February 6, 200719 yr Author Its gonna be awhile before I do any kind of stereo stuff, Ive been stuck doing wheel bearings, ball-joints, and U-joints out the wazzoo these last few weeks. Curt, your offer sounds good and ill keep you informed when I start doing that. Im waiting on when school finishes up for the semester so I can start working 40+ hours a week again. What holds my radio up in my blue brat is a couple pieces of ply wood stapled together with blue cloth, tacky as could be, wires exposed and everything. Luckily I can snag the good one out of the white brat. Bratman how about you upload some pics of your brat sometime, i would like to see your EJ series swap.
February 6, 200719 yr http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=70148 most of the progress is here, haven't done much else to it in a few weeks, except fighting the rear diff out of it last weekend, cold weather has hindered my efforts pretty bad, however i did spend the better part of 4 hours sorting out the ej wiring harness friday:dead:
February 6, 200719 yr Author I have access to a sandblaster to use on them wheels, been leaning toward gold thinking that would look good on a blue colored car. What do you fellas' think?
February 6, 200719 yr I have access to a sandblaster to use on them wheels, been leaning toward gold thinking that would look good on a blue colored car. What do you fellas' think? Have you a Pic of that job Done, for Example?
February 7, 200719 yr if you do a gold color, do a fairly mellow gold. with that arctic blue, you don't want anything too gaudy. Mellow Gold was a Beck album, wasn't it?
February 7, 200719 yr ...Mellow Gold was a Beck album, wasn't it? I do believe so. I believe I'd try a bronze color, it's just dark enough not to stick out like a sore thumb, just gold enough you could call it gold. There's someone on here with a Loyale or GL10 EA82T four door that is a darker blue with bronze pugs, looks sweet.
February 7, 200719 yr Author Thought I could tell people that the whole blue car gold wheels craze started with the brats and they brought it back for the STi. I might do the bronze or I might just do a real high quality white, I dunno.
February 7, 200719 yr I'm thinking a trip to the HomeDepot lumber dept. and you'd have that Woody Wagon back to it's original glory in no time. My Hatch had the same floor "boards". My solution was... http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/photos/showphoto.php?photo=11732&cat=500&perpage=12&sort=3&ppuser=584 Put a new body on it and keep going...
February 7, 200719 yr Thought I could tell people that the whole blue car gold wheels craze started with the brats and they brought it back for the STi. I might do the bronze or I might just do a real high quality white, I dunno. Well there is some partial truth to that... The ea81t cars had gold in place of silver or chrome on all of the badging and side moldings/front bumper. And several of the darker color brat's, like black, maroon and the dark blue came with gold wheels on them.
February 7, 200719 yr Well there is some partial truth to that... The ea81t cars had gold in place of silver or chrome on all of the badging and side moldings/front bumper. And several of the darker color brat's, like black, maroon and the dark blue came with gold wheels on them. I had an '83 Wagon that was gold with gold wheels, came that way as far as I know, they hadn't been repainted.
February 7, 200719 yr Thats right people, The old Gen subaru designers were way ahead the Subaru Technica International!!!! So what if our gen turbo cars only got 91 heart pounding, blood curdling horsepower.... We had gold before gold was the cool thing to do!
February 8, 200719 yr Amen to that. Anyone got any pics of the OEM gold subaru wheels? these are right outta the wheel page on this site
February 8, 200719 yr Amen to that. Anyone got any pics of the OEM gold subaru wheels? The best I've got of my old wagon, it and the wheels look way darker than thay actually were.
February 8, 200719 yr That is what the ones on my brat look like, just mine have some more rust on them, but hey thats the story of my life....
February 8, 200719 yr Now that I have seen it, darkening the gold paint used does ALOT to tone down the "gaudy" factor that I typically find distasteful about gold paint.. in other words, dark gold == gooood... and I would NOT have thought so, without seeing it. thanks for the fotos!
February 8, 200719 yr IMO it has a lot to do with the color of the car they are going on, but bling bling gold makes me want to hurl, while tasteful gold or bronze on the right color is a beautiful sight.
February 8, 200719 yr Author I plan on snagging the front mud flaps off that other brat sometime soon. What color should the "subaru" be written and does anyone have any pics of those?
February 8, 200719 yr Im diggin' them gold wheels on that wag0n. They had been repainted a little darker gold (as was the wagon) but like most repainted wagon wheels the paint was peeling off, the gold they orginally came was a little brighter than that (less olive green in it) but not gaudy at all.
February 9, 200719 yr the mudflap writing should be in red to match the rear flaps They should be red yes, but most of them i've found are white like on mine, anybody have a set of rears for a brat, i'm missing one damn rust
February 9, 200719 yr Author I have a front pair on my parts brat and I already have a pair on the back that came with my blue brat. Thanks though, but if you have pics I would really like to see them.
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