Meeky Moose

sounds like you have a plug wire shorting out.. or the coil wire.. wait till its dark outside, then start it and look under the hood.. find the throttle, rev it a few times while looking around the coil wire and plug wires.. if its jumpin spark, you'll see it.. 90% of the time when a cat gets plugged it will smell like rotten eggs..

Tates in charlottesville

emailed ya my number.. prices are good if ya go on a saturday and catch the old man there.. if its a weekday the old lady there likes to rip ya off.. like the hole frontend of the festiva, she told me $80 for all of it.. so i waited till saturday and got the same parts off the same car from teh old man for $40..

yeah, but its was free, and i'm not keeping it, its going to go to a friend of ours that has a tuarus that died.. so she needs a car..

went down there for some festiva parts, but noticed a couple new soob additions.. one was a turbo gl sedan 2wd auto, nice body, engine was still intact (turbo and all) interior was pretty nice as well.. so i snaged all the carpet and trunk plastics i could find in it for my RX.. now i'm just missin a few little odds and ends.. i even got the rear window louvers as well.. other one was a red loyale sedan (same body style as my rx) interior was mint, body was almost perfect, h-alloys, spfi, 2wd auto.. engine looked good, my guess is the tranny was dead.. 140k on its ticker.. deffinitely not a car for the scrap yard IMO.. they also had a ton of wagons out there.. and i saw an ea81 hatch that was broadsided, then chewed up by the jaws of life.. whew, what a sight.. well that was my saturday.. did manage to put the wrecked free festiva back together and it looks almost as good as new, lol.. free car +$50 in parts = good running car..

lookin good.. i just resurected a free 92' Festiva.. cost me $50 for all the parts on the frontend.. runs good, looks good now, etc..

when i did my engine i bought new springs.. only like $1.87 each.. figured i might as well.. i went by the fsm, but when i got to the tensioning part i didn't do that cause with the new springs the belts were so tight they didn't need tentioned.. been 3k on this motor, no problems..

my chrome accell went bad too :-\ chrome 8140 that is.. replaced with a new yellow 8140 and all is good.. been on there a month or so now i remember pullin the coil wire of the ole truck and the coil puked its guts out right there in teh parking lot.. good thing i was in front of a parts store, lol.. if this yellow accell goes bad, i'ma go MSD all the way..

methinks its a gl-10 turbo..

also check the front diff to see if its got 80w90 in it, or ATF.. if its got atf in it, change it asap.. if the governor is apple cored real bad, then your tranny is toast.. are you sure its an RX? i don't recall an RX being made with an auto tranny..

i know the ones were makin are going to flow 145% better.. which comes out to like 20 hp or so... just in the crossover pipe

lol ok, maybe thats why my AC hasn't been working.. time to track down the short.. thanks

well this fuse is next to a little white canister with vacuum lines running to it (the canister) its a single 15 amp fuse.. i know it is NOT the FWD fuse.. my rx does not have one of those.. anyways, i have no clue what its for but everytime i replace it and check it a day later its blown out again.. no adverse affects, everything seems to work as it should.. anyone know what its for?

89' silver hatch = "Junky" cause it came form a junkyard, and is ironic cause its the most mint hatch i've ever seen, lol.. 85 RX = "RX" no reason really 88 gl wagon = "Piece of ****" cause the auto tranny is dead.. 84' Lifted hatch = "Bajamobile" people at work named that one for me, lol..

went up sunday to look/shoot hte breeze with Scott.. i'm about 6'2" tall the roof of the brat is level with the top of my head, lol.. its awsome.. drivetrain is not in it due to more mods, but its there

congrats!! our next one is due in june.. hopin this ones a boy.. our little girl was 7lbs. 11 oz when born.. she's now 20 months old, and wearing 4t cloths and is about 2" shorter than an average 5 year old, lol.. the DR. doesn't have a place on his hieght chart for her, its quite funny.. best of wishes to you and the family..

sorry for the hijacking.. Scrapdaddy and I are working on our own custom crossover pipes.. already had the jig made, flanges are turned 180 degrees to use the 2 bolt holes in the head that aren't currently used, this solves the stripped out stud hole issue, its going to be 2" mandrel bent.. not going to say what our cost is, but board members cost will prolly be around the $250 range.. just my hijacking for the day.. since his car is not running (used his engine as the fitment guinea pig) the first one off the press is going on my RX for testing

did the same on my wagon.. i gae up after claping vice grips on with channel locks so hard that the teeth dug into the plug, then just stripped 1/4" off the plug.. i had to siphon the oil out of the check tube to change it.. gonna just replace my oil pan.. on another note a shop said they'd get the plug out and replace it for about $60 but i have oil pans galore just sittin around.. and it leaks too soo..

haha, check the oil.. that'd be funny to watch the guy get out a step ladder to do it, rofl.. Sunday it is amigo..

so when can i come look in person? lol your the man Scott.. that takes the cake for biggest, meanest, nicest modified brat in the US.. heck prolly the world.. you gotta drive that through the subaru dealer, lol.. when ya do i wanna ride shotgun just for the laugh.

think of it as one big subaru get together.. you know you gotta come join us!! :wave:

i'm tackling this myself in the RX.. i wired in the system using the shared ground for the front speakers.. the damn thing sounds awsome.. but i know theres room for improvement and the factory wireing isn't big enough for what i'm pushing, muuaha pioneer cd player 4 jbl pro 3-way 61/2" speakers in all 4 doors 2 10" Subs in a bandpass box rated at 600 watts.. and my weeny amp rated at 200 watts at 4 ohm.. (i have it bridged to 2ohm ) the rx is gettin a full rewireing this weekend..

i'm about 70 miles west of richmond.. if its just you comin we have plenty of floor space.. heard theres a pick-n-pull type yard in richmond but never been to it.. give me a holler when your headin down, and i'll come into richmond and say hi :wave:

got your pm.. i got all my gaskets from importcarparts.com pretty cheap, but good quality stuff.. you already have /replaced the seals that would leak on the front side of the engine.. the oil o-rings are to fix one thats worn out (lifters ticking) other gaskets would be for the valve covers.. you might as well do the timing belts too while your in there, since they have to come off in order to do the cam seals..

no more off topic... :madder: