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yeah sad to see it go, I do stand there staring at the garage for a bit every day. I am sure a new project will be on the way. Sorry to say pob not a old subie.

Don't think so but he said he was going to put a 4" lift on it.

Problem solved I sold the brat. I lost $50 on it and had it for a year and a half. It was sad to see it go but this guy was more excited about it than I was... Thanks for all the help and advice. :cool: I also learned a hard lesson on rust.

Thanks guys problem solved. Sold the brat.

I hope those are not hard to take out. I will pull the connector and jump the wires manually and see what happens.

nope was not messing with it but I numbered all the connectors on the other thread said it might be the switch. its got all the keys to everything.

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=135028

So its been fine for weeks ever since I got the motor in even before. Started up fine and then, turn the key off and it keeps running. I have to pull the wire to the carb to get it to stop. Funny thing is once I do that.. It does not have power after it dies. Go figure. The only thing I can think of is the voltage regulator or something. Do you guys have any ideas?

I knew it would come to me if I stared at it long enough. I can shake the whole brat and the bat dose not budge. I have to finish up the pass side fender area then going to prob put the brush guard on and prep and paint. I have few other places to paint so hope to do it all in one shot mostly fender wells and other spots that I welded nuts on.

I tried to figure out why the pre pump was not working. So after few days I gave up and spliced it into the solenoid wire back in the harness that goes to the carb. I should have done that long time ago. when the buzzers on the solenoid kicks on along with the pre pump to fill the carb. I was going to do a switch but this is not a race car and I don't think anyone will steal this. lol Little bit by bit.

I got the front end almost together. I have to cut one of the bolts on the brush guard before I bolt it on. I will prob get the divers fender on tomorrow might have to fix some nuts on the apron tomorrow but its all going together pretty good.

I was looking for a take off for free. I could buy the muffler and do the rest. :-p

Looking at the exhaust. I posted on the nw subie forum for a free wrx exhaust. I would like this thing to sound like a wrx. Do you have any suggestions to get this sound? 2" exhaust with a glass pack? If you could help me out on this let me know what you guys have done with your.

I got the brake caliper installed. Those little cotter pin clips like to shoot all over if your not careful. It did not take long to bleed the line out either. As for the head lights I can not figure out why the guy jumped the harness and made that rats nest. I plugged in both lights and turned them on. I have high and low beams, go figure. It must have been when I went through everything and checked the grounds and cleaned it all up. I will prob ground the head lights to the battery if I have some room left. I am going to put the front end together this week and make sure every thing works as it should. So need to: make battery strap put headlights and front trim on finish up a panel in the fender well prep and paint fine tune the carb (maybe a relay for the fuel pump on start up) It will def be nice to get most of this stuff done and movable.

Well that is good to know. Just need to figure out how to make it work. I don't seem to see where the power wire is for the relays.LOL Unless I hooked up the wrong wire, but everything works like it should blinkers, hazards, turn signals etc. I am happy camper.

I was just looking at the harness. It looks like it was double lights but it has the single set up. I might cut back the harness and make it right but not sure what to do about that as. I don't even know if this harness goes with this brat. LOL

Well I got to work on the brat some more. The temp gauge was not working. It took me like 4 hrs to figure out what was going on. I took the gauge apart to make sure all the wire were there and working. The gauge takes 7v and if you ground out the bottom terminal just for few seconds it will let you know its working. I replaced the temp sensor with a new one, still did not work. I started to trace the harness on the motor it was fine to the connector. Now on the other side no workie. I traced the wires, the guy who did the engine swap did not check to see if the wires were lined up right. There was no wire going to the temp sensor. I swapped it to the right slot and it works! Then when I was testing it the fan kicked on at 200 deg or so. I had to hard wire that to the battery and run a new ground wire. I was trying to figure out what the heck was going on. I just need to get the head lights wired correctly because they used wire nuts to attach them over the current harness. I should have the headlights hooked up this week.

Yeah its kind of a vicious cycle. I will prob keep it anyways, its a love hate relationship.

Well intake is back on! I had to put heli-coil in. After all that work LOL. I did swap out intakes and cleaned the new one up. Hoses are connected and ready for some cooling fluid. Try to work on it tomorrow and figure out the wiring and get all the bugs out that happened when I pulled the motor. The goal is to get it driving by Wed of next week.

Oh man:Flame: I wish I would have done that. I got one out by welding a nut to it. The second one sheared off twice and that was after 2 days of pb blaster. Right now I drilled out the middle with a reverse bit and now trying to drill the core out very carefully and hope I can just run a tap down it and call it a day. New caliper is on the way for drivers side, but I think I already said that. Might get a little time to work on the brat since I it off. :banana:Happy 4lth! and every one be safe!

Don't worry these bolts are going to lose. Thank goodness my friend had an extra intake just have to swap everything over.

Oh yeah windshield is in! I have to say it was worth the $80 install the guy did a great job took his time and sealed it up really good. Then there is the broken bolts. I put the vise grips on one and its not budging. So I put some more pb blaster on it and tapped it with a hammer few more times. I will try again tomorrow. Also I think I ordered the wrong thermostat. I think I got the intake one. thats ok because I wanted that one but I really need one for the radiator. Well I checked the order it says radiator fan switch. Where to I get the temp gauge sensor? I have two of them but I would like to put a new one in just so I know its good.

Gots some bad news and good news. Bad news broke both thermostat bolts off. So then I figured it would be easier to take the intake off and fix those. Broke two bolts off on the head, NOT a happy camper. So I am going to soak them with pb blaster and hope I can get them out, if not I will have to drill them out. Also the drivers side front caliper is shot. I need to find a used one, I think my friend has one does not know where it is. If not I will have to pick up a reman. Good news is the windshield is getting installed tonight:clap: Thanks moosens for pulling out of your personal stash. New intake gaskets and thermostat with gasket. Most of this is going to be new so I guess that's good.

whelp got some more time in. -Installed the battery ground to the frame -flushed the radiator and installed hoses -hooked up one side of the heater core, will have to go down and buy one with a 90 deg bend as I had to cut the other one out. -used a bolt off My Grand National motor I had left over for the radiator - Changed the oil and filter:brow: Just waiting on the thermo stat plug to show up so I can plug that hole and install new hose. I tried to use the hazards and they don't work now. I don't have all the lights hooked up yet so I will try to figure out after everything is installed again. The heater fan works well though. The windshield will be going in next week too. It will be nice to have it drivable again.