Numbchux

wrong. the carbs are far more unpredictable/unreliable. my '85 carbed EA82 wagon got 25-28mpg when I bought it. and by the time I junked it, was lucky to see 20. and I did nothing but replace sensors, vacuum lines, etc. on that thing. and it never ran right. my buddy's '86 carbed 4WD EA82....get's almost 40 and he does nothing but beat the hell out of it all 3 of my SPFI wagons, lifted or otherwise, would get 25-30mpg depending on driving conditions (2 lifted, the other 3AT). and I continue to get that in the loyale with the EJ22 and FT4WD if I'm gentle on the happy pedal. SPFI WILL help your current motor run better and more efficiently. and if you continue to drive it the same as you are now, and everything from the swap works, you will see an improvement. Comparing one carbed car with one maintenence history, and one driver, to a FI car with a completely different history/driver, is completely inconclusive. the difference will mostly be in power, TORQUE, and driveability, but also mileage.

probably. what years are they? are they both turbo?

I don't look at it as an investment at all! That's why I'm so shocked that I 'made' money on this deal. keep in mind, that figure was calculated without the many hundreds of hours of blood, sweat, and tears that went into building it. but I think you're right. I've had alot of fun with it, but it really is time to move on. part of it is the fact that I've never sold a car. I've had 4 EA82 wagons, parted one out, and gave another away (which I knew from day one wouldn't be around for more than 6 months or so anyway...). a year ago I was saying that I'd keep this thing forever....

now that my lifted wagon has 'sold' (I meet the guy next saturday morning to finalize the deal...), I've been doing some thinking. first, it started with the though of how much I spent on the rig. well, origionally....$150. lift, pugs, and tires: $500 maintenence stuff (couple sets of timing belts, oil pump reseal, new aftermarket electric fan, etc. etc.): ~$300 tube bumpers, skidplate: $350 (came with the black wagon when I bought it for $350, and I kept them before giving the wagon to my buddy for his birthday last summer) a few junkyard axles, and a couple reman'd ones: $100 then we get into major mechanical stuff... much better cared-for, lower mileage EA82 SPFI engine, came out of the loyale, which served for years before I got my hands on it, and am still driving it....so that motor didn't really cost much. and the motor that replaced it came out of my mom's old legacy, which was replaced with a much better legacy for $350 from ebay. almost all of which was made back in parting out the old one. not to mention the 5-lug stuff I saved. lower mileage D/R tranny out of my old '85. the car cost $700, but served as an awesome daily driver for a year and a half, AND all the 5-speed, 4WD conversion stuff that I used on my loyale came off of it. so that cost is pretty much zero. approximate total build cost (equipped as I'm selling it): $1400 sold for: $1600 worth it? still not sure. but I just keep telling myself that I'd pretty much reached the maximum performance capacity for my budget and patience on that car. and it's replacement will be much better suited to my needs.... and no, I'm still not going to reveal the replacement

FWD impreza axles will work. I pulled a pair from our local junkyard for Austin while he was out here, and tested them on my collection of trannies. worked find on a PT4WD D/R tranny, not on the FT4WD D/R tranny, or on the EJ AWD tranny, or on the legacy FWD tranny. it has to be out of a FWD impreza. or...yea...I'm pretty sure you could put the EA inner DOJ cups on the legacy shafts...

haha, a BFG A/T is a good tread? what are you doing? there isn't anything that you can do with those tires, that you can't do with your average el-cheapo all-season (and the all-seasons will get better traction in the winter!). truth is, you've got almost zero options, beyond a nice snow or all-season tire. tirerack.com (huge selection in my experience), only shows 9 different tires available in that size. there's one type of blizzak studless snow tire...and the rest are all-seasons. in fact, it's hard to find stuff with decent tread that fits on an old subaru WITH a lift!

like my uncle says, "if you need to put a naked woman on your mudflaps....you obviously have never seen one in person"

truthfully...not here....most of the stuff on this board is geared towards the older cars. http://www.rs25.com is a good source and so is http://www.nasioc.com I would also find a local club, and see if they have any meets, go and talk to some local people. I've learned more in 20 minutes hanging with the local guys here, than I have in much of my time here on the boards.... Cobb makes good stuff, and almost anything you can imagine...but they want $$$

I like the wing....not so much on the 04 ones...but I do still like it....but I'm wierd that way. anyway, yea, anything can be done. the glory of subarus, is all of them have virtually the exact same design for virtually everything. it'll have an EJ253, the same as a 2.5 RS of the same years, suspension is similar, if not identical to imprezas, ditto tranny.... it just has a different body on it, and longer struts.

yep, and until you find a way to run dual DOJs on the front....that's completely irrelevant :-p

ECU doesn't control the fans anymore....

