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have a whole 77 dl for parts if need anything i'm using it to restore my 77 brat but alot of stuff is no good to me has some very good intior parts and some glass and other goodies

I like the idea of a volksy trans in a subaru rear engine would be neat we are putting a 2.5 twinn cam in a 73 super bettle will be neat car subaruper bettle

have you modifyed the intake boot to the air fillter at all ? cold air intakes somtimes cause problems is all the pcv plumbing in proper place all vacume lines and hoses in right places stuff like that

put in the methanoll kit and tested it but have not tried it yet I cut my tires so mutch that dont whant to run it on pavment for fear of hurting cut tires have a nice hook to them now keep them sharp for race anyway off to the races hope it works good for me

i check that stuff out very closly i can hear a intake leak a mile away most of theese car have new engines and all new gaskets and seals at min the headgaskets have been done could having been run with bad headgasket cause 420 ? have had to replace the o2s on most but just to many cars with same code to be somthing as easy as a intake leak

the soild exhaust hanger will cause vibrations try and rubber mont it to isolate the noise i do not like solid hangers unless has a flex joint in line will cause you to feel the exhaust in the trans and shifter

i call bull the grease thats in the berrings is ceap china grease crap i live in salt and gravel hell that grease whould be done in 50000kms i always clan it out and put in a good industral heavy grease and lots let it leak out at least the dirt wont get in every car i get has buckets of dirt and salt in the suspention mabee if you live in a dry area but not round here I have done over 100 wheel berring thiss year and replaced the grease in evry one before install standard procedrue and they dont come back in that 100 45 were doing it over after a shop had just recently done the berrings the back ones from 91-01 are the worst because most shops do not support the rear berring when they press it and break the race

have seen the wastegate valve get sloppy and leak and bypass and diafram get weak in wasgate pot sounds like lean to me or tracked plug or tracked wire or valve addjustment witch is a pain took me 12 hours to addjust the last one had to remove heads and indavidualy ajust valve hight to get it right was realy missing when hot and idleing poorly hot but ok when cold got worse as it heated up the valves were at 0.08 - 0.10 and should have been 0.20 0.25 mm made a hudge differance in how it ran

replace the aluimuminum batery cable with a copper one

stop leak makes me lots of money wreaks lots of good motors and will never fix head gasket problems to mutch preshure there and toast rad and heater core too

with ether spray gentaly around the questanble area and watch for increase in rpms will suck in ether if leaking only see intake gasket leaks on 92-94 2.2 s with non meatal intake gaskets. Have been all over the exhausts on theese 420 cars no leaks at all but lots of missing heat shields but have cars with 0 heat shieds that dont set 420 seems to be no commen conection of why the 420 comes up on some but not others have had 2 of exact cars here one with 420 and one without wish i knew what to meshure between them to see what the differace is

i whould like a good stand alone injecton seystem but not in budjet for thiss year i managed to remove alot of weight have been weighing the removed materail to get idea of total weight removed is slowly ading up i will put the water sprayer in but only have a spot right in front of or behind the nos sprayer is very short pipe from turbo to tb and not mutch room for jets hope it dosent cause problem i wish had a test track for it hard to get it into the boost trying it up my road dyno whoud be nice

spilt blowoff valve tube or intercooler leak or stuck blowoff valve

still no 420 fix yet

the ea81 su carbed turbo was the lightest and simplest and made good times butt pistons broke was a neat setup realy simple. anyway i have the water meth setup puting it on today it whould be nice to have a stand alone feul seyestem but have no supplyers here for that just lordco and min 1200$ for engine management my ecu and harness is from a 91 legacy 2.2 five speed i know its not the best for turbo but is the simplest one i use no intercooler because it turns into a bomb have had some nasty intercooler blowups I a'm cocerned about the nos turning the water meth to ice and could that hurt the engine anyway have 3 days to get ready and race took 25 lbs off the tires and almost 200 lbs off buggy hope lighter is faster

So thiss is the ten year power plant list for buggy started with a ea81 carbed whent to ea81 turbo with Su draw through then whet to 2.2 na engine with turbo then a 2.2 turbo engine with twin cam heads then a 2.5 with roller 2.2 heads turbo then a 2.7 xt six with turbo then a 3.0 six with turbo then a 2.5 with twincam heads and turbo then back to 2.5 with 2.2 turbo heads and finaly a 2.5 with forged turbo pistons and 2.5 shoc heads that i a'm running now anyway have broken the pistons in evryone of theese engines even without nos on every one the pistons were the only problem with them nothing esle ever fails just pistons

did 3 headgasket jobs thiss week 99 outback 02 impreza and full engine rebiuld on a 04 forester none had 420 codes even with blown headgaskets still no fix as of yet the test 03 turns on the 420 whenever it hitts a hill

one was a 3.0 six with vdc others were high miles out backs over 350000kms

did a outback headgaskets yesterday takes about 6 hours pull motor plane heads and reassembble and reinstall the engine had tight valves on #3 and #4 heads had been done before and buckets had been mixed up make shure you check valve clearance before bolting cams down

somting i noticed on the 04 and up they moved the rear o2 farther forward and to on top of catt seemed to help less 420 on the newer ones

the gas round here is not so good very dirty i cange feul fillters often and they are very bad when i do alot of particulate in gas i think the octane is allright and not to mutch addatives just dirty still no 420 fix had a 99 legacy 2.2 420 yesterday and a 04 outback 420 and a 98 legacy 420 all in one day 420 come 3 or 4 at a time

heat up a touruqes bitt about 3/8 red hot and push into the plastic and then heat side of trans gentaly to help relase the locktite and should be able to spin out

whats a epa ? canada not shure who looks at that stuff problem is all theese cars are to old for anyone to care goverments life expectacy of a car is 160000kms or less

check timing belt sounds like one tooth off on ds cam

if i send customer there they deny it can be done have sent more than one dealer is hiding this info from public or tech is hiding info from service department