ShawnW

U r so fired ya little Brat.

I can do the 02-04 WRX ej20. I don't have the diagrams for the early ej20 or JDM stuff, sorry.

I actually kindof like the zip tie idea for an offroad rig, and you can carry a pack of the small size ones from harbor freight.... cheap and easy!

What he said above... The factory wiring will only supply you with a switched power source and maybe a ground which you can find with a test light. You need to tap into some other circuit to get a constant for radio memory and run new speaker wires. I highly recommend 2 6x9's in truck boxes behind the seats. They JUST fit and will still allow you to put your T-tops in their holders. Two high end 6x9's that are 3 way will be more than enough for most people and you wont have to hack up your door panels or try to stuff tiny speakers into the dash.

Awesome time guys! Thanks again to Eric for hosting. Starting to show a possibility of regular get togethers around here which is nice....and people are actually building and upgrading projects and wanting to show their work off which is kindof new for this area too! Lets get it going for another meet VERY soon!

I asked her to come reply here.

Phil or somebody at that might have some sweet pics of my car spinning its tires and stuck in the creek with water shooting 20+ feet in the air.

I messaged Amanda to see if she knows how to find him anymore and she might have pics from that meet too, told me she has been to all of the meets.

I edited the post...im bringin the smores stuff.

This one looks like 2 weekends ago. http://www.ericlane.com/pages/alb_beefaru/07_ride_oct13/pages/09.htm

Ouch! Sorry I didnt make it guys. I am a feeling a little rode hard and put away wet after last weekend. Carnage on the car hasn't been fixed yet. I dented the oil pan HARD in 3 spots, split the sidewall on one of my offroad tires, and still don't have a skidplate solution built yet. TO DO on the car includes: Center diff lock controls Lift engine and subsequently it appears front half of lift kit 2-3". Maybe shortened oil pan as well. Build skidplates TIRES, maybe wheels too...not liking the alloys in the rocks...they call them the ROCKY mountains for a reason. Accessory power drain somewhere on the car.

Thats interesting! Ill be getting into LA on Thanksgiving and heading home that day to Denver. Im going the Northern Route unless I hear of some wild snowstorm in Colorado or Utah. It isnt bad and its alot faster. Not Cocky at all until you hear of a big storm and dont change plans and even then if the storm isnt in the region between Grand Junction and Eisenhower Tunnel I wouldnt worry about it. The Southern route would still put you thru Colorado Springs and the foothill side of the rocky mountains where if theres a big winter storm it can really pound down.

Oh, really? We arent talking about a race to the top just a gentle cruise up there!

Ill try to have mine up and running better than this past weekend by then but no promises. It would help to know that we would be on approved motorized trails .

"I wonder if any of those Subie parts would fit on my Toyota."

2nd that! You wouldnt believe how fast your car will feel off the line with a 4.11 ratio 5MT.

Doesnt matter what transmission it is, it will all run the engine.

15 year old Subaru owners apparently.

You probably bought it anyway.

Im probably good for either one.

Thanks for the link. I do 3-5 of these a week and hadn't seen a couple of the tips in there that might be helpful.

This forum should know that driving something a little smaller that gets the job done is always a smart idea. An outback will do the job being asked of it by most SUV owners most of the time and a Justy will do what you need of an Outback most of the time. It won't have 3 cigarette lighters, on board navigation, TV's in the headrests and knobby tires that will climb over any median in town but they wouldnt know how if it bit them in the butt. It is astonishing to me how often I see somebody driving a V8 powered 4x4 SUV to work every day BY THEMSELVES and getting 12 MPG. They have enough cargo room for luggage for 12 and yet they have a THULE rack on the top(that they have no idea how to tie a decent enough Knot to get an XMAS tree home 3 miles away), a tire that isnt full of air(and their spare is flat too) and about the most heavy right foot you have ever seen. They seem to do everything in their power to waste gas and money. For what they spend in fuel in a year they could afford to buy a nice used economy car and whats more hilarious is that IT would have front wheel drive if not ALL WHEEL drive and wouldnt slide off the road as soon as it ices over....because they couldnt afford to put a decent set of tires on it because a decent set for their land yacht costs 6-700 dollars. What is worse they can't park it where they commute to and they laugh at people that ride their bike to work (if they aren't too busy running the bicyclist off the road because they are talking on their cell phone while shaving their face or legs and driving). Just because you have a boat you like to take to the lake on the weekends doesnt mean you have to drive what is capable of towing it every day. I am astonished at the lack of knowledge of the Subarus being sold overseas with great success as well. Some really innovative cars that get great MPG. They might fail emissions requirements(barely even though they use half the fuel of a car that passed because it has 4 catalysts on it), or our at times idiotic crash safety standards(standards set because the typical car you might hit head on here is the size of a house) or are viewed by FHI and SOA as not a potential seller here because Americans are snobs. I have had neighbors that turned their noses down at my hatchbacks before but when there is 6" of snow on the ground and their 4x4 pickup won't get out of the driveway and my hatchback does they look away really fast embarassed at themselves but too ashamed to admit it. I am tired of people talking about car accidents and commenting on how that "tiny piece of crap foreign car" crumpled and was totalled but the huge Ford that hit him looked completely drivable....they miss the big picture that the car that weighs 1500 pounds less protected the passenger area and that when you get hit by something that weighs 4000 pounds you don't want to drive that car again...if you are proud to be driving a car that has been in a major collision and lived you need to put that car up on a vehicle lift and look it over carefully. The thing is tweaked....OR YOU ARE. Let the car take the blow as its designed to and let it weigh less to save 10-30 Miles per gallon burned.

2 stud exhaust header doesnt 100 percent mean interference but the 97 part does. The 96 Ej22 has that same header and isn't. Try running Mobil1 in it. Synthetic is a lot harder to burn and it would help protect the engine a little more on those harsh short trips. If it continues to consume oil with that in it you need a rebuild.

There aren't going to be shim packs available. Too many different sizes are needed and they are $5-8 bucks a piece for the shims at the dealership. A range of 2.00MM to 3.00 MM is too great in increments .005 increments. They don't really lose much over time and they should be fine if you havent changed anything in the engine. I would only adjust them if yours are loud. If they aren't I would wait until you blow a head gasket or break a timing belt and just chalk it up. It sounds bad but they are a PITA to adjust in the car. You have to remove the cam caps and cams and all the front timing belt gears, idlers, plastics, etc to get to them. Once you get to them and measure what is in the bucket and then order them, pay the price for the new shims, install....youre going to spend a day or two doing the work, running around to get the parts, etc. Focus instead on putting new hoses, all of the coolant ones, new radiator, fuel filter...all the stuff on the 60 and 120K services that you might have forgotten to do and try to prevent the engine head gasket failure instead.

Next step IMO is Monday we will compare Jets and correctors to what "TheSuckerKing" in Lyons is running in his that runs right at this altitude. JDM or Yeti, pls remind me to pester him on Monday when he is back home.