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Will do. I'll keep you guys posted. I may sell it to get a brat once I get her all fixed up. Dunno yet :-)

I want to eventually get a lift kit and a safari rack. Would also like to get a brush guard for the front. The biggest thing right now is taking car of the floors. Can't have sandy mud water comming up through the floors all the time :-). Would like to swap in a dual range if I can find one, as I still have the bell housing that came on the JDM motor with the. I'll have to find what all it entails in swapping it out.

I don't want the car to look like a boy racer tried to ************ it up. It draws way too much attention :-). It's covered with Mudd now. Some people would cringe if they saw what I was doing to that paint.

I don't even pay attention to that thing. When I get some time, I't getting mounted under the hood or tossed in my tool box.

It's got a b & m shifter too. That and the gauge are going. Like I said before, I think the guy who had it thought he had a 60hp race car. There is no way to touch up that paint ... so It's gotta go. The car is close to the eastern panhandle in WV. Mineral County. It came from Winchester VA, then my neighbor bought it and I traded him an old minibike for it. It had a dead cylinder when I got it. We got a JDM motor off of ebay for it and my GF's brother installed it for me over a few hours last weekend. Car only has 52 thousand on the clock , but has some rust in the floorboards from sitting as long as it did. If anyone has carfax. let me know. I'd like to see where this car is from ..

Stock 13 steelies. 155 80 r13 Douglas X-Track tires. For the light offroading that I do, these suit me fine. At least until I get a lift kit.

The paint doesn't look that bad, but due to some of the rust spots on the drivers door, I'm gonna have to paint it. It's definately different looking.

I am trying to come up with a name for the car. I was leaning towards "Grimmace" because it looks so much like that fat hamburger eating fool.

Yeah. I really like what the guys over at Hatch Patrol do with their cars. Too bad I'm probably one of the only hatches left in running condition on the east coast. Don't see too many of them around here that haven't completely rusted to bits.

Yeah .... I don't know what the previous owner thought he was driving..... I'm going to coat in either flat black or olive drab once I get my other car next weekend. I have to fix some holes in the floors too. Went trudging through a mud puddle today right after the pictures and water came up through. The puddle was hell of a lot deeper than I thought. The water was almost clean up to the air cleaner. I backed out of that as fast as I could.

Pics fixed - I linked directly - warning - they are huge! The new frontal shots ( with the terrorist hunting permit ) show the positive camber that I was talking about in a previous post.

Here are a few pictures of my 1980 DL hatch. Got the JDM Motor in it and running a week ago. This weekend I took it on a few little trails. http://www.thundervalleydirtdrag.com/subie/DSCF0001.JPG http://www.thundervalleydirtdrag.com/subie/DSCF0002.JPG http://www.thundervalleydirtdrag.com/subie/DSCF0003.JPG http://www.thundervalleydirtdrag.com/subie/DSCF0004.JPG http://www.thundervalleydirtdrag.com/subie/DSCF0005.JPG http://www.thundervalleydirtdrag.com/subie/DSCF0006.JPG http://www.thundervalleydirtdrag.com/subie/DSCF0007.JPG http://www.thundervalleydirtdrag.com/subie/DSCF0008.JPG http://www.thundervalleydirtdrag.com/subie/DSCF00099.JPG http://www.thundervalleydirtdrag.com/subie/DSCF00343.JPG http://www.thundervalleydirtdrag.com/subie/DSCF00345.JPG

The car only has 53k on it. When I take it in for the alignment, I'll have my mechanic take a look at it. The previous owner bought tires at sears a few years back and they have on the slip that it needed shocks. The one tire on the left front side had some uneven wear on the outside, but I think the guy hit a curb and never had it aligned ... the grease cap was missing off the wheel. Nothing looks bent underneath. It does need aligned. How much camber is normal?

After looking at the front of my newly revitalized 80 DL hatch , I noticed that the front wheels were both angled slightly inwards toward the bottom of the motor. Looks like it's time to replace the shocks on the front. Anyone have anything in mind? I just bought all new tires and will be doing some light offroading on trails. No lift, all stock. 4wd.

What is the best way of adjusting the mixture and idle on the stock carb? Do I have to plug up any hoses and pull the air cleaner off or can I just adjust both screws?

1980 DL Hatch 1600 4wd 4spd. What is the best idle speed for this motor? Just got the new one in and It's set to around 1100 right now. Should it be around 800 or so?

When moving forward or backwards, I get a slight click in what sounds like the front drivers side wheel area. Checked all the dust boots and everything looks fine, no rips or holes. It's an 80 dl hatch 1600. Just got the new motor in so I haven't taken it highway speeds yet. Could it be a bearing ? The click gets faster as the car moves faster .... it also isn't very loud. No twigs or anything that I could see. Don't recall the sound comming from the car when I bought it a few months back with the bad motor. Doesn't make the click when the car isn't moving.

Just getting the time to get it in. It seems like it took forever. I got home today from work and my fiance's brother had it installed and running for me. A sort of few days early birthday present. I was glad to see it done. now all I have to do is patch the floors up and its as good as gold.

Got the JDM ea71 installed in the 80 DL hatch today - it runs great. Like a brand new car. 4 months of waiting have finally come to an end. I'll post up some pictures when I get them tomorrow.

It doesn't look too difficult to get it in place ... the thing I am most worried about is timing and getting all the vacuum stuff right ... I do have a garage to use... but my time may conflict with some of the other stuff they have to use it for.

Long story short ..... the guy who was putting the new motor in my 80 dl hatch split --- said he didn't have the time to work on my car. He was doing this for free so I can't complain too much. Anyway ... I bought a jdm hydro lifter ea71 to replace the ea71 with a dead cylinder. He pulled the old motor out and never got around to getting the new one in.... I think I can handle getting it back in the car, but I'm worried that I don't have the right tools to do it. Any advice before I start to tackle this on my own? All the accessories still need moved over from the old us ea71 over to the jdm ea71. I can tell just by looking at it that the emmisions aren't the same. My biggest worry is getting the timing right once the motor is in. Help. I've been without a vehicle waiting on this one ... and the significant other is tired of driving me to work. Quite frankly, I'm tired of her driving me to work. One more chick song and I'll lose it. :-\

What have you guys done to take care of those rusted floors ? I have a few holes in my 80 dl hatch and I'm starting to repair them. I'm thinking about using some extend or the klean strip converter to stop the rust after I get all the loose scabs out. I was also contemplating pop riveting some sheet metal in, priming it , then putting a layer of fiber glass over that to make it all water tight. Rustolem the bottom then undercoat it. Any suggestions? from the bottom door sills up, this hatch is in great shape, with the only other rust being on the drivers door in a few dime sized spots, so I'd hate to see it go to the sag of death. All the frame rails look good.

Anyone know where I can pick up a stock manual shifter knob for a 1980 DL Hatch? I'm getting ready to put it on the road after a new engine. It's got a B&M shift knob in it now that looks like it belongs in an 80's kidnapper van.

Anyone know what the ea71's with the hydro lifters redline at?

I may have one out of my JDM ea71 once I get it all swapped this weekend ... have to see if its still good