Dr. RX

Congratulation, that is the first year for WRXs, a rare find indeed. I can't help you with your questions, but you might try the http://www.nasioc.com/ or http://www.saxonfields.freeserve.co.uk/ or maybe even http://www.catherineandken.co.uk/sti/wrx.html maybe someone there can point you in the right direction. This should also be more to the New Gen portion of the board.

When you said three bar sensor, I had a feeling you had a HalTech, since you are in Australia, you should get better service then I did. The long distance calls were killing me, and waiting sometimes a week for a reply to an e-mail. HalTech is a good setup, I just wish there were more people here in the USA using them on Subraus, it would make it easier to set one up.

I know it's a pain, but why did you call the seller shady? In your second post you told us all the people that looked at it, and none of them said anything??? Looks like the seller sold it in good faith, and that this happened, I don't think they knew about, or is there something that you are not telling us I think the head gasket thing is a Subaru thing, not just any particular engine, I have even heard of the indistructable EJ22s having head gasket problem, it is a given that if you own an EA series car that you will have head gasket problems.

Hey Eric, for us old guys with poor vision, could you attach a bigger picture?

There are many different passages between the head and the block, some carry water others carry oil, it sound like the head gasket is blown between the combustion chamber and one of the oil passages. That would also explain the fouled plug.

You should know Ed, you were there ages before I was.

I checked all the ads this morning for that camera, they have been selling it for $999.00 for the body only for over a year now, I'm hoping that it is about time from a price drop. I'm ready to pouch if it does.

Nope, finally getting around to putting in the power door locks and power windows, hooked up the driving lights today. I do wish you luck though, and have fun, even if you don't win.

No matter what you do, you are in a class by yourself Laurel. (take that as a positive)

WHAT???? They are in the engine compartment, the trunk on a Porsche 911 is in front. BTW, I think you knew that, but like most people, they think of the rear of a car as the trunk.

Well, unless you get a new turbo crossmember, you will have to modify the existing crossmember to make room for the uppipe. The wiring may not be as bad as people say, but then I've done something similar (a 96 WRX engine into a 96 US Impreza). Make sure that you get that complete front wiring haness with the engine, you will throw most of it away, but you will get everything you need, an engine wiring harness is not enough. Depending on how you drive, the auto my take the extra horsepower and torque. Personally I would change to a 5 or 6 speed.

The front brakes are bigger, the rears only slightly. The best part about the conversion is that then you would have a much wider choice of wheels then the limited choice you have now. The conversion is very simple, the only snag is that the tranny must have 25 spline stubs at the tranny (ie a turbo tranny). If you don't want them, please pull them, someone ehere will probably be willing to buy them, if not now, someone will eventually be looking for them.

If they can put an EG33 into a Porsche, they can put an EJ20G, EJ205, EJ207 or any of the other WRX engines into a Porsche, but why replace an air cooled engine (with the exception of the newer ones) with a water cooled engine. I know that the might cost less, but then you'll have the added costs of adding the cooling system. I have toyed with the idea of putting a twin turbo or a WRX engine into a 914 though.

Pretty wagon, I'll see if I can answer some of teh questions. 1) They are available, the problem is that in 93 Subaru started using big binders and annual updates, so you would have to get the 93 binder(s) and teh 94 binder(s) to have a complete set. 2) Not sure here, but sounds good. 3) Yep, they will fit. 4) Haven't played with ABS so I don't have a clue here. 5) There are kits out there to put low pressure turbos on these engines, I wouldn't put the EA82 turbo on there since it is a high pressure turbo. I know people will argue with me about this, but I just rely on my almost 40 years of turbo experience and just grin.

Thanks for tha article Shawn, very informative. I did notice a pattern here with people who had trouble with the orange stuff. It seems like they all added it to systems that were old without replacing anything. Then when something failed, as it probably would have anyway, they blamed the orange stuff, then replaced all the gaskets and seals and put in green stuff. If they had put orange stuff back in, they probably wouldn't have had problems either.

Well, I talked with him last night before he went to work. He is pissed at someone here on the board, but he only pissed at him. I'm sure he will still be posting, but he has alot of other things going on right now. Maybe Eric can shed some light later since he started this post. No Eric is not the one, but Eric is having breakfast with Ken this morning.

Boy am I red faced, it is Prestone, not Permatex. The full name is Prestone 5/150 Extended Life Antifreeza/Coolant.

Two CDs???? I only got one, maybe all those other pictures of my car are in the second CD that I didn't get.

Where's the deal, that breaks down to $32,000 a car, can you see why no one has bid on them yet?

Well, he might not be posting right now because he is sleeping before he goes to work. How do I know that, I just called.

OK, if it was you. what the heck did you say that would tick him off so bad that he wouldn't post here again?

If it blew soon after you changed over, it wasn't the antifreeze, the head gasket was on the way out. I have used the orange stuff from Permatex for over two years without a single problem. If you keep the green in there, you might as well buy stock in a radiator company.

Gee, or maybe he went to work.

Well I use the Permatex orange stuff, it works great. It seems to be a little thinner then the green stuff, so if you get a leak, you will notice it sooner with the orange then the green. Also the green stuff reacts with the aluminum in the Subaru engine and will eventually clog your radiator. Every clogged radiator in a Subaru that I have run across has had the green stuff in it, I have never seen a clogged radiator in a Subaru using the orange stuff.

Boy, I'm just the opposite, I doubt that I'll ever get another EA82 series car, turbo'd or not. We still have a turbo wagon, but we are thinking of replacing it with an EJ series wagon. I will admit, my GC8 conversion is not a normal Impreza, but it is as different as night and day when compared to my old 86 GL-10 Turbo Sedan.