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It was the ignitor. It really had us stumped, so I called Sean at Rallitek. He knew right off the top of his head. So I replaced it with one from the J/Y, cuz a new one would be 300+ dollars, and the dealership would have to order it. 2 months went by with no problems. Then it happened again. I was sitting outside of the bar with the key on so the guys in the car with me having a safety meeting could roll the windows up or down if they wanted to. Sure enough, it failed me when I started it up. My luck? I had been to Pull a Part that morning and had grabbed one just cuz. Needless to say, I grabbed 3 more to have in my glove box for next time. Ken's brighton with the 2.5 swap had the same thing happen. We're pretty sure that the shop that was installing his alarm must have left the key on. Sean says that the Perfect Power makes them work harder and may have contributed as well.

A couple of you locals know what the answer is, please let someone else answer. OK, since Skip hasn't done one of these for awhile, I thought I'd try one. This has to do with a problem that came up on a 1996 2.2; my OBS. I've never had any kind of engine problems in the year I've owned the car. I drove it to Ken's house to help work on the little rally imp. @50 miles one way. I had my hatch open for an hour or more listening to music while we worked. When it came time to move it aside to make room to roll another car into the garage I got in it to move it. It started, but was running very rough, like it was missing spark in 1 or 2 cylinders. NO power, could barely get it to rev to 3 grand. So we got to pulling off the spark plug wires one at a time to check which cylinder was miss-firing. Turned out to be both of the rears. 1 and 2? ~Changing plugs and swapping out wires made no difference. ~I have a perfect power engine management chip in the car. I disconnected it and put on the bridge, still no difference. Anybody know what would cause this. Simple fix, expensive part. If you do konw the part, what would cause it to fail?

I've got all my buddies mentioned above signed on. The weather is on track to melt all the snow in the park. I've got a pretty good idea of the trails I wanna do on Sunday.

My Summer is screwed, but you guys should try to make it to Evans Creek on July 8th and 9th. You could go there Thursday - Monday too. The Nachees Trail is pretty cool, I've done it a few times in Soobies.

Trust me, I wanted real bad to be there. Things just didn't go my way on Saturday. My first time ever was in Sean's 01 RS. It was also the first time I'd ever driven an impreza. Although his car was stock, the stricter techs of the old days put it in open class because of an aftermarket muffler. (before the rallitek days) 17 inch wheels with 40 series street tires. Sean won the class, (his first rallyx too) I took sixth in Open out of 20 cars or so. Back in those days you actually got an award for 6th. lol We both stole points half way thru the season. You'll do fine Corky, and I bet you might just be hooked. More familiar faces at the rallyx the better. The comradery and competition is a blast. I have one drop, so it may as well be the one where the car broke.

You'll find that your VLSD is pretty useless offroad. At speed, with power it works. Stopped while a little off camber. . . useless as an open diff. Pulling a diff out of a legacy is a pain in the butt. It's not that tough to change out an axle. Find an old LSD from an RX, it'll work as a happy medium.

Glad you had fun! Wish I woulda been able to make it, but circumstances were against me on Saturday. Wish most of all that I coulda been there to witness Ed's little 1.8 with plain old Goodyear snow tires whip on that 96 WRX with the turbo and rally tires and everything. You go ED!

It's pretty much always been closed during the winter months. All the way till June, or whenever the snow melts.

Nobody's hating anything. You asked for advice. You got some very good advice, everybody seems to agree that you should sell it and buy one that's proper for your car. Nuff said.

What kind of tire are you looking for? M/T or A/T? The one above is the tread from a the bridgestone dueler. It looks pretty friggin similar to the Kumho Venture M/T, except it costs about 30 dollars more. Plus you have to factor in shipping and then mounting and balancing. For that price, you may as well just go to Discount Tires and buy Super Swampers. They come in a 27/8.50/15. ------------------------------------------------------------------ There's your general grabber. Doesnt' look like it will grab much at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------- The BFG A/T is a good all around tire, but you'll be disappointed in the mud. But, then again, you're in Texas, probably not a lot of mud. . . -------------------------------------------------------------------- I say go for the gusto! These will make you very happy. ----------------------------------------------------- These look to be good and affordable, decent tread. Wallmart specials. 97 each. Super Sport HT

Soda? What the hell is chaser good for with nothing to put in it? lol Just kidding. I'll be here doing a strut/spring swap of my own on the wife's OBS.

Cool, we'll see you down there. Probably afternoon, but who can say? You may get away with stock AWD. That would be hilarious.

My b-day is on the 10th, so it'll be a b-day party too.

I'm plannin' on heading up there with whoever will go along. I'm sure my buddy in his FJ and my buddy with his Forerunner will probably come too. Which means his two buddies from work with their Jeep and Ford ranger. We all will have others in our rigs. So that means it'll be a party too. I intend to go up there on Saturday afternoon to set up camp and hang out. Plannin on doing most of the wheeling on Sunday. We camp at the top of 510 or at the end of the far right finger on 320. 6000ft +, overlooking one hell of a view. Who's in?

Wish I woulda had the right # when I was just in Minneapolis last weekend. Safe trip Austin.

Somewhere I've got a pic or video of some landrover discoverys going thru some water deep enough that only about a foot of the roofline snorkel is visible. Hum Vees can go as deep as their snorkels, 6 feet I believe. My little brat never did die here, the exaust was plenty under water. I've kept ea81s running like that plenty of times. The disty on the ea81s is the big killer. Once it gets weet, you've only got a short time till it starts to stall. Subaru had a stock cover to keep water from hitting it as it flows thru the radiator. So with momentum, you can get thru some pretty deep water in a Soob. Although, I've never had use for a snorkel. (carb'ed) I copied good ol' Ralf and just started to cut out an old antifreeze bottle to cover the air cleaner on the weber. With the stock air cleaner, you can just put a red rag over the end. It's works as a water stopper *once*. Just rotate it and go on.

Sweet Scooby! That's perfect. A little something we can bring everybody to, not just the hard core rigs. Looking forward to it!

I'd say just fab some kind of shield to keep water off of it. Or slow down a little thru the water.

Google won't help. I don't believe there are any portions on line. I'm out of dvds, I don't even own a copy any more, I gave them all away. All I have is the VHS version, and nobody likes VHS. They're pretty much retired anyways. As for the flex stuff. If you weld up the rear diff on your little soobie, especially a shorter wheel base hatch, then as long as they have enough approach angle, they'll go thru the trail.

Here's the map. It's only the Forest Roads that require you to be legal. Otherwise you just need an ORV Tag on your rig.

That's what Ken did. And a 454 powered Suburban to pull it. (for far less than 20k, but that's beside the point) It runs on premium, which costs @ $3.50 a gallon these days. And we are talking about Washington. And we are talking about the trails at Evans Creek, which require the vehicles to be street legal and licensed. (like the huge sign at the trail head has always said) A trailer won't help you there. 22 ought to be plenty for the average lifted Soob.

Yeah, I like that too. Maybe prebuy the shirts to make sure you get the sizes you want, but there's no need to ship them early. They can be picked up at the show. We can sell the remainders to those who couldn't make it. We'll talk about shipping later.

This is what I was after. Highest point? Huh? Looks like Subarus are pretty limited at 22.

Let's see those hardcore trail rigs do this:

First, your bumper would hit it looooong before your tire ever got a chance. And your open diff wouldn't let you climb over a fallen log if you did it slowly. I can't see how you wold say that rock isn't that impressive, after looking at the logging roads you play on and show pics of afterwords. You absolutely don't have to beat the snot out of a rig to wheel it. Being able to see a line is everything.