TheSubaruJunkie

If we did it somewhere on the beach, i'd spend the day & night to drive up there.

I love hearing good news in threads like this. I dread smog time, luckily for me my Brat isnt due for another test until 2011!!! Hopefully by then it'll have a EJ22 in it. GRATZ on your passing!!!!

NICE!! Good lookin bumper too

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I get paid tomorrow, rent is due today. That $335 speeding ticket i got in Alpine county is due Thursday and Im trying to figure out who to please... the state of california, or my land lord. Needless to say, i dont even have $10 to put in my stomach, let alone gas to put in the Brat. Give me 2 more weeks, and I should be able to.... wait, no, insurance is due on the 17th. FARK!!!

Damnit!! I am so broke I cant even pay attention or else I would so totally be there! In the Brat of course.

Damn, wish I could make it. Im going to keep an eye on this thread.

Its surging because its missing its turbo. Put a turbo on there and it will be fixed

Cabinets will do a good job of hiding my collection of aerosol cans. Its a direct violation of my lease, but my landlord will probably never lay eyes on them. However, its better to be safe than sorry. I have shelfs now. And they collect clutter. Shelfs are nice for holding my camping gear.

Yeah thats what I was thinking myself. My workbench does need a new top, i never thought of scavenging old countertop though! Great idea.

So, i came to realize my garage has a lack of storage, and cabinets could be a cheap solution... (or a real expensive one). Lets see some pix of your garage cabinets... maybe where you scored them, if you got a killer deal or something.

Damn Mick! Looks like you still have a ton of work left to do. Cabinets!!! That is what my garage is missing!! Going to have to work on that

WOW STEVE!!! GREAT JOB! I was scared when I saw the first few pix, but it turned out awesome!

dude, get a seal kit and just reseal your 2.2 its easier and a whole lot cheaper than trying to make a EJ18 work.

Looks badass bill! Definatly love the perfect camber!!

http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html That is the best tool EVER when it comes to finding propper tire sizes. If your 205/70R14s rub, plug that in and figure out how low you'll have to go to get clearance. Dont be affraid to buy a hammer and use it. These cars were never offered with anything larger than 13" from the factory... there was probably a reason for that.

Yeah, right after that trip I started looking for solutions to waterproof my disty.

So i have been spending weeks trying to sort out the mess in my garage. Today I did enough to take pix and attempt to show it off. Here you'll see my Toolboxes & work bench. This is the opposite wall of my garage, with my other workstation. Here is where the failed RC experiments were held. Along with a few toyota tid-bits, wiring & small jobs on the brat. Tomorrow I plan on taking a load to the dump and can finish the rest of the cleanup.

Have you figured everything out now with the engine idle and whatnot? Let me know when you wanna drive this thing down to Sacramento

Goto the junkard and look at anything that came with a 22R or 22RE. You might get lucky and find a boot for the distributor cap. I had one for my old wagon and it worked pretty well. I found that RTV only made it harder to fix the disty whenever it did get wet.

Thats going to be my final step! Stupid EA81's... i have NEVER owned a EA81 that i havent had to d!ck with the exhaust studs on. So I just finished the job. Ran heli-coil into the spacers, installed new studs and snugged them up real tight. So far, seems to be better than my last attempt. And a short drive to the bank & back, and finally I dont have to crank my stereo to 22 to enjoy it (although, i do anyhow).

Yeah forget all that nonesence. Those spacers are rust-welded to the bolts holding them in, and there is no clearance to get a socket around the bolts. After I looked alittle closer, the spacers have pipes running from them... and that would be another headache. My M10 heli-coils fit real nice into the metal spacers, so i tapped the spacers. Im about to go run the heli-coils after everything drys. Thinking of using Red Threadlocker as well when i assemble everything.

This is something I want to do with the 35" swampers on my Toyota... You can never keep swampers ballanced... ever!

I got metric studs, M10x1.5 & heli-coils to match. I think im going to try and remove the spacers and drill out the heads. I had thought about tapping the spacers.... i guess that'll be the next step if these dont work.

4 months ago, i replace my exhaust gaskets. I notice my exhaust studs are in need of attention. I make them work, but then 3 weeks ago I was forced to replace the gaskets again. Knowing how bad a shape my studs were in, i went and bought a heli-coil kit... new studs, and went to work. Well, I found that my engine has those stupid cast metal exhaust spacers on each head, and it prevents me from getting to the threads in order to repair them. So I kinda just did a half-rump roast job, with some JB weld. Here we are, 3 weeks later. My exhaust studs are now missing (at least it sounds like it) and I am forced to do the job again. Im not going to do it a fourth time, so I need some tips/tricks/hints on how to accomplish this for good. Finding metric studs are impossible. Im going to be forced to use SAE, and heli-coil. But first I will have to find a way to get these stupid exhaust spacers off. THe bolts holding them to the head are rusted pretty good, I started to round one when trying to get it off the last time.