TheYeti

I will gladly grill a side of my "sort of famous" salmon for everyone.

Ermmmm... status report please

New jets arrived today! yay! I will go down on Friday (hopefully) for the install.

It should be an easy swap.

Ouch.

You are exactly correct. Engine ran nice and smooth with the old Hitachi. We removed the disty to check timing and so on, but it is correct. FYI, Suckerking apparently runs the air mains at 165/160 and the fuel mains at 140 / 135. Not sure of the order, but those are the numbers.

Still the same problem of backfire through the carb under load. Frustrated. Beaten down. Tired. We must press on... What we did tonight: -checked everything for vac leaks (yes, everything) using carb cleaner and found none. I even took the carb off and resealed all gaskets, etc. -vacuum tested out at 12 pounds with the meter. We changed out the cat and managed to get 14.5 on the second read. -Jets are set to 140 / 140 fuel mains and 170 / 160 air mains. -Checked the mechanical advance on the distrib and it is working perfectly. Currently, the engine is set to about 12 degrees when the mechanical advance is hooked up. No idea where to go from here. Everything I read suggests that a backfire through the carb is a lean condition, but is it possible that it is actually running too rich? Bogging down under load, pop, pop, and starts to stall out?

All of the above cars remind me of a great Saturday Night Live car commercial... Anyone remember which one I am thinking of?

I would start by browsing the contents in this linky: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=45 You should be able to get most of what you need in there.

Round 6 will take place this Friday. We (Jerry D, Shawn W, and I) will tackle the distributor / mechanical vacuum advance. My fingers are firmly crossed.

"There IS no easter bunny!!!"

Winch, wench (aka. Jeffrey), ... tomato, tomaato... At the rate things are going I'll probably have to sport the Outback, but count me and maybe the +1 in.

~sings~ "Cheeeeze Nubbs!"

OMGHI2USAMBO? Fishing for phones is fun...

If/when I get the Colonel's backfire issue sorted out, I will toss my 2 non-cents in here

Call Tire Rack. They will probably have something available.

Not so much at high rpms as under load (clutch engagement / getting the car moving). The larger air mains were installed last night(180/170) as suggested by Redline. Although it did help smooth out the idle a bit more, the motor still bogs down under load and backfires through the intake/carb. What you all are saying is starting to makes sense... I think I will take a stab here: If the advance is set to about 10-12 degrees now, the vac advance could then be advancing the timing too far and cause the backfire. Am I on the right track?

The disty was addressed when Shawn did the timing adjustments, and the idle (once warmed) is quite smooth. The problems seem to come up under load. This is when bogging down occurs and the backfires occur with the most frequency.

Everything I had read about up to this point suggests reducing the size of the main fuel jets rather than increasing the size of the air jet. Either way, I am learning.

Redline suggests taking the primary main air jet (170) and moving it to the secondary. Then I am supposed to take one of the main air jets from the kit (180) and insert that into the primary. This doesn't make sense to me IF the motor is running lean, but I really don't know at this point so I may as well give it a shot

I believe I have the same size on the OBW. You should be alright.

I had some time to at least learn how to take the weber apart and document the size of the jets that are in there now. The carb comes from Redline with 140 fuel mains and the main air jets are 170/160. Unfortunately, Redline sent the wrong jet kit, or at least I think they did. The smallest main fuel jet in the kit was 150. At this point, I am a little discouraged. I just want my mustard wagon to live again, and really miss driving it.

A WRX going 130 was enough to scare the peewaden out of me. I can't imagine doing anything near that in a Loyale without beefing up the supension and such.

It looks like the right model to me.

Managed to get a jet kit from Redline for altitude. Might help out with the issues. I will try to get some pictures when we start working on it again this weekend! Here is to hope!