1987 subaru: dual range

[Barry Donovan]

thick as maine fog



It is not all year to get the fog wetter than rain. It may be the only thing that adds to an engine going legend. Change is good. I wanted to drive in this to verify the optical distributor, no vent.. all my wire hookups. All premeditated just for this weather. Today it was the steering wheel that had my curiosity more than the other stuff. Buggy has passed all tests.

I have got to remember the word hypereutectic .. this car needs a ten minute warmup in this density. I use a subaru ea82 piston as an ash tray, it reminds me every time. A mustang scooted right on by this evening, getting on the highway. It was not until the way back I realized how long I have to wait to get a strong advance. oh well. 27 years this December..

I still want to play with wiseco pistons and a spare ea82 engine. I am on the lookout right now for a short block. I also still wonder exactly what I have built. it is sure as hell no slouch. The racing wheel is quite handy. I may have even felt a strut bending.. with it all still, I can feel out all the endpoints.

off to winter. The sun cycle stuff is different this time.. it is more comparable to a rare 100 year old one.. so far predictions of my own are true. no usa hurricanes, unless they go texas way. Same as the 100 yea rold cycle that matches this 2013 one. Come January, if the real cooldown of change has not happened.. well its big trouble. Ice instead of snow, contrasting horrors. We get those in dead sun spells. 2008 was the last one...the sun was quiet. Interesting stuff to learn, kills surprises..this time it may be a double peak and a dead spell.. that is a big act of god if it meets violently. 1987 was the last freak flood. the river stayed real low for months before hand. it is that low again. I predict a good flood, into spring.

anyway, got the war ricer as ready as it can be.

[Barry Donovan]

365 weeks

I did not know the significance of 7 years. Seven year itch, seven year that, seven year this..seven years of bad luck.

365 weeks. Must be as simple as that. I have had the Subaru for 7 years. my only daily driver.

• 104k to 142k. A lot of memories to keep.
• a blown engine, a
• headgasket that spewed a metallic fire on the highway.. drove home on two cylinders. A
• 650 mile ride to a gravestone with arod bearing missing, zero oil pressure.
• A lightning strike while driving.. with camera rolling...
• Bad clutch.. still going.
• hit and run, chained to a tree to stretch it back out...
• and then a smashing in the driveway by stepmother. Stepmothers are great for that.
• A chunk of ice to the windshield by a tractor trailer in fog slushed ice storm on I-95.
• Upon last check, 18 weather records broken since owning. Be it a heat wave. The snappiest weird thing I can remember was -20 something to 55F above..less than 3 days. I popped a few more teeth.
• I cannot remember details of the rear end snapping in its parking spot.. that may have been it.
• There was also a 9 foot snowfall record for bangor in 2008.. I associate the snap with that, no real memory.
• Ice fog is the scariest ride. This car is God in it. that inversion stumps companies even today. I added it to the tune of this one. Giggle at my 3 inch steel duct from a 550 caterpillar again...
• first engine to ever hear 9000 rpm on my own build... without intention.
• Describing the sound of an air fuel problem lead to formula 1 advice.
• First and only optical distributor ignition, all digital in my history of 25 years of my own machines.
• A relative called me late, raining.. stuck 90 miles from home. I arrived in the parking lot he claimed to be in 45-50 minutes later. How fast was I going? We figured 114mph (all highway).

I was sick along the way. More than once. I even got advice from the net..strangers caught onto my strain. "Do 1 chore a day..walk away." Do not know the person who said it..but that was very smart. thank You. I do have a ptsd..a fear of no car at all. Not really concerned anymore.. but that really did stress me out. I have been in the dark, in the rain, ice and snow doing something with this car..realtime, real world. I even pushed into a shopping center parking lot and tore into the front end to get to a timing belt.

There was an apocalyptic event for little tin cans...the year my car snapped in its spot. I live on a very busy street, the routine of sights and sound out my window. A lot has changed.

I am the one demanding integrity. I am a bit hard on the old sube. It is funny. I am beyond the age of being aggressive... end up with the toughest genius on earth. It tricks every opinion out of an idiot ever. Someone told me that was going to happen. You see.. this realm is beyond my years.. and I am getting older myself.

