Jerry DeMoss

Really nice looking intake! You may want to try soda blasting the carbs instead of bead blasting. It is much easier on the parts and it just washes off with water. Also another trick I used is to use a old tooth brush along with some creme hand cleaner with pumice in it and scrub the parts that need attention with it and then wash them off with water.

I am not 100% on that but by comparison the runners look a bit larger. I would eventually like to try it using a seat dynamometer test.(Arse)

http://mthobby.pcperfect.com/ch601/chengine6.htm This is some rather interesting info on using a ea82 spfi intake manifold and modifying it to fit a weber to it with a built up adapter plate. This is off of a aircraft site but very interesting. Pretty cool idea since the ea82 spfi will out flow a ea81 and ea82 carbed intakes.

Pull n save in aurora had a fwd xt last time I was there.

Since you are in cali I wouln't recomend plugging off the egr port on the ea81 head. Some emissions testing places may spot that and not like that, but if you aren't worried about that you can go to the hardware store and get a metric plug that would fit that hole.

Castrol makes a atf specific for japanese auto trannies. Good trans fluid and it isn't as expensive as the synthetic stuff. Should work good in the cold weather since you are in anchortown , ak.

Hey Mike I know they are the same. I have pulled a couple off at the yards comparing similarities. Good luck.

Looks like the black box is just a catch tank for the coolant. I have also seen some intake manifolds like the one on the spfi ea82 being converted over to a weber carb since the intake runners on that are larger than the standard ea82 and ea81. A special adapter plate would have to be made since there isn't one in production.

Actually there is quite a bit you can do depending on what you want to spend. Check out the Ram performance website. They make stuff for people using the ea81 in small aircraft and I am pretty sure you will find what you are looking for there.

I like that very much! I have always wanted to drive a little justy on gravel roads bouncing off of the rev limiter.

Glad I got to see this project car first hand. It looks alot better in person. Alot of hard work in this car is easy to see. Nice job .

Nice to see you got over here also. You just texted me earlier this evening. On pirates I go by Subyswamper.

Yes it was a auto to start with in the ea81t car. I guess that would explain some more room than what you are experiencing.

May be the switch is getting worn out? It could also be that the connection to the switch assembly is not very good. I would check the plug/connection to the switch first.

Hey I did a 5 spd 3.9 d/r trans swap into my '84 ea81t coupe and it didn't fit too bad. Wasn't any reason for pounding the tunnel but yours might be different. I did however use the kit made by Jerry S.

Really cool to hear good progress! Nice car for sure.

Really good project. I like that you are using the ea81 dc also. What dirtbike is that in the background?

That looks great! Nice and burly.

Nice buy! Those do look nice.

Depending on the mileage of the 22r I would recomend replacing the timing chain backing plate as well since they wear out over time and it ends up going into the coolant passage behind it. If you end up just replacing the head you should just try and keep the chain in the same position on the lowers sprocket and remove the head. Also the upper cam gear needs to go back on with the same side out as you took it off. A friend of mine put his on backwards and it wouldn't run. Cheers.

Dang it , why did you have to show pics of those nice tires on your car!? I really want some now, but I don't have a ea81 car anymore.:-\

What I used when doing the 5spd swap into the ea81t coupe I used the larger ea81 flywheel and a ea82 clutch disk with the ea81 pressure plate and ea82 thow out bearing. Sounds like a big mix of mischief but it works really well. The only other thing I did was shim the ea81 starter with some thin shim washers about 1mm to make it mate up with the ea82 trans better.

Welcome! We all long for that brat or hatch in the back of the barn in near perfect shape. Good luck on your journey finding your play toy subie.

Wow that looks nice! I like the blue coil springs.

Yes you are correct that you are better off getting a new O2 for the front one from subaru. I think that the rear that you replaced with a different one should be fine.