WoodsWagon

now the cheap hack questions start. If you can make your own exhaust and just put an up-and down-pipes instead of the cat and rerout the air from the MAF to the turbo then straight into the TB, will the spfi computer compensate for the increased air flow? I helped with a turbo project on a suzuki samuri, but we found the turbo was junk and never got to see how the MAP sensor would compensate, so I was wondering if a MAF conversion from a spfi with the subaru computer running the engine would work for boost.

Oh! but its so much more fun to burn the rubber off. start on a hill, yank the E-brake all the way on, place the sand and squeel away! I suggest switching the tire to the right front, as that one seems to spin the easiest. engine torque mabe?

Nah, you just need to visualize and use your imagination. :-p The rear doors on an ea82 wagon. They have multiple shelf like bends at the top. Now, imagine you flattened all those as well as a good bit of the flater parts of the door. That would push the window in towards the center of the car. The car was tilted sideways when it hit the verticle tree.

welcome to the board.

.. they just seem to jump out of nowhere don't they. Now the rear left door of my wagon and a bit of the drivers door has an 8"x12" dent in it. Right at the top where all those bends in the sheet metal are. The window should of shattered. To close the door, you have to hold the forward corner of the glass to get it on the gasket to close it properly. I'll have to pull the dent and see about straightening out the window alignment. verry embarrasing situation. We just got 5" of snow, so I was out playing in it, and didn't watch the oversteer, so when I let off on the gas, the car caught in and steered hard left, so I snapped it back to the right...too late. I slid to the left edge of the road and down a small bank, sideways. Nice big oak tree waiting for me. I had slowed to mabe 15mph by the time I met the tree, but still got a good jolt. I had to climb out the passenger side, uphill, to asses the damage and formulate an exit strategy. Little bit of backing into the woods and couple trys at the embankment and I was back on the road. Still uglifies the wagon though.

Its stillpossible to run it 4wd? lower those 1/4 mi. times please. If you can find a Lsd, that car will be a nasty 1/4 miler.

don't give up on it yet. Try to eak the last 2k miles out of it just so it has a nice round number on the odometer when you send it to its final resting place.

shift your drivers seat forward and pull off the B pillar trim. There's a bunch of connecters down there at the bottom, disconect any that dont affect other functions and see if that helps. don't clip wires, 'cause then they can short and cause nightmares.

don't worry, those are easy to come by. I had the one on my car die, and I replaced it with one scavenged off a cadilac. every fuel injected car has some of those, dont dare pay the $105 the dealer wants for it.

My EA82 just cracked a coolant hose. I poked around under the hood, and all the rubber is dead. vacuum lines..rock solid. they just make a little crack noise and drop off of their nipples. Maybe one reason this engine is sackless, or are they relly sackless to begine with? I need to drive a good running one to know. Or I could do a 5-30mph times accel at WOT and compare with others. The root of the issue is that I plan to install an EJ22 and ditch the EA cause its sackless, but I need the EA to move the car untill everything is set to be installed. So should I spend the cash to get vacuum line and coolant hoses for an engine theat is only going to be used for a few more months or should I just keep the rpms low so it doesn't leak out of the hose and limp it untill the EJ?

do a search for heim joints for the loyale in the search box on the forums page. Should help handling.

If you don't have a limited slip in the axel differentials, then it will do the normal taking away power from the wheel with better traction and giving it to the spinning one manuever. Say your rear left wheel looses traction, it starts spinning. this caused the driveshaft speed to increase, but the front driveshaft speed stats the same because the front whells still have traction. this makes the center differential lock up and force the front driveshaft to turn at the same speed. this limits the amount one wheel can spin, and the car moves forward. now if a wheel on the front is slipping at the same time as one on the rear, both will spin at equal speed, but the car will go nowhere. Unless you have a limited slip in your axel differential. The best AWD would have three limited slips. One in the front, one in the center, and one in the rear differentials.

