Ever Victorious

I stand corrected. Starting in 85, the STD was offered in the above configuration, and the DL ceased to exist.

If it's truly a STD hatchback, of course it's an S/R... STD's were never offered as 4WD models, only 2WD. If it's 4WD, it's at LEAST a DL. (unless that was a refit done by an owner of the vehicle) Edit: wow, too much Everett posting going on here. World... closing... in! (So if you see a faded toreador red STD hatchback with no interior, that's my brother in law)

I have some in my gallery, from when I put them on my last XT.

I briefly had an '83 STD hatch.. EA71 4-spd. That sucker could get up and go, especially after I stripped the interior. I should ask my brother-in-law how it's doing... Edit: Just found out the ECU on it died shortly after I sold it to him, he says he's trying to bypass it. That kind of worries me.

EJ22T, what?

Well, at least H4 lamps are cheap, right?

Well, the car weighs like nothing, so it's not like it needs a lot of power to move...

Not the speakers, I don't think. I tried listening to both, and yours sounds how a Sube should sound... A Dog's sounds like a dirt bike.... :-\

Just to be sure, you might want to remove the rear driveshaft as well. It's quick and easy, and will assure your rear end and tranny are disconnected.

Pimptastic. Going for the H4 conversion headlamps? I think they'd look great...

That roxorz.

Don't watch Mythbusters, son... just don't. (Though the rocket car was damn cool...)

Hmm.. I'm hoping it's just the mic that was used not picking up the noise right, cause it sounded like the dirtbikes that my neighbors drive up and down the street at ungodly hours

Mmm... faux wood veneer...

Uhm... stop me if I'm wrong, but torque steer is generated by most FWD transmissions because they have unequal-length halfshafts, causing this phenomena under heavy acceleration. Subarus aren't like that because they have equal-length halfshafts in the front. Wouldn't a bite/steer problem off the line be caused in this case either by imperfections in the road surface or by an alignment issue?

Want a gallon of bleach for that interior? Seriously, though, good to hear that you're getting another classic back on the road where she belongs.

The alt from the parts store was supposed to be for a car w/o AC, since my XT didn't have any.

I wouldn't use the word "definitely"... when the alt went out on my last XT, I popped over to the parts store and picked up and EA82 alternator and had them put the pulley on it. When I went to go fit it back in the car, the pulley was 1/2" closer to the front of the vehicle than it was on the old alternator, and the belt would not reach/run correctly with it. That was an Autolite remanufactured alternator. My old alt was a bosch. I happened across another bosch alt in the junkyard (another XT), so I wasn't at a loss... but you DO have to watch out... there was something just slightly different about that alternator. (And yes, I verified it was the correct part number)

Hey, do you have any idea how many wild Kilts they killed to make those seats? That's just inhumane!

Unless it was originally a CA car, an '87 D/R is going to be carbed.

I have. Wife owned an '84 GL 4WD sedan when we were dating, the seats were black and grey checker. Not the big checkers like you find in EA82's, they were small ones. Actually more similar to the interior of her new Tucson. It was an immaculate car, too bad it kept eating transmissions.

I resurrected an EA71 hatch that sat for 6 years in a field. I did have to trailer it home, even if I did get all the necessary work done to revitalize it in the field, the brakes were seized and the tires were almost completely rotted. To get it going again, I ended up doing an oil/filter change, air filter, spark plugs, serpentine belt, drained the gas and refilled the tank with fresh gas, and gave it a new battery, new tires, and new coolant (important, as by now, even in a "sealed" system, the coolant in there has completely broken down) and brake fluid. Once the brakes were actually FREED (by dragging the car with a truck), they actually worked just fine. The car did always smoke/burn crap on startup, so there's obviously more that I could have done to get it running better, but I suppose that is the "minimum".

(Homer mode engaged) Mmmm. XT Turbo 4WD. Gahhhhhh............ (Homer mode disengaged)

Lucent Gray #654, an original XT factory color, is a nice pretty darker gray, kind of a charcoal. I think that would look even cooler if it were metallic or pearl...

I'll also stand corrected... yeah, that's the stuff I was referring to. Pearl does something similar, but not nearly as drastic.