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The EJ18 is also a non-interference engine.

What kind of rallying are you looking to do? Rallycross, Stage Rally or just running around on some gravel roads when no one is around. If you want to get into stage rally you will need a roll cage, race seats, upgraded suspension and a lot of other items. Check out the Rally America rule book for more info. For rallycross, you don't need to do to much. A skidplate is nice but you can get away without one. New struts will help.

There is good chance that if you disconnect one of the front axles from the transmission and unbolt the rear drive line from the rear diff; you can get it rolling. You then should be able to tow it on a dolly or put it on a flat bed and get it home.

yeah it's definitely something that I would not want to do alone either. At this point I don't have a vehicle ready for such a trip. I would probably want to take something that's lifted but looking at the pics on the Internet; a stock ride height EA81/EA82 could make the drip at the right time of year. At this point I do not have a lifted Subaru, I may finally build a lift for my 84, just to do this. Last week I took a trip through eastern Oregon in my new subaru, it did see some gravel roads but it's not going on any major off highway exertions. Here's the link to the post about the trip http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=99603

Okay, my 94 Legacy had a later EJ22 from 98 subaru, so it had the single port exhaust heads. I had a Borla header, stock cats from a 97 legacy, 2" catback and a magnaflow flow through muffler. My intake was stock with a K&N panel filter. On PIA's Dyno It was putting down 113hp and 118ft-lb at the wheels. The horsepower peak was around 5800rpm and the torque pear was around 4300rpm. The down side to my exhaust was that it was loud. Since my legacy was a wagon, the noise did echo quite a bit, in the passenger compartment. One thing you should do is go on to nasioc www.nasioc.com and read through the Normally Aspirated Powertrain section. There are some good posts on N/A exhaust that discuss exhaust velocity and choosing the size of pipe to use. But watch out, there is a lot of BS on nasioc too.

In my OP, when I said that I bought it recently, I should have said that I've had it for about 5 weeks not. At the moment the STI has over 5k miles on it.

Let's see, it's a lot faster, it handles better, stops better but it the gas mileage isn't quite as good and it just dose not have the ground clearance.

The night I picked-up the STI I had Chinese food for dinner. This was in the fortune cookie.

This is actually the first post I had about the STI, so you haven't missed anything.

I forgot 3 pictures that I wanted to post. These were taken out at the Pillars of Rome.

The tires that is has are okay in the rain and I plan on driving something else in the winter weather.

I was passing through Burns Or, on Saturday and I spotted 3 gen1 brats in someone's back yard. They are in need of rescue. One of them had a roll bar and all of them had decent bodies. If I was after one I would have stopped. They can be easily spotted from highway 78 as you are leaving town. That part of Oregon has a climate that's similar to northern Nevada, so rust should not be a real issue.

Part 2 Once I reached Lakeview, I headed north on Highway 395 towards Burns. These next two shots were taken at a point on the map called Valley Falls. As you can see, there's not much there. After Valley Falls the highway follows along Lake Albet, which is on of the bigger lakes in eastern Oregon. I found a couple of places to stop and take a few more shots. This next shot if from a rest area that's about an hour north of Lakeview. You are looking in the direction I came from in this shot. After reaching Burns, I headed east on highway 78 to the junction with highway 95. Now 78 is one of those highways that have a bit of everything. There are some nice long straight sections that are well over 5 miles and there are plenty of twistys too. Here's a couple of pics. My last stop of the day was at geological landmark call The Pillars of Rome, which is just outside Rome Oregon. The road from Rome to this location is about 5 miles of gravel. There's one nice sharp corner that when I went around it, I added a little left foot braking that swung the back end of the STI around, just right . Here's a couple of pictures I took our there. From Rome I headed back to Burns on the same route but this time I had a little more fun. Since I didn't see any patrol officers the first time through, I thought I would see what this STI could do. 110 is not a problem; but the cruise control can not be set above 87 and that was annoying. Once I got back to Burns and check in to my motel room, and I was treated to a nice little thunderstorm. The next day my plan was to make it to the Delta Cam BBQ in Tacoma Wa before it was over but I also wanted to take the longer route through Eastern Oregon from Burns to Penedleton, then on to Tri-Cities, Yakima, Over Snoqualmie pass, then Highway 18 to I-5. So I didn't take too much time stopping at taking pictures. It took me just over 8 hours and at one point in one of the canyons a Miata had caught-up with me. Well he didn't stay caught-up for long . Here's one of the pictures that I did take that day. It from down hill side of one of the passes. I believe that community of Seneca is what you are looking at down in the valley. After the BBQ I went up to Seattle to hang a Zap's place for a while. I left his place a little before 9p.m. and got home sometime after 11p.m

