Snowman

just follow the vacuum line coming off of the valve and you will find it

I have not tried interchanging cranks before, but I have had the door panels off of both ea81 and ea82 subarus, and the cranks hook up exactly the same way as far as I can tell. It should be the same for an XT.

Holy crap that thing rules!!!! What do you think the top speed is? 50mph?

81 wagons have it wired to be operable with high or low beams.

Ditto on the slow. I thought my carbed ea82 wagon was slow, but then I began fixing up an SPFI ea82 wagon (which I think actually produces more horsepower than its carbed counterpart) with the s/r 3AT. By definition it is acceleration, but I wouldn't call it that. I will definitely swap in the d/r 5spd from the parts car if I sell this thing to a friend, because friends don't let friends drive autos. If everybody in America would get off their lazy butts and learn to drive stick, we wouldn't have to worry about this!

Good pics, great video. The song was really appropriate too!

Washington cars definitely have it good when it comes to rust. My car originally came from Washington, and it has NO rust at all to this day. It also does seem to be correct in saying that you guys down there have all the good, rare soobs too. Alaska is PACKED with old subarus, but even an ea82 turbowagon is a rare sight here. Not even many brats around any more. They're nearly all carbed or SPFI ea82 wagons (and of course later-model cars as well). Also, Alaskans are notorious for treating cars, especially subarus, like crap. My car is probably the nicest subaru in Haines, and it's got a bunch of body damage on one side.

Whoa!!! Soobme, that custom bumper you made is AWESOME!!!! Could you give a more detailed explaination of its design and construction? I want one!

I run studded snow tires, 175/80R13. They are both narrower and taller than the standard 185/70R13. You would be amazed at how much an inch of ground clearance and a skinnier tire will do for you in three feet of snow. I don't remember what the brand is though, as I just buy whatever I can get cheapest, since asside from Blizzaks and the like, it really doesn't matter.

I have always been impressed with Toyo tires. My mom currently has some on her outback, although I can't remember what the specific tire is called. They get quite a lot of traction on ice and snow while being a good summer tire as well. If I wasn't running dedicated snow tires, I would buy some of them for my car.

The Techron fuel system cleaner made by Chevron is the bomb. With one bottle, my mom's carbed 87 wagon went from absolutely horrible fuel economy (it was BAD) to around 30mpg. That convinced me, and now I use the stuff religiously at every oil change.

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I know there has been a bunch of discussion about this fairly recently, but I couldn't find it with the search function. My question is simple. What is the weight of a 4wd ea81 wagon and the weight of a 4wd ea82 wagon?

$9,000 for a used set is steep, but for my purposes is still viable since this would be a commercial operation if all goes well. It just sucks that I have to wait until I'm out of college to do this, but I could begin the project any time I suppose. Half the reason I would want to do this is to see the looks on the snowmobilers' faces when I roll up next to them on top of snow covered mountains with a subaru. Hell yeah! I think I'll give them a call and ask about more detailed specs and stuff. The main issue now aside from cost (it just is weird to buy a car for a few hundred dollars and spend $9000 on aftermarket goodies) seems to be the ground pressure, since where I would take this thing has snow that can get 15 feet deep in places. Hence, you want as little ground pressure as posible. It does seem quite viable and possibly lucrative.

I always use a small piece of bailing wire or a paper clip with a vey small bend at the end of it, just enough to grab the clip.

I had actually considered ATV tires before, but found the same problem, they don't make big enough wheels for a subaru, and the weight rating would be different. Also, usually only the front wheels use a 4x140 pattern (on the rear of my suzuki, it's a five lug), so only front rims would work.

I had the radiator liberate itself from the lower mounts when I jumped it once a year ago, which is the last time I jumped it. It leaned back right onto the mechanical fan. Needless to say, it was ugly. Several of the tubes were totally torn up and water wouldn't stay in for more than a minute or two. I ended up driving at low speed for about five miles or so to get home, with no apparent overheating issues.

