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ya i have been really busy and havent had anytime on for the computer. but my project for the subaru is coming along

congrats but you need to change out all the oils in the car. that would be the first thing i would do. when i got mine i drop the gear oil in the tranny and it was bad. same with rear end. just get some gear oil and some lucas. that stuff works magic. there is lucas for your motor oil and tranny. the tranny lucas will also work in your diff. then genral maintance stuff like spark plugs, cap, rotor, if you really want to get into it drain your gas and see if you have any trash in the tank. change the fuel filters. etc. its a fun car to work on cause its the few import that have room under the hood. good luck on your ride

ok Rooinater, this is the whole reason why i want more flex. to rally. i dont really care about rock crawling. that is what my 85 cj7 is for. i will send pics with that sucker wrapped on rocks one day. but the whole reason i bought this subaru is for rally. my friends and i are getting bored with just slinging mud and crawling rocks so we are looking for new stuff to play with. so i want to be able rally through some really rough terrain and have the suspension for it. i already decided that im going to do the ej20 swap like gen disorder said. and i will have the drive line in about 3 to 4 months if all goes well. i can fab up my own stuff and make what ever i need. but i know wongleflute about rally and independent suspension. so that is my drama. so an help you can give will be great and much appreciate. thanks for the info you have already provided. thanks ryer

ya man my sub is a 4wd 4spd ea81 hatchback. i dont really care about adding coils, i was wondering what is keeping the tire from going into the fender. is that just the length of the control arm or the cv shaft just cant get the angle or is the strut compresses completely. basically im asking what has to change to get the flex. im use to messing with leaf springs and solid axles. i dont really know independent suspesions at all. but adding a body lift to a project were the tire cant even get in the fender in the first place is all for looks and giving it a little more clearence so stuff doesnt drag under your car. thanks ryer

oh ok so its just a body lift. so now im wondering what part of the suspension "on a 84 gl hatchback" is keeping the tire from going into the fender. hopfully the strut.

hey all. i have been toying with my subaru basically trying to keep it alive and i had to drop the tank the other day to clean it out. so i started to look at how subaru setup there suspension. and i was wondering when ya lift your cars how are ya doing it. are ya just putting bigger coils/struts or are ya changing out the control arms. because i want more flex, i dont really care about making it higher just being able to have the wheel cram up in the fender or haveing drop way below the car. keep in mind that just because you got your car high doesnt mean you have a better lift. thanks ryer

has anyone swap an ej20 into a early 80s subaru just wondering

hey whats up ya i havent talked awhile on this forum. but i was wondering if ya know what could be this problem. my motor in my 84 subaru was running real rough. so i started to pull spark plug wires and sure enough when i pulled 2 and 4 the motor didnt change in anyway. so that would mean the head gasket is bad right. it is an ea81 motor. ok thanks for your info

i just got done reading up on the cis thread ohnoah did on his subaru. has anyone every tried this and turbo charged. i heard that cis is very restritive with boost. i did read that the way he set his up could handle about 175-200 horses and if that is true then that is what im going to want to do. also i just got done reading some old threads and some one mentioned that the tranny would not hold up. i just want to know why and what breaks. or has anyone busted a tranny because to much motor. thanks ryer

i just got an email back from a shop and they said that the rods for the motor can be made but it has to be specially made and they will cost 700 bucks. that is a punch in the balls. i dont know i think im going to be looking into shotpeening my rods. 700 bucks for some rods is a crap load of money. shot i only paid 500 bucks for my car. but at least you know that the rods wont go first. and they do have forged pistons but he didnt give me a price. so my guess that is going to be round 2 for a punch in the balls. email "There is no off the shelf crank and rods,rods can be had but are expensive $700 for a set of 4 also forged pistons are available. Thanks, Phil Tech Dept. Flatlander Racing http://www.flatlanderracing.com 603-378-0090" on the plus side for me i found a bad to the bone place to rally my car.

well i like to go over the whole engine and see what is avaible. some one just emailed me saying that ea81 and ea82 cranks are forged. and so are the rods. he is a guy at a proformance shop. so i think im just going to go to my local subaru dealer and talk to a service manager and see what he has to say about all this.

hey wjm are there any forged stock cranks that will fit in the ea81? also are there a tougher rod that will slip in. or will is it going to be an aftermarket part? i figure that the pistons i want are going to have to be made. thanks

hmm if that is all that is different i wonder why so many people say its not worth turboing a n/a when there is no real difference. so all the cranks are casted then? and what about the rods. thanks wjm

ok here is my question. ok lets say i get the turbo pistons and put them in my n/a motor. and boost it. my question is what is the first thing that is going to give. is it going to be the crank rods pistons or cylender walls. and are all the ea81s cranks forged? if not which crank is forged and which will fit the motor. im not to worry about dropping the cr to much. because you just have to replace the lower cr with boost to gain the hp you lost. so i would rather drop it a little bit and have that same boost be added hp instead of replaceing. and less boost is easyier to mange. and if the ciseasy as is the one web page i read then i will fi my motor. thank you Adam N.D.J. for tell me the place for the turbo cooling and oil lines. one less thing to think about.

what makes the ea81 1600cc and 1800cc different motors. is it the bore sizes or stroke?