I'm using 185's on the front and 175's on the rear, I forget the aspect ratios for them, but the rears are taller and it works just fine in the snow. works good on dirt, but binds and is hard to get out of 4wd. Dont use the mismatched tires on pavement. Doom to the center locker. use a measuring tape, preferably one of those tailor style plastic or faberic ones and measure the circumferences of the existing tires and the ones to be bought. if they're within 1/4 of an inch, it'll be fine.

i'll see where I can squirril it away.. The body is trashed. It had a sunroof.. no more. Its stii there, but I dont think the bend helped it. no gas tank. everything else is there, including a chrome rack on the trunk. Maybe I can throw some wheels on, drag it to my friends house, and stash it. I'll see how much he wants for it. Anyone seen blue headlight lenses before?

so i went to a new junkyard today, a U-pull it if you want to. i was looking fo GMC sonoma parts, but of course the whole yard had to be searched for anything that might be of interest. Well, parked near the crusher, there is a GL-10 turbo sedan EA82 2wd 5spd. Dissapointed that its 2wd, so that makes the rear rotors useless, but it is a turbo, with all the bits, digidash(broken) trip computer, velor or velvet seats, blue headlights? can headlights be tinted? the whole glass was blue. I might grab those. but anyway, a complete turbo car, looks like it ran. Boy am I tempted, The body is junk, but still.... I wondered if the turbo would work for low boost on an EJ22, maybe 2-3psi max, seeing as it would be a N/A engine. Or should I grab the whole engine and electrics? I have enough cars as it is, but still...

If that bronco has the v8 in it, i'd keep it and buy the 2wd subaru. hey, if you like wrenching you can always make the 2wd one AWD later. my uncle has a 71 with the v8 and it is a beast, thing is unstopable.

Manual or automatic? I picked up a 92 legacy for $75 because it had been used for towing trailers and the clutch was smoked at 120k. and I mean smoked. driving in 4th at 60 the engine rpm drops about 1,500 when you let off on the gas, without the speed changing. So be warned, the clutch will die sooner.

opinoins on how this would work for off road use? My strut rod bushings are starting to crack and rip, so should i replace with the same or convert to "heim" joints?

Oh, I don't think so It was owned by an old couple in their eighties and driven only 20k in the 8 years thy had it. I believe thay were the only owners.

according to the emmisions sticker under the hood. So, does this make that gl a SUV? My 92 loyale is listed as a motor vehicle on its emmision sticker, and the only difference is the EFI. Did subaru use the light truck loophole to get the more polluting carbed engines through? how long was this doge used for? Is it a light truck because its 4wd? seems pretty much like a car to me. doesn't even have a seperate frame.

i just picked up a pair of Courser OTD's, 30'x9.5" for $100 from the local junk yard. I'm buying 4 toyota rims off an 80's pickup for $75. I still have to get two more tires, new they're about $85 apiece. The ones I got were hardly used, I'd say 99% of the tread is left. They look mean, and will require a lot of fender trimming to fit. Bring on the sawzall

Hmm... we must not be seing the same thing, cause the footrest is on a manual, was put on after the carpet was installed and definiately bolts to teh firewall. Its a black plastic block with diamond tractiony surface on it. Its in an EA82 body, that may be a confusion. Its going to get installed in my loyale, which has the threaded holes, but not the footrest.

Quick semi-hyjack: What about 30"s on a 3" lifted EA82 wagon?

Why refer to the noise as the tick of death? These engines aren't damaged any by the lifters, maybe the camshaft takes a bit more of a beating, but the only part that suffers is preformance. if the oil pressure is still good, then the bearings are still getting oil, so there is no death involved. using refrences to death for common lifter noise makes some edgy, and more likely to ditch their cars over a not so severe problem. People get edgy over noises, and the lifters can get quiet loud, so why tell them it means DEATH?

There is a whilte cannister mounted to the right hand side of the firewall, engine side, your left looking back down the car with the hood up, that has 2 vacuum lines hooked up to it. This cannister's job is to keep vacuum while the manifold is in a low vacuum state, such as acceleration. Just pick another cannister up from a junk car and swap it in, I think it may fix the problem. But then again I may be wrong. Good luck.