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I'm trying to add a catch tank to prevent oil from making its way into the combustion chambers from the PCVs, but unlike any other car I've seen, my EA82 has a T-fitting attached to the intake tube. What's this T-fitting do? The only thing I can think of is it adds vaccuum to the system to help pull the oil off the passenger side's valve cover, since the hose lengths are not equal to the PCV. So my plan is to run new hosing from both valve covers with a T in the middle, which routes to the catch can, and from the can to the PCV valve. I'll plug the hole in the intake pipe. Think this should work? Here's a picture to show you what I'm talking about:

See: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=25468Should give you a point in the right direction. For the dash, you'll want a slant console out of an '80-'81(?). I think there's a couple for sale right now in the marketplace. As for speakers, like everybody's said, just measure, cut, mount, and wire it up. Don't ever pay a professional to install your stereo. Take it from me - I used to be one.

Sure, I'll send that one on to the USRM. I suppose I should add EA82s in there too. Do any of you happen to know the colors of the wires inside the dash of an EA81?

Motorhead Slayer Shadows Fall Lamb of God Monster Truck Driver In Flames Mastodon Fear That sort of stuff does me quite well down in the garage.

Last winter I got stuck in the middle of the Northgate mall parking lot when I tried to climb atop a big pile of snow the bulldozers had pushed together. With nothing to attach a rope to, I was stuck. A Civic and a Neon both tried to pull me off, but it finally took a big K5 Blazer to pull me off.

Do the burnt orange that comes on the 350Z... that would be cool! Bright, but cool.

Unfortunately, I don't know the exact wiring colors, but I can give you a start. Perhaps one of the EA81 owners will point you in the direction of the correct wires to splice. Your stock H/U is only going to have about 7 or 8 wires. A 12V switched wire, a ground wire, four + wires for the speakers (or two if you only have two speakers), and one ground wire for all four (or both) speakers. There may or may not be a constant 12V lead in there. You can use a test light or a multimeter to figure out what wire is what. If there is a 12V constant wire, great, splice that to the yellow wire on the new CD player. If not, you'll have to run a wire from something that has 12V all the time - probably the battery. And you'll need a fuse on that wire, the same size as the one on the back of the CD player. Next, find your 12V switched wire. It'll be dead when the car is off and 12V when the car is switched to the ACC and ON positions. Splice that to the red wire on the new H/U. The wire that goes to ground goes to the black wire on the H/U. Now, you're into speaker wires. EA81s are common-ground, meaning all the speakers share the same ground wire. This simply sucks, because you'll have to rewire it. Trace factory speaker wires to each speaker's harness inside the car. The front ones should be somewhere under the carpet or up in the dash. The rears will probably be by the B-pillar. Usually it's a pink connector. You'll want to run a pair of speaker wires to each pair of speaker wires, one +, one -. You can figure out which speaker is which and their polarity by touching a 9V battery to each pair of speaker leads and listening to each speaker "pop." If the speaker moves out, hook the + and - leads the same as the battery was connected. If it moves in, hook them up opposite to how the battery was. Once you have both or all four sets of speaker leads connected, run them back up to the H/U. You might want to mark them somehow so you don't forget which speaker is which. If you do forget, use the battery again to pop each speaker. You'll want to hook the leads up so that the left front goes to the grey wires, the right front goes to the white wires, the left rear goes to the purple wires, and the right rear goes to the green wires. A solid-colored wire is +, - has a stripe. So, just as a quick wiring diagram: Power: Red: 12V Switched Yellow: 12V Contant Black: Ground Speakers: Grey: Left Front Speaker + Grey with a Black Stripe: Left Front Speaker - White: Right Front Speaker + White with a Black Stripe: Right Front Speaker - Purple: Left Rear Speaker + Purple with a Black Stripe: Left Rear Speaker - Green: Right Rear Speaker + Green with a Black Stripe: Right Rear Speaker - Other Stuff: Orange: Illumination (dims H/U display when the headlights are on) Blue: Power Antenna Blue with a White Stripe: Amplifier turn-on Pink, Brown, and sometimes other colors, maybe with stripes: Cellular mute lead (mutes sound when a connected cell phone rings) There are occasionally other colors too. Just kinda depends on the headunit. If your H/U is an older Pioneer, some of the speaker leads may not be the right colors.

Cool! Can't wait to see it finished!

