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some import tuner magazine? My Brat was in Sport Compact car for top 100 burnouts.....

Pat has headed back to get hitched again with Paul's love. Then off to a corn state that has nothing to do with Nebraska but if you stand on your truck, you're the highest point of the state. Currently, Pat is sitting about 8600 feet above sea level endouring the 'Trucker 500'. Demolition derby time, Waldo will do fine. Snow or no, Waldo is on the go.... Once again, have a safe trip Pat and I'll see you in a few days hopefully! Maybe more yummy food like the lasagna like you had...mmmmm lasagna, I'm hungry again:D

don't worry! He got ahold of me.... If I would have seen this before I had gone to bed yesterday, I would have posted it...

I got a call from Pat about two hours ago. He was about 55 miles south of Casper, Wy on I-25 but he lost his 4wd in his rig. He was asking about the best way to get here because the roads are NASTY! Hopefully he'll be able to make it here in about 5 hours or so but he said he's doin about 35-40mph...

Bill, just get an electric fan off of one of the EA82 wagons at school. If you're lucky, it'll fit without you having to 'make it fit'. I gotta get some parts off of one myself.... I PM'ed you about it already!

here's an easier way to get it timed... 1. Pull disty out entirely. 2. Pull #1 sparkplug out and then thread back in one or two threads. 3. By using a breakerbar and a 22mm socket, slowly turn the motor over by hand. You'll start to hear compression build up and be shot out of the small leaks made by the loose sparkplug. Right as the compression stops, look at the timing marks through the hole in the bellhousing. If the compression stops and you see the marks, then just put it in 7 deg BTDC, if not, then comtinue around until you hear compression again and watch for the marks to come up as the compression stops. 4. Line up the rotor on the disty so when it drops in, it lines up where the #1 sparkplug wire will go on the cap. I found this to be the easiest way to static time my '78 Brat when I swapped an electonic disty into it from a '83-newer EA81.

oh yeah! Did you ever find a place with molded carpeting for an EA82? And no I don't mean molded as in green and fuzzy!

yeah me needy one too... mine has a spot where the mechanical fan smacked into it when the waterpump gave way in its previous lifetime....

man I could drive there and steal it MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! But after I do that, where the hell am I gonna put it??? Looks good Brad! Now maybe you should work on gettin your pimptastic wagon goin again:D

best bet would be to find someone on the board close to you like Paul (moosens) or in a junkyard. I had a hole in the gastank on my '89 RX from the j/y I bought it from so I got one from a fellow board member just a few hours away from me. Seems to work fine!

hmmm I hope my RX is ready when the meet is... when is it by the way? I'm too lazy to go to the Meet-n-Greet...

wow this IS an old post!!! I remember when Andrew posted this.....sheesh it was about a year and a half ago...

the coldness tends to eat batteries alive, even the ones that are "made" to handle the cold weather. It probably had enough juice to turn it over fine but not enough to also give it enough spark. Another thing is that I've heard about coild going bad in colder weather or their problems tend to arise more so when its cold. Depending on how old your battery is and the coil, my suggestion would be to replace them both. Another thing since you're replacing your battery is to do a voltage drop and/or resistance check on the battery cables with a DVOM. Sometimes, they'll drop enough voltage to give it some problems, especially when the cold is getting to the battery as well....

Mary, that master cylinder I'm sending you has a good vacuum booster on it. Worked great on mine and its only been off the car for about 4 months!

or go visit Mudrat79 in Eugene, he'll have all the parts you need at a good cost, and I bet if you ask him, you can do the swap there at his shop and he'll even help for a little bit of $. Worth a shot I'd say!

Ive seen this before but it came stock on the car. I replaced the MAF sensor on my '88 Camaro, 2.8 v6 and it has the 'honeycomb' mesh in the front of it...

TWE downpipe will fit the stock IHI RB5 turbo, not the TD04. The TD04 has a different bolt pattern on the exit side so they don't match up.

so no hesitation from the RX when jammin the gears?

ehhh this isn't a first gen car though..... EA81s were gen 2s..... Yes the gearing in a 4-speed d/r has a slightly lower first gear BUT it cannot handle the power from the EJ22. This is why people are going with the EA82 d/r 5-speed plus it has better gears for the highway as well...

meh a toggle switch and some wires should do the trick;)

why does it have to be rotated 90 deg? I've got one coming and so I'm just wondering, I thought is was almost a bolt in item except for the rear bolt on the up pipe....I've got a stock WRX dp with 500 miles on it coming as well:D

the swapping can be done. Hondasucks here on the board swapped a EA81 and d/r 4-speed into his '77 wagon awhile ago. I've heard you'd need a steering rack from a gen 1 body style EA81 Brat. Only came in '80 and '81 I believe but Andrew (Hondasucks) said he never swapped one in his and he never had a problem with it hitting the axle like I've heard. I have a gen 1 wagon that's lived its whole life in the PNW and it has hardly any rust on them. From what I've seen, the EA81s have a bigger rust issue then gen 1's BUT when you do need to replace fenders, hoods, etc., they become hard to find a lot of the times.

good to hear! Mine should be going from step 1 to step 4 here soon...oh here's step 4.. Step four - lots of mods to make it go fast...... Hopin for the end of January for it to be rollin again with a big list of mods:D

I took a socket and welded it to an old cam pulley in the center and then welded two bolts through the holes so it would slide right onto the cam pulley on the motor. Now I can put my breaker bar on it, or put my torque wrench on it or whatever I want to! Looks great though, I like the fabbing skills!

sweet!!! I should have mine soon along with my WRX hoodscoop, not a knockoff like you guys have. Then I gotta find a good hood and mold it in and do the bodywork. You gotta get some pics once its in there!!