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Depends on how hard you beat the car. When I replaced the gearbox in my turbo Legacy with a V2 STi 'box I noticed the "WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP" straight away. I ignored it for ages, but now after doing a track day and moving across the country it's gotten to the point where cranking up the sounds makes it go away.

Only black sheep because they are just rebadged Suzuki's. They are still awesome wee machines.

Yeah it is an RX turbo, and I'm pretty sure it'll go higher than that. Problem is, I haven't got the balls to get it that fast.

Hahaha try at the beach! A good hose down underneath keeps things from rusting out too quickly. Notice how I narrowly avoid the water a couple of times.

PLUS EQUALS Ya know? Had to stop early because things were starting to overheat. Gotta sort out those fans.

EA82T saw at least 9k 4 times for quite a long period. It was totally sharted afterwards.

Yes I know all about the whole BOV/BPV thing, had one on my Legacy for a bit so I could spit fireballs out of the exhaust. Didn't notice that much of a difference. Now what I'm looking at Keppel is rotate the compressor housing so the turbo outlet is facing in the right direction. For the throttle body side of the intercooler I'm going to sort out some silicon piping for it.

Put it up in the old skool section on Clubsub too!

The brand new water pump was defective, so no worries there. Car is pretty much going great, even with the supposedly different looms. Now to sort out an AWIC and one mean arse BOV. Gotta have the pssst!

Various ClubSUB members have expressed interest in it. This is the yellow Subaru GSR, not some piece of poo Lancer?

I really don't know how what or why. I'll find out from my so called 'mechanic' in the next couple of days. This is the last time he gets to touch my cars.

How about a pic of one with stubble?

BUMP AND UPDATE!! Well believe it or not I fixed all the issues with a sensor that wasn't even plugged in. So even though there are apparent wiring differences, the car worked like a dream. Note the word worked because 10 minutes later outside the mechanics workshop to tell him he doesn't have to replace the entire loom and sensors the engine decided to dump the contents of the coolant system onto the ground.

Well in the Legacy the water pump is mounted inside the passenger guard...right where I do believe the airpump is located.

Most of my TZ wagon was spare parts from them. I've had no issues with any of their bits so far (EA82T aside, but that's because I didn't know about the electrical changes). Heh I'd say the ones in the RX are way overdue, but who would by 3 of those anyway???

I reckon KYB will do it. Go hit up Repco or Supercheap Auto, assuming you don't want height adjustment anymore.

Well thanks for the help everyone. I'm going to give the go ahead to my mechanic to do a complete electrical swap on Monday, but I've got a bit of rust work to sort out before I can even get the car road legal again. Wish me luck, and hopefully my 2 doors sports car will give me a bucket load of fun again!

Trust me they are. We've only got one specialist Subaru wrecker here, and the rest don't really do them. Keppel, last time I went turbo hunting, they only had one VF-7, and it didn't have the shaft or blades.

Get it from Otago Metals?

Such a simple engine, with so many problems!

PM in progress. It's indeed a small world!

You mean the boost control solenoid? Both have them though. Slight problem with the wrecker deciding the crush the car hours after I dropped it off to them. Didn't know that there was big changes over a year! Luckily the original engine was kept with all it's sensors. Now for the fun job of changing it all over!

When the swap was done, the maf from the '86 was used, and I actually have no idea if the '86/'87 are different, but I'm going to assume that they are different. Now......that donor car....yeah...kicking myself for dropping off at the wrecker after the engine was pulled from it.

Okay, that'll solve one issue, now what about the rest the symptoms. Heck, I forgot to mention it's lighting up a CE, and I've already tried to get the codes from it and it doesn't even want to give anything up.

So here's what's happened. I have my '86 RX/II to my mechanic with an engine that I borked pretty bad. I also gave him an '87 RX/II with a damn sweet engine to replace it with. The replacement engine was going sweet in the '87 body, I had it running for ages no worries. The engine that I rooted was going great till I annhiliated it too - don't ask, I didn't know that the EA doesn't like to be abused as much as an EJ. Anyways, fast forward to 2 days ago and I ring him up and ask how it's coming along. He says the replacement engine is in and going, the car can be driven around but has some issues. Despite the fact that the engine wasn't running right, I picked her up anyway. Now here is the fun part! Cold starts first time are no worries. Any starting afterwards while still warm becomes impossible. It constantly cranks and cranks and will only start if lots of throttle is applied. When it's going the idle is stupidly high, regardless of operating temperature, and there is lots of missing, bucking and jerking at decent throttle. It's also gulping through the fuel and when I pulled the freshly put in like 2 days ago sparkplugs yesterday they were black. So given all that information....What could be the matter? The mechanic has said that he'll remove every single electrical component from the old engine (including the loom) and put them into the new engine, and hoping that'll solve the issue...but I'm turning to you guys for a more expert opinion.