Rooinater

oh, let me stand up, does that help your view back there? :popcorn: any updates?

with a 2.25 ratio it's about 53 to 55:1... same as what's in my car. real nice for 31's... but the rearend is really weak with that combo. i won't know what to do with 223:1 in the truck...

approx. 47 to 50:1 (can't remember exactly what suby first gear was, i used 3.65) stock subaru 18:1 so about 2.5 times stock. you sure it's 2:1? i could of sworn it was aout 2.25:1 i remember it being just below the toyota's case ratio...

go for it. yota ifs rear axles are about the same width as a stock subaru rearend and 4.10 gears.

pretty sure nicky is a girl... if i remember correctly...

go for it! a sami or divorced yota tcase to some 4 or 3 linked suspension. don't waste the time on leafs. actually all you need is the rear to be toyota solid axle, put the divorced case in and a legacy rear diff up front. that will match the 4.10 gearing

then go get some 30's, you've been warned that you won't have any gearing.

hey, where's the other nut?? it was on the axle when i unloaded it! your welcome.

honda... rock it headlight housing looks cool.

nice half doors. thought about doing that... then i realized i was moving back to washington and i'm selling the car. biggest problem... the whole rear axle setup... i do have a spare yota axle now quick somebody buy the car before i put it in! other than that it's just the lack of motivation to repair stuff all the time and serious lack of money to do so.

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yeah, the a/t's come in a slightly smaller size, but if you like wheeling in the mud or snow i wouldn't waste your money on them. there's compromises with everything... a mud terrain is probably your best bet. i wouldn't suggest settling for an a/t when your talking about an inch difference. now if you just wheeled in the sand, desert and dry areas then the a/t's aren't bad. just make sure you get the baja editions.

all you have to do is aim them in a general direction. no one is going to be able to tell that they are slightly off. seal the hell out of the roof... the expensive lights are worth the money... my buddies walmart special lights always bounced around and aren't near as bright as the kc's or better quality lights. but to each their own... HID's will be going into my other project

it's all going to be relevant to each persons preference. the taller tire, the more hammer down time to get runs at obstacles. the shorter the tire the more you can finesse a line in a subaru. so you need to decide where your equilibrium sits. either go to one extreme or another, but 27's are well known to be a well rounded size for gearing and clearance. personally I have 31's and wish I only had about 29's, for strength to gearing with the divorced case. 31's stress everything and require serious finesse and the right gearing choice to not break stuff. I've driven both the ssr's and the bfg mud terrains. overall bfg's are better than the ssr's. they have a rim guard built into the bead, sidewalls held up real well in the arizona rocks. hell they are made for baja racing... the ssr's are well known for weaker sidewalls, actually all interco radial swampers are known to be a lot weaker than their bias ply counter parts. overall both have excellent performance. but the other pitfall to the ssr's is they wear a heck of a lot faster than the bfg's. actual size: just under 27" for the ssrs and about 27.7 for the bfg's. it might be worth the sacrifice on gearing to get the bfg's. if you can get them from discount tire, they are warrantied for offroad.

which is all i'll be running till the toyota gets done. i'm thinking of heading to tahuya this weekend... but probably not.

wow that was quick... intently watching :popcorn: :popcorn: you planning on running it at sandlake in july?

i got here running... i just need to run a lot of gas and cleaner through her... dead and flat when it hits a little grade. but that's what happens when it's been sitting so long... crap gets gummed up... i'll save the bad photo till it gets a bath. even though it's fairly pristine condition. i'll be mainly using it for commuting and maybe some slow explorations. it's faster than my Daily Driver suzuki samurai... school is canceled for educational planning day... so i'll be out riding to un-gum-up the carbs...

hmm... hope the ea81's are still around at the end of the month...

ain't that the truth...

pics in the non-soob offroad section. no subaru's showed... :popcorn: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=88551

if you want to push 28's, eric got some mean bfg mud terrains for his new project. those tires rock! had some 31's on a tcased soob for a couple years. excellent road manners, excellent offroad characteristics and a long wear tire, like 65,000 miles. if you want to push your gearing look into zap's coupe project and order some of those tires. you'll still be pushing gearing, but they are an awesome tire for a compromise on options and gearing. but overall the gearing goes away even with 27's. just to put it into perspective, a suzuki samurai's high range w/stock gearing is about the same as a subaru in 4lo...

i used to run it in low... just my .02, why run 30's you'll never have any gearing left to save that clutch...

sweet! yeah after the toyota is done the next project is a dune buggy. i'm just looking into stripping a vw then swapping out the engine eventually.