Yo'J

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I would be able to safely bet you can find everything you'll need here to keep that car on the road, minus some parts and gaskets or hoses. At least you'll be able to find the link to other sites here if the writeup you need is hosted elsewhere. Google helps with the search function too if you find yourself getting frustrated or stuck with the same threads during a search.

Here is a current explanation of your how your hose routing should be, I'd double check that. Nice build!

Thats my wagon with an ej! I love it! There is so much storage in the back where the rear seat was, you'll dig! I put a fold down board to extend the bed to the front seats as far as I could and still drive so I can sleep back there. Its room for a hidden sub or whatever. I got the 5spd dr, though, the paddle shifters sound great! Lifted on 14"s! Be prepared for wheel hop!

I'm ready to post again. I've read all I could on others probs with the ej22 running rich and I think I'v nailled it all down New injectors some new seals and one didnt sit right and put out that fancy "rid my neighborhood of mosquitoes" smoke show. So I found it shoved it in there with a stick and it idles much smoother. I feel though something is still wrong. I start the car and it still shoots smoke, like raw gas. My neighbor said to me it might be the TPS. I'm getting code 22 and I have a brand new knock sensor recently installed. I test the TPS and some things dont seem right. Its testing between b an d at 9ohms and my childrens says 3.5 to 6.5 and both the spares I pulled from the jy say the same. Now my chiltons covers a lot of models. Junk yards have junk, but Napa wants like $270...... (think squeezing blood from a rock emocon here, might be useful) So I guess I'll start asking questions now. How much should I run the car to get out residual gas in the exhaust before I; blow up myself or the car? Die from asphyxiation on a windless day. realize its a different problem? I'm getting code 22 and I checked continuity in the circuit, could it be a failed sensor or is my code cheat sheet wrong as it covers many makes too, like my chiltons?

Check out my troubled thread auto to manual . I had the same prob till I got the neutral switch thing and the ...park switch. Brought the idle down perfect.

Oooooo! Got a little bit of power there do ya, Jacob? I know some places sell frame stiffeners for rally cars but I'd bet not for our older gens. I wonder what one could do about that besides a full remake of the car. I was thinking about caging the back of my wagon since it has a bent b-pillar but I really don't know what would need/should be done. Now, Jackson Rally on the other hand....If I walked into that shop for a day, I'd never stop asking questions! Well anyway, How are the RX springs to drive on your car? Could you use a stiffer spring or is it just perfect for road use or too stiff. I'm not going rally style or anything so I'm not wanting to make it too stiff, I want it to handle well, but not like its on rails. Comfortable and safe to play! Hey Gloyale, I like your top mount for your rear springs! Did you remake the whole strut top? I was thinking of remaking mine out of L stock but I'm afraid of having it break. The way I have mine setup I'm just counting on bolts not shearing off, I'm confident there but I would like to tuck it closer to the body. I get a little bit of tire rub on occasion when I get a little happy in the car.

Hey, no offence taken, I was under the assumption that we couldn't get ea aftermarket springs. I called a few spring shops a couple of yrs ago who cold shouldered me just about and said "We don't make...those!" I didn't call ground control and the other high end one, king. I've only been after fixing my saggy front. (Well and making the smoke machine run right after it now idles right. thanks Gloyale....I'll post later) I've always wanted full air suspension in a subie, by the way, but its way out of my league. Soobs are so light, it would be so fun. Not practical at all. I've looked into it a little. With a full sized system in an ea81, do you think you could fully "bunny hop"? I think maybe close.....

O.K. maybe Phizinza meant the rear...I got them there ea82 rears on my wagon, I don't want them on the brat. I'm just worried about the front. So, 87 brat....Is the spring rate 134lb/in? I cant find verification anywhere I've looked. If so, I'm gonna try the ea82 wagon front springs as they are a few pounds more. Unless some RX springs magically appear available. If not, I might try to get the air strut but that will be a while out, less moving parts the better as well. Interesting thoughts about the air struts.....ea81s eat axles. You would probabaly have to convert to an ea82 crossmember (more room)and/or lift it at the strut tops to keep some semblance of correct camber. But, it would be fun with 4 corner controls. It would be a toy and not really a car for transportation then. I do hear the cheap ones overheat and blow out easily during hard driving. I havent seen any that would fit a 5" hole, the standard ones say 6" but run out to 7"-8" in girth.