I have video that is 6 years and 10 months old..alot of photos. I have been mellow thumping melodies for a couple of those years.. but photos and music is not an in thing anymore.

maybe I'll gather all the driving clips...long edit. The sound changes over 7 years is uncountable. The weirdest part is my own life and death hill. I am in a few photos and videos. Gained 25 critical pounds. the sube gained about 200..yes, also critical.

We eat lard together. Most go on a diet. We stand up tall.. most drop to the ground.

it has been time to hide this, get another car for daily torture. The way this story began is not al that motivational. someone else found this, lead me to it.. in fact, gave me a ride to go get it.

The deeper meaning beyond the Subaru was the bridge from my last working memory as a crew chief.. to coming around and remembering the 50 year old planes more than anything. As a typical veteran, that would have been ptsd. Not for me. I just took advice to take on something I wanted to do. A change of heart gave up my muscle cars as daily.. like most of us. this boxer design has future. No excuses can get out of the facts.

I'll always feel good about this one.

the most valuable lesson is my lesson in steel. An analogy to explain. I am going to keep it my secret. There is something about my surname, a dream, and iron..it aint exactly masochist. Sickness and a slow clock brings on the darndest things. Wind it back up, most forget.. but it is still there. The past present and future.

I am off to other things. My first edit of this post was very foggy outside. A warning by the weather service: less than .25 mile visible.. of course I could not wait to drive in it. The lights still need no extra. With not much to see, not much to say.. one can only do. Risk at every move. Emerging from the fog, alone.. still has twisted memories of someone else, stabbing at their own problems.. stabbing them at you. Sound is never forgotten...as long as you can hear. Beyond real does not need ears. The past emerging alone is a winner.. and one would still call it a loser...while being one blindly.

the moon is bright this evening. the steering wheel shimmers the little chrome bolts. Shadows in the holes of the deep dish. the old wheel was a real asshole. I can feel the heat coming from the vent through the holes, and see my gauges. this is startling. The moon, its like a light bulb. I am looking at something I have not in 17 years of driving these models. A tough feeling, the feedback. Creeping on the nominal 90 is even easier.. I habit to watch the tach, through the shadows created by the moon. the sound of the boxer in the moon is always special... I do not know why. Don't need to.

the other part of the 7 years, and 3 days to be exact.. is the moon and sun, and wind, and perfect weather. I keep that silent.. like my steel work. I know what has faded away, and what was never enjoyed. I am driving neither.

I make many small clips, add them together eventually. They call that a "montage". Seven years is enough to make something effective. I have one full moon clip about 5 years old.. the original clutch howled when the moon was full. The spec clutch is very quiet in comparison.. must be the balance and painted clutch can. The engine sound as of now is a dream in comparison to the past. Some like the old 3 cylinder wobbler, but I know better. A 4 cyl boxer is much more deserving than the retard.

This vid is 89 octane, AFR is off by 1 point. It is truly a high octane engine. Off by 1 point from October to April is ok.. but the "btu" value of heat is down as well. Anyway... it is still trucking. monitored closely.

I awoke to frost on the roof of the building next door, and an official temperature of 39F. I know this state is the coldest. The thermometer lags by weeks in the autumn.. even a Maine warm one. The continental chill across the Hudson bay. Nothing gets in its way.

Tough. I could explain that too...but no. It is silent like my steel work. There is mythical things to mention about maine and a car. Dual exhaust is an inspiration to keep the yaw trimmed for example. The cold is out there before the temps read it. The exhaust moves the car like a jet ski for some weeks in the fall. The subaru is funnier than my v8s. Torque steer is typically tugging the wheel to the left.. in the fall, it is a slight turn to the right, the exhaust is thrusting. No car gets away with it.. imagination that all is perfect, only leads to badly worn tires instead. I could ramble on along time. My dads rigs and maine..wow. The car is something to giggle over. Always will be.

[Barry Donovan]

looking back, I do forget my favorites. the cheapest videos, on the cheapest camera captured this as original, turning 20 years. the new subarus replicate the sound of the original carb ea82.. it is obvious now, after watching the old vids. Today, it is obvious I went modern can of digital whoopass to time the little basturd. Sounds like a buzzing bee today...Again, all on its own. The closest I have heard today is the BRZ. It is funny to ponder one EA82 has all of subarus engine timing history and presence. It does it all.

