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And guess what comes before 7 mile... 5 mile if you couldn't guess it. It wasn't a creative day when it came to naming the towns, if you can even call them that. The ORV park is pretty cool, although MUD is sometimes hard to find there.

Hey, this is Tex on my GF's machine. Our injectors are a needle valve type. Modern WRX injectors are a disc style. Our cover helps shape the spray pattern. By cutting it off, we could lose atomization of the fuel and thus not be as effecient. The screen on the wrx injector (from all that i've read/heard) is actually what fuji uses to set the flow rate of the injector. Example: STi injectors are the same... but with a different screen on them. I think for our injectors to flow more we would have to increase the size of the bore and the size of the needle that fills it.

you can't sell it, i know the wagon is slow and driving it to pullman would kill you everytime. :-p And i bet you, you can't wait till may to work on your baby. You know you can't hold out that long.

Yeah Andy, we should definately collaborate and do a spider intake swap write up. I have plenty of room to host it on my site. As always, this is Tex, i hate logging in and out :-P

Nice work! Hope to get in ride in yours sometime. Is it fast? hehehe

After driving 300 miles, i came up with these ideas. Like Jay said, it could be the slightly leaking EGR line, or the lack of smog canister. I'm gonna make some phone calls. This is Tex, btw.

Andy, its Tex again. I'm just too lazy to log out, then log back in under my name. As far TPSes goes, i took the spider one off, and opened it up. I also opened up my stock RX one. Upon doing this, i noticed several things. Obviously, the connectors to them are different. The NA XT one from the spider had a 4 prong. The stock one had a 2 sets of 3 prongs, one in a cylindrical connector, one in the normal connector. I found that the turbo one has 2 "sensor arms" coming from the connector, to the wheel (that locks onto the throttle sharft). My NA one only had one "sensor arm". After finding this, i tried to see if the stock TPS would go onto the spider intake. It fit just fine. It just is designed to rotate the opposite way. I've have deemed it necassary to find a TPS off of a turbo xt w/ the spider manifold. You wouldn't happen to have one would you? Second issue, throttle cable. I didn't grab it from the XT, so its too long. I ended up fabbing a cheesy bracket (still in testing!) that mounts on my intercooler that takes up for the fact the throttle cable is too long. Third issue was the AC mounting bracket. I just cut the part of mine off that attached to the old manifold. It mounted up fine, seems really sturdy. But as a precaution i have disconnected the in car relay control thing for the AC, until I can find the proper bracket. I'm not sure if without that mount it will standup to the torque that the AC compressor puts out. Fourth issue: I didn't grab the engine stabilizer, nor its mount. I ended up taking the bracket for the stock one off (so the throttle body can clear) and will run without till I find the proper setup. That is of course assuming I get my car running before I find it. (see TPS issue) In conclusion: Manifold swap done, it ran once. I need a TPS off of a turbo xt spider manifold equipped, an ac bracket from same type of car, and a generic xt engine stabilizer and bracket. whew! long post. Thanks.

Mine works...except for the TPS. The only part of the whole thing I had to figure out, and I was wrong the first try. Mostly because my spider is from an NA xt, not a turbo xt. This also meant i had to reroute the turbo cooling plumbing, as the NA manifold doesn't have the tube passing over the manifold to the turbo. BTW, This is Tex.

Woo!! i can't wait, just read all the posts, and i'm really excited to go camping/offroading. Jared, is the girlfriend coming??