Dr. RX

Ken, he's not after you, , he's after the Justy. And if in the process he knocks you off too, all the better. Good luck Rob!!!

Look great, is that a Porsche 914 skirt piece?? Can you notch that rear piece, and built up the open areas that causes, then attached the notched piece to the door so it look the same? Too bad you are so far away, we could do that in a weekend, then get it prepped and painted the next.

Get an adjustable waste gate valve and install it between the vacuum line that goes to the waste gate.

Boy there are a lot of variables that need to be considered. In my 86 turbo sedan, I would have no problem going over the passes around here if the outside temp was below 80 degrees with the A/C going, by the time I got to the top the temp would probably be around 195 or 200 degree. Any hotter then 80 degrees out side, I'd have to switch it off and on to maintain an inside temp while trying to keep the tengine temp from getting over 200 degrees. It seems that the more that I need the A/C the less I can run it without over heating the engine.

They don't have one.

Problem fixed, I got a vacuum guage (something I've needed for a long time) and did a check, the needle flipped between 4 to 5 points from 0 to 5 on the scale, that told me that I either had valve timing problems or a leak in the intake manifold heat riser. Well I knew the heat riser was fine, so that left the valve timing issue. I pulled the cam cover off and could see the first three (#2 intake and exhaust, and #4 exhaust) valve pretty easy and they were ok, I couldn't see #4 intake, so a got my inspection mirror and looked. I had to look from several angles before I was convinced that it was not right (see attached sketch), so I got a long screw driver and pryed the follwer back into place, bolted everything back up, and now it runs great. My wife says that it seems to have even more power then before.

I understand that the Japanese versions have them, but in Japanese, maybe they will be offered later this year or as part of the 2006 model year.

Shipping pins (the little plastic things) were removed, but I didn't "pump" them, I figured that would happen under normal operation, but I did think about that after the fact. They have very little deflection by hand when I tested them by hand before installing them. I would think that if they collapsed that they would click, there is no clicking sound

The cams are dead on, at least by the timing marks. They are exactly were the were before I replaced the lifters.

My 85 Turbo Wagon had some noisy hydraulic lifters (cam followers) on the driver side (cylinders 2 & 4), so last weekend I replaced them with new ones. After I put everything back together there was no low end power, seemed to run good at high rpms but not at low, and there was no power (vacuum) assist to the brakes at low rpms. The only thing that is connected with the vacuum system that I touched was the pipe that goes from between cylinders 2 & 4 up to the EGR valve. I speculated that the EGR valve might have gone bad so I replaced it. Things got a little better, but no much. I checked the old EGR valve witha hand vacuum pump and it functioned properly, so it wasn't that. I have made a visual inspection of every vacuum line and can see nothing that might cause any problem. The car ran fine with the exception of an occasional clicking of the lifters before, so whatever happened, it did so while I was installing the new lifters. I thought the new lifters might be keeping the valves open so I pulled #2 plug wire and the engine slowed down and sped up again when I re-istalled it, so I don't think it was that. It does seem to get better the more it is driven. It also seems to run better that more advance it has on the distributor (uumm doesn't the vacuum advance the distributor at low rpms?), but now it is as far as the distributor can be adjusted. Since I never remove the distributor, it should have maintained the same timing with the cam. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing the low rpm loss of vacuum??

OOHHH, that's better, it does help when I put on my glasses. :lol:

OK, I'll tell you since these two didn't directly. WCSS = West Coast Subaru Show

SATURDAY????? Isn't the 18th a Sunday?

There are a few kits out there for turbocharging a RS 2.5, that should also work on your 2.2. There is a big difference between what you need to get the job done, and what you want the end results to be. For example, you don't need an I/C, turbo timer, or boost guage to turbo charge the engine, but they all would be improvements over just turbocharging. Another option is installing a JDM WRX engine. When you are finished with buying and installing all the stuff you need to convert your engine, you will have probably spent more then if you had installed a JDM engine.

I use a product made by 3M, designed for removing these glues/adhesives, any auto paint store should have it.

Hey there's an echo.

Hey there's an echo.

I use the same stuff that they use to glue in windshields. I wouldn't use Gorilla glue, it foams up and expands, great for wood that is clamped together and will be resurfaced after glueing, but not much else.

Sounds like a good reason to buy one with the 5 speed manual.

A picture would help.

So, do you think it will pass emissions?? John, how close is Austin's wagon to being completed?? I have a Legacy tranny mount Austin if you need it.

What makes you think that the Impreza brakes are going to be different then the Legacy brakes? They are exactly the same dimensions (2 pot or single pot), they are interchangeable. You will not need to get different wheels. You only need different wheels if you go with the 4 pot calipers. Hey, don't worry about the V6 mistake, I see Subarus listed all the time on the web and in news papers with V6s, so it is pretty common.

That looks pretty bad, a lot of rust and dents. I don't think that I would pay any more then $25 considering that it will have to be shipped.

Well there really wasn't an exact time that the part time was discontinued, but the last year that they were the only 4WD tranny available was 86, in 87 1/2 the Fulltime 4WD trannies started showing up, first in the RXs and as optional trannies for GLs. If it has a carburated engine and 4WD, chances are that it will be a part time 4WD tranny.

No, I used two EA82 series hoods.