I have another video, I'll post soon...
in October 2007 I simply went as fast as I could with my newfound video camera at 1 megapixel. Four years later in 2011, I strangely found a sign and an onramp to use as a timer to compare 2011 version of my engine, to the original in 2007, from the same location, merging onto the highway.
A timer shows 40 seconds cut down to 34. So, I'll be adding the 7th year, it may be in the 20 second range. The first 3 gears today reel in the old cars top speed...and I still do not keep it aggressive. Says a lot about one engine, and evolution.

Documenting is good, even if seeming useless at the time.

[Barry Donovan]

one video per post. Gotta get used to that "go advanced" socialism.

humored a speed compare with an old video. it is funny.. the hitachi carb, tiny intake and spfi cams did the same as my setup now. A lot more noise. Today, the difference is how casual it reels it in, the stamina is thousands of times versus wondering when the little buggy was going to explode. Warmups are faster, a long list of chores. Never a badass. Quite the opposite of a pickled monkey attacking all life as we know it.

the you tube description. this is added to the for sale ad.

6 years, 3 different setups. I go no faster, the last part of the video is the last build. Plenty enough for modern traffic. Video never captures everything, but the idea is across.
2007- solid lifter, tiny cams hitachi carb
2011 - spfi cams, solid lifter, hitachi carb (original engine)
2013 - spfi engine 1990(?), complete (hydraulic lift) and Rochester 43mm carb
The last clip sounded the best as well.

And for the hundredths of times I have forgotten .. 91 octane minimum. I am into 38000 miles so far... miles go by. I was at a pump where 91 was blocked with tape.. lucky me, ended up with 89 octane, thought nothing of it. I always assume a hoax about high octane, but this engine is for real. The longest 20 bucks in fuel drain ever. (This is at mid 20s mpg at its worst.) I'd love to find 93 octane someplace.. maine is an idiot with the octanes. Anyway, 91 grabs the ramp that is set up for this. Two hands on the wheel, no torque steer..which tells me, octane even sets the steering. No need to blow torch the motor into squashy mount direction. The vid is with the stinky 89 (I mean literally, it stinks out the exhaust). Throttle is spongy.

Four cyl is big drama abut that stuff. I'll leave my videos slow for internet reasons. on the good ramp, I don't hold the camera..pay attention until third runs out. I recorded that version just once...and deleted it. The AFR also drops to my tune at the carb if using 91, back to the 14ish numbers to cruise easy. From there the climb of ramp is where I set it. It is rather quick. The lower the octane number the leaner the AFR reads...the exhaust even stinks less than 91, loses power. The tinny noise like a ping is in the exhaust side at the heads on less than 91 octane. At least it is not up top. That would pop another engine. I do know why this needed the big pipes...it was fuel octane.

Anyway, this project is all done. Found the smalls, and the bigs, sort it out .. its been a long road. Not one bit of normal advice came from a Subaru forum...and that was good in a way. The engine is in perfect condition, stereotyped, paid 100 bucks for it. Time to pack it up and leave my hotel California story of maine.

the car project, it is like human health. One correct meal at a time, gaining foods from all over the world to rise above the pile of shit that created it in the first place. I am off to eat some spinach filled ravioli, mama italiano ego something or other. Pasta is useless you know, a food made from poverty. it is what is served with it, that is the health.

there is some power to be had with these, even more surprising than a beetle. My only vid with the sharper ramp climbing was titled "0 to 60". What I did not tell the world is the guesses were my quarter mile. (approaching 100mph). I found it is still no surprise, fixed like it is.. 13s, 14s, and 15 seconds for a quarter. Simply American normal.. and very lightweight at 2500-3000, so to me, it is not all that impressive. Pondering the big transmission etc, and just 1781cc, it is a pause of silence, a reality unmatched. That is the trick of the boxer. A guru could just read the carb in the 40s millimeters and know its more towards a serious build. A lot of people do not know that stuff.

