Dr. RX

Hey Zap, I'll sponsor the "Best Offroad" throphy, let me know how much I need to give you and when you need it.

If the turbo fails, there is enough air and exhaust to flow around the turbine blades to allow the engine to run as a N/A, although at much less power since the engine has lower compression then a normal N/A engine. Oil blow by it cause by a bad seal, not the bearing, but a bad bearing will cause a seal to go bad. There are lots of things that can cause a turbo to not perform as it should, one big one is an exhaust leak before the turbo. This happens a lot on Subarus and is hard to see because most of the exhaust is sheilded. A boost guage is probably the best way to tell if the turbo is working while still on the car and engine is running.

If the turbo fails, there is enough air and exhaust to flow around the turbine blades to allow the engine to run as a N/A, although at much less power since the engine has lower compression then a normal N/A engine. Oil blow by it cause by a bad seal, not the bearing, but a bad bearing will cause a seal to go bad. There are lots of things that can cause a turbo to not perform as it should, one big one is an exhaust leak before the turbo. This happens a lot on Subarus and is hard to see because most of the exhaust is sheilded. A boost guage is probably the best way to tell if the turbo is working while still on the car and engine is running.

If you want some classy rare wheels, I have some early gold STi 16 inch wheels. I have 7 of them, I was going to use them on my Impreza but I upgraded the brakes and these wheel would not fit any more, but they will fit a stock Legacy. Here is the deal, you can pick out the best 4 at $100 each ($400 total) or take all 7 for $500.

It would have to be the EJ16, because we had EJ18s here in the States and they were like the EJ22s for ignition. I've never seen an EJ seires engine with a distributor though, and can't understand why Subaru would put a distributor on an EJ series engine.

Boy I love these kind of projects, parts all over the place, and when it comes time to put them back together you always end up with a whole lots of spare parts. Good luck, just the kind of thing I would tackle.

Well, let me see, a BRAT is a type of a EA81 series car, and since the struts (frt) and shocks (rr) are different from an EA82 series car, I would guess that is what would determine that.

One of these days I need to get down that way, I have several friends in NZ and others in Oz, I could easily spend a day at each place and be down there a month. I have a friend in Adelaide who said that I can stay at his villa overlooking the ocean if I come over there. So I have plenety of offers for places to stay, I'll add your's to my list, but no guarrantee when I'd be dropping by.

Nope, those are EA81 series type shocks.

OK, "You're CRAZY!!!!" Is that good enough???

Mick, I got my decals today, they look great. I'm getting the car ready for a show on Sunday and will put these in the rear side windows so they will be visable at the show.

In you signature block you state that you have a 85 turbo coupe. I'm curious because as far as I know, there was a turbo coupe in 84 (EA91T) and a turbo coupe in 86 (EA82T), but there wasn't even a coupe in 85 (unless you want to call a Hatchback a coupe). So, do you have any pictures of your 85??

Yea right, I knew if you found a computer that you'd be logging onto the board. Found any PAPs yet??

Hey, if I ever get over that way, we'll have to get together for some Haggis and Scotch (single malted of course, none of the blended crap). My family immigrated from Scotland in the late 1600's and helped to create the USA.

Yep, those are the ones.

Several Lotus' had an hour glass shaped frame, and that frame looks kind of hour glass shaped. Did a Triumph have axles like that??

Somewhere around here there is a picture of Qman's flying Hatch and Austin's flying wagon.

Boy that sounds bad, maybe you should just sign the car over to me and let me worry about. (jk) Really, from what you have said, I'd say it sounds like a rod knock, can you say engine rebuild, can you say EXPENSIVE?

Kind of off topics here, but is that a Lotus frame on the floor next to the car??

The only real mod that needs to be done it to the rear portion of the transmission mount (the mount has three pieces), the rear piece needs to be narrowed. The other thing is that you'll need to get the front portion of the two piece driveline (EA82 style) shortened 55mm, I'm not sure of the measurement for a single piece driveline like those in teh BRATs. Everything else just bolts right up. As for years to looks at for JDM EJ20Gs out of Legacys, they started installing them in 89 in Japan, and continued up till 95 I believe, maybe even later. So if you can get a 90 to 93, they should fall within that price range with trannies. Hopefully that will have the ECU with them, but chances are that the wiring harness will be cut. There are several aftermarket programable ECUs that are available that will work. Another thing, if you get a 92 or later engine, there are tabs on the motor mount that will need to be ground off.

Welcome to the EJ world. Nice ride Matt.

Boy, you guys are lucky, I could never get these guys on the phone or get them to reply to an e-mail, granted that was over two years ago, and maybe things have changed, but I'd never order from them again. They still owe me my core charges on two axles.

The water is from the A/C and is normal.

Well to answer your questions, yes, I have done that swap, and yes it does work. There are many things that you can do to an EA82T to increase hp, some of them can be inexpensive, but most are not. By the time you get an EA82T any where near 200hp, you could have bought an EJ20G out of an early JDM Legacy RS (200 to 220hp) with tranny for $500 to $800 and had it installed in your car. The EA82T with 200hp would not be all that reliable and at the top end oof hp increases, but the EJ20G would be very reliable and have a lot more room for hp increases.

Gee, I never had that problem with the small block Chevy I used to run in my boat. Ran it in both fresh and salt water, but I always flushed it after running in salt. Ran the boat for three years, almost all summer long, never had one bit of trouble with the water pump.