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IIRC the stock ea81 fan switch is in the radiator. Are you using it to fire up the fan? Thats how I did mine. I jsut cut the wires off the stock fan and soldiered them to the mazda fan. Daniel

Congrats on passing emissions! My fan almost never comes on unless I'm stuck in traffic and even then its pretty rare. I sat there with the thing idling in my drive way for quite a while when I first started it up before it came on. I was really nervous about it, but eventually it did come on and the thing seems to run nice and cool. D

Before you remove it try unplugging it and putting in some dialetric grease in the plug. Its tied in at one of the big plugs on the bell housing. I had a problem with mine on a obs and someone suggested that sometimes the connectors loose contact. Easier than replacing the thing and if it doesn't solve your problem you haven't wasted much time. Daniel

Nice score! It looks real nice! Hows the interior? Lucky! Daniel

Well if it make you feel better my poor baby just turned 200k the other day. Of course the ej has just over 100k. Mine also has two lousy paint jobs over the original black paint, but still turns heads and looks good from 20ft away. You have a beautiful machine there. Lets see some more pics! Daniel

Is your check engine light on? I would also say any code reader would be able to read the codes regardless of Cal vehicle or not. +1 on tune up. filters, plugs, plug wires. If the check engine light is on go to your autoparts store and see if they'll read the codes for you. Good luck. Daniel

Nice work poop! I haven't followed this thread in a while! Looking great! Daniel

Cant wait to see it with the front done! Looks great so far! daniel

+1 for mazda fan. Fits right in front of the radiator perfectly and came from the junkyard for cheap. Plenty of air to keep things cool. Daniel

I've got an auto ecu and I run a 5sp in the brat. I didn't rig up a neutral switch and I havent gotten any code for it yet in 10k miles. Daniel

If its worth saving go for the ej! I'd love to have a nice ej wagon from the mid 80's! Daniel

Congrats!! Daniel

Sorry for so many posts, but I just thought of something. How much gas do you have in your tank? When the brat gets below a quater tank and I'm going around corners, sometimes it gets fuel starved. I've actually run it out of gas a couple times forgetting to refill before the tank gets to the point the fuel light come on and I've killed my battery trying to get the fuel pump to draw fuel again. If you are low on fuel this could be the problem. Daniel

So for the vss there is a plug coming out of the back of the speedo with a yellow red wire and black wire. Ground the black wire and run the vss wire from the ecu (b58 pin 11) to the yellow/red wire. That should do it. Daniel

The cel light is cake. There is a wire from the ecu. String it up to the round plug behind your gauges. Remove the CEL bulb and follow the electrical path on the printed electrical sheet on the back of the gauges to the pins where the round plug goes. Your round plug will have a few empty spots on it and one of them will be where you need to put the wire from the ecu. Find an electrical connector at your auto parts store that looks like the other ones in the round plug and attach the wire to the ecu and put it in the round plug. You will also need to do the vss. I'll do a search because I know I posted up what I did and I'll post a link to it. Also very simple. There are two wires coming out of the back of the speedo. You just attach them to the vss wires coming out of the ecu. Done. I'll find the posting about this. Daniel

Sure it could work. Just like any other front wheel drive ev setup. I dont know if driving the rear wheels would eat the batteries faster or not, but it would seem like it to me, but if thats the case just keep it in fwd loose the rear driveline and fill up the boot with batteries. I'm toying around with an electric motorcycle, but its way on the back burner right now behind a few other car projects. I hope your dad goes for it. Keep us posted please if he does. Daniel

Great! Congrats! I can help you with the dash stuff if you need it. You only need the vss and cel right? Both are cake. You probably already have a bulb in the dash for the cel light. Mine did. Good work. Cheers, Daniel

I love this one! Looks fantastic! Got anymore pics of it? Daniel

Here's a link to the original thread with the pic http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=68954 Daniel

When you say the clock and brake light are you taking about the brake light warning light on the dash or your brake lights? Assuming you mean the warning light then I'd say your ingnition switch might be wearing out. Mine is kind of wonky too. Sometimes my brat wont fire up while cranking and wiggling the key in the ignition solves the problem. I know I'll have to replace the thing someday, but for whatever reason my switched power doesnt make it to the main relay until I wiggle the key every once in a while. I can normally tell before I try to start it because I turn on the ignition and the volt meter doesn't come on. Did these things happen before you strung the green wire to your rear defrost fuse? If not I'd move that to another location. Also do you know that the main ignition relay is a good one? Maybe its not functioning properly and this is your problem. Might be worth getting another one. Have you checked both yellow red wires for battery voltage with the ignition on and off to confirm voltage is getting through the relay and powering your ej harness? Hope this helps. Daniel

Didnt Phiz post that up before and there was a big discussion about how it wouldn't be possible to bob the front of the brat like his pic? My memory is getting fuzzy. Too much work mixed in with my car problem! Daniel

I would recommend you go to pgs 23-24 in the ea2ej make sure each thing that is supposed to have switched or unswitched power is getting it. There aren't that many things, but each one could make your car not run. I would start with b48 pins 2 and 13. This is the switched power to the ecu. You should have battery voltage there when the ignition is on. Good luck. Daniel

Ok, so you've got fuel but no spark, so figure out the power to the coil The gray plug at the coil has three wires. Red, yellow, blue. The yellow wire should be hooked up to switched power(ie from the yellow red wires coming from your main relay. You should have battery voltage at that yellow wire when the ignition is on. Follow that yellow wire back from that plug. Its probably not connected to power if you aren't getting any voltage. IIRC it winds its way back to the smj. Just trace it back or string a temp wire to it and see if you get spark. You're close man! Daniel

You are very close then! I would double check ground wires. I had to play with mine for a while. Did you ground the engine? There is a ground wire from the drivers side of the engine up to the battery negative. I've got grounds all over the engine compartment. Do you now have voltage at the coil pack? Are you getting spark? D

My green wire goes from the main relay over to a pink plug off the steering column. I believe this goes up to the ingition switch. The pink plug has 4 wires: blue, white, black/white and black. I tied my green wire into the black wire. One side of the pink plug goes up the column and the other side goes to the ea harness. I tied in on the harness side of the plug. D