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When I swapped engines in my coupe, I did the whole changeover in a night and got it running awesome. After I started driving it though, it wouldn't start back up after it had warmed up. Thought it was the fuel pump so I replaced it with a new one and still did the same thing. I finally got fed up with it and decided to start checking everything in the fuel system from the new pump, to the new filter. When I went to test the injector (SPFI), I pulled the plug out from under the manifold and it disconnected itself. I felt stupid, plugged it back together and haven't had a problem with it since. Talk about feeling stupid:rolleyes:

I'll be putting some AGXs under my RX here soon. But its also 5-lug too:-p

that is an XT instrument cluster. The EA81 digidash is the same exact shape as a regular EA81 cluster, the EA82 digidash is the same side to side (not without the box off to the side like the XTs and the EA81s) and then there's the XT. All EA82 digidashes are the same shape but the '85 and '86 are orange and slightly different from the '87 and newer.

tizzle bring it on down and I'll see about gettin some stuff fixed on it with ya. I know a lot about EA82Ts now and how they aren't meant to be built:rolleyes:

Tex I know the feeling! 3 engines in my black RX and I was fed up with it. Luckily this one is still the stock SPFI and it is ALL stock still. I'd be interested in the headlight but I'm planning on making a run to Pull-A-Part on Sunday to get a few things (like some EA82 seat rails, driver arm rest, headlight, fenders) but I do have some parking lights for the front with strobes in them that I'm debating on putting in:-p So here's a run down on what I gotta do (yay maintenance!) new timing belts, tensioners and idler oil pan exhaust, and valve cover gaskets struts and shocks (see the Holy grail EA82 shock thread for details) figure out why the damn rear defrost is dimly lit on the fash get my driver door and rear hatch tint fixed (a long story) install my STi driver seat get my STi key blank cut

I'm thinkin my car is mad at me because I have yet to swap in the EJ20G:rolleyes: Or get the Brembos and swap those on. Maybe she needs some goodies to make her feel better:banana:

Where everything happens at once. Last year it was blowing the motor for the last time in the RX and this year so far its been blowing an exhaust gasket, have a rock hit one of my headlights, locked my keys in my car last night at the movie theater, getting pulled over for a blown front turn signal (which also got my all stock except melon shooter exhaust and my tint questioned), rear defrost light is dimly lit on the dash and so on. So its not going good, now I got a lot of work to do on my car including an oil change, valve cover gaskets, exhaust gaskets, finish my STi seat swap, swap on a good driver side headlight, figuring out why the rear defrost light is dimly lit and well, just having to deal with my 20 year old car:dead: /rant

Oh I went and got other parts as well so the trip was worth more then I had originally planned. That and I didn't have to drive:banana:

Well I can get all four corners done for less then $400 ($370 or so) through work. Gotta love discounts:banana:

5x more then I originally bought the car for:-p $540 after everything (including gas and food) to pick them up

Well Chux, I'm going to be doing a swap for the rears here soon (when the shocks I ordered finally come into work) and this is what I'll be running with:banana: KYB AGXs all the way around but the rears are going to be from a '96 Miata w/o ABS (less bracket crap on the shock) with my ebay coilovers and Impreza struts with the same coilovers up front. Now I just gotta figure out what to do with my bad understeer:rolleyes:

Not yet, I'm still trying to get a set of seat rails from a non height adjustment driver seat. It'll go in the same way as the passenger side though. I found that doing it this way made it sit lower then if I tried to modify the STi rails instead.

Pics now worky again:banana:

So Webshots is down currently but once it comes back online, my pics will reappear. If not, I'll edit to make them show up again.

It'll be like riding in a land yacht!

Yeah I was like "TTIWWOP!" to myself so I went out and took some. Thanks for the compliments guys, now I just gotta get the other one in there:rolleyes:

Heh so firstly, you need to know my '87 "RX STi" is made up of a few cars. Ranging from '85-'96 is more like the span. The shift knob you see for the 4wd selector is on a short throw (and cut down) FT4wd shift linkage for the '87 RX tranny. The knob is however from a '85 GL-10 turbo sedan with dual range 5-speed (same car the checkerboard seats are from). It is however cut down about 4" or so. Suspension/brakes is made up of '91 XT6, '89 RX, and '96 Impreza pieces. Engine is from another '87 IIRC and well, you get the idea.

Thats a fairly easy fix Tex so long as the rust problem doesn't continue into the floorpan. Even if it does, it's not too terribly tough to fix, just more time consuming. Just cut as much of the old rocker as you can (and as close to the seams as you can) then patch the new rocker into it. You can also drill out the spot welds and weld it into place like factory but thats a lot of work, plus you'd have to do the same on the parts car on the "new" rocker.

Pics of passenger side seat in car! You can see one of the brackets I made at the very left of this pic Comparison between RX and STi seats

the trim is fine if you can't get it without damaging it. The tailights though can be a bear. The black trim that runs along the top of the license plate needs to come off or you'll break off the corners of the lights. If you can't get it off, you can always bend the tab where the stud goes through on the inside and work it off but there's still a risk of breaking it. I really need the driver side since mine has a crack in it.

Check the retrofitting forum on here about the EJ turbo swaps. SubaruTex is running an '87 RX with the EJ20G, Suberdave has done a couple already in a '87 GL turbocoupe and his '88 GL-10 turbowagon. I'm also planning on doing the swap this spring as well.

If you grab me any of the coupe tailights that don't have any cracks, I'll make it worth your while. I also need a rear cigarette ash tray from an EA82 car with a black interior (non XT) that goes into the back of the center console. There's probably more like the bottom of the window trim on the doors and along the back of the quarter windows if the black isn't cracked and peeling but I doubt it.

The engine, drop some thin engine oil or some MMO into the cylinders via the spark plug holes. This will help break free the pistons if the motor doesn't turn over by hand. It will also keep it lubed for initial start up. Then disconnect spark and fuel and crank over until you have oil pressure. Once you get oil pressure. hook up spark and fuel, then start it up. Let it run at 2500 rpms for 20 minutes or so, will smoke like a dog from sitting and from the oil in the cylinders so don't be too worried. After the initial start up, be easy on it for 1000 miles or so before you really start getting on it, but also make sure its not a 2 minute drive to the store. Make sure it reaches operating temp before shutting it off. As for the tranny is it leaking from sitting or was it leaking while it was driving? Sometimes seals will seep while it sits and would be ok once they're warmed up from driving and such.

So today I started the fun of stuffing my set of '05 STi seats into my car. Actually not too bad considering I didn't know what to expect. Pic will come when I do the driver seat since I was too busy trying to get the passenger side to work. I started off by removing the seat rails from both the RX seat and the STi seat. Since the RX seat rails are bolted vertically to the floor and the STi rails are bolted parallel to the floor of the car, I had to make some tabs that I later welded to the RX seat rails. I made 4 tabs that would be welded to the RX rails but of course, had to take the seat in and out a few times in order to get the height right, along with making it level. The seat back is much taller then the RX seat but the base only sits maybe 1/2" higher then stock. Had one of the guys from work try it out (6'5", 250lbs.) and he had to recline the seat back pretty far but said it didn't feel like it was really sitting too high. Also discovered that in order to do this to the driver seat, you need the seat rails from a non GL-10 or RX seat, you know, the one with the height adjuster that telescopes from the side. It directly connects to the seat rails and well, isn't needed. Granted you can keep it but there's no real point in keeping it since the seat will be the 1/2" higher and the back of the seat might actually hit the roof of the car.

Actually nevermind Phil I fugred it out. Can't wait to see the 6 though when its done;)