I want to get some specs on both the truck kit and the ATV kit to find out which one would work better for this application. Wow, 1,300 pounds! The ATV ones must be much lighter, and should be able to handle the weight of a soob. Actually, the 4x140 lug pattern is common on four-wheelers (one time I bolted up a subaru donut spare on my four-wheeler). The only real issue with the ATV tracks is their smaller size, which could lead to too much ground pressure for going in deep snow. And yeah, they are expensive, but it would be pretty sweet, and if my plan would work out, I could pay them off in one season easy. They apparently do custom jobs as well, and could maybe produce an ATV kit with larger tracks for more floatation. It might be possible to lighten up the track frames as well. They are designed for big heavy trucks that can weigh three times what a subaru does. It would just take some ingenuity.

It's not like I would want to go very fast. The tracks are only rated for 40 mph anyway. I think the performance will be about equal to that of a utility snowmachine (i.e.: goes everywhere, just might take a while to get there). My dad has a utility sled that makes less than 30 hp, turning one track and moving around 600 pounds. A subaru would be turning 4 tracks to move 2500 pounds with 90 hp (slightly modified). I think it would work out okay. If it's horribly underpowered, just swap in a modified EA82T. Let me know if you find out the cost. I was going to call, but if you are...

Check out this site: http://www.mattracks.com/ Can you imagine what kind of capabilites a subaru would have with those installed? There would be almost no ground pressure, especially since subarus weigh a lot less than the vehicles the tracks are designed for. It should be relatively easy to mount those tracks to a subaru if you converted to a toyota/isuzu/nissan/chevy... 6-bolt lug pattern. I already have BIG plans. I want to get a beat-up ea81 wagon, strip it down, mount the tracks, and go over the snow. I am even contemplating the idea of starting up a business hauling skiers and snowboarders around in the mountains near Haines for a fraction of the price of heli-skiing operations that go to the same areas. It would be ultimate job to get PAID to offroad a subaru.

You might try JB weld, seriously. I'm not sure if it can take the temps that it would be exposed to though. But that is what is holding a large chunk of the crankcase on in my outboard motor, and my uncle used it to fix a cracked block in his classic firetruck. I also have JB weld on my exhaust near and on the cat, and it seems to be holding up there.

My address is ksnow43@hotmail.com. I think that's what I had listed, but maybe I entered it wrong when I registered.

I do in fact have broadband now! Thanks.

I posted about emissions problems a while back. My car has a used Japanese engine in it, therefore it has Japanese emissions stuff which doesn't fly in America. The issue is either with the AIS or EGR system, I can't remember which. On my car, the system only goes to one head, but on US engines it goes to both heads. Here's where I need help: Being away from my other cars, I can't look at a US market engine to find out what is exactly different and if it can be attached to my engine. Could somebody who has a US market engine (ea82 carbed) in their car go out and take a look at it for me? Simply examine the AIS and EGR systems. For each one: Does it go to both heads or just one? Is the attachment at the head a bolt-on thing (as I think the AIS is) or is it part of the head itself? (i.e. can it be removed from an engine that has it and put onto an engine that doesn't have it?) If somebody would do this for me, I would be forever in debt to them. If I can retrofit the US emission systems onto my engine, then I won't have to be separated from my beloved Roxanne, which would be excellent. Thanks in advance.

A while back, I stumbled upon a website documenting someone's project, which was using a carbureted turbo setup on some inline engine. I think he was using a draw-through, and it actually worked pretty well for what he was doing after a bunch of tuning. The only thing is, he was just using this car for drags, not as transportation or even as a daily driver. He didn't have to worry about fuel economy, emissions, or reliability. It's the same way with those VW-powered sandrails. Carbs can be used with superchargers relatively easily because they are running above atmospheric pressure most of the time, and boost levels are a lot more predictable than turbos due to the fact that the supercharger spins at a given RPM based on how fast the engine is turning. A turbo can be spinning and boosting at all kinds of different RPMs based on a wide range of factors, which makes tuning for both on-boost and off-boost conditions quite difficult. It's not impossible to run a carb and turbo setup, you just have to put a lot of work into it for the engine to run well all the time. If I had a bunch of time and a spare car or two to dink with, I would experiment with something like that. If you have the means, I say go for it. If you could make that work, it would kick butt. And I would bow down to you.