JonOfScio

well, it's not going as planned, but it's better than... NOT going. As soon as I had gotten everything to the point where I wanted to test the engine, it ran a bit, ran pretty muscley, with what sounded like some vacuum problems. turns out after that, I went to start it up again, and it wouldn't go... turned good, but the disty died. So I got that replaced, and I just need to block off some manifold stuff and get a new heater hose for the manifold.... MMMMMWWWWWWAAAAAHAHAHAAAAHHHHAAAAHAHAHAHAAAHHHHAHHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHHAAAHHAHAHHAHHAHHAAHAHHHHAHAAA It's a much bigger carb and a little beefier manifold, on top of this, this is my first carb OR manfiold swap. cool.

okay, so here's the story. By close inspection, the EA82 carb is a couple of things. Bigger Less confusing Not with as many vacuum lines I haven't measured the difference between the size of the barrels of the two carburetors, but it's definately evident that the EA82 carb is WAY bigger. (like 4mm bigger) the base of the carburetor to where it bolts to the manifold is relatively the same shape, only longer. the actual manifold itself looks beefier, but a little bit more simple... As for the thermoswitches, I've taken all of them off. Although without them my ECU will want to tell me something is wrong, I'm going to trick my ECU into thinking it has them... use the ones from the EA81 manifold only not actually working, just plugged into the ECU to tell it they are there and on. The main three wire connector (three female inputs) has one for the choke, one for the antidieseling solenoid, and one for the power valve. The EA82 has four wires... the same, only the antidiesling solenoid has two wires, a lead and a ground. I've wired the ground to the body of the carburetor and am taking the connector from the carb of the EA81 to match the three prong of the ECU's connector. I'll get pics as soon as I can, but it's not as complicated as it all sounds. in the end, this thing should be pimpin. bigger manifold, less vacuum lines running all over the place, new idle solenoids (not making noise), a bigger carb, bigger jets, and the sight of "Ford Red" or what is about the equivalent of STi red on a manifold. Can't wait to get the alternator bracket done. then there should be no obstructions in the way of the manifold... then hook up a couple things. EGR valve is disconnected, and head that has EGR hook up is blocked off. I run 92 octane gas, so this shouldn't be a problem, even at 8 to 12 BTDC. brake vacuum line two coolant lines, one from the block to the thermostat housing..., one from the manifold to the heater core. gas line in, gas line out three/four vapor canister lines (this will be the interesting part, I need to relocate the canister. and I need some vacuum caps. hook up my special SPFI hose intake system. includes all of the PCV system components, wired correctly. Sound like fun to anyone?

yeah, the early 80s had round headlights... my '88 hatch has dual squares.

see, oregon does suck.

carb base gasket, and manifold gaskets planned.

so... people say EA82 manifolds work on eA81 cars. and the mounting area for the carb is slightly larger... so of course if I was to put on a weber, I would want the EA82 manifold just because it's a little bigger. but until then, I plan on using the 2bbl hitachi on the manifold ($30 from JY) which I am going to pull tomorrow about 9:00AM. I've heard there may be some issues with the carb switching over for the ECU (yes, my '88 hatch has a 2bbl ECU controlled feedback carb) but I'll know the exact details of: 1. If it will work at all 2. How much work it will take to swap 3. How much better the EA82 2bbl hitachi is this is all fun to me, may not be to someone else, but I think it's sounding more fun by the moment. *plus* I'm going to clean the manifold and paint it rally blue. cool.

cabooboo: sounds sweet to me, to actually say "hey, that badass car, I got to work on it's engine." sweet.

I'm about (in a little bit) to undertake that myself on an EA81. Got a spare engine I'm goin to build up and then swap in. I'll need: ring compressor, valve compressor, have a torque wrench, anything else as far as tools?

I have my AIS disconnected and my whole emissions setup replumbed for better performance.

the weber swap is planned. the new carb is only because mine is slowly slowly dying.

