gunslinger

OKAY FOLKS, QUICK ONE HERE. if youve got stickey lifters or any other head noise, or you just want to clean the motor out - oil passages, galleys, feeder tubes, etc. - throw some SEAFOAM in there. you can get it at schucks or equivalent. pour half the can down into the oil/block and pour the other half into the carb/throttle body. if youve got a carb, follow the directions. if youve got a SPFI, take the large vacuum line off the back side of the rubber intake and tilt the hose up so you can pour the other half into the throttle body (you do this cause if you take the large rubber intake off the throttle body the 'gine will quit). take your air filter out too cause i little will go back and might get onto it. i picked up another motor to replace the seized one for the battle wagon and the thing had been sitting for XX amount of time so the thing had a nasty lifter rattle. you couldnt even hear the sterio over it. threw some seafoam in there and she purrrrrrrrrrs. no probs. worked miracles. dont forget to follow the directions. hope this helps someone.

no prob bud. you can thank blake for that. great kid.

(1)cocky? its called confident. dont confuse the two. (2)it wasnt deep water, thats the point i was trying to make. i would classify it as a large puddle. ive driven through deeper water with my carb hooked up and with no snorkel. thats where i came across the conclusion that EFI setups arent any good in water if you dont have the stock snorkel box hooked up. (3)if you havent done an EFI setup/conversion than you really dont have a leg to stand on in the performance/upgrade argument catagory i would say. i didnt convert the battle wagon to SPFI to hop on the track and race rice burners. or to throw some cone thing on the end of the intake and call it upgraded. i converted it so i wouldnt drain the carb while balancing on 2 wheels and to get more power off road - and so i wouldnt have to wait for the silly carb to warm up. if you plan on getting into any water, use the stock airbox. you wont find any better way to seal the water in while not having the " I-made-this-snorkel-out-of-dryer/toilet-tubing-i-found-under-my-trailer". (4)"im sure it was you, not the efi " - part of the definition of insanity would be believing or professing something that you never witnessed or know anything about. since you werent in the car with me, you wouldnt know exactly what happened, correct? i hope my point has been made. im not coming to any conclusions about anybody on here so i hope the same courtesy would be shown to me. thanks and good night.

just so no one worries, i found a low KM motor in edgewood and pulled/installed it on saterday. just so no one keeps awake at night.

boy sounds like i ran over your cat or youre on your period..... ... LIGHTEN UP. we're all having fun here. if you know how the subie FI works, then you also know that the intake for the FI setup moves outside the engine compartment under the fender. right where water hits it by the wheel, that is if you have forgotten to get the factory FI snorkel/intake that mounts there (which I forgot to grab). the carb setup has the intake inside on the inner fender so as long as you have forward momentum, (of course not if the water's 3 feet deep) you wont suck water. does that clear it up for you, or do you need me to draw you a diagram also? i wasnt even halfway up my front rims in the water when the motor sucked and seized! it had nothing to do with the water being too deep, you could have drove through a puddle on the road that deep after a couple days of rain up here in the northwest. the water just sprays up that intake hole to the airbox perfectly without that factory snorkel. i just got my motor in and the snorkel done this week and had water over my tires since, so i would say that there isnt a problem anymore.

got it guys, thanks.

i guess i failed to point it out but, THE FIRST THING I DID WAS PULL THE PLUGS AND TURN IT OVER. ive done that 50 times before. thanks for letting me know that water isnt compressible...... sarcasm, hmmmm?

aside from the trans being an all wheel/full time four wheel drive tranny, are there any other reasons why i would be dissappointed?? i thought the turbo tranny's were stronger...... i dont really want to change the tranny out so this should help a load. i think i might change out the gears this week since the motor's out of the battle wagon and all.

i know i know i KNOW!! as i have already overstated in my previous threads/posts, my $1000 digi was stolen last christmas. i need to borrow my buddie's to get you guys some pics. i might be able to get some on today later. keep checking people......

they look good. ive got a lead on a 90 loyale for $100 that ive been thinking of picking up. i dont see too many black ones so i thought i might pick one up. be sure to pay the man to pull all the dents though, black shows em all terrible.

ive got the LSD, but do i need to grab the turbo trans?? the LSD is a 3.7 and my battle wagon is a 3.9. all the turbo's ive found are full time 4x4. ive thought about converting the full time to the DR by punching out a few plugs and such but im not sure. anybody know anything about if the ratios matter that much from 3.7 to 3.9??

need a motor peoples. call me if you have a good low mileage EA82 for my 86 battle wagon. ill pick it up locally if youve got one. call me @ 425 478 8119. $200 max if possible. on a tight wedding budget so all expendatures are scrutenized

snorkel's done folks. freakin bi**hin. looks factory cause i used the factory SPFI inake off the fender. ill get back with the details later and hopefully some pics. youll be hard pressed to find a more functional or better looking rig than this one. maybe on a hummvee??

thanks bud. that would have helped if i hadntve known about that. that usually works but not when the motor is SEIZED. f***ing SEIZED. believe me, ive sunk approx 4 vehicles and this one wont move. we rallied the wagon behind swervey's 87 in a circle (dodging a large puddle/swamp in the middle and misc tires/car parts/trees/bushes/etc.) dropping the clutch in 4 low to no avail. we even got the thing out on the road behind my other buddies tundra, dropped the clutch 5 or 6 times to no avail. when i got her home i threw a breaker bar on the crank bolt and tried turning it but i only succeeded in OVER tightening the bolt. nothing. so im in the market for another motor. any one have a motor locally i can throw some cash at?? let me know this week if possible. my phone # is 425 478 8119.

