MilesFox

so the Rx runs now with tw5's motor and tranny. tw6's 5lugs wont swap because i need another 23 spline doj from an ea82 TURBO 3at. so i used the knuckles of the tw5, and a pair of height adjustable struts from an 86. i gots CARPET on the floors, ceiling and the driver sid4e door. blue pimp lighting in the dash vent and under the steering column. I have a van console mounted securely to the headliner and it acommodates a CB and 2 map lights. the way-back will be fully carpeted, lighted, and i am re-making the cargo hold covers from 1/4" plywood all thats left is the shifter mount, slip the driveshaft in and the 2 carrier bolts. exhaust y-pipe and cherry bombi have to swap a trailing arm from tw5, cause the rx's has a bad bearing. i will be using an xt6 swaybar in the back the wagon will keep the 5-lugs, and the rx suspension will be pull-off until i get the right DOJ the wagon now has the RX tranny, and the motor is out on a stand, and has the exhaust gaskets/studs redone. the passenger strut assy is off for now, till we get the tranny lined up to the other axle. still have to swap in the LSD and the 'nus lift from the RX

last week we had a 91 loyale Given to us, we hauled the motor from the sedan and installed it, drove it back in one day. but as you know, this being butler, the car got pulled over no more than making it halfway across town for the first time. turns out that danny's license was suspended the day before. turns out that josh happens to show up and save it from the impound. anyway........ the sedan sits witn no motor. trashwagon 5 sits all wrecked up. the rx sits with no motor. trashwagon 6 is no longer my car. before the week is over we will be driving a trashwagonRX, and a beefed up 3-door(TRASH3DOOR). this is how it goes.. so far in the last 2 days the motor and tranny from trashwagon 5(carb ea82, 5spd d/r) now sit in the RX. i will be swapping the xt6 5-lug suspension from the wagon to the rx, and i will have to swap 4wd ea82 doj onto the xt6 axles to work with the dual range. trashwagon 6 already has the RX's motor, it will lose the ft5spd from the xt6 and receive the d/r from the RX, and it will also get the 4-lug suspension from the rx. the original motor from the loyale will find its way into the sedan, with new seals. by the end of the night we should have the motor out of tw6 and on a stand to fix the exhaust studs, the ft transd out and the rx trans in, and the front strut assys swapped between the 2, and have them both running. that is the goal for tonite. i have to wait till danny's license is back(just finished defensive driving) to go get the loyale motor for the sedan. so by the end of the week all the cars will be driving again, except for trashwagon 5. considering that i can keep it in the building, i will hang onto it for a few reasons. one, its a trashwagon. 2 its a parts source for the iowa soobs. 3, i can use it a s a test bed for the standalone SPFI, i can put in a motor with the motor mounts and pitch bar only, and therefore i can take advantage of that to use a radiator and battery to get it running for use in another project.

anything from the xt will swap pver. you can change the loyale to 4wd by swapping the tranny, driveshaft, and rear suspension assembly. its a lot of work, but its all straight forward and bolt-on. the turbo motor will physically fit in the loyale, but you will have to wire up the turbo's ecu. you can use the existing fuel lines/system, and out the turbo fuel pump in the loyale if its the pushbutton 4wd you will have to swap all the vacuum actuators to the loyale you may have to make a mount for the carrier bearing of the driveshaft, since 2wd models wont have them(at least the 88 sedan didnt, i dont know about loyale) to sum it up what i am saying is you have all the parts you need between both cars, its just a matter of how deep into a project you want to be.

either the glass itself will swap, or the whole unit as an assembly will swap also. there are shims that adjust how the window fits in its seal. the only case of a leeky 'roof is when it wouldnt close all the way. but that is why there are shims

yes, you are right on. sometimes its best to start over than figure it out from where its at. what i would do if i was you is pull the disty, and go thru the timing belt alignment procedure. if yo havent put all the plastic on(i myself would chuck it all) you may want to just re-install the belts starting over. but do all the procedure, then drop the disty here is this for reference http://www.warpthree.com/milesfox/subaru/service/timingbelt.htm

an automatic for a brat will be rare, i think only 83-84 models had them? any older wagon has an identical platform with the brat. you can turn a brat into an automatic, but if the boy is gonna learn to drive, might as well get him on the stick shift. i got 3 soobs laying around, all with gas in them, all 5spds. but i have a suspended license, and all my drivers cant drive stick, and continue to burn all kinds of gas in their taurus. wouldnt it be easier if more people could drive a manual? my 2 cents stick around this board long enough and someone in your area should meet your needs.

dont line the disty with the cam at 12:00. this is what you do: after the whole timing belt procedure bring the driver cam to 12:00 THEN rotate the crank to bring 0deg BTDC to view. NOW drop in the dist... now to more answer your question, the PASSENGER SIDE cam will be pointing at the rib above SUBARU on the cam cover when the disty is at 0deg tdc, #1 cyl

there is a guy by the neame RGUYVER who had put spfi on an ea81 hatch and a TURBO! as far as your list goes, dont forget the coil bracket and the ignitor. in my opinion, you should just find the whole ea82 spfi motor as one piece, as an ea82 will fit with no mods. i have "mocked up" spfi to ea81, and this is what i encountered. 1 the disty is going to fight with the thermostat housing for space. i took the ea81 dist mounting tab and flipped it over. i installed the spfi dist(with ea81 gear) backwards. the wires will bve 180 off with the cap, but true with the rotor. the egr valve is going to be in the way of the engine bellhousing, i had to remove it and make a block off. i have a project in mind for an spfi 84 sedan, but i am using the whole ea82 motor for 3 reasons 1. proper compression 2. no modifications to any of the components 3.i can replace components with unmodified parts if yo uinsist on the ea81 motor, and you dont mind gettin in deep with it, get some hatch 1600 pistons from a leter ea71, and that will bring your compression to 9:1 like it should be. spfi is a DOG on a carb block, at least mine was with the 3spd AT.