Sweet! Do they made Superswampers that small?

Too much negative camber is the first thing that comes to mind.

I don't know why, but I've always really liked white EA82s. Maybe it's because they look like refridgerators . Sweet looking sticker, sweet looking car. I need to get around to ordering a couple of those stickers myself .

Wish I could make it. Have fun guys, and take lots of pics!

PLEASE let this be on the 4th! PLEASE! If it's on the 27th, I wouldn't be able to make it, but if it's on the 4th, count me in!!

My old Sentra was a bear with it's manual steering. If you try to drive on a dry, grippy surface in 4WD, and especially if you try to turn hard, you'll cause the transmission to bind, making it very difficult to get it back out of 4WD. This is because of the lack of a center differential on (stock) 4WD Subarus. The front and rear differentials are forced to spin at exactly the same speed, and since, when you're cornering, the front and rear wheels aren't moving at exactly the same rate, you cause binding in the transmission. Not a problem, just a Subaru being a Subaru. Just keep it out of 4WD if you're going to be driving on dry asphalt.

Welcome to the USMB .

6x9s can be pretty heavy. They tend to have pretty burly magnets. And my hatch doesn't like to stay up when it's cold, so I wouldn't push it. Why don't you take those boxes and bolt them to the ceiling or something? Then you would gave tolerable fidelity (well... for a 6x9 ) and you wouldn't have anything sliding around, nor a hatch that might fall on your head.

Legacies are nice. Lots of room and fun to drive. I've got an EA82, but it's very much a bare-bones machine, not real comfortable, not real pretty, and definately not real fast.

You can get an actuator either off a junked GL or Loyale or at a stereo shop, although you'll need to fab stuff up if you go with a universal one. GLs could unlock their hatches individually, but Loyales have it just linked to the power locks.

ooh ooh pick me pick me! Seriously, let me know the cost and I'll write a check. ...as long as a Sparco Color 2 will fit on it.

What generation is it? If it's EA82, Metra makes a kit, you can buy it at any stereo shop. Remember, if you're running rear speakers, you'll have to run a set of twin-leads back to the harness at the bottom of the B-pillar. If it's an EA81, you might be stuck. EA81s are common-ground, which means for an aftermarket CD player, you have to rewire all four speakers (well, only three of them, but doing all four is better), and you may have to run a 12V lead from the battery to the stereo to retain presets and audio settings and such.

Sorry about the misspelling. Fixed . You missed out on a hell of a lot of fun at the pumpkin patch. Ken's Brat is a blast. Thanks again for the awesome time. My wagon is so filthy it's funny.

Yesterday, Eric, Ken, Matt, and I cruised up to Greenwater to play in the dirt and the snow. Group photo at the top of one of the pits. Ken is in his Brat, Eric in the Impreza, Matt in his Legacy, and I'm in the EA82. Matt hits the puddle Me trying to climb a rock wall... not going to happen without low range and a lift So we mobbed up and down a few trails, until both Ken and Matt punctured a tire on some sharp rocks. I was able to loan Ken my spare snow tire, so he could still play, but Matt only had a donut. So we left Matt's car and the Explorer carrying a couple of Eric's friends that we met up with up on the mountain, and cruised back up to the top. Eric climing the snow wall Ken climing the snow wall. I eventually made it to the top too, but say goodbye to my clutch ... So we all cruised back down the mountain at this point. Eric went home, and I followed Ken back to his house to get a replacement wheel. But wait... what's this? MUD HOLE! YAY FOR MUD! It was time to bring out the big guns. Ken and I went back to his place (thanks for the wheels, by the way), and he welded up a spot on the BEAST. Unfortunately, it was too dark to take good photos of the mudding... ...but here's the aftermath Ken even gave me a ride in the beast, which, I have to say, is probably the most fun I've had in a long time. That thing is incredible.

^ I've got pics of the mud hole. I'll be posting them in a sec. Nice bodywork there, Erik !

Holy damn. I haven't had that much fun in a loooong time. Thanks again! Erik, ask Ken about the mud hole, you'll get a good laugh

My wiring goes up the A-pillar on the inside, through the top left corner of the windshield seal, and up to the roof rack. Works awesome, but I wouldn't recommend trying to cram too much wiring in there. Four 16-gauge wires is a tight squeeze. When I add more fogs in the future (and maybe a couple antennas), I'll be going through the tailgate to get to the roof.