WoodsWagon

Go for it, if you feel like it. Me and a friend tried turboing a suzuki samuri 1.3 liter with an old ihi oil cooled turbo. We did it low budjet style, used plumbing fittings and steel gas line tubing to tap into the oil pressure sender for the feed and a rubber hose for the return. PVC pipe for the intake, cut and welded 1and 3/4" exhaust. The turbo wouldn't spool up because it was all coked up and somehow the compresser was interfering with the housing, but everything was set up to work, and it would have been interesting to see what happened. The XT6 motor is harder to come by, so blowing one up might be frowned upon. But hey, someone's got to have the spirit of adventure!

Hmm. I believe what you are looking for is the holy grail of xt6 owners. There were thoughts that the pistons from EA82t's could be put in to lower the compression to take the boost, and somebody was building a supercharged one. I believe that the clutches are fairly close to the EA82's, just a different flywheel machining, so I don't know how much power you could hold with the clutch.

how tolerant is the spfi ignition of over advanced base timing? I cheked my car again. and its at about 22 degrees btdc. Would that affect drivability that much?

They may have been talking about a set of plugs connected to run the factory diagnostics. Mechanicas sometimes use them to acess codes and digagnose the problems, but I think your car is OBDII and did away with that. Leaving diagnostic connectors together can make the car run cr*ppy, It often locks the timing in.

Thicker oil has a harder time getting past seals and the rings, hence the advise to try to go thicker to cut down on smoking.

I met one of my friends from middle school, who I haven't seen in about a year, and I knew that his mother planned on giving him a 1997 legacy L when he got his liscence. I asked him about the car, 'cause I had seen it when his mother dropped by a few months ago, and he told me the sad story of its demise. They had left at 6 in the morning, after being up late at a party and were heading down a 4 lane highway. My friend was asleep in the passenger seat, and his mother...was asleep in the drivers seat. They left the road and went into the dirt in the center median of the higway, both woke up from the bumping, and he said that she jerked the wheel right to get back on the road and they spun out of control, but she said that it was all fine untill the rear left wheel got back on the pavement, then they lost control. But anyways, they hit the gaurdrail on the breakdown lane side of the road going about 50. The car was at about a 90 degree angle to the road when it pounded the gaurdrail. My friend said that the front of the car was tweaked sideways and the headlights and hood got shoved way back. Needless to say, it was totaled. They were both fine, had their seatbelts on and the airbags went off, neither of them had scratches or bruises. My friend is thankful to the car and wary about falling asleep at the wheel, but his mother is still in denial. She says that the car never gripped the road well and followed cracks in the road. Her claim that the car didn't lose control untill the last wheel got back on the pavement seems dubious to me, but others may think different. I believe my friend's account more, because I know plenty of people who have fallen asleep, woken up and jerked the wheel too far and lost control. It was a really nice car, in good shape too, but I guess it served its purpose by saving two lives. Don't sleep and drive!

I backed my loyale off an embankment at my garadge. It was a steep slope, so the floorpans hit the brink of it as the back wheels went down with me standing on the brakes. I just went too far back and the dropoff was closer than I thought. I tried driving out, but the back wheels were hanging and too much of the weight was behind the point if was bottomed, so the front wheels just spun. I had to get my dad to pull with his tractor while I ran the car to get it out. Even more embarrasing: I went off the same slope the same way, but hit the brakes sooner the next week! Same deal with the floorpans stopping the car from going down. I couldn't bring myself to get the tractor again, so I used the jack and the spare tire to get traction on one of the back wheels and got out. I never park over there anymore, it's just too risky.

Hey nice! Didn't look like anything too rugged, but some nice cruizing in the vinyards. The pictures may not doo justice to the hills though. Whats with the citroen grill shoehorned into the white subaru? Oh. 56k=go eat a meal (it took my satalight link a few minutes to get it all.)

The bracket that the springs clamp onto in the springloaded connection behind the cat often rusts off on cars. Aftermarket two piece clamping brackets are available and often work well to get a few more years out of the exhaust before something else rusts off.

