MilesFox

my 87 gl-10 turbo wagon doesnt have air suspension. nor the wiring or air lines that so is equipped withy air ride. is mine an odd one of the bunch? unless you were referring to xt models......... pushbutton single range 4wd---actually RWD since i busted the front axle! jim's turbo xt has the air ride lines, but someone swapped the struts out for conventional units...........

Did cruise around in a FWD wagon though! Josh!

i chunked a front axle cutting a donut to the right(that side with the bad axle) so now it broke, runnin in 4wd off the rear axle. the front steering feels lighter without the torque steer of FWD, but it tents to push the front end around if you dont press the clutch while making hard cornerings. but rear drove is fun in its own aspects. its not w4d, but more fin than FWD but drifting turns is a little easier in a fwd, because you can pull the front of the car into the turn rather than push the rump roast end around the turn. but i anint bitchen- but my luck is i lose 4wd right before it snows!

chevy rims will work. supposedly they have the wrong offset, but they will work good enough to drive on. the set i made were on the trashwagon, then my sedan, then the 2wd to 4wd conversion, and now on the RX. they got 205/55 rubber on them, and are wide as a steamroller! they do shimmy a little but, but that is all relative to how good evenly you grind away the center to fit the hub, and using the right lugnuts. otherwise it may wallow out the holes a little. but now they are balanced and have 21mm nuts, they are a lot smoother at 75 mph

there can never be enough switches in a soob! so far i have pulled a hrness from a 78 brat, the harness from an 87 carbbed wagon, and a turbo harness from an 87 gl-10. i got a good idea of what you have done. we put an ea82 carbbed motor into an 81 GLF hardtop. the motor fit without mods, and we drilled out the 2wd 5spd flywheel to mate with the ea82. some of the wiring we will have to figure out, switching to a distributor without the external wiring, and an internal regulator alternator. but some of the existing wiring so far includes house wiring with a plug in as a connector and a wall switch! fun little things like that to make the car interesting as it works. one thing that still strikes my curiosity is the ea82 fitting between the (gen1)78 Brat framerail. my buddy wanted to put an ea82 in his 78 brat, and another guy said it wont fit in there without mods. so what was involved to actually shoehorn the motor in there? and what are you running for suspensions. if i read right you are using ea82 ssupension pieces? i got ea82 parts in my 83 wagon, with some mods. i am interested in your design to compare!

most of your off-the-shelf motor flushes and injector cleaner addatives are usually some kind of watered-up kerosene of some matter. personally i hate atf, but that is atf dripping on me,while working on an automatic. its one of my least favorite fluids to have on me. but that dont mean i wont try it! but on that topic, my least favorite fluids to be covered in goes as follows. gasoline engine coolant engine oil brake fluid ATF Gear Oil bearing grease there you have it, in that order!

i cant help but peep the 83 wagon there in the background. what brat? i see a wagon! it looks just like mine used to. and i want it back:boohoo:

this girl at work said i looked like johnny depp. ever seen fear and loathing in las vegas?

so what did you do about putting the ea82t between the framerails. i have put ea82's in ea81 bodies, but was told that they dont fit in ea71 bodies. i am going to help attempt a turbo swap into an spfi 4x4 wagon this weekend. i believe there is a lot of the wiring harness that has to be separated from the rest........

yo! finally see what the 86 looks like. what was so bad with the hood that you needed a good one. the one off the glf is available, it has a little surface rust, but its straight!

its proof that its not a 2wd to 4wd 3-door procalimed to be an RX. yup, its real, mmm hmmm, yes boys... the grass on the RX is from the carbola. i guess someone called the police, and the sheriff said there is nothing he can do about it, and the mayor could care less. but the mayor doesnt know we shortcut thru his yard every now and then, or towed the wagon thru it for that matter. i guess if the mayor sees soobs being worked on across the street, he probably thinks that none of them run and immediately dismisses them. we got a re-elect sign in the yard anyway!(yup, right across the street!

loose axle nut?

http://usmb.net/gallery/albun92 check it out. gotta go!

wee- hee! that's what i thought! go for it, Yosh!

