Please join me in welcoming this museum piece to my workshop.

 

- 1986 Brat found 10 mls from home (92,000 Original)

- 3rd owner

- 10 years in field - Heads rebuilt at 60K

- Last 7 years a daily driver (20 mls round trip)

- Only mod is Cyclops and grill (fixed today properly)

- Original everything including speakers and AM/FM

- Light rust (Door and back rocker

- Plans for 15" wheels (steelies/24.5)  and later offroad tires & 2 inch lift

- FUTURE: Paint/EJ22T

 

Enjoy this little stock-r with me, 

 

 

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Yeah man, lookin good! Those wheels are kind of cool and I'm sure someone on here would buy them too. I think my favorite part of the car are those sick floor mats! Because they say racing it adds 5 hp bro!

I'd want to keep that one as it is as a survior.  NIce one.

Congratulations! It looks like a Gem indeed.

FYI 86 and 87 brats where the 2 last years they were made and they took the rear jumpseats away in those 2 years as well. So the jumpseats are not really period correct for this year but still looks cool. Nice shape to.

thanks for all the cool updates...

Go 4"! lift that sucker up! Then do a fresh EJ frankenmotor. Heck, you trade me your EA81 with its tranny and you can straight up take the 88 wagon and use the EA tranny and rearend for your brat when you do the EJ swap. Solves my Brat tranny issues and also the EA71 problem haha.

 

Summer!

What would you say haha... Are we talking the red wagon with the 4" lift.. 

 

I seriously want a good 3" lift. 2 is a little short, 4 seems too much.  Here is a pic of a 3 inch lifted with my 15's on it. This is exactly the jump ...

 

Here is a local guy that has an 86 brat where I want it ...  

 

So now for the list of mods as of today
Ej frankenmotor
5 speed D/R
4" lift on the cross members and 3" on suspension
15" 505 Pug Alloys

 

 

82 Brat instrument cluster
EA81 non-turbo power steering rack

 

 

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/topic/143334-86-lifted-brat/

Haha keep dreaming home boy. No I'm talking the beat up parts car sitting out there with a great 5 speed D/R. Heck you could even buy that whole car and convert your EA81 to fuel injected with the stuff on it. That's an idea as well, I will probably end up selling the Brat after I get it running and driving good so I can focus more on my loyale...and also to finance stuff like a rebuilt motor. I put the brat up on jack stands today to check out the tranny and come to find out, it has no oil in it. So I'm going to put some oil in it and see what happens. That would be alot easier then removal and replace.

Project 1: How much for the 5 speed D/R and Diff?

 

Only if you take it out of the donor (bring it down) and spend the afternoon helping me displace the mess in my son's 91. I'll do the Prep and have an engine hoist ready.

Do you think that this will absolutely fix the gear ratio issue?

It's worth some $$ to you if that fixes the 91. After the ratio fix, I can lift the Loyale..

 

I can sell my D/R 5 speed  or we can dissect it to see if it is a mismatch with 3.9 or later use in the Brat/Frankenmotor.

 

Project 2: Want to keep the Brat a little sane for now. I've determined that I have to go 3" or up to put bigger tires on the Brat. Patrick says he can make a 3 inch lift for me.