[Barry Donovan]

The flows

this is a blog post, I wanted to share here.

in 2005, I was handed a 2wd loyale for work around a house. The house burned down, after the owner passed on. A big house is in its place today. I am reminded heat comes from many places, including illness. I knew that place was not going to make it.. like a chemistry of too many people and years.I was watching a video with the aston martin vantage, the first years of the v12. Hood vents made of carbon fiber, I could guess other more subtle chores to alleviate that type of volume on heat as well, for the tiny engine bay.
Back to subarus of the kind in this diary.. I learned the flows well. I have pegged the temp readings in to the red. Blown a headgasket.. melted a clutch to useless after glassing the surface.
simply summed up, after a normal ignition, modern coil, loyale spfi cams (no egr necessary):

• Get an all copper/brass or aluminum radiator, the side tanks of plastic do not work on any model.
• The fuel injected subaru with the fixes also could use hood vents above the heads, or do what I did, drill the bumper add some some screens inline with the heads. The EFI model has hertz that does not go away right under the hood skin.. it is freakish.
• The carb cars, need a proper metallic lid on the carb. No hood vents needed.
• Alloy wheels is an awesome heat kill. They are the end points of the radio we start.. called the engine.
• exhaust: two inch minimum everything.
• The oem cats are so old, most would have new anyway, if not, change it.
• A most peculiar oddity with these subarus, is the air mix valve at the heater box. Air conditioned models do ok, but the carb version with no a/c needs a swtich or cable to manually adjust. Leaving it as factory is a real bitch in a lot of weathers. There was no adjusting them. This adversely affected the engine, cabin volume ..and an engine that knows it is there, right behind it.
• A wagon needs another layer in the back to keep fuel tank below cooler.
• A wagon needs rear side windows tinted
• direct driven engine fan, I went custom, anything works. Leave the thermal triggered electric still in place.
• small air dam below radiator. Looks like a basic trans am addon from the 1960s. The subaru needs 2.5 inches, and flexible.
• BIG pitch stop, that has to be custom. I used remains of a Chinese breaker bar.
• oem engine grounds are all normal, and they are as smart as it gets. I even use the same length as oem when making my own cables.
• one more thing, may not be necessary..the professional products oil filter, billet reusable. that is a cooler and fantastic keeper of crud. It did need an extra pressure relief (I use gm version relief)

From there, no problems at all. 300hp and beyond is a can do. I write this in memory of some serious illness mysteriously coinciding with the EA82 subaru. My sister was just one of several I encountered…going back older than most wrx drivers in the fanboy clubs. The nastiest version ever is the automatic 2wd…or any 2wd where the models where the computer is fast. All version with egr and carbs are also crazy. There is a fix for every model

one thing not mentioned is the balanced clutch, painted clutch can. That in theory should create more heat.. to go that far to have a clutch in stages by SPEC, would have all the other normal upgrades already in place. (the radiator, etc etc.). The opposite of balance is a dog shaking off after a mud puddle.

Balance needs genuine heat dispersion thought out.

one thing that keeps me talking boldly, is realizing circumstance in my baron locale. many months of nothing in the in winter months. I really have cruised over 90mph for 100 miles.. more than once. City traffic is as nasty as NYC in the city in contrast. This buggy has done it all. Just recently the local power company fixed a powerful ground loop in the wires overhead on the poles. New transformers everywhere. That is another element for genius to decipher.. I had to learn it involuntary... if second sight comes into play for this sube models. Do not fear it , kill it with good advice..

there is other things to do, but I am leaving this post for the kid that gets the loyale for free. I went beyond on some things.

I finished off with anodized racing wheel, a universal hub..and a gasket for the gyro (no bleed ever, n more loops).

the design of the steel in the diff bar is more than for appearance of symmetry and needed structure..it is thoughts on a diffuser, like a race car gets in the back.

Even the gear shifter is a thought process. I wanted hollow end to feel the car like a tractor trailer truck (all hollow gains a "feel" of other components).

The radio is a delco, they are always smart.

I could ramble on and on more than I have..

[Barry Donovan]

A rubber glove away..

not what your thinking, you anal based people.

When I first moved here into the lovely drug infested gun toting bath salt sucking ghetto, the Subaru had 104k miles. Solid liftered and silent. it was within days the car went crazy. Never stayed silent again, all the way to blowing every component off the front of the engine mysteriously. A rod bearing disappeared. Not just worn. It disappeared. It is called a "ground loop" from the tension lines. In this video, they are hooking up the new transformer to an insulated line (thank god), I saw tehm install this pole a few years ago. Yet another lightning strike I recorded on video was the old pole getting hit. Enough to blow an ear drum.

