carfreak85

Remove the lift block and measure it.

As someone who writes vehicle operator's manuals for a living, this could have happened for 1,000 different reasons.

Pic isn't working for me here, but IIRC those were a giveaway years and years ago.

Hmmmm… I haven't had good long-term success with the clear/opaque trim restorers.

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Interesting... Is that a dye, or more like a "Back-to-Black" type product?

Yeah, I've looked into both those conversions before and spoken to Dave and Nico about them. Got some good ideas from both guys, but I think I've found an elegant middle ground. Long term, I'd love to do upper mounts similar to what Nico did, but the machining involved will probably put it out of reach for a lot of people. His design gives a lot of opportunity to modify mounting points and to use the upper mount to help lower the vehicle. For now, I've prototyped something closer to Dave's set up, but with a few tweaks to allow reuse of the OEM upper bushings and chassis mounting bracket. Need to bang out a new drawing for rev 1.1 on some rear end parts, and develop the final piece to convert the front coilovers to the EA82 chassis. Pretty excited about all this!

What's a ballpark number that you'd still be interested in? Keep in mind that you'd still need to source the actual coilover kit of your choice, then retrofit my parts to make it a bolt-in affair on your EA82.

You're right about this community being budget conscious. Having spent the better part of two decades playing on this forum has driven that home. I'm not looking to make a living selling hot rod parts for vintage Subarus, but I needed three of the parts I designed just to put the RX-RA back off the ground and off of jack stands. I'll have to take a look at those tonight. That was a worry of mine as well, but the only dimension that could affect that is the diameter of the shock shaft, which would change dimensions on three of the parts I've designed. The lower rear mounts are all designed for the same hardware, regardless of who manufactures the coilover, and the fronts are the same sort of situation. I'd love to get my hands on a couple different brands of coilovers to test this theory, or at least have people take some measurements for me.

I know there are many folks modifying their EA82-chassis Subarus for style or performance. Miata shocks with coilover sleeves, legacy and impreza coilover kits, etc. These all require some level of modification to install, an issue I've recently run into with my own project car. This lead me to develop a few parts to allow a bolt-in installation of a set of coilovers to the EA82 chassis. Without going into specifics my thought is a 12-piece kit to retrofit a set of coilovers for a legacy or late-model impreza coilover kit that would allow you to simply bolt the legacy/impreza parts to your 5-lug-swapped EA82, without cutting, drilling or welding anything, reusing all your original hardware. My question is, is this something that would interest you? I'm currently prototyping parts for myself, but if there is enough interest, I'll have some extras made at the same time. I've got a few photos up on my Instagram page: @templeoffuji

Funny this came up, I just watched a video on YouTube the other day about people trying to archive all the old GeoCities websites, in the exact context that we're discussing www.subaruxt.com

The fitment issue is with the white 8-spoke steel wheels. The early ones with curved spokes contact the brakes on an EA82 (which has straight spokes). I've never seen or heard of alloy wheels having this issue, so the H-style wheels should fit.

I had tried to join that site a couple years ago when I thought I'd be dragging home a project XT6. Never did get the admins to approve my request to join...

Wow. When 'Chux starts throwing haymakers you know it's time to lock the thread!

Try doing some tests on the fuel pressure regulator. You have the EA81 factory service manual and EA81T supplement, correct?

Wow, looks like it's in fantastic condition! Better than mine at least!

OK, I'll hook up the SSM2 and see what she tells me.

No on both questions. Hadn't rained in weeks when I drove/felt the issue and I have inspected the oil level the day before and didn't notice any top-end oil leaks at the time.

Testing it would be difficult, as it's a one-shot sort of deal. I drive her car often enough that I would notice it immediately, but I've only really noticed it the one time. It feels like a temporary fuel cut, to be honest. Accelerating away from our driveway the car will just bog really hard for a second or two, then bounce back like nothing happened. @GeneralDisorder Every seen/heard of this?

Last weekend I experienced a phenomena that my wife has described in the past but I'd never noticed/felt/been lucky enough to be in the car when it happened. Apparently when the car has been sitting overnight and is cold she will back it out of the driveway, shift into gear to drive away. The instant it shifts into second gear, the engine bogs hard, like it just ran out of fuel. The car only does this once, and only after sitting over night. It doesn't do it when she's backing up, or when she first hits the throttle to drive away after shifting into drive. Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

Did you punch out the hole in the OEM top hat? IIRC the original shock has an M12 shaft and you're running basically an M16 with those Nissan shocks. Are those factory replacement Z32 shocks, or aftermarket coilovers?

Can you use XT6 tensioners on an EA82?

Do you have a part number of the alternator you used?

Yes, from the dealership. They are still available, for now...

Two engine, two transmission mounts on an EA81, plus the pitch stopper.