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Nope, horn has died I'm not sure when it went, but it's dead now. Fuse is good. But my relay for the air horn compressor is not kicking on. Time to dig into that one. I'm gonna check my wiring for the ECU. I don't understand why, there's fuel in the throttle body, and I've got spark. What have I missed?

Whatever happend to that post about the guy down under that jumped his roo like, 50 feet in the air? He tweeked the unibody but good!

Sorry for the late reply, bad weather and crazy days at work.:-\ Anyways, I just checked the cams and they are 180 out, the ditsy is pointing straight back with the pass side cam at 315 and the flywheel at the tdc mark. I havn't done a compression check since the headgasket replacement. That will be next on the list. Any other ideas? My batt I think is shot from all this deep cycle discharging and recharging. It ain't holden a charge very well anymore. I dont' know what happend, but Suby has just given up and won't start to save the life of me.

I've jumped my roo a number of times and all I've been able to do is kill 2 sets of front wheel bearrings, 1 set of front struts, rear struts need to be done and motor/engine mounts. Tranny took about 10000 miles of harsh practiclly no clutch shifting before a shifting fork gave way and now that tranny is stuck in second gear. Engine has takin' running at 230 deg for about 200 miles at 65, and doin donuts at 7krpm five or six times--head gaskets let go. Tried doing a burnout on dry pavement and all I got was alot of wheel hop and shook my pioneer cd player to death. Ummm......don't beat on them too hard, they do break.

Yes, it did bring it up some. The SPFI pistons have a 9.5:1 ratio, so with the heads decked, I would guess at maybe 10:1? Not really sure.

Ok, just finished doing a headgasket overhaul. Put new gaskets on, cleaned things up some, re-route the grounds for the ECU to a better point, put oil in, and water/cleaner in cooling system. Hit the starter....same thing, no start! I gots fuel, spark, air, and no codes. WHAT GIVES????!?? Batt's a little weak, charging overnight to see if that makes any difference. Any other ideas I might have missed? :banghead: I'm tired of driving Dad's outback, it's got too much horsepower! I want to drive my Suby! help???

2:1 reduction and 4.44s would be nice. Too bad you're all the way up in WA, my brother's got a toasted 3sp auto that he doesn't need anymore.

Where do you find bigger radiators?

I thnk it was around 60 a side for the cam regrind. Here's they're website: http://www.deltacam.com I am getting compression readings of around 150. My siblings' roos are about 120ish. I have no probelm running regular fuel in there. Although, Suby is happiest on Chevron. As far as the EJ conversion goes: From what I've read here, you would need the engine, ECU, and wriring harness. Prefrebly out of a manual tranny roo: less wires. I think you use the EA82 clutch and flywheel, just redrill the flywheel to fit the EJ22. You can also do a search and you'll find many a post on the subject.

Here's some ideas: 1: 2" cat back exhaust 2: Just swap out the enitre air box with one of those cone air filters. 3: Delta Camshaft in WA can help you there. 4: Well, as far as I can tell, there's really no way to bore it. But, I think the SPFI pistons still have higher compression ratio than MPFI. You could put those in there. And, deck the heads no more then 10 thousanths. I've got a specially built engine in mine: SPFI pistons, decked heads, and the Torque grind from Delta Camshaft. That really boosted the power on my Suby. When I switched to SPFI, that improved my mileage and hiway performance. Or, you could just put an EJ 22 in there. It needs an adaptor plate to mount the EJ engine to the EA series tranny.

I ran a mechanical oil pressure guage. I had to get one of those extension kits to make it fit. Here's some pics I took of the setup, hope they give you an idea: http://usmb.net/gallery/view_album.php?page=1

Sweet pics, man!

Cool info, gonna hafto keep an eye out for that next time I'm at the yards. Thanks Jeremy!

Oooooooo:slobber:

Ok, looks like it's research time.

Ok, dumb question of the day: Why goto the 2.2 instead of the 2.5? Stronger? More reliable? Even tho it's got less horses? Please enlighten me.

I donno. It's one thing for knives to push against it, but 3000+lbs of truck sitting on one point of a rock? I'll hafta see this in action.

Mmmmmm.....torque!

Um, I thought he was going to put the flywheel down by the tranny. That way he still has a clutch.

Ain't that the truth!

Thanks! I'll put that on the list also.

Coolness! I'll pickup some tomarrow. Thanks Emily! More Q's: Do I need to re-torque the heads after first run? Is there a gasket betwen the cam tower and the head? It doesn't look like it did. Just looked like that grey rtv type stuff. I''m going to use that same stuff to "build" a gasket there. Am I on the right track? Should I replace that o-ring in the cam tower too? It looks a little flat. Still somewhat soft, tho. The valve cover gaskets are still soft, so I'm not going to replace those. I take it I should leave the lifters alone and let the enigine cleaner do it's job? Thanks for all your help so far. This is quite a project, Suby looks so funny without the heads on. Poor Suby, it's raining outside and we can't go play in the mud puddles.

Ok, I'll check it out. Thanks

Yeah,that's what I was wondering. I'm either going to put some ATF in there or just do 2 or 3 oil changes to help clean out the passages. Thanks!

Where I would get kerosene? How 'bout atf?