I think an inch and a half would be about as far as you could safely go. just make sure they maintain the stock camber

yep. just don't have anything for ya. try your local subaru dealership. they might let you photocopy a few pages out of the FSM.

I don't know. it never did it before, but I just checked the codes a couple days ago, and one of them was #12....starter relay/circuit. I don't think I have the throttle cable adjusted quite right...so floor it on the pedal might not be quite WOT....and therefore might not be flood mode... noah. good call on the temp sensor. IIRC, when I was hooking everything up, I hooked up the wrong temp sensor to my gauge cluster. I wonder if I ever got it hooked back up to the ECU...I'll check that

yea, it is a manual. and I do have the habit of leaving it in gear.... it'll be awhile before I can afford it, though...so maybe I'll start practicing leaving it in neutral with the handbrake on.

I've been thinking about putting a remote start system on my wagon. but am not exactly sure what all would be involved, and how easy it would be to wire into an EA82/EJ22 harness. I suppose the engine stuff would be pretty easy, just 2 wires, one for main relay, one for starter....but I'm not sure.... It's just too cold up here, and the darn thing cools itself far too well (more proof, that a stock EA82 radiator is more than enough to cool the EJ22), the temp gauge doesn't even come alive by the time I get to school. and I hate putting all those miles on it with it so drastically under operating temp.

my loyale just hates starting when it's cold. plenty of power from the starter/battery. but it jst doesn't want to fire for a good 10 seconds or so. sometimes I have to floor it to get it to run. but once it does finally start, it hesitates for a second, and then comes up to idle, perfectly smooth.... while it's warm, it runs awesome, and starts immediately, but every morning I go out, and it just doesn't want to start. it's always started eventually *knock on wood* but I hate cranking it that long.... it's not throwing any engine-related ECU codes (just the starter relay, and Vehicle Speed Sensor ones....) any ideas?

I've never heard of anyone using a steering dampner on a subaru. but I suppose it could be done... I do know this, however. rule #1 when offroading....thumbs out of the steering wheel!

as long as you're not using wheel spacers or wheels with crazy offset, there's no reason why you'd burn through bearings. and it appears that scott's got a way around the hub-to-strut clearance problem

then it just might work. it'll sit a bit low in the back, and you might have to be a little creative. but I bet you'll have plenty of room in the front.

I think it'll be a touch tight (might need a little trimming) on stock springs. but if you're running OB springs too, they'll fit fine.

yep, great stuff. that's "scott in bellingham"'s site. if/when I build another lifted soob. it'll be with SJR stuff

one of those 2 was the harness for my EJ22 donor. and it was a FWD 4EAT.....holy crap. the other was my EA82 3AT, which had it's fair share of wires, but nothing by comparison. I certainly think it's possible. but I'd rather build a hybrid high-comp, N/A, MPFI motor, and not have to touch the wiring. than the other way around. I've never really worked with an MPFI EA82 harness though, just messed with/around a couple at the junkyard...so that's mostly just speculation

no the engine part of the wiring is pretty different. because the turbo block is MPFI.... BUT, you could take both engines out, swap the MPFI heads from the bad motor, to the good one, and drop it in without the turbo (use the exhaust, and intake plenum pieces that are on the SPFI car). only parts you'll need are a few gaskets. AND, the wiring will be completely plug and play with this method. just have to mix and match engine parts a bit. I promise, it'll be an easier job than messing with the wiring harnesses! having messed a bit with a couple different AT harnesses (neither AWD...), the last thing on this planet that I'd like to do is deal with that, and try to have it work! I'm having enough trouble just keeping the engine working on my swap, and it's got a 5-speed....

just get an Eaton M62 Supercharger from a mercedes. it's a proven setup. and, assuming the crank pullies are the same size as an EJ22, should produce 5-6psi of boost. and cost less than that thing (if you're patient, they can be had on ebay for less than $300.) AND, the eaton has an electronic clutch on the pully, so you can disengage it, and have the engine run just like stock! it's an interesting idea, but highly doubt it'll work like you'd hoped. I bet the drag on the crank to turn something that big will far outweigh the little bit of boost that the poor motor could handle.