i need to do a write up soon on the SPFI conversion that i just finished on the battle wagon. included, cruise control, whole new column (the old one was loose as a goose due to no power steering), 87 and up style instrument bezel, and custom turbo header retrofit. i KNOW everyone is going to like that one. good bye busted down tubes!!!!!! when i get some more time ill sit down and do the write up on the board. SPFI IS REALLY EASY IF YOU KNOW HOW TO TURN A WRENCH!! no joke, one day and maybe $100 and you get way more power and drivablilty. ill get back to ya folks

okay people. swervey and i (well, mostly I, swervey was galavanting in vantage... ...) threw SPFI in my 86 battle wagon last weekend and friday i finally got everything put back together inside, redid the legacy seat mounts cause you were hitting your head on the ceiling at every bump on the trail - too high. carpet's in, sterio wired, she's off the jackstands, ready to ROLL people!! :cool: and enter the water part. we're out at the local watering hole last night and i ran threw the hole that swervey sunk his 87 in last time. water's lower and seeing how i have ran threw it before with no problem i thought i would shoot it. well, halfway through, water's up to my wheels, no probs, had it higher before and ______________:-\ _______________. dead in the water. starter clicking and the brown nasty stuff is seeping in through all the rust holes and bad door seals on the passenger side of the rig (gee, good thing i just finished welding all the drain holes in the floor huh? now i cant drain it!! doh! ill just have to weld in a drain bung later) swervey swings around the bend and yanks me out. out come the plugs. hit the key, nada. clicking. well, no socket on me so ill try to turn it over with a crescent. SEIZED!! rock solid. SON OF A B@*!!!!!!!!!! this'll be the second motor that ive dropped in the car in the last 3 months. too bad she was a super strong 140K. looks like she'll be sitting on stands for another week or so. thats okay, ive got a nice limited slip rear and turbo trans to go in it at the same time then. CONCLUSION: SNORKELS ARE MANDATORY ON EFI MOTORS IF YOU ARE GOING TO SEE ANY WATER!!! ive done the that hole three or four times with a carb on the rig and she pulled through every time. the way that the water is directed up into the wheelwell just kills the fuel infected motor. it must do pretty good with the carb intake since its in the engine compartment, not in the wheelwell. well people, enjoy and learn. i sure have. now, i get to go tow the battle wagon home, wish me luck.

just to clear things up boys, the LSD WAS A 3.90. i read it with my own three eyes...... i have a 3.70 in my ride and every other that ive seen. that was definently a 3.90.

Is the ecu grounded when it is bolted to the car column.

The coil in his car is a brand new Accel Super Stock coil. Also we tried a different coil. There is power at both positive and negitive side of the coil.

okay, im not mad, i just want to know who snagged the LSD out of the lynnwood PAP (blue turbo wagon) on FRI night or SAT morning???? :-\ we were there on friday afternoon to look at stuff and laughed like school girls when we saw the virgin turbo sitting there. not a thing missin.... of course, i forgot the one tool i needed that day, the proper punch to drop the axles. we grabbed some other stuff and ran cause swerey needed to be at a job around 3PM. "oh we'll come back on sat morning and grab it" along with the SPFI stuff for his car. "no one will be here by then, ...." right. :banghead: sat morn, around 10 am, 3.90 LSD GONE!! SON OF A B***H!!! oh well, just give me the satisfaction of knowing who beat me to it so i can raise a drink and toast. good one man, good one.

we started in on saterday about noon on swervey's '87 GL and everything was in by saterday night. now im sitting here still trying to figure out why it wont start on sunday night. harness from dash forward, fuel pump, fuel in the tank, batt charged, etc, etc etc. turns over, wont start. it wont even spark. nothing (spark) at the coil. theres power at the coil, but it wont spark. TDC, disty stabbed correctly. we're both fabergasted. he printed out the injection swap manual that we got from voodoo to the "T" after i realized it wasnt going to start with siimply plugging everything in. then we started the splicing/cutting the harness to run the required lines. nothing. couple things in the manual kind of contradict themselves so we made sense of what we could. like running a dedicated line to the fuel pump. and a couple of others......... also, every fuel "infected" (as we call them now) car has a long, narrow, clear/yellow plug near the fuse box (on the left side of the harness comiing through the fender/grommet) that no carbed car has so we're wondering if not having that plug in the car makes a difference? im wondering if simply getting the whole harness out of the dash so EVERYTHING plugs in and you dont have to splice SH*T is easier. seems so to me. PLEASE GET BACK TO ME!! he mistakingly doesnt have anything to drive now except for his work van. we're done untill we hear back about it, ran out of beer and patience.

the older shafts are thicker and shorter. EA81 style, EA82 style is the longer, thinner one. yup, they gave you the wrong one.

no i dont have templates. it was kind of a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants install/fabrication. all i can say is if you have any good metal cutting/welding equipment, you can figure it all out. if you get rid of the rear window defroster tubes to the "B" pillars, you can get the hard mount out of the way. when/if i get to replace my digi cam i would get some pics on here for everyone to see the install. good seats though, way better than the old legacy's. good luck and let me know if i can be of any help. BTY i could make some brackets for you and make a little kit for you and ship it to you??? let me know. and ill figure out how much itll be. if you want to do it.

i used power steering the first time i hooked everything up and started it up. then after i heard everyone saying to use dexron III ATF, i filled up with dexron III. so no, you arent wrong.