I'm gettin myself a new intake and carb for my hatch (EA81) for $30! The local JY in my town said, "$30 for the EA82 intake and carb." I think the cool thing is that it's... an EA82 manifold, which is better period, and an EA82 2bbl hitachi, which i understand is also just better. And my car is with a ECU, so it should swap over. sweet.

do a search for "PK Davis" and one for "BYB lift" As far as chevy rims, you need to knock out two opposing studs diagonally, and then drill four new ones to work with 6 lug. Or redrill the 6 lug if it's not going to be a looker, redrill it with a new 4x140mm pattern.

check out centerforce clutches, there's a dual friction race clutch they have that has a lifetime warranty. Burn it out, send it in, get a new one. About $210 without TO bearing.

I've got an '88 hatch with a 2Bbl hitachi that is a feedback hitachi. It looks identical (of what I've seen) to EA82 hitachis. Can't wait for the day when It has a weber and no O2 sensor. (three way cat with no 02 sensor bung)

could be a bad bearing too (main bearing)

Ahhh... at first if you don't succeed, ask everyone on the boards. So, finally having gotten the axles off, the problem one of course was the driver's side, where it had no boot on the DOJ side and the CV ripped in half. Needless to say, all of the grease was under the car around various parts, and *not* lubricating the joint. So hopefully I can manage to slow/stop the progession of "degression of the joint" and get more use out of it. Brake cleaned the inside of the CV joint, not taking it apart. Got all the gunk out. Cleaned all the parts and bearings and pieces of both DOJ joints of the axles. Got the boots to stay on really tight (though methods hard to describe, some using hose clamps... hehe!) Anyhow, point is, spent most of the day covered in axle grease, and I'm not even done yet. got them finished, looking good, moving smoothly, completely not worried about the boots coming off, and I need to put them back in and bolt various other parts of the car together, then I should be driveable. I'm sure tonight I'll have some sort of a weird dream about axle grease and the wonders of my car.

I'm still on my first hatch, I had the opprotunity to buy an XT from andrew not too long ago, but I was afraid of getting laid off from HP, and well... let's just say I'm not selling Cell Phones for Sprint because I want to. Anyhow... my girlfriend said the other day... "I'll always remember your first car." I said "First? Who says it has to be my first? First implies next, and I don't care for that." She's like "OMG, you don't actually expect to keep this the rest of your life do you?" "yeah, it can only get better!"

I didn't even pay attention to the '82, I saw he said OHC (overhead cam) and the only engine with that is the EA82, but if his car actually is an '82 with an '82 engine... then yeah, it's an EA81 pushrod.

pretty much, just that it's an EA82. The only thing that changes between engine models is the adapter I think.

by grabbing some parts of an EA82 car, I have the hose (from throttle body to air box hose) and used all of my existing connections and rearranged them (some longer tubes needed) so now my carb has an spfi hose on it with a 4" deep dish chrome air cleaner + filter and has all of the old PCV hoses hooked up to it. nice.

I think your camber needs to be adjusted.

reading back in old posts, EA81 stock is 8.7:1, EA71 in an EA81 block is about 9.0:1 and SPFI EA81 pistons are 9.5:1. Because the similarity of the EA81 and EA82 pistons and rods, it's possible I could just use the EA82 pistons and/or rods, whichever it is that is bigger in size that results in the increase in CR.

the reason for new bearings is because the EA81 1800 NA carbed engine I'm going to get has bad main bearings, thus, the need to replace them. and if I can just get 1600 rods and not have to worry about the whole kit and kaboodle of the rods and pistons, then hey, I'd be set. That plus the gasket set for the engine.

I can get .25mm over main bearings for the same price as regular ($32 at shucks) Isn't .25mm over going to be better because it's just bigger? Will it fit guaranteed on my EA81? These were parts listed for EA81s anyway. And aren't the reason why 1600 pistons get higher CR in an EA81 because of the rods... couldn't I use EA81 pistons and use the EA71 rods and get the same thing? Thanks. (you guessed it... rebuild time... mwahahahah!)

I might just have to go that route if i couldn't find any of them (straight grills) in the area around here. Reason wanting new grill and light bracket stuff: I painted mine a silver color and now it's coming off and it looks dumb. want to go back to black. (back in black!)