Also in video you can see the old lines that were wide open. Big volts before entering a transformer. They have that all calmed today. Not in video is the pole they removed at the other end of the building I am recording from. The power line is far away from the tree.. where my Subaru parks below. I am enthused to add some more gadgets in the build. I learned to make it "ground loop" proof anyway.. Not many think of that stuff. I caught on with old military jets. Never forgot. These guys being maine based and city knowledged.. they must be quite smart. This place has unique traits being at the end of continent , by the ocean, in a wind no other place in north America gets.

[Barry Donovan]

seems appropriate to add the moon mathematically to this people killing car shredding place.

[Barry Donovan]

A compliment and a traffic jam.

My dad. He has been a truck driver since I could fit under a macks passenger seat (don't ask).

Today, he gets in the car and laughs at my tiny racing steering wheel.

We get going down the road, and he said the sound was really something. ..and he noted it is very smooth.

That felt good. I have been an animal with my cars since I was a kid to torture my dad with them. Always v8. Four barrel..the routine. some are still lucky to be living it.

On the highway, traffic slowed up right on the onramp near my place.. huge concrete barriers going up in the middle of the highway 95 . It does give a hint of this locales sleeping monster. I bet travellors from away ponder why the size of the barriers so large.

Anyway. I got the wah wahs of a formula car where the speeds are not quite first gear, a bit slow for second. A testament to large trying to be small. Reminds me of some porsche gt3 class in pit lane obeying speeds.

The little sube needs a big road. Or the skill of those that know better, to do anything the world dishes out in traffic..

I have never had a car with such a tiny stroke. The wah wah air fuel bounce is exact science...and I love it. Try replicating it. It is about not being small enough, even in the idle circuits. In the n/a world, there is no doubting a tuner has been there from a racing realm. Regardless of engine size, there is some lines drawn for pleasant at all times. I cross it...barely. When it replicated a porsche the first time. I laughed out loud. I refuse to go back to the pipsqueak it once was. A mans foot is at the helm, the old way.

In temptation. I know the lively stuff I have done is not on the net. There is a runtime that turns heads, I don't share it. Even in conservative, the slower speeds reveal something that cannot be hidden. I caught onto this a very long time ago with cars. In a way, retarding timing is not worth it either. A race runtime at all times is quite alright with the little engine. Decibels, gaining attention is not however..

I am glad to know the different modes of this one , took awhile. I have not even cooled the intake to the racer mode. In cold starts this year, fuel is off by a whole point on aFR on the lean side, waiting for the heat to rise through the coolant channel in the intake manifold. For those that do not know.. to feed the fat, there is another realm, to be safely had.. even bigger than it is.

anyway, the smooth compliment meant alot. This one was not easy. I want to sound calm as modern boxer in the gt3 realm, miniature version. The curve of those standards apply the same, displacement is just another number. I had to find the corrective design, shrink it down. Porsche is the only one.

[Barry Donovan]

RE post 199

there is something I did not add, worthy of bangshift. it is one of very few cars where I try to portray it as slower. I have reason to believe like a lot of car journalists on the net sharing.. it attracts the damndest things if to show an improvement.

That is fear.

Anyway, I skipped over a gear in the last clip of the power comparison. the power increase is beyond 50%.

I have timing retarded to match factory 5200-5600. the engine in reality hits 7000 easy. Quite a devilish climb.

I may share that someday. I might not. A legend always has an area of grey..

I get paying attention to weather this time of year. Monkeys snap to the unexpected..that could be the fear driving the predictions. I could just drive away to peace..but no. I await the army of truth, even if they are flying like angels in a dream.The alignment of the moon to the telephone pole tells me this winter is going to match some of the coldest (ok, just kidding). I have tinker'd with written weather records and tcl/tk for several years. A script to decipher info I want. It is a computers fun. History repeats itself. In fact, digging at weather records taught me a lot about the wavelength of people: forget history, make up your own egotistically.

My guess...
October 30, to April 30 being an average below 32F. Yes that is about six months. I have lived here for the normal 4 month average being 32F or less. Not much to notice..except how wimpy vehicles are. That is always normal.

I also assume little moisture, huge wind when warm takes a stab from the south. January.. feisty. My birthday is always feisty. My dad has the weather clock built in, does not know it. He was heck bent on perfect antifreeze for the big cat diesel this year.

