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The safety valve will pop before the bottle explodes. All those pics you find online of cars blown apart from bottle explosions have rigged the safety valve in order to run higher pressure. Bottle heaters do draw a lot of current. It will kill a battery quick without the car running. You probably want to run the car while using it. I think a piston would let go first probaly a ring land. But I've never tried nitrous on a subaru, I ran it for years on my nova.

Usually the undercover cars cops have are aquired as seizures from drug arrests dwi etc. I guess it could be a good or bad thing? Offer 5,000 maybe? If you really take the time to look there are better deals out there.

Suck the master cylinder dry refill and either gravity bleed if possible or the old somebody in the car pumping method is what I do. There are brake flush machines out there now that do all the work for you. Expensive but they do work well. Shops that carry BG products usually have them.

For water leaks I usually take off the inside trim run a hose over the area of the leak and sit inside and look for the leak. Usually it's easy enough to find them. On an older car with a leak you can't find it's not the end of the world to drill a drain hole. I've done it before.

The 2000 seems like a good car. Find out why the radiator was replaced. Sometimes non-subaru mechanics replace the radiator if the car overheats due to head gaskets. It's very rare for a 2.2 to have bad head gaskets, but it does happen. Take a long test drive, be sure it doesn't get hot and check for tourque bind. 7,000 is kind of high, I would offer less.

Yes, you have to lift the engine to get the pan out, you can't cheat, I've tried. You can get the bolts all loose if you use a 1/4 drive flex socket on a long extension, but the pan won't fit out without lifting the engine. For the exhaust studs in the head, soak them with penetrating oil for a while then bang on the end of the stud with a hammer, this breaks the rust bond between the pipe and the stud. Then hit them with a 1/2 drive impact gun. The shock will break them loose without breaking the stud. Breaking them loose with a ratchet twists them and they can snap. The sudden shock of the air gun cracks them loose without all the twisting.

The used headlight is a smart idea to save money. You might also see if you can find used body parts in the same color as your car. It's easy to put a hood on. Search on http://www.car-part.com most of the listings will have color listed and condition.

It might be the flange rusted away at the back of the second converter. That's really common. I fix that with a split flange I get from Autozone http://www.autozone.com/R,NONAPP9882/store,1141/shopping/accessoryProductDetail.htm and I get a new donut gasket from subaru, none of the parts stores seem to stock the gasket around here.

You see this on the bay sometimes. It's a bidding tactic gone bad. With the proxy bidding, some people put in a ridiculously high bid at the last minute to try and win. If two people use this tactic, the bid amount goes up to $100 over the lowest of the two ridiculous bids. Nobody is actually going to pay $11,100 for a loyale

You can buy an electric bottle heater, it wraps around the bottle. Or I used to run the heater on high and put the bottle on the floor by the heater outlet to warm it up. Or put it under the hood for a while. Some guys heat the bottle with a propane torch, but's that's kind of risky. Keep an eye on the pressure, don't let it get too hot or it will pop the safety valve on the bottle.

The price on the 95 OBW is high. Every area is different but I've sold several 97-99 OBW's with 140-180k for 2200-3000. I'd look for a better deal or fix what you have.

The bottle pressure is critical to everything working right. It's really important to keep the bottle at about 75 or 80 degrees. That will keep your pressure about 950 psi or so. You might want to look into getting a nitrous pressure gauge, you can even get cheap ones that screw right onto the bottle. If your running it with a low bottle pressure it will hit very soft, probably why you didn't notice much in first gear, and the system will run real rich. I was big into nitrous years ago, not so much anymore:burnout:

I painted my 360 myself. I used a harbor freight cheapie spray gun and 2 quarts of rustoleum enamel thinned with mineral spirits. It came out ok, about on par with the cheap single stage enamel that you get from maaco, earl scheib etc. Click on my photos to see it. Rustoleum is actually about the same quality paint that was used on 360's new so it worked out ok. A lot of people have been painting cars with thinned out rustoleum and a roller. You have to use a really high quality foam roller and thin the paint down a lot. It takes a lot of coats to cover with lots of wet sanding between coats. It comes out pretty good. Do a google search on something like "paint car with rustoleum" and you should find some links.

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For the original poster- Your '96 legacy doesn't use the rear oxygen sensor for anything but catalyst monitoring. If you disconnect the battery for a few hours, or overnight it will clear the code without a scanner. The 2 anti-fouler trick usually does work good on these year cars.

I saw that car for sale on craigslist Maine. I go up there a few times a year. I was thinking about it but we really wanted an automatic GL wagon. Still do actually someday. Good luck with it!

That is really a nice one. The interior looks great and I see it has A/C too! I'm guilty of thread jacking sorry.

I'll look later and see if the '97 one I have looks like that.

If you're going just for the fun of a trip go for it. But I think you might find it's cheaper to have the car picked up and shipped to you than it would cost you to go get it.

The going rate for an 01 legacy with a bad engine would be 2,000 to 3,000 around here. A lot of it would depend on mileage and condition. A car with body damage, high miles and a bad engine is worth even less. You can shop for an engine on http://www.car-part.com or even look on the 'bay. That should take a phase 2 2.5 sohc. I've seen them go for around $800-900

Underneath the ugly body it's a great car, all the mechanical stuff is good. It's still ugly.

The 360's seemed to end up on both coasts more than the middle of the country from what I've seen. SOA started out in NJ in the 360 days, still there actually. Strangely enough mine was sold in Chicago and made it's way to minnesota before I got it. I've got another one, typical east coast rusted out floors etc. I've been asking $500, not a lot of interest in it.

I have never tried, so this is just opinion, but you'd probably have better luck with an early EJ22. The DOHC EJ20 and EJ25 are a few inches wider.

By replaceable do you mean bolt on? No. If you want to replace the whole rocker, you have to drill out all the spot welds and weld a new one on.

I think it's ugly. It looks like a mazda.