zanny dook's 88 spfi 4wd AT has a 3.9 also

you will have to cut away part of the lower control arm mount from the ea82 crossmember and weld it behind the mount on the ea81 crossmember. this woll locate the ea82 lower control arm back farther, to make up for the curvature. if you put the ea82 lower control arm with out first swapping the mount, your axles will grind on the frame, and they will hyper extend on extreme suspension travel. once the swap is done, you will have to use the ea82 axle there is a diagram by rguyver floating around, but i dont know where to look it up! on my installation, i used the ea82 strut, knuckle, and spring, and it all fits with a modified ea81 strut cap. you will have to swap in ea82 inner and outer tierods, but i had to modify ea81 because i had a manual rack. you can also put in ea82 rear trailing arms, if you trim them up a bit

the xt seats supposedly will fit, i dont know if you need to swap the tracls or make a mounting plate. many on the board have done so. the pipe from behind the y pipe will fit against the turbo down pipe. the only difference between the exhausts is the midpipe between 2wd and 4wd. my car, used to be turbo, has a carb motor and spfi y pipe, and the y pipe fits against the turbo's mid pipe. so that means a turbo pipe will fit against the spfi midpipe! jim, josh found a 93 impreza for 100 bucks. all it needs is an axle and its good. super clean and rust free, 150,000 miles! once that gets fixed, josh is selling the grand am, and thus we will have the xt6!!!!!!! we can swap the rear disc from the xt to the spfi wagon as well!

on the contrary, the only wiring a carbbed motor needs is the wire from the dist to the coil. assuming the headlight and alternator wiring is not burnt up...... and if the wiring to the coil is burnt, run a toggle switch to both it and the fuel pump(after swapping in a carb fuel pump)\ i dont know, that is wah ti would do at least. considering there are NO soobs in junkyards in my area, and me having a spare motor. its all a matter of circumstance and personal preference!

so if you were driving a corvette he would never have pulled you over?

jim, the driver side fender will have to come off(or at least pull the top away) to remove the wiring harness. although there is a harness on the intake manifold, there is the body's harness that goes from under the hood to under the dash. i would say the most difficault part would be the harness swap, making sure you get all the harness, but not more than what you need. we will have to remove some of the tape and separate some of the wiring, because a lot of the headlight and other wiring will run thru the same channels. i'll bring my haynes book for reference from the wiring schematics. i have pulled entire hrnesses from a gl-10 turbo sedan, a carbbed wagon, and a 78 brat. there is a lot between all that is similar, mainly the headlight and underhood wiring. so with that experience in mind, we should have no trouble isolating the spfi/turbo harnesses. but the wiring harnesses might be the most time consuming of the operations, amybe we should swap the wiring first, and then the motors., and get the turbo motor into the wagon and running first, before getting spfi into the xt. or just save the spfi and motor and not put into the xt, if you can never get a title and decide to part it out myoss feece should be back from florida by next weekend, his hands would help a bunch!

suppose you can find a carbureted ea82 for cheap. slap it up in there, use the 86 distributor. that is what i got in my 87 gl-10 turbo. got the car with the turbo motor in the trunk. put a car motor in there and drove it for 1000 miles. got the turbo motor together and drove it for a day or 2, until it took a dook. now i got the carb motor back in there. that is the nice thing about 85 and 86 distributors, they work as standalone. i believe you can use the turbo dist from the car itself, it is standalone with a knock sensoe, wheras others(87 up) have the optical type since the car is nice enough, you may want to consider that if you can find a motor for cheap. you will have to find a y pie too, but it will fit aginst the rest of the exhaust!

assuming that both cars run, i personally think you should use the gl-10 brakes, seats, and accessories in the wagon, and pu the wagon seats,brakes back in the gl-10. then sell the gl-10 or keep it as a spare soob!

we got stopped in ohoi coming home from jim's. the y brought the dog. there was a little something stuck under the center console, you know, the leftovers, so-to-speak. anyway, the dog snoffed around and alerted. the cops were crawling all over the RX, i was making comments like "is he fixing the parking brake?" they all look on the ground as if something had been tossed. they had to have us remove the air box to check there(because it was too complicated for the cop) nope, they didnt find anything. they act like we were wrong but we got away with it. but it didnt help that my buddy had some seeds in his pocket!(he forgot they were there) anyway, we tore apart the center console to fix the radio and do some wiring, still didnt find it...................

are you using toyotas or chevys? i think i used aomewhere in the half-inch range. the studs should be 12mm and 1/2 is real close to 13mm. i used an old hub, popped out 2 studs, bolted the hub to the rim, and used the hub as a template. if its a chevy rim you will have to grind out the center to fit over the axle nut hub! also, find some 21mm lug nuts, as the soob 19mm nuts will want to pull thru the chevy's existing holes(and wallow out)

jim (86 subaru) picked up a pair of genuine boots from the dealer for some 11 bucks each, and they included the band clamps