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  1. Frankly, just leave the factory harness where its at and run new speaker wires and acc and battery memory wires. The factory harness doesn't have a memory wire because its a manual push button radio, the speaker wires aren't any good and the only useful wires would be the switched power. Just as easy to grab a junkyard plug for that if you are wanting to use that wire.

  2. Red Fujibond has never failed me. Not for an engine case and frankly its pretty crazy to think that Subaru's factory manual calling for it is a bad thing. In my shop-what they say in the book goes unless I know I can do better, for less money, etc but those instances are certainly rare and don't apply to sealants. For the water pump I like the metal oem type gasket. It comes with the good pumps like GD mentioned above. Its much easier to clean up a metal oem type gasket than silicone next time someone needs to replace it and I like that.

     

    I use ultra grey on surfaces that I don't consider extreme critical. Things that don't come apart in a matter of minutes like the rear separator plate or something of that nature. Its certainly a lot cheaper than Fujibond-about 1/3 the cost and much more convenient for most people to obtain.

  3. This assembly has two "pink" first gen drivers side heads. No cracks and I don't have to plug the head for the EGR. With this, no holes are drilled into the exhaust ports. I ported two cracked SPFI heads to get a feel for what to do to these.

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    I measured the depressions in the exhaust bowl and it's roughly 2mm deep. If I press out the guides, I figure 3 mm removed will clean the exhaust bowls up pretty good. So yea, I've been considering the shortened guide too, and when I get to it, that's what I'll do. I don't think anything bad will happen, and the flow will be substantially improved.

     

    Doug

     

    That's an awesome shortblock assembly you have there. Maybe the best ea82 block I have ever seen. zzz zzz

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