Part 1 As a few of you already know, I bought a 2009 STI recently and I just got back Sunday night from a 4 day road trip. I left my place in Longview WA, Thursday evening and headed down I-5 to Eugene OR; where I stayed the first night. Friday Morning I headed south again to Roseburg where I turned off on to highway 138 and headed to central Oregon. Along the way I took a turn off to some lookout near Diamond Lake. After a couple of mile the road went from gravel to snow. My STI has summer tires on it, so I turned around and took this first picture on the way back down. You can see Mt. Bailey in the back ground. I proceeded back onto the highway until I reached the turn off for Diamond lake. I stopped at the lake and took some pictures there, again that's Mt. Bailey in the background. This next shot is from a viewpoint about 5 minutes east of the lake. The viewpoint is intended for people to stop and look at Diamond lake but as you can see, you can get a few good shots of Mt. Thielsen. Okay, from there my plan was to enter Crater Lake National Park from the north entrance but as you can see, there was something in the way. So I continued east on highway 138 until I reach highway 97; where I headed to Klamath Falls. As some of you know, attended college in Kfalls at Oregon Tech. So I knew of a couple of near by spots to take pictures. These next few shot were taken just north of town, looking out at Upper Klamath Lake and Mt. McLoughlin. I've posted pics from this location before so some of you may recognize this place. I ended up staying the night in town. I met up with a friend from college, had a few beers at a place called Mia & Pia's Pizzeria & Brewhouse. If you ever stop there I suggest their "Ra" ale. It's has a lot of hops in it and makes a typical IPA taste like water. It's also 8% alcohol by volume. The next morning I continued east along highway 140 towards Lakeview and took a these next two shots along the way. This highway has very few passing areas and you can really appreciate the level of performance that a STI has when trying to get around the slower traffic.

I'll be about 8 hours away when I wake up Sunday morning. I'll see what I can do.

If I remember right Subaru was using ball bearings for the rears on Imprezas and Foresters back then; which had a higher failure rate. Your mechanic may not have known this and simply used another set of ball bearings. The mechanics in the know, used the rear wheel bearings for a Legacy of the same year; which are tapered roller bearings. The tapered roller bearings last a lot longer and they maybe the NTN bearings you're looking for.

you know, one of these days, a group of use need to take our subs on the back country discovery route, that runs from Goose Lake CA to Walla Walla.

It dose sound like he gave you the 2wd bearings. Yes you will need and inner and outer seal. You will also need a special tool to loosen the lock nut.

On a 4wd EA81 and EA82 rear end, there are 2 wheel bearings on each side for a total of 4. They are both tapered roller bearings and they are all the same size. In between the bearings there is a spacer that doubles as the bearing races. From what I remember most parts stores sell them as a bearing kit that consists of the 2 bearings the spacer/race and the seals. I've included a couple of pictures, I hope this helps.

Since the organizers of the event, live in the greater metropolitan area of Seattle Wa, it would be very hard and expensive to organize an event in Las Vegas.

The Schumacher charger that I have is just as old, and it works just fine every time I need it. I got mine at a garage sale for $5.00.

Take the wheels to a shop that repairs aluminum wheels. Ask them if they think the wheels are okay and if they are not okay, find out what they would charge to fix them. Enkies are hard to come by and they may worth fixing if they really need it.

If you have removed heads, you will need to do an initial adjustment of the lifters, before starting the engine. I've attached the adjustment procedure from a FSM.

There's all kinds of legacy turbo info on this board. http://bbs.legacycentral.org/

Yes, they did make FWD imprezas in 93.