Speaking of hiding the exact journal for this buggy. I heard a peculiar sounding Subaru, the 2 liter has always been different, much like the older EA series..So of course I get a glimpse of the source of sound, and it is a wagon well known from a local forum. I bet that guy gets the same vibe as me sometimes, just for sharing. Anyway, I'll keep posting as things change.

Today was simply dropping idle by 100. For the monojet it was either air screw for idle or actual idle to change slightly, when into the bomb maine drops in October to april. Given the 17mm bolt for the idle, I ponder how many years it will do the .25 turns back and forth as we all spin around the sun. 27 times for this tin can...I wonder how many miles that is for the earth. Tilting back and forth, hot and cold, dodging hondas (meteors)..

in a roundabout way, the sube has 15,726,807,301.608 miles.

felt a chill, north is moving. I check google earth for beyond our borders.



lo and behold , below zero to the northwest of Hudson bay. Nice and slippery breeze to maritimes, maine, etc. This north I refer to leaves a chilling jump even with a thermometer sitting next to you reading 68F. R-19 walls is nothing. It has been awhile for the -20s F, I am guessing something unusual happens in that way this year.

[Barry Donovan]

choke pull link

Thinking of cold chores. Choke and antifreeze check. In every day runtime some might remember this about the monojet...the choke pull was never right, even when right. One run on the big vibrating six shook the choke pull rod to another incorrect measurement. Come time to start in the cold, it was shrunk bent, and leaving choke partially open. No cold start. Most never added the spring either..

lack of instructions. I caught on because I had to, 20 years ago when I ran this on a 250ci. That engine tortured this carb.



The boxer is very smooth, the linkage goes a whole year, and in the fall, right now, it needs to be adjusted. I finally swapped out the 35 year old rod and simply gave it some ingenuity. No side to side bend to get caught on the carb, the choke pull has a clever pc screw with a fat shank and smaller thread end. It rides the choke pull like a bearing with brass nut all the way as tight as I dare to challenge the little screw. I could not find a nut, used a motherboard standoff made of brass. the fat shank of screw allowed this to tighten right in and still maintain a space for a bearing type purpose to remain movable.

The other end, simply drilled for a bigger screw and nut. Silicone is the thread lock (pro seal gas proof). Learning the monojet utilizes statics, an exact resistor size for the choke.. I opted for the SECC sheet metal from an old pc to be the link.

Drive around to verify this. worked good. All this time, the choke was not open all the way. Did not notice. The piece gets warm, verifying static mystery. No heat there mind you, in fact it is damn cold..but the choke linkage, always been a weird thing about this one.

The SECC material lives for that stuff. The monojet is about the most dramatic on that subject, up by the choke. A mystery. It is simply the choke resistor grounding on the air drawn across the stainless choke flap in the carb barrel. Does not care how cold it is outside...gets warmed. this pulls at the emulsify as well. Very precise game once this place gets cold. I took a long time, unsure of what material to use. the SECC was an old thought, finally went ahead with it. Too big, draws ground away from choke, and that kills the cold main well. Don't want that. So.. to be as conservative as possible, that is the external part of choke. Thin sheet metal that defies hertz, of course that means electricity won't fly...keeps it in the barrel where it needs to be.

A lot of traits to fuel injection. the lit carb with a needle. the mechanical part explains 35 years ready for a hundred more.

31F at around 7pm...dropping fairly quick.

[Barry Donovan]

antifreeze

good stuff today. My worst nightmares are deicing fluid and first gen glowing nuclear antifreeze for cars. No more battery, death, and whatever else the thieving chemist put into the baby killer original. Today is good stuff.

Zerex g-o5. I do not know chemistry, but that stuff is great. Don’t have to shew pets and children and elderly away bfore putting on a zoot suit to open the cap. I have even got this stuff in my eye.
Anyway, 5 balls floating in the tester, that is 35 below. A gentle idle to full warm..and a drive around. This slicks up the water pump too, thermostat. Good to have a 50/50 mix. There is a big drama for the sube block materials, it does not ground. The antifreeze and metal pipes are the systems dispersal. Radiators, etc. I mentioned side plastic tank radiators are useless for a reason. Even as all brass copper, there is quite a changeover to thicken antifreeze. Very nice runtime, smooth.
Away it goes.

