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That wasn't all that uncommon in the 70's (gm and a ford i had- right through the block seeped it like a bleeder). even had a 1978 straight 6 bent the long way.what a horror - Twice:confused: .porosity could also be blamed on coolant and psycho additives in fuel for a long time.

I made a bottle mixed of engine castrol high mileage and sae20 for small elecrtric engines to be sticky.

thats a disgusting habit driving fast. err, j/k electrical is quick enough to cause a jerk at high speed. check stuff over.

There is indeed a powerful difference. new engines would be easy to go synthetic. old engines running regular stuff for years do weird things. they even "stink" (smell badly) without blowby or high mileage.I learned it specifically at a quik lube years ago, when mobil1 was a hyped up miracle. I have only come close to using it in old regular engines with castrol gtx high mileage and other brands with the same likeness. I attempt in my old manual trannies, cuz they make noise anyway. Engines act to reject it, not for the metal, but the years it has had something else lubing it. I am also in a very cold environment and chemistry is odd. Maybe south and warmer ambient the change overs are ok from regular to synthetic.

My dad and I hauled international containers from new jersey to wherever they go in his rig, and that is the first time I saw a "banana spider" and even some of the big ships hung onto foriegn colorful birds.A thought I had a long time ago about foriegn cars on thier journeys of distribution is what they may collect in some of thier nooks and crannies. (I even got to see the very style sube I'm in, in what appeared to be the thousands all in a giant parking lot.) given my encounter may not be a rare spider, but it brought my question about again. I have recently got closeups (you can see at the above flickr address) and am posting for a true identification. The "huntsman" is not from maine and its markings are clearly identifying it as one. if it is from the south, I am counting on a good wallop from an east coast hurricane anytime.....

Not to babble on about a spider and a subaru's relevance for this forum, here is a site where I am posting photos and description if your interested in keeping track like I am(I have never seen one- let alone the place it lives and drives in my car happily) The latest is day 13: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bgd73/sets/72157594256262816/

That's intereresting. My engine ubolted the crank belt pulley on its own going down the highway on a 2.2 ltr subes bumper (ok- it was a bit of road rage). The ea82 spun it off due to not torqued correct after timing belts. The "walk" is there in mine. I am certain of it. It is no doubt adding to the "crazy" adjectives I have of this engine in this car. I picture it balancing in my head and able to fly up to 10k rpm if intake was capable. I bet it is the sides of the middle bearing worn down- causing a frictionless float.I even had mystery clutch pedal play that refused to adjust- I add this to that middle bearing (it has been good for 18 months after the perfect adjustment finally settled in). The only lube would be what flies out the sides from the middle? Do you ever eat them in high performance?

Here locally, theres the older toyotas "2.4re" they weren't necessarily 2.4 liters, but they go quite a long way with headgaskets in the trucks. the real good ones make strange noises up to the 300k I have seen. Its those two cylinders in the middle, different than the others thermally and intake. Inlines suck no matter what they do with them, but it does get a freak design once and awhile. I still think it is a sube flat four motor. Even the exhaust has to work into something they didn't put together, but they are out there - aging like wine balanced and cool through every season and other facts that kill them. no rebuilds. not even a headgasket.

Very nice setup. Is your races at a drag strip, I would love some numbers. Also your #1 breaking satisfies a hunch about what goes where, when it really comes down to it. There's always a weak spot. I like the pics, never had an ea82 apart. Is that middle main bearing all one piece wrapping around like that?

That is a very possible candidate. I had mentioned rare critters coming from the south at hurricane season - including crazy colored little birds all the way into december (in the warm storms- like the tornado in oz coming through ). I have guessed from the wikipedia article, it is a female, thought my car was a male due to a vibration they respond to for mating.Maybe thought my car was the toughest biggest male spider in the world, the way it vibrates . It also stated that the cars are a favorite hideout and they aren't poisonous. Also, I drove down to southern new jersey, early spring and it could very well have hitched a ride on my stops someplace. Interesting critter, I have never seen one, and at the pace it is growing . It does like warmth as well, like article wrote, its been hiding in the cold.

It works great. The tougher the old seal the hotter the wire got as it slows to the high density, and winning it over. My brother changed windshields for a summer, made it look easy. No real strength is needed, just patience. The wire I am referring to is really for windshields, I forgot the name of it, has burrs on it. after it is out, hacking with sharp blade, slowly and a sharp chisel in spots not rusted does well. Cleaning off windshield, if it is used and has old stuff, I used mini-visegrips clamped to a razor blade slowly, and changed it often to keep sharp. I left some sections with fine layer of old, as the tar bead is quite conforming.

It can be taken out slowly and kept good. The trim on my loyale is advertantly switched with a 19 year old car and looks like hell but still pliable. They must just hack it out and count on new stuff. I would pay that for the time it lasts, unless you are unlucky to get a cheap aftermarket trim replacement.

great price. The risk of doing it yourself is gone away with someone else I swapped one myself with the "piano wire" seal cutter and kicked out old windshield which was as stubborn as the 18 year old donor car's. If car was any bigger, I wouldn't have been able to span my arms across for a few important maneuvres. I did get to see underneath the windshield had rust where the seal was never sealed on the newer sube recieving it and even worse on the older one. and cleaned it up to put the sealer back on and molding myself, with my own choice of brand of sealant.I don't know as the people replacing them will be painting and sanding the little things assuming "the new windshield will cover it". It takes a flaw for a window to break via a small hit (like mine did).

