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I did. It is. A buddy gave me the sticker, I scanned it before I put it on my hatch. As for the pms, I don't get it. If people have my email, they can email me. I guess I'm still in the stone age. Mostly, when I wanna contact a board member, I just call them. Ask Mick. . .

Would recommend the XT6 clutch. Ken will swear by them I think after not being able to kill his at the Rubicon. Smoked it a couple of times too.

Christ! I'll never have them all! They need to quit coming out with new ones, I'm still trying to track down all the old ones. hehe Where'd you find the white impreza? Want one.

The easiest way to describe my theory. . . I can draw it out, but will try to write it. Has nothing to do with handling, but with turning radius. Important stuff sometimes out in the woods. Draw a piece-of-pie shaped triangle. If you start at the inner part of the pie with a line across the triangle, it will be a shorter length than if you draw the line across the pie farther out. . . The signifigance being the same as a tire without or with off set. The off-set tire will have to travel a bigger radius lock to lock. The outside edge of the tire sticks out more, therefore traveling farther, needing more space. My experience being that I seem to have to beat the floor panel a lot more to clear the tire with a rim with off set. The Oz rims on my hatch made me notice that. They have a 2 inch offset or so, and even though I used little 26 inch tires this time, I had to do a lot of banging to keep them from rubbing at lock, on 2 wheels. Kinda remember needing extra pounding for the 15 inch pugs steels with their off set compared to 14 inch pugs steels with no real offset. **I guess a piece of string tied to a stick or something could be used to demonstrate what I'm trying to show too.

I'm talking about with the 3 or 4 inch lift on a loyale style wagon. Scott, with your bigger lift and extensive fender and wheel well mods also help quite a bit. Without these, the tires would rub way sooner when turning. Get what I'm saying? On another note, if the pug steels seem too ugly, you can throw soob hub caps on them. Painting them can sharpen them up too. http://community.webshots.com/photo/37919799/60788563yXAxQr (friggin ultimate gallery or whatever only gives me box with the red x when I tried to post a photo. . . )

Pugs are not too narrow. A 27/10.50/15 goes right on them. How much wider of a tire would you need? I've run Pugs on all of my lifted soobs except the hatch I have now. Don't see anything silly about that. Rims that stick out 3 inches on either side will interfere with your steering ability, especially if you have relly big tires. Only the 15 inch pug alloys need the special lug nuts I believe. Either way, pug lugnuts are pretty easy to come by. Easy Rick untill you've had more experience as a lifted soob owner. Let your experience dictate how you form your opinions, and not what you read. The lift kit should not mess with your camber and your tire wear. Adjusting your struts up would cause that. With or without a lift. And lastly, my opinion about needing to change your struts and shocks while doing your lift. . . Change them when they are bad, not just cuz they are convenient.

There will be 3 or so cars leaving Saturday afternoon. I think we'll all be splitting up once we get to PDX.

That's a sign that either the ball joints are bad, or the steering rack. GIve each side a good wiggle, should show you which side is the bad one, and just what is the problem.

It will have a roll bar in it for the good times at Hillsboro. It's been raised 3 inches, but hte offset of the wheels is a couple of inches on either side, plus the width of the bigger tires. These are much smaller tires than before too. I'm even putting the sway bar back in for the weekend.

Am hoping for lots of rain. Let it rain all night Saturday and all the way till about 7 a.m. Sunday. Want an excuse to bring the hatch.

I thought I recoginzed that as Gary's old car. I've raced against it in RallyX. The first time I ever saw it, I was at one of the club rallys at S h i t e p o k e,(stupid cuss word hating board edits ****epoke so we won't see the word s h i t) and it whipped around the corner way too side ways and crashed into the stump me and Sean were standing on. lol He backed up and went on with the rally. Gary moved up to an impeza now.

Shoot me an email Brett. chairotsu@earthlink.net I tried logging on to the byb board, but when I did, it said bob-the-brat doesn't exist. . . Eric

CRAP! There are so many who deserve something like this. Why the Hell does it have to happen to such a great guy? I'll smoke one for you my friend and pass it to you in spirit. rip buddy. EZ

I wonder how much the rotary weighs in comparison with an ej22? That's always been one of the rotary's claims to fame, its small size.

Tex said he'd be East of the mountains this weekend. Probably not near his computer.

I take it you were over at John's. . . What'd you think?

Rick Chances are, they won't let you run a lifted rig. They are basically illegal, but they will make exceptions. Experience at the rallyX will help your case, as well as a roll bar. My arguement when I ran Bob was that I had indeed lifted it 3 inches, but teh wheels and tires gave an extra offset of about 4 inches on either side. As well as a roll bar and 3 years of rallyx experience and a lot of promising to "take it easy out there." Drive the brat. . .

Hey Scott. How you been, where you been? You'll have mail soon.

Nice to meet you. Any friend of Skip's is a friend of the board. . .

Height would have to do with clearance. The taller one won't fit under your hood without a lift. KNN sells a cleaning kit. Comes with the cleaner and the oil and instructions to walk you thru.

Right on Brian. Sounds like a typical day at Rieters. Invite some Soobs next time. . .

The 14s are out there if you look for them., you just have to buy 5 when you buy them, just in case. A 15 inch rim is gonna force you to get a pretty big tire. If you wanna stay 26 inch or smaller, you'll have to go with 14s. I still see the Kumohs in 4X mags, has anybody tried that venue? They seem pretty cheap that way. . .

I'll be at the next one. I just hope it rains A LOT!! I wanna bring my hatch this time. 2 reasons, if it's raining, I can spit mud everywhere, should be a blast to watch, the other, if I drive my hatch, I won't be expected to win again. hehe

There's one of those little vans n a yard about a couple of miles from me. Been wanting to get a photo of it and post it, but always space the camera. Wonder what he'd let it go for. I'd be the talk of the town showing up to a soob show in a soob van. Also wonder if I could even fit in one to drive it. . .

A couple of years ago I saw a Pikes Peak climb on speed vision. A subaru rally car was among the cars. It placed second behind "Monster _______" (can't remember his name) driving his 100hp+ rear wheel drive Suzuki. Peple who play Gan Turismo would know the car. Way back, this was a "good ol' boy" sport only till Audi crashed the party with it's rally car in the early 80's, with a woman driver no less. She made short work of their previous times with her 4wd. I'd love to try it, but my imp has nowhere near the power to compete in something like that. (I guess I'd be safer that way) lol