I didn't see a post welcoming your new car to the fold! Congrats!

You have to use photobucket or picasa or flickr or some photo hosting site and paste the pics url to get pics here.

I was thinking about using stickers. The jy special would be double sided tape and matching emblems. Sorry got corn in my teeth....

You can throw money at anything to fix it. Most cars do that past a certain age. Have you seafoamed your engine? That can fix a variety of age related problems if done right. My 82 wagon does the same thing after a long downhill run, sometimes sips a little bit of oil too. Bad maintenance by a previous owner, the engine only has just over 140k. Its not gonna kill me or itself so I'm gonna drive it till it dies. If your worried about looks.....give it a hair of gas on the way down hill so it wont create that oil sucking engine pressure.

I dunno, I like my magnaflow.

I saw a post by Phizinza where he claimed to have ea82 rears on his old ea81. In the post I posted. I havent found an air shock part number that would work. Less than $4k. You got one? I can fab mounts. I cant change the shape of the world, but small fab work I can do. I have the ej compressor, I almost have all the parts for the air and oiler. Heck, as far as I'm concerned a few extra pounds of spring force on an ea81<ej swap 'must' be mandatory, for safety's sake if nothing else. I'm not just gonna look at it.

Really, they fit....I just took a quick look at the ea82 rears and the unmounted wagon strut, as it sits complete, the spring is 11.5" and the mounted on the car, sedan one is 9". Not looking too good for squeezing on a ea81 front thats 7" mounted. I'm betting though the ea82 vs the ea81 fronts are quite close to the same coefficient. On Monstarus chart the ea82 wagon fronts are 146lb/in compared to 134lb/in. IF the ea81s are indeed 134lb/in which is a number I read in a four yr old post, that might be an available way to go.

I've got ea82 sedan stuff on the back of my lifted ea81 wagon but I got a set of ea82 wagon rears in the drive now. I was wondering about putting them on the front of the brat. 194lb/in. compared to 134lb/in. I just don't know how easily they could be modded to fit. Ea82 sedan rear springs are 159lb/in compared to 157lb/in for the rx. Now lengths and travel I cant find a thing on or how to mount them. I do know the sedan struts are shorter than the wagon and I'll measure the springs today. How tough is the mounting of the ea82 spring on an ea81 strut?

Hmmm how difficult would it be to put rear ea82 stuff on a ea81.....? http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=75637&highlight=spring+rate Wouldn't the turbo stuff lower the car?

Hey thanks! That is very helpful actually. I'm trying to figure out my options and of course, the best route to follow.

So, I know I can use rx springs on my brat but I cant seem to find any info on spring rate differences between the brat and say a ea82 wagon. Would an ea82 wagon spring work and fit? Whats the spring rate for a brat vs ea81 wagon? I have monstarus chart but there isnt a 'brat' listing. I got my new gr2s and would like a stiffer front for the ej thats in the brat and maybe another half inch or little more to level it out. I wont be lifting the brat and I dont really want to lower it either. Rx stuff seems tough to find. I've been through all the searchs and the few things I haven't found are these. Worse case scenario...I have new struts. I feel like I should know this too, tempo springs fit on the ea82 but not an ea81? But rx does? Tempos would be too stiff for an ea81? Miata stuff is for the rears only? and usually lowers ride height, Right?

Can you flip the nuts over on the drilled holes so two factory holes center the wheel and the others tighten?

Im at 18 cents a mile in two years and I am including tires in the math and If i did the one job that cost me $1300 it would have cost me 12 cents a mile. 22000 miles of personal use but i started at 210000 so that might include something into the maintenance calculation and the car wouldnt run when i got it.

Did ya loosen anything? Did ya look for anything?

I cant imagine driving an ea81 with out a five speed d/r, and to think you got every part for the swap in the ea82. Well minus torsion tube, knuckles and axles. Unless the ea82 is fit to be fixed and sold to pay for said ea81 conversions, I would be so inclined to mod out the ea81 like said previous poster pointed plainly. Now for the flip, If you can fix the head for super cheap with a jy one, it might be possible to keep a spare dd until you want to do something like the ej swap. I like having two used cars as that is the only really reliable transportation. I for one want to 6lug my wagon but I dont have a spare driver at the moment, so I cant send off my hubs. I got rear discs so I really cant get/find spares. (But boy if I find a set....!)

Needs the copper tube in the pic and the fittings of course.