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No difference - next question. GD

A heavier flywheel will give you more torque - because, as Skip mentioned breifly, of angular momentum. The more wheight you have spinning like that, the more resistant to changes in speed it is, and thus for torque you want heavy. Depending on the weight of the car, and what your running for tires ect, will depend on how much your flywheel should weigh. It's a balancing act - you want good accereration, but you also want hard launches, and for that your need weight. If a lighter flywheel was always better - why have one at all? See my point? GD

First thing - the ECM light is controlled by the feedback carb computer, and you'll need to check the codes comming off that. Likely it's a bad O2 sensor, or something along those lines. The computer has no way to check the cat, so even if it were plugged, it couldn't possibly know. It's under the dash on the drivers side - there should be a gold or black box under the steering column with a flashing light..... your chiltons manual should be able to tell you the codes. The carter carbs are known the be real peices of ****e, so putting on a 32/36 DGEV Weber would be adviseble - they aren't real cheap new, so you might find a used one and rebuild it. Also - if you do, since you have the carter and not the Hitachi, you'll have to switch to the Hitachi manifold, as the Weber will not fit on your current manifold. Actually - these engines hold heat alright - my Brat had almost NO coolant in it for probably a good 50 miles, and the gauge got right to the bottom of the red - never hurt the thing tho. It's the EA82's and especially the EA82T's that don't hold the heat. Check your cooling system - there's only a few parts to it, and basically if changing the thermostat and a flush doesn't clear it up, then it's time for a new radiator. The Front end damage can be pulled straight again by a frame shop - probably not a cheap repair tho - could get another whole car for the cost of that operation alone. The body panels up there can be replaced with any panel from an EA81 car - the hood and fenders are all the same for every model. GD

Didn't say I was going with them.... said they were cheaper. I personally have plenty of light from my stock quad sealed beams (yep - yellow and all....) - on both my wagon and my Brat. I don't know why anyone would need to upgrade them unless you were driving where there's lots of animals, or you have bad eyesight....... or there's something wrong with your wireing. GD

Any VW performance shop can point you to those - expect to pay some serious $$ for them. When I looked, just the enclosures were about $54 each. Of course you need four of those. Check into the new sealed beams - there are quite a few out that are just as bright. They have the ultra white ones and everything - cheaper than going HID. GD

You couldn't order them with a stick - Subaru wanted a degree of control over their still experimental turbo engine. They didn't want a bunch of people blowing them up and comming back to the dealership all pissed off if the engine turned out to be a crap pile. It was probably partially due to the lack of a 5 speed 4WD tranny for the EA81's as well as possible durrability issues with the early trannies. The Auto suck so much power right off the top that it's not so much of an issue, and Subaru gets to decide what RPM's you shift at.... etc. At any rate, it wasn't an option. If it were, I'm sure MANY more would have been ordered. Now there may have been some vintage swaps done after the fact, or even in 85 when the 5 speed D/R came out. Someone probably realized that their 84 could take a 5 speed, and threw it in - I'll bet that happened more than once in fact. But never from the factory.... GD

Yeah - there's an exhaust heat sheild, and a riser "stove pipe" tube that delivers warm air from around the exhaust pipe into the air box. After the engine heats up, this is bypassed to get cooler, denser air via a thermovacuum operated flap on the intake of the air box. GD

Mudrat79 has done it - you should ask him for all the particulars. The steering linkage and the engine cross member have to be modified to work around the EA81. I think he mentioned that all the Gen 1 Brat's had 4.11 rear diffs, or something like that.... maybe I'm smoking my shirt on that one tho. GD

The 1800 is the same design - a LOT of parts will even swap between them. The 1800 offers more displacement, and there's a lot more aftermarket for them (as little aftermarket as there is for the 1800, there is even less for the 1600). And it's a direct swap - basically nothing to do but drop it in, and hook it up. Don't get me wrong, the 1600 is a fine engine, but EA81's are dirt cheap, and if you can get a little more power (you WERE talking about mods....), then there's not much reason not to. You can probably break even if the thing runs good - people with Gen 1's are now and then looking for good running EA71's because it's a bit of work to swap a Gen 1 over to the EA81. (unless you happen to have an '81 Brat lying around for parts). GD

