privateer56

It's like watching my kid go off to school for the first time. I told you it ran!

I think this goes in this forum... I am in need of a fuel pump for a 1989 RX Turbo Coup. Someone on the Brat group told me he heard that one of the Ford truck pumps could be used but he didn't remember which one. Any suggestions or recommendations?

Just got this from Lime Rock Race Course in Sharon CT. Could be fun! The track is a great road track and the countryside is beautiful. Subaru Road Racing Team Lime Rock Park May 22-23, 2009 Cheer on the Team! After contending for the Drivers’ Championship in the Grand-Am Koni Challenge last year, the Subaru Road Racing Team (SRRT) returns on May 22-23, 2009 to Lime Rock Park which serves as the fifth round in this very competitive series. Returning drivers Kristian Skavnes and Andrew Aquilante will share driving duties in their #111 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT spec.B sedan. Challenging other Street Tuner class competitors at this historic race course, SRRT is looking forward to a strong showing at this exciting venue. Invite friends and family to join the action and come cheer on the Subaru Road Racing Team! Track, event, and ticket information can be found at http://www.limerock.com. Access http://www.grand-am.com/ for information on the 2009 Koni Challenge series. Images and specs for the Legacy 2.5 GT spec.B and all other Subaru models are available at http://www.subaru.com.

Nice profile. You got that thing lifted so high it makes those guys look like midgets. What... Oh. Nice family!

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles_make-Subaru.html Screen shots of Subs in movies from all counties and times. It's a lot.

OMG!! I hope that's a fresh water lake!!! MMMMMMM, Doughnuts...grhhgggarralghhghargrahrg...

Didn't see this posted before. This is what happens when a penal colony becomes a country. I for one approve!

I had a 1962 Falcon Wagon that I used to switch the ignition off and on real quick to get it to backfire on command:cool: (kids at my high school would go nuts I was a lot more foolish back then). Once, on the Taconic Parkway in NY, I held it off just a smidgen too long and when I found the muffler in the tree line about 70 feet from where the car came to a rest:eek: it looked just like that. Only black. And with a lot of holes in it. The detonation lifted the rear of the wagon about 2 feet in the air. Bent the floorpan and it was the loudest ride I have ever taken home. That was after the ringing in my ears stopped.

If the tires are the only thing that has changed recently and you haven't hit anything in the roadway, then it probably is the tires. If they are radials, sometimes they can get out of round by sitting for a while. I remember when radials first came out there were a lot of issues with them flat-spotting after sitting, sometimes overnight for the cheaper brands. It sounds like since the whole back is undulating (i like that word) you may have a well matched set of faulty tires.

OK. I am doing all the initial refreshers to get my new RX going (thanks to Twobirds). Tune up, Cooling flush, Oil... BUT, and I am ashamed to ask this, How the Fudge do I change the rotor in the dist.??? I worked on all my cars and my Friends cars through the 70's and 80's but have not done much recently and I guess my brain shrank. I removed the set screw that goes horizontally into the shaft under the contact (top) but I cant get it to budge. Any help would be appreciated. Oh, and I think the 92 wagon is just a blown water pump but there is a howl when I start it and let it run. the rattling went away, maybe lean burn detonation. Craig

My first Sub was a 76 wagon. I bought it right after I ruined a 1962 Jeep Cherokee (sport model of the Wagoneer). That subie did everything the Cherokee did cheaper and with more bounce. 3 feet of fresh snow? Through it like a shark in shallows. And I could put half my apartment into it when I moved and it still bounced along. Ruined me for everything except my Suburban (70 mph in living-room comfort).

Thanks. This will be another car I get from my son after it is broken (92 Infinity - through a stone wall and in a ravine, 93 Loyale wagon - only 1st and 2nd left on the auto, 93 Blazer - into the back of a Navigator at 35 mph while he looked backward to get on a highway) I have been letting it sit for a few days mainly because I was mad. There have been no more leaks since I parked it. It did start up and run the next day for a about 30 seconds and I turned it off. The temp never got into the red zone during the overheats but it did get steamy under the hood. I honestly would rather get a replacement engine and then play with this one at my leisure. I am going to check the U-Pulls in PA. This one was damaged during a trip to Trenton NJ to pick up Twobirds 89 RX Coupe (also running warm). Time to break out the flushing Tee's an start working my way up the progressively more money staircase of auto repairs. The oil change suggestion is a good one but there is still the faintest whiff of a burnt brake smell. Are there and composite gaskets in the EA82 block or am I smelling broiled belts?

I am going to try and have a friend pull it with me and see if there is anything I can do for it. Really bummed because I just picked up an RX and wanted to take time to get that nice before I threw it on the road.

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Need advice and some assistance. Driving my sons 92 Loyale wagon on the NJ Turnpike and the engine heats up and the oil pressure drops at 70 mph. Pulled dover and after a while everything is back to normal. Get up to Yonkers and the side streets and the OP goes south and the temp goes north. Slowly, Gently over 2 hours moved it the 4 miles to home. Fine light spray of oil over the front of the engine. Brakey smelling smoke lightly wafting up from the block. No water in oil. No oil in water. Possible oil pump and water pump failure simultaneously? Sound like another motor? Ideas?

I was just looking at the link for the Subaru cats and had a thought. Has anyone tried to run a dual exhaust system with a second cat and all? I don't even know if there is enough room but if you offset the cats so they are not so wide (are there any aftermarket cats that are narrower?) while still keeping them the right distance from the engine to keep the right heat range and band clamp the two pipes together that may work. I have to believe that by halving the back pressure you would get some kind of an increase in power especially if you use a free flow cone filter system. Any thoughts?

Looks like a perfect candidate for a Subaru trailer. Gut it, Rhino the interior, clip the nose off and add a tow assembly. Oh, yeah, then find another one to pull it.

Thanks but I was hoping there was a unit that could just bolt in I didn't want to get into a lot of jury rigging. I did try searching but all the changes require too much modification. Does anyone know of a source of compatible parts from other manufacturers?

OK, my son picked up a nice auto, 4wd, 92 Loyale wagon and he wants to give it a little lift without a lot of messing around (no space or time). Does anyone know of any later year struts that will fit in without scaring the mechanic and still give a little more clearance? I tried to search the board but didn't find anything that applied or made sense. Thanks.