bushbasher

Dont let the people that run the carwash see you, they flipped on me when I sprayed the engine. They don't like oil washed into their drains or on their concrete.

If I go for color I'll be custom mixing the colour myself from marine enamel, which has shown itself as very durable and very cheap. So I doubt I'd be able to figure out Subaru colors. I too have painted many cars flat black. The trick to getting it clean is to wash it with wd 40. Leaves it a nice deep flat black, though the smoothed and slightly grayed finish that the paint wears to does look nice too.

I dunno, the baja belted's tread pattern doesn't look very flexy, it doesn't look like a rock friendly tire. I like the side pattern though.

Hmm -gunmetal and bedliner or aluminum plating -White w blue stripes, blue wheels -Flat black -Camo -Olive drab So far these are my thoughts, btw I have a grey interior

Those coopers look like what I need. I just realized that my friends scout has 30" discoverer stt's, and they're great tires. Looks like this ll be my choice.

I had to flip the mirrors in to get between two trees once!

in that case theres the pistons, you could deck the heads down .020, get a cam regrind, port the heads, apparently auto heads have bigger valves. Apparently this is worth 110hp. But it's not low budget.

I have an incomplete set of toyota/datsun? 6 lug 6 spoke 14" rims, as well as the same style in 15". I found both sets of rims in the tire pile in about 5 min and the rims were all different colours on different tires, so I'm sure they are common rims. I should be able to complete either set easily. What did you pay for the ssr's? I will be doing a 6" lift with long travel suspension, so clearance is not the problem, gear ratio is the factor.

Don't get down, rebuilding an engine is fun! I also see parts cars in the buy and sell, I'm sure you can find a reasonably good engine to drop in for cheap, though we wouldn't be looking at the same buy & sell As for mods, a weber probably isn't low budget. You could put 1600 pistons in, if you can find a 1600, maybe do the secondary mod on the carb, and open up the air filter, bigger exhaust. Anything else is $$. I would get a weber first from the sounds of it, before I get any performance machining done.

Anybody have any recommendations for knobby tires with a 26"/27" actual diameter tire. I'm going with smaller tires to keep as much gear ratio as possible, as I will be on steep grades and rocks most of the time, and my emphasis will be on making long travel suspension.

I need a good low maintenance colour that is going to look good. Nothing fancy, just fairly basic colours. I might just go for flat black or olive drab/camo (spray gun not cans) but I would prefer something a bit more eyecatching, but not blinding like orange or lime green. This is going to be a "hardcore" 4x4 that is mainly for off-road, with little highway use. Ideas?

I personally don't like cars that try to think for me, It just makes for more wiring, and then when I get used to things that think for me, and go to other vehicles that don't, I end up killing the battery etc. Though it will be cool to have a subaru that will keep up with the jeeps, and still be a (relatively) luxurious modern car inside, with all the little bells and whistles.

wow hassey, do you ever post when you are in a good mood?

i wish they had low range

he means the engine/tranny are stock relative to the subframe. There is no way you could do 6" suspension lift on the stock axles, and still have any downtravel, or proper suspension geometry. The motor and tranny sit 6" down, so you have to make extensions to match the steering and shifters with the body level.

i see a light blue brat in the oregon rally x section.

you'd be hard pressed to get the frame up nice and tight against the body, you would probably have to make a custom frame, to keep it from looking like a huge bodylift. Then the jeep 6/4 wouldn't fit under the hood. Overall I don't think it would be worth it at all. I mean, if your gonna go with solid axles, and a non-subaru engine, the point of the brat is pretty much gone, and brat's aren't the prettiest vehicles on the planet either, they're okay looking, but not probably not worth doing over something that originates from a ladder frame vehicle.

Who is Juan Ruiz?????

shipping was only about $15 to ship a comptuter -monitor from California to B.C. not including duties, I would think it would be under 60.

lift it

I'm liking the offset on those wheels (your pics) Looks very baha truck-ish

I would not have trusted my old one on the road, mine was a bushbashing buggy. I'll be able to think of something, but I'd also like to know how you guys do it. On the ea82 you will also have to fabricate rear shock mounts, because it has coilovers not torsion bars.

I'm not sure (but nobody else is postin ) But I heard they only came in autos, around 83, maybe in manuals later on.

removing obvious things that stick in the way is fine. Any intake shape will be the ideal shape for a certain rpm, if you change it too drastically, it could make the ideal rpm far from where you wouldn't want it to be. You'd really have to take out a lot of metal I think though.

trim pieces may be different, there could be holes or no holes for mudflaps I think that that's it. Yer talking about wagon style bodies not xt right?