So I will have to figure out some way to incorperate the VSS into my EA82 gauge cluster. It'll get done...someday. Well thanks Josh. Your website helps too.

the car is 17 years old, and rubber does die. I'v had hoses on mine blow that looked fine on the outside, but were cracked and split on the inside. All of a sudden, POOF and a funny coolant smell. Once you replace the hoses, you won't have to do it again for another 5 years.

yeah, you can clean it off, and get the rubber intake tube going to the maf too. The nice thing about TBI is it keeps the rest of the intake and throttle body clean. The gas washes everything off. Most of the stuff up higher is from the PCV system.

I removed the strut bolts from the spindle and got it out that way. Just use a chisel to put a line across the spindle where the edge of the strut clamp grips it and the camber will end up fine if you match the mark later. I don't like separating ball joints, for some reason they don't like ot retighten for me.

How much more is tied into the ECU harness on an auto? I was figuring that the TCU-ECU connector would be one bundle that could be dissconected? How do you rig the VSS when switching an EJ22 into an earlier car? Do the manuals have a VSS, or does it get cut out of the picture when the jumper in the ECU is switched to manual tranny mode? I ask because a 2wd auto is in the woods and available for parts, but I have a nicer AWD manual, all 92's, that I would prefer not to strip, but would if the auto harness is going to be too much of a paine.

I'd say that the odometer and spedo unit were replaced to read KM when it crossed the border. So the total milage is 150,000 miles + whatever 74,000 kilometers is in miles. That's a pretty high milage car, but should have life left in it. Call the dealer on it and see if they will drop the price to a resonable level. Might get a deal out of catching them and giving them an out to get rid of it.

A few suggestions for subaru... more visibility in the back. I think any passenger in the back seat would have to be a mijet and be claustrophobic as hell back there. The floor needs to get lowered. Look at the space between the tranny and center console, theat could be reduced giving more passenger room. The fake floor in the back could be lowered, the hood could be lowered so it comes closer to the engine. The headlights should be put where they belong, and the "signiture" grill should be changed back so something not PT Cruiser like.

put some anti seize on the face of the drum or rotor where the wheel contacts. Just a thin film goes a ways. Seems to help a lot on my cars.

And mabe they could start selling affordable cars again, like ones under $20K. Nice reliable high power AWD cars, without the yearly styling changes and woodgrained chrome trim BS.

I wonder if the oil had ever been changed in the 48K miles. Seems strange to thow a rod at only 105mph, unless you were in 4th?

He wants Altezza style euro lights and stickers to go with a Body kit. I'm sorry to say, but this poor guy is gonna get torn to bits for being a racerboy in a moment. All show and no go.

Your lucky it was just leaves. That fan can butcher mice and then you get to empty the bloody remains out. The rodents seem to get in through the air inlet below the windshield. If you take off the plastic grill under the wipers, you can glue some mesh over the inlet holes and it seems to discourage them.

I read a post by MorganM that said his SPFI spun the big tires on dry pavement, so I know there's something wrong with mine.. it won't spin the stock tires on wet dirt without a clutch dump. Its not throwing any codes, I found the other green connecter, it had gotten stuffed back down the harness, the air filter, plugs, wires, dizzy cap, and rotor have all been replaced since I revived the car. CTS was recently replaced because it had crapped out. It idles happy, sits steady at any rpm, but still falls on its face when put to WOT. Timing is set to 20 before with the green connectors together. I brought my legacy beater back to life and drove it out of the woods, and that thing feels like a rocket ship compared to my loyale. Its CTS is screwed and some other things are getting fuzzy, so its not even running right and it smokes the loyale.

Started my install today, 4/4 EA82 lift. Working the back first, then the front. Got all the blocks in, just need to tighten the bolts. Which way do the strut extentions in the back go? does the U go up or down? where do the long bolts go, into the body or into the nuts? does the U bend in or out? I was getting all confused looking at it. If someone has a picture it would be great.

I read a book by a guy who converted an EA82 wagon into electric. He had solar panels on the roof of the car and on his barn to help with the charging. Said it worked well, but it got killed by being run off the road into a telephone pole. I forget the name of the book, sorry. But there is a book out there.

yeah, that is. Just hammer the pin out on the end that attaches to the body. the wires unclip underneath the kickpanels in the front and the B pillar covers in the back.