Tin Soldier

I have the same wheel. $50 from junk yard. $50 for sand blast and painting. I had mine done white. I drilled them to 4 lug first tho. They fit a sube nicely. I only had to trim a little off the front of the fender. DId you have a problem with the center fitting? I had to really torq mine down because the center hole was just hair to small (maybe the extra think paint and primer).

Guess I didn't consider that fact. Why hasn't someone figured out how to mate a different tranny to an EJ22 so we don't ahve to mess with subes weak axles and gears? There are some real gurus here who should get on that.

So has anyone hooked up a DR tranny into a push button car and hooked up the 4wd light? Call me picky, but I would like the dash lights to work and just wondered if it's been done.

I have a lift that I got from someone here. No instructions. Any one have instructions? I have done it before and think I can do it from memory/feel

I have had to trim every sube in the front with diff wheels. I used a dremel and then took vise grips and and bent the sharp edge under. Then I I just touched it up with primer and a bit of paint to keep it from rusting. Been over a year and no rust.

I have been contimplating rigging the switch from the column of another car into the dash and have int, low, and high for the rear wiper. However just have it be int or off would work for me. I heard you can use the relay from the front wipers to make the rear int.

Ha!! I had a car that had rusty jones and it was rusted out badly. Low miles too.

So am I wrong in my thought (after reading the posts on ppl doing this), that you could essentially do a lift and ej22 and use the awd tranny, install the switch and then install a tcase? This would be king for the 6 inch lifters who want better gearing. Right?

Torrent is totally the way to go for that kinda stuff. With bitcomet (bitcomet.com) you just right click on the file you want to make the torrent of and it makes it and adds it for you. Then you just post the tracker link and away it goes. The more ppl who get it and reseed it the more ppl can get it and reseed it.

If you are smart and know how to work html you can still have a signature. I made mine as JPG file in photoshop. I host it on my own web site so it takes no bandwidth from this site. Then I simply attach my subyboard.jpg file to the end of each post.

I dunno. Looks more like a pond to me. Don't think it qualifies as a lake. however. Still just crazy. I end up with a foot of water in my car after 2 horus of driving in the rain. I can't imagine how soaked I would get trying that. ~TTS

Ok, when you say EJ do you mean like a 90's legacy or like newer imprezas and such? And by parts do you mean new parts? I like the EA coz they are a dime a dozen so I can beat on them and have two or three as spares. How is it already lifted? More power... Um yeah you got me there the power thing is definitly a pro. I surely wouldn't do half the stuff I do in a car I paid more then 1k$-2K$ for. I can't afford to pay someone else to work on my car so I need to be able to do it myself. Lastly. I am one of the odd ones that actually likes the looks of EA82 wagons. Not a big fan of the outbacks. Although I do like the new forester and no subaru is really ugly in my book.

Very nice. I like that wheels (5 lug swap?) and the fact that someone put that much time into it. I like the custom interior and would like to see more pix of that as I am doing a complete custom job on one of my projects. I always like imagination go into a car. Besides no one else has built one.

I have a gutted cat and a cherry bomb. Sounds pretty awesome for a little 4 banger. Helped my pickup a bit too.

Yes it will be a reach for the screen prolly, but I am custom building a dash that will be coming out more then the stock one and be integrated into the console where the stereo is so it will be coming back a bit more then stock. The cup holders will probably be at a comfortable arms length. The carputer is most likely going to be for GPS so I really don't have to reach the screen much. Wireless keyboard and mouse for entry before trip starts. I mainly just wondered if anyone had done it or ran into any problems with it. I may have issues with the D/R shifter and E-Brake so I can prolly only move it a little bit. I thought about the angle approach, but you would still have the same shift difference between gears. I want to shorten the gap a bit. I did a shorter shift on my daily and it works well just needs moved back a bit. Maybe I shouldn't lean back. I could drive like a granny and reach it just fine.

Hey just noticed you are in PA where you at? I can climb some decent grades at about the same rates you just described as long as I am moving. If someone stops to turn at the bottom I can never get it up to 4th. I have 2inch lift and 26.5" tires too

That was just to shorten it tho right? I want to move mine back about 2-3 inchs also. I am tall and have my seat way back and it's a reach for the shifter in 3rd and 5th. Also I need some extra space for the dash/console I am building.

Hey all you modding heros! I am lifting an EA82 wagon and I am building a custom dash for it (to incorparte a carputer and cupholders) and I want to bring my shifter back about 3 inchs and shorter by like 2. I also wanted to shorten the D/R shifter a couple of inchs and maybe move it left a touch. Has anyone ever attempted this before? Can I just cut and weld the shift arms?

Hrmm..... Burnout with these little engines usually equals High rev + dump clutch = tire spin. Not good on any driveline parts. I would guess burnouts would be worse especially if you are on pavement. Also, the difference in gearing ratios would come it to play when going from stand still to tire fry. Running in lo range would be less strain.

Here is what I have on my 4x4 roo at the moment. It got repaired after this pic was taken. I got stuck and hit a tree so it got banged up. It made using an original factory bumper with the plastic pulled off then we cut the center out using a sawsall so only the bracket where left with a 6" section of the bumper still attached. Then we stuck the large piece of 4 in Mack truck exhaust on it and welded it in place. Next we lined up the Chevy Blazer brush guard and eyeballed it then welded it in place. Lastly we put the 2" exhuast pipe on the bottom and welded it to the brush guard. I wanted to then bend the bottom up and weld it to the 4" pipe but never got that far. In this picture I have hit a tree and broke a couple of the bolts that hold it to the car and at least one weld. Had to to have my Brother in Law (welder by trade) fix it for me

Can you give more pix of how that's mounted? I am gonna build one and I am not sure how to mount it.

It's possible to hurt something, but maybe more just coincidental. Sube alternators just sometimes die. Usually when a large amount of stress has been put on them. Now is a good time to a 100amp GM swap

Actually, I put 1500 on car wagon with only 3 cylinders. Blew a spark plug right out on the engine, and I kept going

Icy road, ditch..... needed my dang minivan to pull me out.. Not fun Oh well still runs great.

I would think you could hit any auto parts store and get either one. The local NAPA has bins of diff sizes and such. It would be easier to do the lug nuts