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1. Jeff 2. Will 3. Jake 4. Chris F 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

wow

you bringing your new project, or the silver wagon?

conway shell station maybe, that way nobody's heading north just to turn around . . .

+1 I still have a nice coat of mud from screwin around at Walker Valley last week, might as well build on it

cool, that means you have the non denso disty i think (for future ref). you may try just putting the old parts back on one at a time to see if you can narrow it down farther . . . good luck, i'll follow this thread, now i'm intrigued

hey, i just remembered, the tabs are actually on the distributor, and the slots for the tabs are on the cap (so take what i said and flip it around) make sure whatever brand cap you have has the proper slots to fit securely on the disty's 1 or 2 tabs. chris

Hi Brian When i got my 87 wagon I replaced plugs, wires, but not the disty cap/rotor because they looked new enough. Big mistake, I then had the same exact issue you are describing. As it turned out, the moron who worked on the car before I purchased it put the wrong disty cap/rotor on the car, he put on the non denso stuff, and my car has the denso disty. It functioned correctly in spite of that, until I wiggled the disty cap around while replacing the spark wires. Then, like you, no go. Moral of the story, make sure the cap is the correct one, the best way I know to tell is to look at the bottom edge of the cap. On my car the cap needs to have 2 small tabs that stick out from the caps base (at the 12 and 6 o'clock position if you will) and fit into corresponding slots in the disty. The cap the previous owner put on my car only had one tab, which allowed the cap to move/rotate ever so slightly, causing the rotor to not line up correctly with the metal points inside the cap- make sense? Just my .02 seeing as I've experienced something eerily similar :-\ chris

i don't know, that soob looks better than some babys i've seen :eek:

i knew those were gonna be for something good when i saw them in the back of your wagon the other day went to walker valley in the wagon the next day b.t.w. so fun!!

it took me awhile to get used to this 3AT . . . with my 15" pugs and 60 series tires my tach is just under 4K at 65mph, the freeway speed limit in my area is 70. I'm sure the speedo is off because of the diameter change on the wheels/tires, maybe by 7mph or so, which puts me right at/above the limit at 4k. I thought that was pretty extreme until I drove my gf's Scion Tc (2006) with a 5sp manual, and it is at 3700 rpm at 70! :eek: I drove (in my car sales days) a 2007 corvette cpe with a 6spd manual, and in 6th gear it almost idled down the freeway in 6th gear, something like 1800 rpm and would still accelerate like a mofo!

if ya count the 1.5" i gained when i put on my 15" pugs with 60 series tires, than i've got the "lifted" white wagon that you probably see once in awhile i live in burlington)

I can't imagine anywhere in the western US that will have as beautiful scenery as we have all over the place! The other unique thing (about the north puget sound area anyway) is the accessibility of logging roads, department of natural resources roads, and electric company trails, as well as dedicated "off road parks" such as Walker Valley- a local off-road mecca. Check out some of the threads in the "Subaru MotorSports- Trails, News, Runs and Events" section of USMB, the majority of them are based here in the PNW! Seattle area is the place chris

^+1 A fellow member's "signature" on my G35driver forum: ***CAUTION! You have entered an internet car forum. Apply a liberal amount of BS repellent to skin before reading anything by anyone.*** I always got a kick out of it

+1, thanks!!!!

sign me up!! those forest service roads are nice and muddy right now, but still passable. there were so many to chose from - i didn't know which way to go . . . next time i'll bring a "green trail" map or something like that chris

Whats up everybody? Hope all of your holidays are happy and at least remotely safe I'm new to sube's, and to off-road/rally in general. Recent events in my financial life forced me to get rid of a street/track G35 cpe ( ) which saw many mountain roads, country highways and beautiful vistas, but thats all it got to see, the pavement. So, turning lemons to lemonade as it were (anybody got some vodka?) I purchased my soob, and love it of course. I took some time doing a "tear-down" when i brought subiwagon home because it had 110k, and though the body was near perfect, i had no idea what kind of life/servicing it had experienced over the last 110k. With my experience with street cars, and a lot of help from you all (thanks GD and everybody else!!) I think I've got this ol' lady back some of its original charm, and bite!! Today was a tough one, so I decided to go for a drive . . . I'm glad I did. From time to time in life you lose perspective of the things that are truly important, and put too much time and stress into trivial things. Trips like the one I didn't necessarily mean to take today really remind me how blessed i am to be alive, and especially alive here in Washington . . . sooooo beautiful! I was just looking for an alternate route back to Burlington from the massive Sedro-Woolley, so I turned of hwy 9 at the "South Skagit Hwy" having no idea where the he** it led, this is what i found . . . (sorry, i had no idea I'd be anywhere this beautiful, so all i had to document it was the camera on my phone . . .) Leaving pavement in 3, 2, 1, whoooo-hooooooo This is always a good sign to see . . . I went up this! i know, no big deal for subievets, but still . . . Like being in a rally, i just needed a co driver ". . . right, 30, uphill, tree on right" I'd never been down the Sauk River Valley, had no idea it even existed- right in my own back yard kinda. My short drive turned into about a 120 mile trip, if you include the forrest service roads, and was so much fun!! Very glad to finally own a vehicle that can see both the pavement and the dirt!!! Awesome day, beautiful views, just had to share it with everybody who appreciates things like this when they come across them . . . chris