i always re-use the stock pins as long as they came out easily and didnt booger up. actually, some of the more difficult pins i have removed were NOT o.e. subaru pins

it will also rattle "like a diesel" because its too hot! if its making that noise pull over and let it cool. may i siggest replacing the HG for safe measure. pull the motor out if you want to fix it. not that hard to do if you can use a wrench.

its not all in one place, but the search will bring several posts explaining in detail. you should find all you need. "a write-up would be nice" someone could lay out the whole procedure in this post alone. pretty much between both cars you have all you need. however you take one apart is how you will put the other together.

i had to take the ea82's pitch bar mount and put it on the ea81 block. all the major mounting holes for the bracketry will match either way

a carbureted ea82 will fit the same. use all the ancillaries from the ea82. i had an ea81 motor in an ea82 car, with ea82 water pump and ac/alt. so i would assume all the ea81 stuff will fit the ea82 motor the same. remove the distributor to drop the motor in to clear the master cyl, them put it back in

you can put a carb motor in the xt, hook up the disty to the coil, and let all the mpfi harness hang loose. tach still works. swap in a carb fuel pump.

dragged the brat out of the carbola, wet grass, reverse, 4500 rpms spinning 4 tires with the diff lock, going nowhere. but it will pull the rpms without whining!

chuck the whole ac/alt assy and go find an ea81 alternator mounting bracket. then use the same outboard belt. if you can find a dual pulley alternator then you can run 2 of the same belt for reliability. with the same alt bracket you can also do away with the power steering pump, just use the smaller belt(x2)

turbo models have a 3.700 final gear ratio, which is actually taller than the non turbo models. it is absolutely normal for a subaru to cruise at 3000-3500 rpm at highway speeds. soob motors are happiest between 2500 and 3500 for cruising, and likes to pull 4500 between gear changes if you notice it takes less gas pedal to cruise a given speed at 3000 rpm vs 2000 rpm

i have seen inboard alternators, but on turbos only from what i have come across. but all the alt/ac bracketry will interchange with any motor, and even on an ea81 for use in an ea82 body

sounds like fun, reverse donuting at 60 mph!, one speed forward. rear wheel steering too? a backwards car would be interesting! call it a forklift and make people believe its diesel

i have bypassed the hoses to the switches, looping the vac hose from the turbo to the wastegate, car runs the same, looped it like the 86 turbo xt had it stock without the switches.

my opinion is take the parts you want, and sell the touring wagon to whoever would want it as a project car. the full time 5spd will fit in the ea81 following the standard 5spd swap procedure. the rear discs will swap. the whole rear trailing arms will swap with gentle modification(read:swaybar) the alternator will fit the same also. the only issue about using the trans will be the 25 spline doj. if the doj will swap onto the ea81 axle, then its a go. if you can cut and weld, you can relocate the ea82 lower control arm mount onto the ea81 crossmember, and use ea82 lowe control arm, and therefore use your ea82 turbo 25 spline axles. you can even use the whole ea82 strut/knuckle/brake if you modify the ea81 strut cap to fit the ea82 strut/spring assy OR, you can simply put the ea81 carb motor into the touring wagon, if you want to keep driving it till you find a motor. my opinion you should invest in tearing the turbo motor down and fixing(most likely the head gaskets) whats wrong with it. did it up and die or go out slowly? maybe it only busted a timing belt....

mix in a gallon or 2 of kerosene to a full tank to bump the octane. the kero around here is rated at 110 octane

i like the clutch fan for reliability. but i went without for (horsepower reasons) on my 83 turbo. electric fan was still there. i did some off roading that involved rocker panel deep water(3 in lift). all i can say is if you modify the front end, make sure the wiring harness wont melt on the exhaust cross pipe! anyway that is what killed mine.

the pigz knew i was having a swap meet so they were itching to razz me. i think what initially drew their attention was eveyone squishing coins and misc items on the RR tracks behind the carbola, every 10 min when trains went by. then they saw the donuts. then the CHEIF stops by for a chat. oh well, whats an event in butler with miles fox without the pigz to go with. naturally... once i get my stuff in order i think i will take off to ohio for a week or two and let things settle down without me, get out of the butler scene for a while. i just may end up in wisconsin one of these days, who knows. see you at jim's

ok, the only missing ingrediants is a hatchback itself......... i have an ej22 with 4spd auto 2wd trans, and all the wiring for both. suppose i find myself a hatch(or 474 bucks). this project would use the ej trans with the 25 spline doj, and ea82 turbo axles from a full time or turbo model. but nay? the hatch is an ea81? this project would use the MODIFIED ENGINE CROSSMEMBER from trashwagon 5, which uses ALL ea82 front suspension parts. so this would make the 25 spline ea82 axles work, just like normal ea82 axles have worked in the trashwagon with the dual range and ea82 motor should something like this use the 16 inch 6-lug rim with 205/55, or would a 5-lug swap be more appropriate? anyway, opinions? how would you guys put this together?