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  1. like i said, i was extremely surprised at how well it held up. the cancer in it isn't terrible, but it's taking a toll in a couple of critical areas for safe road use. what's left that's in any way useable will be parted out off the car. or, i may just sell the whole thing. parting out vehicles can be a pain. in any event, the parts or the whole car will be cheap to help those of you along that still have ones in good shape. we also ran a large buick wagon and a pinto wagon. out of the three, the pinto is the only one that MIGHT ever have the potential to be some sort of collectors item. an 86 subaru wagon will never be anything special in terms of monetary value and will only hold any other sort of value to a select few. sure, there's always going to be groups like this that love them but that can be said for 100's of other vehicles that are in the same boat. even a full restored scout II with the 345 isn't going to bring anything more than 5-8k at the most. the cost of a restoration to bring that sort of money would far exceed that. haha, sounds good. those do pretty well. one took 2nd place here this year. you can get them to sit TALL in the rear...
  2. nah, i don't. no need to, it's my car and i've had a blast with it:D unfortunately, no. you can still use the low range though, which is a big help to the weak ea82. you can however decide which set of drive wheels you want to use (front or rear), and switch to the opposite set in the event of some sort of failure (cv, etc.). yep, quite true. i don't know that anyone in this area spends quite that much, but there are definitely some cars that have a few grand invested.
  3. yeah, i'm pretty sure i starved at least 195 people in third world countries for a week with my actions...
  4. this car is far from being done competing. just needs a radiator rigged in, a new core support fabbed from some light steel and one fresh tire. i've already got all of the above. Loyale, i understand your points. not that i agree with them though, i think you have demolition derby a little skewed. despite the looks of things, we actually maintain these cars very well and spend hours and hours working on them/preparing them for competition. alot of blood, sweat, and tears goes into them just like anything else. i get just as much of a rewarding experience bringing a derby car back to life as i've had restoring a classic. also, lets face it... as cool as we may think these cars are, they're never going to be any sort of rare valuable piece of history.
  5. derby was this past weekend. after some minor fuel delivery issues friday night, it ran great for the rest of the weekend. made it into the championship with 20 other cars, came in about 6th or 7th. due to a hit on the driver front, the main harness was cut into and grounded out by some sheetmetal. blew a fusible link and lost electrical power. spliced the link back together afterwards, and it still runs like a champ. held up MUCH better than i expected. the back ends of these wagons are surprisingly pretty damn strong. i took and layed on a number of hard hits with the rear. some pics here. i'll throw a radiator in it and keep on using it in events to come. http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a264/optmusprimer/derby/
  6. yep... like i said, lots of off road vehicular stupidity (but FUN) contributed to it's current condition, lol. the bulk of the rear damage is from a couple of high speed shots to trees (on PRIVATE property... i in no way advocate even bumping trees on public land, much less slamming into them). the front end and unseen suspension/unibody damage is a result of lots of imitations of low flying planes. all very good suggestions for preperation/strategy guys... we've got this thing pretty figured out though, it's not our first go round;) keep them coming though, we're always open to the possibility of new things to try that have a good chance to get past tech inspection.
  7. unfortunately, the rules for this event don't allow any re enforcing of any parts (except the driver door for safety reasons). there are tweaks you can do here and there and sneak past tech inspection to help out, but nothing obvious like plating the subframe/body or adding non oem bumpers.
  8. ok, this thread will be dedicated to the preperation and eventual destruction of my 86 gl 4wd wagon. we compete in the north carolina state fair derby each october. i purchased the car this past winter from Meeky Moose as a replacement beater for my isuzu trooper. i have had an absolute BLAST with it, logging ~5000 trouble free miles in that time and countless hilarious acts of vehicular stupidity. it still runs like a top, but unfortunately the above mentioned acts rendered it pretty much beyond hopes of being street legal. so, it gets one final grand finale. if we're lucky, we can make it survive the weekend and have at it again next year. it's height and low range gear will be tremendous advantages. it does have some key disadvantages such as weak sheetmetal, alot of rot in the subframes, and a motor VERY close to the radiator. hopefully with some decent driving we can make it last though. i'll post updates/pics as we go. as it sits now:
  9. what'd you bend that metal with, a telephone pole?
  10. subarus do pretty well on the obx unless it's been super dry. even then, the only real challenge is getting down to the harder packed sand. lighter weight helps make up for the lack of clearance/tire width.
  11. RTR

    Jumpin' the '79...

    give it hell. screw the purists:grin:
  12. thanks for the help, sounds like it's fine? this will be a ~4 hour trip at 60-70mph.
  13. can an 86 d/r wagon be safely towed on a tow dolly as is, or does the rear driveshaft need to be disconnected?
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