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The story of Inital D, a japanese Manga. A young boy drifts his AE86 for sport and while doing deliveries. The story comes to a close when his father beats him at his own game in a first gen wrx.

I'm still allowed to bend the rules every once in a while.

Does anyone know the significance of this picture?

I'm so jealous. THAT is awesome.

If it was just sitting for a while it may have bad gas or just crap in the line/tank. New filters and running through a couple tanks will probably improve things. Are all the miles original? Or is it on a rebuilt engine? If its original it might be getting tired.

A hatch that was for sale quite a while ago.

I took my Brat on its first (long) journey; to Snoqualmie. She handled fine all the way up. Had a blast snowboarding with my friends, deffinately need to do it more often. And she brought us home just fine. It was a fun day. The dude parked next to us was like "whats that little cutout thing on the side?" After I explained the step for the bed and talking more, the guy was legitamately stoked about my car.

Congrats on the new hatch. Instead of replacing that stuff, you could just delete it all and cap off the spacers on the exaust manifold. BUT, idk if its the same rules for emissions where you are at. Here in WA my '85 no longer has to do emissions.

Thats pretty cool. The snorkel opening goes way up into the cab... I can see a comic bit of the passengers head getting sucked into the opening. At least it keeps the moisture out of it. :-p

Before you sell it, check the timing belts.

They should stay in place while the rocker arms go in. When I have the rocker arm "body/cradle" thing in place, ready to be tightened down, I like to turn the little valve adjuster arms down so that the outside ends of the pushrods are supported and will line up in the end. I'm not adjusting the valve screws, just pushing the arms because they rotate freely on the cradle.

Heres how mine looked going back together: It appears that the block will have to be split to get it off, the flywheel attatchment on the crank is in the way of the cam gear slipping off the cam. Plus it will be easier to get the cam gear off outside the engine. Although the Flywheel connector on the crank may be able to come off... not sure, I never attempted to take it off.

Try charging the battery? Even though you have enough juice for you lights/electronics to work, it may have ran too low to power the starter.

Shine a light through the openings in the head that the pushrods go through, you should see the ends of all 4 lifters. As you put the push rods in, just have a light handy so you can see where you are putting the end of the rod. Once they are in the right spot, it just "feels right". Hope that helps. Edit: Just realized you are talking about in-car. Start from one side and "feel" with the end of the pushrod for the first lifter. It should slip into the recess end of the lifter, and then not slide around anymore inside. Then just work your way over.

Mmmm... I want some scorpions.