86BRATMAN

I've had knocking motors last for over a year with easy driving. So you should be able to prolong it's life for a while, since it's just starting.

Eh... Yeah thats probably not a good thing. So if it is a rod knock, will you up the boost?

Did you use a base/clear paint or nason?

Well your other 90 sounds like it needs a throwout bearing. IF I could find the key to my donor legacy, also a 90 model, I'd hook you up with a full matched set.

I'd check the adjustment of the clutch, loosen it up a bit. Just in case the throw out bearing is rubbing the pressure plate, and go from there.

Could be a throw out bearing, or sometimes called the release bearing. Or possibly the bearing on the imput shaft where it goes into the tranny itself. Does it have any other sympons or just noisy?

Does it have a high or low pitch to the sound? Have you stood outside, under the hood to try and localize the noise? Mt t-leg is doing about the same thing, and its crapped out hla's, we'll hope yours is the same.

I must agree with the samuri's cleaner look under a subie body. Jerry's hatch is a great exaple of that. Now if you wanna talk about messy, about 15 years or so ago there was a gen1 Brat around here that had been grafted onto a Bronco II Frame.

I've seen "jdm" ej25 dohc like we have here listed on ebay for a while.

There are some good camo jobs done here on some of the cars. Just search the gallery and forums. You'll get some good ideas of what it can look like.

For either use, street or offroad. Your best bet dollar for dollar for more power, potential, and reliablity is an ej swap. The 90-94 ej22e can handle a decent amount of boost even in stock non-turbo state. And has a non-interference design. Doesn't have headgasket issues, makes enough torque to spin the tires in 3rd with bigger tires at a 25mph roll. Honestly, you can find a good running gen1 legacy manual for dirt cheap, my donor car cost $250, and gave me a few years of service before the rust got to it too bad. You could even use it to convert your ea82 car to awd. The ej motors possibilities are almost limitless. The ea81 and ea82 are well very limited in aftermarket support, and are just simply out dated for many reasons.

What car are you looking for the springs for. If you have a regular legacy of impreza, a set of outback/forrest springs will lift it up about 2 inches.

You stole my line....

i already called them...

$7995 for the ea81 performer engine. Hell you could do a full ej20g swap(motor, trans, and all) for half that, and have the other half to make your 400hp.

Yep, as are most all Subaru's since the early 90's. In Lafyette(sp?) Indiana.

If Subaru holds to form, it will bolt into place perfect, and run off of your existing harness, using your sensors of course. I'm not sure you'd really be gaining anything from a jdm ej25 though. To my knowledge they are the exact same motors.

I haven't looked at the non roller heads yet. But the whole assembly from the roller head unbolts with 6 10mm bolts, bringing the rollers and HLA's out together, I figured just putting that all over onto the other head as one piece. I'll be having it apart anyways, doing a complete reseal/head gasket/ t-belt job before it goes on the road. As well as a few other "little" things...

I've got a set of 95 EJ22 heads, and I've been looking into swapping the roller rocker assyemblies into the head on my 91 turbo. Anybody else done this before?

I shipped an ea81 wagon wheel to another board member a while back. The weight of the wheel was 17lbs, iirc.

Yes, hell.

They work fine for me. Try right clicking on the x and clicking show picture, or refreshing the page. BTW: We can say hell here...

That thing is in good condition for a mail carrier as well. I have seen some gen2 legacy mail cars on ebay beaten to crap go for that much.

MY is the official Subaru chassis designation for the ea81 cars, and L is the official for ea82's

I don't think using an unformed hose would be a big deal, as long as it doesn't make any kinks in it or anything.