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Is that the transmission that feeds drive to the rear wheels all at once with a kind of a BANG so you go from snowplow understeer to whiplash oversteer in the blink of an eye? I've got one of those in my '90 wgn.

Already got one, for $1,125 less than your asking price. But thanks for the offer!!

107,244.3 on a '90 wagon when the head gasket let go. Soon to be f1x0r3d for t3h f4st0r.

Colombia's lesser-known exports include Subaru Envy.

I'm painting both mine bright bright silver roof and hood down to just below the window line, and then the '90 I'm going to paint copper down to the moulding. The '87 is going to be a medium maroon. Both cars get regular applications of bedliner paint below the moulding and up around the wheel arches. Might do twin rally stripes with bedliner paint down the hood. I wonder if you can still get flares for Datsun's old Z-Cars? They'd be just about the right size, huh?

I know the location of every Subaru in every junkyard I can find in between Melbourne and Vero, and as far West as Orlando along 192. It's about 3 cars for every five junkyards. Most of 'em are pretty rust free, so that means they were driven until they wore out, or were traded down to people who didn't care enough about them to get them out of impound. I found an absolutely rust-free (Okay, a couple of flakes on the inside of the doorskins on the passenger side, but that's really honestly it.) NA '87 with the D/R 5-sp and no radio; all the switches and everything work great. Title in hand for $375 cash.

I'll pay ten times your purchase price and throw in a box of Ginyoowine Cuban See-Gars.

Didn't Mel Gibson have something like that wired up to his Last of the V-8 Interceptors (RHD Grand Torino, IIRC)in Road Warrior? Cool idea, but I'm a bigger fan of, like, remote-controlled attack robot wallabys or something. EA82-powered of course.

Plus, if your valve guides/seals are maybe just the teensiest bit worn , keeping the oil cap tight helps a lot. You know, on those OTHER vehicles where you pour the oil in over the rockers and hope it seeps down to the crankcase eventually.

Good to know. My '90 A/T turbo didn't die until it started getting HOT here in Florida; I've been looking at those cooler kits in Advance stores for a while now, thinking that "it can't hurt; and it might help...."

Naaah; go with Weber 44 DCOEs, one feeding each side. Granted, you'd need a 25,000 RPM redline to get all you could out of 'em. But think of the sound.

That'd be AWESOME!! Do you think your EA82 would pull it? And while we're on the subject, any thoughts on trailer hitches for the EA82 wagons? I was lucky enough to get an ABSOLUTELY RUST FREE '87 NA D/R 5-speed (for $375, no less, what sucks about bein' me? NOTHING!!) that I'm going to lift soon. Until then, it's the work vehicle, and I'd rather trailer than carry, I guess. My work trailer only weighs about 800 pounds loaded....

Hmmm.... I wonder if the Justy CVT could be used with a pump/accumulator system to keep everything up to specs... Ya folla? Driving is a continuously variable process, after all.

'73 BMW 3.0 CS with a '00 S52 twincam 3.2 liter OBD I in front of the 6-speed. Rear wheel wells sectioned 2" inwards for a mild tub (stock carpet still fits, too!). Nissan R200 diff with 3.96 gears ("91 300ZX donor). Dunlop D40M2 street tires. Currently runs low 14s. When I can afford it I'm gonna put a supercharger on it, should be good for 375+ hp and mid-12s. But I keep thinking I could save about 200 pounds if I could fit a WRX motor in it!!

'90 Loyale EA 82T Auto: Kemo Soobie (highly original, right?) '87 Loyale EA 82NA D/R: Red Pig. BTW, I'm considering taking out the glass all the way around and replacing it with wire mesh.

Ditto. I need a ladder rack for my '90 Loyale, where did he come up with that? Cus I remember like twenty years ago, every hardware store in North America had those little grozzets that clamped onto the rain gutters so you could build your own ladder rack; they are essentially made out of unobtanium now, and unfindable. I'd like to not have to shell out for something from Thule or Yakima if I don't have to.

Please note that in one of the pics, the tool is sitting on an antacid relief product. is the job really that frustrating that it cold cause your stomach to boil like an overheated GL?

So I bit the bullet and ordered a JDM replacement engine for my long-suffering '90 Loyale. For $735 with shipping, it's a good deal for me, and I'll be back on the road as soon as I get it installed. Of course, now I'll have another engine sitting around: a perfectly rebuildable (blown head gasket, high miles) EA82T in addition to the '87 EA82NA already sitting in the garage. SO what is the possibility of making like 150 hp or more with this combo? I seem to remember a while ago it was found that the NA block and pistons with the turbo heads and mechanicals seemed to be a streetable combo, but golly if I can find it now. I guess an intercooler couldn't hurt, given that they're so available and so cheap and I can always throw the spare in the back. How about blow-off valves and wastegate springs? Exhaust issues/concerns? Any thoughts there? It seems a lot of work to do just to get power up around where the EJ series of engines already are, and the EJ swap is well-documented and easily done. But I've already got these two engines, you see; maybe I just don't like seeing things go to waste. Any advice given will be most gratefully recieved.

Prime candidate for a EJ20T conversion.

I dig it too but it would've looked a lot cooler coming out of the top of the fender a little closer to the windshield. At least that's where I'm gonna put mine on my '90, so I hope to h3ll it looks good! I like the sheet-metal work, very tight and professional. *edit* is that a polished-aluminum intercooler scoop I see in that big photo?

ARB makes a pretty good underhood unit, it'll run 2.3 CFM at 40 psi for ten minutes or so no sweat. It came with my work van so I have no idea if they still make/sell them.

HA, I sprayed up to the rubber molding and over the wheel arches on my silver '90 wagon with Wal-Mart bedliner, it took I think two cans. I also sprayed over the "turbo" decal because I wanted to enjoy my hairdryer in private. I prepped it pretty good, scuff-sanded the rockers and then used wax remover to wipe it down, it took forever to get the asphalt splatters off the car. I didn't do any bodywork on it so the rust bleeds through, I just spray another coat when the rust shows through too bad. I also painted the roof a brighter shade of silver, so now the car is 3-tone. It does help it stay cooler in the Florida sun though. *edit* sory about the thumbs-down at the top of this post, don't know how that hapened. My bad; sorry bout that.

When I was a deckhand on the Mississippi, we used to paint the tugboats every spring with (If I recall correctly) Pettit Marine Epoxy Enamel. It's a single-part paint that thins with mineral spirits, flows beautifully, self-levels and really really REALLY sticks to bare metal. It's pretty expensive, though, like $80 a gallon, but it works a treat. Its so tough that multiple coats (like twenty years' worth of buildup) get to be structurally sound. It comes in a few different colors, which I don't know what they are, we always just used a dark navy blue and a semi-gloss white and gloss black and blended them for shade we wanted. I imagine you could clearcoat it if you wanted to.

Re-aim your pax-side light toward the ditch a bit more and you should be able to get away with that until you track down the problem. My first instinct is to blame the switch, assuming your wiring is stock. In the past on some of my Z-cars with electical trouble, I rewired headlights to an on-off-on 3-position toggle switch and bypassed that OEM POS switch entirely. It's pretty easy to do and hell for tough.

Dornier used them in the flying boats too. I think it was the Junkers Juno engine. I think the idea of two pistons sharing the same combustion chamber is pretty damned elegant, is there any reason it wouldn't work with a gas engine? Tho by definition it would kind of have to be a two-stroke, wouldn't it? I'm always on the lookout for a wrecked New Beetle or Jetta with the 1.9 Tdi engine in it. That or the Land-Rover Tdi, pretty hard to find in the US but hope springs eternal.