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be warned (from personal experience) that those magnaflow y pipes, while built well, are mass produced and welded by some 8 y.o. child laborer in the Philippines (maybe not, but you get the idea) which means that the flanges aren't always at exactly the right angle for the holes to just line up. i wrestled with the magnaflow y pipe for such a long time to line it up, that when i tried to cram the studs back in the hole, they ended up getting X-threaded and stripping out (very not good). i don't know your personal level of mechanic abilities, but if you don't have a welder to warm up the pipes to get the flanges to match correctly, you may want to drop off the y-pipe and the car at a good independent exhaust shop and pay them the 1/2 hour labor to put it on (and fix/adjust y pipe) to save yourself from a lot of not fun-ness again, from my own experience on an EA82 wagon . . . chris

Rob, does you book give you the part # for the XT Turbo specific midpipe, i'd really like to get one thanks chris (OP, sorry 'bout the minor threadjack)

i've also hear/read that it's possible that the up-pipe from an XT turbo is slightly larger in diameter than normal turbo's as well . . . could be from an XT chris

this place has been recommended here before . . . http://www.radiatorbarn.com/ chris

This week's update . . . Jeff and I took the longblock i bought and tore it down, dropped the heads of for machining and testing, the machinist said they were the cleanest subie heads he'd ever seen so he shouldn't have too much work to do . . . some pics of the block torn down, and cleaned up a bit, pics aren't great, just used my phone (too little light) here's what happens when you drop a camshaft housing . . . fortunately Jeff happened to have an extra one (or 5) laying around, so i just swapped the cam out to a new casing (whew) went a little crazy with the cheese whiz on cleaning the block, i'm a little worried that if a soob engine is too clean it might not run chris

^^reminds me of the ol' "red and green" show on CBC :lol:

not super hard to come by yet, you can purchase alloy pugs in a few styles for $30-$50ea here, but like you, i sure would like to have a few more options!! (without having to buy all the 5 lug conversion bits)

hey, i think the "other option" looks great . . . my wagon . . . and none of this new company's wheels work besides the one you found, they don't even do 5x205 (old VW that we can adapt to) :-\ chris

ROFL :lol: :lol: (till i had tears!)

thats really cool (that there's hope to find a 4x140 aftermarket option) too bad its only available in their worst looking wheel

this one's my favorite reason ^^^ not just the neighbors, the whole stinkin block chris

+1 to everything nipper said :-\ fight it, no matter what they say about what they might do. an independent third party makes the decision about if you were terminated for "actions directly affecting" their company in a negative way, or not. with no warnings, and no attempts at securing workstations so that the internet was not available (and as long as you weren't looking at pr0n ) they won't have much of a leg to stand on . . . just an fyi and make sure your department of unemployment for your state understands that there is nothing Not Work Safe about the USMB, this forum even *****************'s swearwords not all forums are so clean . . . chris

no, but i've heard FRAM oil filters will fix that right up

that sucks dude i hate when i get some moron/jerk in a customer service atmosphere, i don't like to go into asscap mode, but sometimes . . . :mad: going to the dealership on a sunday is always gonna be an experience (monday too) because as you know from being in the business, everybody who counts takes sunday/monday off :-\ unfortunatly, once you "protest" past a certain level, "we don't f'ing care" is usually the answer i get . . .

didn't even think about that, (duh!) but no, i don't think it did . . . i'm sure i would've noticed it.

at what psi is an EA82T overboosted? a good reference point to set the boost controller at eventually would be greatly appreciated . . . thanks chris

thanks turbone and skip, i'll check that tomorrow . . . skip, it doesn't surprise me one bit after fixing that injector wiring issue in Jeff's XT (splice under passenger seat rotted away) thanks for the point in the right direction last night while driving the RX around town it started to sputter, especially when going up hills and around corners. i didn't think too much of it, until it finally sputtered and died . . . "hmm, two bars of fuel showed on the dash, so i'm obviously not out of gas, must be something else . . ." my very patient girlfriend who was already humoring my need to drive a rusty, moldy, not totally reliable soob RX sweetly suggested that we at least try putting some fuel in the car. with a bit of luck and a whole lot of swerving we limped the car to a gas station, and $20 later, the car not only drove perfectly, but it also showed a full tank. as much as i wish $20 could buy me in the neighborhood of 13 gallons of fuel, i'm thinking that maybe the fuel gauge has it's own gremlins and . . . the indicator lights for 4 Lo and Diff Lock don't always work, just when they want to. ahhh the fun quirks of an old machine chris

Thanks! and believe me, i've been a'searchin late at night until i look like this guy > and i have seen a few of your old threads! interested to know what might "make me stray", keeping in mind i've owned and driven a few of the "cool guy" cars available these days . . . thanks for any help, this has been and will continue to be a learning experience for me, the first real block up rebuild of a forced induction engine for me, and my first experience working on soobs in general. jeff (one eye) and i put some work into the RX today!! jeff took care of that horrible red hood for me (did a great job "murdering out" my hood ) and we ran it through a much needed carwash which took off most of the moss and gunk i removed a few unnecessary parts from under the hood and got a much better view of the engine that came with the car . . . it doesn't look too bad! vacuumed up the baking soda i threw down on the carpet a few days back to get rid of the mold, (not entirely successful) and was so happy with the outcome of the days work that i decided to drive the car home (from a garage in mt. vernon to near boeing in everett) getting it on the freeway for the first time, what a blast!! the ol' girl got up and went very well, and aside from an apparently very confusing temp display on the digidash (went from 1/2 temp to above 3/4, cycling between those two temps about every 30 seconds ) i had no problems here's a few pics after the hood fix and the wash . . . now, we start to build an engine!! chris

D'OH thank you very much for the linkey . . . now i'll be looking for "brown tops" anybody need some "same flow as ours" green top 280 injectors? i guess it's a good thing i only spent 9.72 chris

do one inch shorter shocks = 1 inch shorter ride height? me likey that idea . . .

there's a sexy little black "porscharu" here in Mt. Vernon area, it was at the exhaust shop i use last time i was there . . . a gorgeous condition (i've always had a soft spot for the little 914) black on tan 914 with a soob "H6" that seemed to fit quite nicely behind the firewall :slobber: now that the boxter's been out for a few (too many) years, the 914 is not the redheaded stepchild of porsche that it once was

haha, might be a little nose heavy, (cast iron block) but AWD drifting wouldn' be a challange

those exact same connections were the problem, very poor design to just splice two wires together "somewhere" in the line!!! so +1 thank you, we could've searched for that problem for eons . . . :-\ chris