thank you both!!! found and corrected the prob. correct, the line directly off the manifold already is "y'd" to the first choke and to the auto trans . . . there was a output on the carb (metal) that looks like the right one to go to the secondary, i'll see when i drive here in a sec! b.t.w. is there any reason that there were two springs attatched at the throttle cable side of that mechanism, one just hangin out and one connected so that the throttle mech would return . . . ? maybe just a poor rebuild leaving both attatched at one place, or is the other supposed to go somewhere?! thank you both again!! chris

the second side of my carb isn't getting the vacuum it needs to open, where is it supposed to be getting it from?? i also have a very high level of vacuum coming off of a line on the front of the carb, right below a long adjustment screw (mixture?) and i don't know where that is supposed to go. i found it hoseless and discovered how much vacuum it was producing, tried hooking directly into the vacuum input for the second flap on the carb, and whoa did it open up and rev, wouldn't have stopped if i hadn't unplugged it so sorry i'm sure this is a simple stupid thing but i've got to get on the road soon!!!!!!!!!!! thanks everybody chris

i put a magnaflow y pipe (has a high flow cat built in), found a bosal brospeed polished flow-thru muffler on ebay n.i.b for $30 and had my favorite exhaust shop weld up a 2.5" straight(ish) pipe from the y to the muffler, no flanges, resonators, nada 2things: 1. the sound is freakin awesome, sounds like an sti with an exhaust when you get on it, and really lopes at a stop light (i love it) 2. becuase those old hangers and spring flanges start to sag as they get older, the whole exhaust system is much closer to the underbody now, i'd guess i picked up about 3 inches of clearance at the middle of the car, and no more clunking of the old muffler onto the rear suspension when i go over a bump!! i think that deserves another chris

magnaflow builds a y pipe w/hi flow cat . . . do a search by car on their page. i paid about 130 for mine. i do have the stock y pipe sittin in my garage right now for an 87 gl wagon, it's all yours if you want. chris

looks like great minds think alike, me and my subie (and my gf) 12/10 on Mt. Baker chris

pm me if you'd like to sell it

Bingo!! Had one hose connected to the wrong place, i fixed it and now its good as new! While i was busy disconnecting hoses, i got carried away and removed a whole bunch of these black plastic boxes , installed some quarters:clap: , pretty much followed the directions i found here by searching . . . amazing how much simpler "one line to the dash, one to the vaacum thingey on the firewall and brake booster, and re-plug the fuel breather line" was to follow when compared to that diagram on the hood, must've been some issue in translating the sticker into english chris

Own: '87 EA82 auto, carbed, w OHC and denso ignition. . . as part of my "i just bought a 110k used car tear down" i purchased new ngk's and ngk wires. prior to this i'd gone from top to bottom, replaced all gaskets except for head gaskets (no need to), all fluids, all filters, the accessory belts (timing belts were new when i got the car, but the water pump and "cam belts" were fubar'd- weird) water pump, thermosensor, new coil and battery, and full exhaust system, and the car was running pretty well except for at startup, which i assumed was normal. yesterday i finally got around to what i figured as the "last step" replacing plugs and wires. i have the denso snap on type disty and the cap looked fairly new anyway, so i thought it was fine (oops). **here's the point** after checking for proper gap and torquing plugs in correctly, i modified those stupid ngk wires a bit (the boots on the plug end are sooo long the pushed the metal connection back off the plug! so i trimmed 1/4" off ea boot) and plugged those in, making sure that i plugged #1 into #1 and so on. finished last project (yay!), lets take 'er out and drive . . . crank crank crank crank crank crank- nada! Sh*@! ok, recheck everything, try again . . . crank crank crank crank- nada! replace wires with old ones (because they worked) . . . nada. double check that i didn't disconnect any of the stupid vacuum hoses . . .nada. you get the point. 2 hours later, i notice after pulling that almost new disty cap that it's the wrong one (only had tab slot on one side, needed tab slot on both otherwise it would rotate slightly on the disty and wouldn't line up with the rotor correctly to generate spark . . . must've rotated when plugging and unplugging ngk wires i suppose) moron who worked on it before me put the wrong cap on it. firing order was even different ran to napa, got correct cap and rotor, got home and slapped them on, and viola! we have life!! the car idled perfectly, couldn't wait to close the hood and go for that drive i was wanting to do 3 hrs ago . . . get on the road and NOW its got a giant dead spot (lag, puke, whatever) in acceleration. it idles well, but from gently pushing on accelerator till almost flooring it (about 1500-2700 rpm) it stumbles and struggles and almost dies, once it finally reaches 2700 - 3000 rpm (we're talking a lag of about 5-6 seconds when floored) it runs stronger and smoother to almost redline than it ever had before, pulls like a mofo, feels like i could actually reach the speed limit on the freeway W.T.F!!!??? i'm officially lost. could the moron mechanic who put on the wrong disty cap/rotor have had to mis-adjust the car just to get it to run that way and now its way off? did i do something wrong i'm not thinking of? HHHHEEEEELLLLLPPPPP! thanks chris