I bet it is true about the 30000 ft. Hurricane remnants fly through maine sometimes, I have found the darndest things- from birds I had never seen, to ocean sand on the car. Those storms never keep strength as it breaks apart over new england spewing its lightweight flying things all over the place. The most bizarre finding to date was fine sand embedded into my 87 dl dashboard just below right defrost vent. That particular storm had the actual "low pressure" hang on right through my neighborhood. It never left the dashboard.Someday I'm gonna find a critter that is more unlikely than the new england spider with 400 species in my bumper.. noaa is still hangin on to the high chance for northen hurricane prediction this year

aside from link in previous post,a mustang supercharged- no sigh (i meant sign) of lag here is one of a supercharged svx subaru flat six going 4.94 sec 0-60mph in the auto matic: http://videos.streetfire.net/search/supercharged+subaru/0/548f0677-6c57-4d87-83a4-0be1ff7ef16f.htm

I saw some ea82 posted- not sure if this what you want. 07/92 107177 - with a 7 legged spider in the bumper

is there really a group like "200k club", "300k club", etc? idea for a decent sticker I would put a small usmb sticker on my bumper if there was one.

Yes, by the battery, coolant overflow , the fusible links. If there was a slow fusible link, check alternator and wiring behind it, where it all bunches together. Other than that, just check the fuse box in dash.

I am thinking of same chores this past week. Maine is the "cold blue spot" of the whole lower continent as usual today. My little heater is even running in my apt right now. The heated washer fluid gave me an idea to run one of the hoses around a warm part of the engine (metal part of heater core lines, even intake manifold). The defrost with electric lines is very nice, Even below zero that thing works its magic. There are times , for me it starts in single digits, no amount of heat keeps all windows content.How's the rubber seals around bottom of doors? Both my subes and most every car I have owned here has needed extra to keep them seated to the bottom of the door (didn't even need to be an ice storm to get one of those seals torn away from the door- a hard frost could even break them). I resorted to high powered epoxy type stuff, does good.A front air dam is very much a good thing on the older subes - helped engine stay ambient and stop stuff flying into parts of lower engine bay. http://93loyale.50megs.com/fskirt.html Antifreeze has given me bizarre probs if mixed too lightly with water - I can actually have too much antifreeze . Check dates on battery. if not readable, strain that memory! Mine is going on 5 yrs, and will chance it for one more season. That is about all I check. Having 4 studded snows on thier own rims, gets checked over in november- I may not even use them this year, and have the four old straight wheels as spares.

I don't pay much mind to that book.. but I do humor it. Last year, upon finding the value of my own loyale: $1700 in very good condition. This year at same place: 2700-3100 dollars (u.s.) Hmmmm. My hunch was good. Maybe gas to 10 bucks a gallon can rip us loyale owners millionares Time to wax it... dust it off. Its a showpiece.

I search and search. Nothing. For a car that keeps going for 20 years through everything. Nothing. Your vids found captured some good stuff. I am searching once and awhile, will post as I find old subes.

Its tucked away right now, it is cold out. Unusual sighting for me where I live. From southern new england, I saw that very spider and its family type all the time. Being some hardwood tree debris flew out of the vents when I first got this car, it may be indication of where it came from. I wonder if spiders lay eggs that dry like seeds, and come back to life in right places.:-\ I am still enthused about finding a live critter on the old sube content. This car was in bad shape beyond description when it came to "pleasant air" or energy around it and electrical weirdness. It is in a spot that gets engine down the driveshaft tunnell, and hasn't hurt my visitor yet. This goofy thread really does have a strange point to make . the ol sube is clean running again... they really can be conquered after a dozen or so years of "pig" (that is engine and people, and electrical)

Figure it on dyno?Even distance traveled on timer can figure it. Hp and torque curve reflect for comparison. I asked this too a loong time ago when a heavy gm coupe I had took a bigger v8. The car was not only different, it made the power numbers for engine a totally different engine than where it began. A sube less weight and bigger engine would make the ej22 bigger. Even the tranny (if swapped) is going to synch different.Leave it a mystery sube.... My 2wd ea82 however bunged up by oem stuff to keep it small was, became much more than my 4wd in all power range after letting the little bugger breathe. Still 90hp.

I had great results tinkering with spfi. http://93loyale.50megs.com/ntakt.html pictures say it all. The egr is only the beginning to gaining. that bouncing intake boot is horrible.I like the cat because it gets hot, not a restrictor. Hot == ambient o2 sensor and ecu stuff like it, and evaporator i left alone.

I think I am going to start feeding it. Getting cold at night, he probably doesn't notice snuggled up with the wife in my bumper. I'll let him know I'm heading out by rattling the keys as I walk by. He'll roll up the web so as not rip my bumper off due to the web it spins being anchored to the ground, before I take off. The sube hasn't been targeted up front yet, such as by the mirrors by the critters. In due time I suppose. I don't know if it is a he or a she Maybe I ought to name it...the 100mph spider.