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but I think nobody is answering this because the general opinion of the board is that if you want a turbo engine you should buy one. The expense of conversion to get a reliable engine is pretty high. An entire JDM turbo engine is fairly reasonable compared to the cost of converting an engine. You might try Nasioc as I seem to recall a forced induction forum.

When I have reupholstered car seats in the past the foam tended to pack down a bit after a while. It does sound as though you may have a bit much in there though.

since I have a 5 speed, and all the Subies I have driven execept a brand new rental were five speeds I have never seen this.

spirits around Halloween. I really can't see how an axle would affect this. Now the torque converter, or anything else that affected engine speed I can understand. I sure have heard of a lot of folks complaining about odd idle and roughness in Subaru automatics though. Anybody that gets to the bottom of this is going to make a lot of friends.

good lord. I thought Mercedes was bolt happy but I don't think even German engineers could have used that many.

but here is another vote for a hose off.

tensioners seem to be the main problem on OHC engines. At around 150,000 miles some BMWs start to develop noise and the cure is usually a new tensioner. On some engines they are easy, mine has two, one easy, one hard. I had three cams in my last Mercedes and two tensioners in about 300,000 miles. One thing that seems to kill hydraulic tensioners early like hydraulic lifters, is not keeping the oil changed. They sure don't like little bits of sludge.

I have seen my Subaru overfilled a bit on oil on a few occasions. So far I have had no odd problems with it from this. When I used to have the oil changed by the dealer it was overfilled every time. Rental car companies often do this too because few Americans check the oil in a rental. Let us know what they say.

was my first thought, which is why I wanted somebody to try the e brake.

do you suppose shudder could be caused by a misphased axle? I have never heard of anything like this and I still have not seen an answer to the question of waht happens if you use the emeergency brake instead. This would at least let out the booster.

My 99 Forester has thrown that a couple of times in the past year. There has been some debate on the subject, but it seems to mean the cat may be on its way out. So far I have just cleared the code and have been thinking about changing one of the two cats. It seems like somebody did change a cat for that not too long ago, perhaps you could try a search.

I don't remember ever noticeing an offset, but that would make sense. It would be nice to see the piston kit to see just what they have done. I have always been taught to mark pistons and always install the arrow to the front if they have one. This might explain why we were taught that.

interests, but better the monied than the religious. Wait a minute we've got a right wing Jesus freak in the oval office.... I am not sure which bank they replace. I didn't even think of gravity and that's been around a long time.

It had a pretty lean condition. Perhaps a bad fuel injector?

I am getting more and more confused as I age toward Republicanism. If I wasn't confused enough Bush really hasn't helped. WMD, no WMD... Come on Blitz, what do you think about the slap?

my guess is bad gas these days. There is some really tacky stuff out there and on a steep hill you could hit water floating on top of the fuel. This often does not leave a code. I would toss in a can of dry gas just to be sure. I have never seen a car stutter with overfilled oil, I've just seen it puke it out. On BMWs folks often overfill oil before racing to prevent starvation in the turns.

The way I see it this engine layout is not exactly equal. The crank only turns one direction and the intake is on the same side (top) on each side. This is bound to mean that cylinder filling and fireing are not going to be exactly equal. I think the reason Subaru may have issued only two pistons in this upgrade is that one side fires a bit different and has slightly different stresses leading to slapping on one side only. I think I can hear this with my stethascope. No senile jokes and I am sure Blitz will soon tell me it has something to do with black helicopters and right wing conspiracy.

my bet would be the caliper seal. NY cars really take a beating from snow and salt and the caliper piston getting pitted is common. Dissasemble and find the culprit, replace, and bleed and you're off.

but I have been told that the 2 replacement pistons have a modified skirt. The reason they fit them on only one side is that due to the boxer design only one side is the problem. Since I've never seen them myself I cannot confirm this.

but to me the best bet would be about a 96 Legacy wagon with a 2.2. I could not find a decent one when I was looking so I bought a 99 Forester with the phase 2 2.5. They got the phase 2 a year early. I also switched from a Jeep and went from 15 mpg to 25 mpg. This thing can do a tiny bit better on the highway, but 25 mpg is what I seem to see every time I fill up for my use.

come apart fairly easily. I had to buy some hog rings and hog ring pliars to put them back together, but that was it. I would probably take the bottom apart on the Vovo seat and install the Subaru bun warmer and any sensors. Then it would be plug in on the wiring. I have a 99 Forester and I have never looked under the seat since it is not bad, I expect it to be similar to my 99 BMW which I have had apart. The BMW has airbag sensors and a plug for the seat heater, as well as one for the electric seat movement. Let us know how it turns out as this might be the hot set up.

I used Volvo seats in a Greyhound bus, a Jeep, and older Volvos. The tough bit now would be the wiring. Making brakets or beefing up the floor is not too hard, but now you can have seat heaters, belt attachments, and have the seat have sensors for the airbags. If your car is early enough to avoid these pitfalls no problem. Otherwise you would have to change wiring, attach sensors, etc. This might mean it is easier to use a seat from a later or up market Subaru so things are more similar. Don't forget the seats you are about to use need to have similar dimensions to the original. If you already have the Volvo seats it may be worth a little time with a tape measure. Internal sensors can be switched off the stock seats. One thing to beware of in airbag systems is that if you turn the key on with the seat out it can cause the airbag system to thow a code that needs to be reset with a special SRS tool. I am not sure if Subarus are this way or not. When I remove a seat I put my key on the shop bench until I'm done so I don't space out and turn the key to put on the radio.

I would grab it in a heartbeat. I have even been considering paying full price to do it on my car. I am sure that would be a couple of grand before you are done. I have also considered tearing it apart myself to do it, in which case I could probably beat the $600, but I am not sure I am that ethusiastic about getting down and dirty anymore. I also considered ordering a new turbo block which I imagine would set me back around $4,000 by the time I got it in the car. In the past I would have gone one of the above routes, but now I think that I may as well let it slap. It seems from the experience of friends on this board that the only thing I'll have to deal with is an irritating sound when cold for as long as I am likely to have the car.

I bought it from a musician friend in Maine for $150 when it would not pass Maine inspection and brought it to NYC. It cruised at 90 like being in a living room and the seats were like an easy chair. You could not get parts for it at all, and luckily I could adapt VW carb parts as that was all I had trouble with. At the end of the summer I just gave it to a friend, which is as close as I have ever been to Elvis Presley. I still miss the seats.

It used to be hard to beat the French. Around here I used to grab late model Volvo seats as volvo had actually figured out that humans rode in them. the seats I suffered with in my last Mercedes were the German type that wore forever, but you vill adjust to zee seats! My current Forester is not too bad with the stock seats, on trips they have been pretty reasonable.