Drop in an EA81 - easy to do - especially on an 84. Try to get a hydualic lifter engine, and have a cam ground - deck the heads - put on a Weber, etc. Sell the 1600. GD

vacuum leak - that's what I would be looking for. GD

Hehe - Military Issue - if you look at the can you should be able to find the manufacturer, or at least get me an NSN number. I think the best miltary issue "spray" I've ever run across was an OD green can of "wasp and hornet killer" I swear this stuff was leathal to any form of life we could find. Probably would kill you too, but it will just take a few years... We have been issued some really nasty bug repellant too - very greasy, and don't smell nice.... didn't work either, which sorta pissed us off. GD

Flo - all EA81T's were auto's. GD

I doubt it - take the solenoid apart and clean the contacts. Starters are at the top of the food chain - there's nothing that can toast one except maybe using it too long (heat), over voltage, or gear wear with the flywheel. I would take one of your used ones apart, and have a cleaning session with it - and maybe repace the brushes in the motor while I'm in there. GD

Yeah - what Tim said - the "e" is for electric (roughly), and the "a" is for aqua (water). They are the type of choke. HOWEVER - Redline appears to be rebuilding or reusing castings of the DGAV and putting on the electric choke. My BRAND NEW Weber from the Redline kit K730 has "DGAV" stamped right on the side of the casting.... it is not a water choke model. So really the whole naming convention can be thrown out the window as it means basically nothing now. When your searching on ebay it's quite likely that a DGEV could be listed as a DGAV since that's what is stamped on it.... also any of them could be converted at any time by buying the proper choke kit from redline - so really you are looking for ANY of those, just as long as it has the electric choke you'll be fine (unless you want the water or the manual...). Your looking for a 32/36 Weber DGEV/DGAV/DGV. GD

So your saying it was a 1600 Turbo 5 speed methinks not, but I've been wrong before. GD

Well - we used to be able to no problem, but recently they have been really tough about it - like not allowing them unless you have a signed note from a doctor, or have scheduled it months in advance for something like a wedding, or a funeral or other emergency. Also - my best friend is in my unit - and in my section, so if I went off-roading without him, he would be a little pissed - and if we BOTH tried to get out of drill, they would surely know something was up. GD

No oil on the dispstick is nothing to worry about - after about 1.5 quarts they don't register any more, but likely there is a few quarts left, and as long as you didn't lose oil pressure, and it was running fine, then you probably didn't do any major damage. GD

My wagon was a 2WD 5 speed, and it's just a GL...... so there goes that theory on the GL-5. Nice try tho. hehe GL-5 and GL-10 aren't that weird tho - have seen those, and they were sold here.... But what in the world is a GFT-5? It must stand for something - they don't just pick letters out of the air - the designer must have had some reason for picking that combination..... GD

I was watching "God of Gamblers", and durring a shootout in a parking garage, there's a blue EA81 coupe, and there's a close-up of it's badge - it's a "1600 GFT-5" Anyone want to speculate on what that badging might mean? Maybe that's one of those dual carb 1600's? Just thought that was kinda cool. Never seen that before. Anyone else seen any weird badges like that? GD

The Kit is about $325 if you look hard for a good deal. Think I paid about $350 - but there's no sales tax here, so I still got a good deal. GD

Totally - just a pic of the wiring and the mount would be good enough for me. I can replicate it if I have an idea on the wireing. Doesn't seem that it would be too hard, as long as the alt is internally regulated like my 85 is. GD

I put Redline MTL in my wagon's tranny - still grinds on the downshift into third - the difference between Redline and the crap that was in it is noticeable, albeit small. I will use Redline in all my manual trannies from now on because they are old, and I want the better gear protection. I discussed this with Mudrat79, and he said that of the 20 or so trannies that he's put Redline in, about half were corrected by the use of Redline, the rest still had a grind of some sort. Sometimes it helps - sometimes it doesn't, but at least your not putting some foreign fluid in it like ATF (not to say that this doesn't work - it just isn't comfortable for me). The Redline is what is supposed to go in there, it's just a high quality, and will sometimes help grinding issues, and prolong a tranny that really needs to be rebuilt GD

Your correct - power locks were NOT an option on EA81's. My wagon has every option you could get - except 4WD - go figure. Course - it's got 4WD now..... GD

Only quote I can remember from my DI was from a female..... very petite black woman when asked if we could leave post.... "Not no, but HELL no private!" She was actually pretty cool tho - just tough as nails. Not someone I would mess with..... GD