bheinen74

Your BRAT was looking even better than the first time i saw it.

Just did oil change on my 91 Civic Si hatchback. -went to Chicago and back yesterday to pick up a BRAT RB, so decided to do the oil change today after returning. Last oil change was in july of 2005 at miles 64,350 So i changed it today, Sep 10, 2011 miles 67,900 I averaged 40.2 mpg on this trip, and 2 hours of that was city driving in Chi traffic.

hakka4 nice winestone tw, i had the exact car sold it when it had about 180k my former

^ that's it, more info is roll down the front windows, and gently squeeze the rubber channel a little tiny bit narrower right at the triangle of wherre the mirror mounts (make sure glass window is down) then put window back up, test it out on a little country drive. If you want to get even more anal on this then apply some rubber restorer/conditioner to all the door rubbers...

The other day renewed my leather outback limited seats in the BRAT using the remaining Leatherique product i had from when i had the SVX. Seats are again like new.....thinking of waxing before the fall cold sets in later in the fall. Started the Legacy SS in the garage, idled it for like 15 minutes while the 12v compressor aired up the low front tires, also ran AC to lubricate the seals and such, wow it was cold AC, too bad that is my winter car with nice Nokian snows. Need to read the CEL code it was showing.....when parked it no codes in spring, so that is a new one. looked at the 84 BRAT with ej22, I still have not tried to attempt to start it after i purchased it over a month ago. Bid on a few auction cars.

Legacy is a much more refined car, no problem holding steady cruise doing 75mph cross the country. Just saw a 94 with 466k miles on it still going strong looked good too. They hold up really really well.

From the pics it looks great except for the bottoms of the body where they painted it black, possibly needed to cover rusting.......but the price is good on that if it is solid.

down under, Australia

What year impreza and trim level. Do not leave bags of chips, food crumbs etc in there.

Those braided flex pipes leak over a short time...In fact, mine looked good, but with the car running, could feel air escaping all about the flex portion. I took it to a shop, they cut out the flex part and put solid pipe in place of it.

I had the fender off my 85 BRAT and never had to remove hood or wipers. Left them on to install it back as well. If you don't have dents in a replacement fender, you are better off to leave as much factory paint, primer sealer on it, Taking it to bare metal is a no-no in automotive world in that case. The right time to take to bare metal is if you need to stick bondo to it, or grind out rust. Factory paint is better primer than anything to can respray

wow. Nice deal, even with 4 different wheels/tires. You know that front bar is worth near 200 alone. It looks mint to me.

Around here, it is mainly worrying what the dealers did to it?

" it is running hot, but working on fixing that ....." You have one of the most problematic engines Subaru has made. Trying to get more power out of it with a bigger Turbo has been done but most of them blow up. If you want reliable, you are not going to be happy with a bigger turbo, you will be breaking all kinds of stuff, even when done by following the book on this. You simply don/'t have a reliable engine to consider doing mods on. You are running hot because that is a sign of eminent failure. Not sure how you are planning on fixing it, but best thing would be to scrap the ea82t engine and swap a ej22 in there. Or if you choose, then bigger turbo = bigger kaboom when it does let go.

I have a CA 85 Brat with weber and computer is unhooked. I used a different hot when on wire for choke wire. -Now i know why the original choke wire wouldnt work on weber.

Pick n pull junkyard.......... I bought an entire ej22T longblock and after i got home, I found it had a COMPLETELY brand new T belt, new tensioners, new pulleys etc.. entire engine cost me 150. :banana: after i sold the short block, for 500, i have a new t belt kit ;eftover and so it was paid for so no cost at all at this point. I made money on getting my tbelt kit.

springs attribute 95% to the ride height Shocks are for rebound 95% the other 5% on each is not much to think on. You can take a shock cartridge and press it in and it will stay and hold, where you push a spring in and it comes right back out. You probably have the saggy butt syndrome..weak springs. weak springs will take a toll on shocks over time as well.

I had a 93 or 94 (don't remember which at the time) ej22t had a plastic one as well..... I also had records from my 94 TW that it had a good size oil leak at 3,000 miles from when new........ and they replaced intake gaskets at 6,500 under warranty as well on it..... So even when new, they were not sealed real well.

delifted brat completion, shifter slop fixed, yet again...this time slotted the shifter that slides over trans shaft. prior fix was to thread a bolt thru where the roll pins were that was 4 years agi....... this time, slotted one side only, squeezed, welded after slot squeeze. threaded bolt back thru.. i bet I have the tightest shifter in all the world now for any brat, would bet money on this claim.

usually alternator out gives xmas tree lights flashing on dash.. battery is first expectation. that was a battery i remembered i got handed down from my dad...it is i think the one that came in his forester, and it he thought turned the car over slow...

145-150 ft pound. fronts Pretty sure the back drum has it printed on it for 155ft pound. I usually torque to 145 ft lbs then look at the cotter pin alignment, if it is close, then go to 150, and turn it a little more to the next notch

I havent tried it but someone should and report back http://www.roadsters.com/gibbs/

wow wow wow " ?: A 3 week test drive to see if I thought I could fix it while he is out of the country and then I can buy it from him for $500 if I want. I want"" rusted out see thru the panels and nothing left of rockeers cars here gor for 750 in that era....

Battery mick battery. the one i tossed in there was maybe junk.... the it came with still got here....i put in one that it would get started with... dangwish i had that car back.

water pump is seeping out the bottom.