOP's, sorry. I guess no one can read minds. 1994 SPFI Loyale with 92 engene and ECU also SPFI. 1st idle HC - 411 and CO - 2.6246, 2nd idle HC - 396 and CO - 3.0051. HC should be 220 or less and CO should be 1. The reason for thinkign I need a new cat was taking it to a shop that the I tow cars into all the time and we get free labor and parts at wholesale. I had them check it out and they said everything checks out fine so it has to be the cat. I was told by the guy at DEQ that it was running to rich, so I put an Accell Superstock coil in and replaced the Bosch Platnum plugs with one step hoter NGK's. These readings were after doing these changes. The only thing I could think of that would stillmake it run rich was a bad O2 sensor, but the guys at the shop said it was still good. I am stumped as to what Ishould do, that is why I am posting.

I need to replace my cat so I can pass DEQ and get new tags. The problem is what section is the cat. The front were the two pipes meet is considered the front converter and the second section is considered the rear converter. Which one is the actual cat converter?

Went out recheck everything, and now I feel dumb....It all boiled down to one of the EGR silanoid vacume lines was unhooked. The engene runs great now.

Thanks for letting me know what the flashes mean, now I just need to know why an engene that just past imisions through DEQ want start after transplanting it into another loyale just 2 years newer.

I have a 92 and 94 loyale. The 94 is my DD and the 92 is a parts car. I just lost the motor in the 94 so I swaped out the motor from the 92. When I try to start it, it will start then immediatly die like it is out of fuel. I swaped out fuel injectors because the one out of my 94 was brand new. I tried playing with the throtle but no change. I finally checked the to see what code the ECU would give me and it flashes 5 quick flashes and that is it. can someone please give me an idea as to what the code means and what I could be doing wrong.

Successful at last…used the Speedo internals from the XT6 with the Speedo gears from the Loyale. Works great, no more bounce in the Speedo. I even kept the original odometer.

Thats what I thought, but had to ask sence I had the XT6 half parted out and the gage cluster was just sitting there.

Will the gage cluster out of an 88 XT6 work in a 94 Loyale. The XT6 cluster speedo goes to 140mph and the loyale goes to 130 and the XT6 cluster has the volt and oil pressure gages and the loyel doesn't. other than that, they look the same. the reason I am asking, is my loyale speedy does not work, and the XT6 does.

thats what I thought, but I just wanted to maked sure. Thank you...

I took my coil out to test the it, and forgot which way it came out. I was wondering which wires go to the positive and which wires go to the negitive.

Thank you all for your feed back, you all have helped me make up my mind. I will stick with the Hitachi anf just rebuild it, well you know what I mean. The only other ? I have, is can I still use the Accel Super Stock Coil: Primary Resist 1.2 Ohms Secondary 8.9 K Ohms; Turn Ratio 100:1; Max Voltage 42000v wwiith the Hitachi disty?

Sorry for double posting, but this is the one question I need answered. If anyone knows, PLEASE let me know.