I talked to Jerry, that does the kits for the 4-speed to 5-speed swap, cool cool..

 

Here are pics of the exhaust I built.

 

 

Last night when I was gong to go home, I found a new electrical problem that came up. I may have shifted some wires around and something crossed, or maybe my headlight relay went bad.

 

With car running, when I turn on headlights, the headlight relay buzzes and the headlights themselves don't come on (all other lights do work except the gauge illumination lights).. AND the left + right blinker indication lights on the dash stay lit up green.

 

If anything brings my Brat in its current form to an end, it will be electrical nightmares. :-\

I need your exhaust:). That wheel well is looking MUCH better. Great build

man I need to find this electrical problem

 

short makes the headlight relay buzz, and both indicator lights for the turn signals on the gauges to stay on, and makes the headlights not work, etc

 

SHORT RELATES TO TRANS MOVEMENT/VEHICLE ROLLING DOWN THE ROAD!!!

Liken on/off/on/off/on/off momentarily, faster the faster you move.

 

all gauge needles are also doing crazy things, no gauge illumination, ignition coil wire is randomly losing power so I can't even drive down the road without spark randomly cutting out!

 

I just need pointed towards possible SOURCE of this issue, so hard to pinpoint the problem area...

fixed electrical issue before, bad ground

 

I've put a stock Hitachi carb and putting a more stock-like exhaust back on my car, sold my Weber and my exhaust to my roommate to go on his '84.

As long as you have the bowl vent open, and everything else unneeded capped off, the Hitachi carb will run ok with ALL emissions and extra crap deleted.

 

I drive the hell out of my Brat, for over 2K miles now, and my right front wheel bearing just started showing worse signs of going out soon.

A shop has my hub now pressing out the bearings. This is a bigger job and more expensive than I thought, but it will be closer to fixed right with 2 new wheel bearings on that right side.

 

I'm just getting the car ready to sell, sucks, will probably go on eBay.

 

This Brat means a lot to me, so much that I may some day hack up my other '91 Talon Tsi AWD project car and turn it into a custom car/truck Brat style!

With newer technology more power and 4WD capability to just improve on the genius Brat package.

Edited June 28, 201114 yr by TajMan

sweet work on the exhaust. I find the collector piece you made interesting. this gives me some ides as i had to cobble up exhausts. I learned something form your example!

 

I would like to make a true dual exhaust for an ej swap ea82.

My old roommate has that exhaust on his '84 Brat now along with the Weber carb, and he drove it to Georgia. He loves it says he'll never sell the car, says everyone else loves it and they offer him over $2,500 if he'd sell.

Its a very rich sound but nothing crazy, Conquest muffler perfect Brat match.

 

Yesterday I got an awesome deal!

Another '84 Brat, 138K miles, rear-seats!, no title, $450

I haven't started it yet but it supposedly runs good with a battery, and says trans doesn't grind gears and has the lo-range.

 

 

body in WAY better original and straight condition than this black thing was/is that I'm still driving..