March 8, 200818 yr I just picked up a wrecked 89 GL with AWD and a 1.8L EA82 automatic. The problem is that I need to know what other years and model's body parts will fit it. It's got some rot in the body, but the engine runs so the $300 I paid for it should be worth it. Here are some pictures:
March 8, 200818 yr Find a none running EA82 and put the good engine in it. If the sub-frame is bent, I wouldn't spend much time trying to restore it. But if it's not, anything from an ea82 would fit, but I think in 1987 the bumpers changed and some other things.
March 8, 200818 yr High mileage, bent crumple zone in the uni-body, and body rot? You're kidding right? Pull the engine and tranny and push the rest off a cliff. EA82's are common as dirt, and about as cheap - sometimes cheaper.... good clean fill dirt is actually desireable to some GD
March 8, 200818 yr 180k is high mileage? I guess so, since my RX has 124k. If you can find a non running ea82....there ya go, or you can probably sell the parts more than you paid for the car?
March 8, 200818 yr If you can locate a donor car in a junk yard you can probably fix it pretty inexpensively. Restore it as a beater but not much else if there's rot. For body parts, the GL, GL-10 and DL wagons are all the same, as well as the later Loyale model which was mostly just a new name for the GL. Some mechanical parts will cross over, but this generation of car seems to be the most common. Known to us on USMB as an EA82 series subaru from the engines they came with. Good luck!
March 8, 200818 yr Johnson']180k is high mileage? In the scheme of things it is. To the average consumer it is. Yes there's still miles left in that engine, and probably more in the tranny - but 2/3's of it's life are through even to us "enthusiasts". Save the running gear - and any other decent parts for a transplant, but the body is not worth the effort - I wouldn't even fix that if it *wasn't* rusty. GD
March 8, 200818 yr everything on the front of the car, fenders, hood, bumper, headlightrs will fit from any 85-89 gl sedan, wagon, 3-door coupe, and 90-94 loyale sedan, wagon, coupe DL models have different headlights and bezeld but thet will fit in place of what came original. aside from thet, fenders, hood, bumpers fit the same. welcome to the subaru LEGO set, build it how you like with any part you want
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