Some unique notes,
aside from needing metal radiator, good heater core flowing. Listen to the engine, right front cylinder is always leanest, and hottest.. listen for wrist pin or rod bearing during the big coolant change. That is how to determine a good EA82. This one is very nice. The sintered casting generation, 1985-87 has a big noise for you there, all models...just change coolant. A barely winning version calms down in days weeks months and years.

Oil gauge is in the book specs exactly. I listen anyway. My first run of these had the cold casted sintered blocks.

This one now is the last version, very nice engine…done right. The old engine, after making spotless in and out.. revealed the bad block. Some say I should have left it a pig to keep it sealing.. but no. I am not like that. Bad is bad. Can’t clean the engine to reveal good, time to fix it or kill it.

the last big helper for this one is the spfi centered cams. No use for egr means all taken in, is spit out the exhaust. That is actually the big chemical drama fix, as nearly any antifreeze is considered normal as a new mix. What we end up with years later is our problem.

funny clip for today. The fart can aurora is rice to me, but I guess it goes farther than that to define it.

This post says why they get that loud for double digit horses...there is no ground as to keep the little pipsqueaks running in tight tolerances of a tiny stroke. This is the first engine I had ever encountered that mentality. All my upbringing past is cast iron GM. Change a radiator to metal in rice, it gets quieter while gaining power. Rice has an element of ass first.. and it is comical. I don't mind getting nerdy to learn and explain. Sitting there dumbfounded as a mid 70s big block has no real excuses either.

The bridge to build two realms will never happen. My strain is why I am here...I built and build at everything.

Washed car off, as I got antifreeze everywhere as per usual. My hand spans the radiator, now ponder the tiny valve to drain it. In contrast, the inventors need a step ladder to reach the bottom of radiator, and 3 men on a 3 inch monkey wrench.

Anyway, electrocuted myself today with the 30k volt coil, kicked off the heater relay. Sputtering my "waterproof" setup was frustrating, felt my way around for the hidden monster. The coil cover I made was not smart enough.. better off with no cover at all. this coil is the modern epoxy type, they designed it with fins, separated connections. Not sure why I wanted a cover.. old school thinking I guess. Water trapped underneath.

smoothed out some, and must be the last filter to let the spikers go: the uncovered nubs of the newer coil has a purpose.

one whiff of water in the intake tract is a complete misfire, not just one cyl, all four. I suppose the only advantage is no hydrolocking engine explode. Too small for water. I took it to 85-90mph for some miles, before the low of 26F sets in. Seems alright as of now. Another thing with the little engine, my v8 did this as well..when maine hits the 30s and less in the autumn, big power change. spongy throttle in comparision to summer. A similarity aside from carb, is the direct fan grinding away at a very cold mass of air. I get away from all that in my dads rigs. I have driven into 30mph north wind at zero F, snonadoes flying past some fresh powder version of snow on the highway, 75-80..and a full heater on sitting in the seat in a t-shirt.

There is a means to overcome the standards, think as big as nature. Rigs do good. The next winter chores, always procrastinated, is a heater helper. I have resistor wire, some aluminum, even a pc fan at 12v. Maybe make an extra heater for the recycle side of duct. It did good this evening on its own, about 35F at 85-90mph. Of course the heat exactly coincides with 14.6-15.1 on the afr.. engine cools off very fast to veer off the stoich. Unlike the bigger stroke engines, a lean condition for this one is a dramatic cooldown, instantly, realtime. Too fat does the same.

[Barry Donovan]

choke

the first gauge to measure an unknown monster of volts smashing at the sube backwards from the ground up was the choke. Hitachi and Rochester. I thought I was imagining things.." there is no way this is happening". The choke needed a monster rich setting to gain enough choke to shut it. I then went further with a monster spring on the choke pull to be sure the damn thing shut in the cold. It stayed warm at all times.

With the power lines above fixed, the choke does not need the spring. The little marks Rochester gave it are back to right in the middle. This now means longer lasting choke, I took the loaded spring off the choke pull. I caught onto this in recent cold starts, the choke was slamming shut like a bank vault and flooding the car to a no start (I should say starving air). For six years this has been attacked by asshole engineering from the outside world.

The odds of this event are... bangor maine. Bangor maine is the odds of this event.. and it gets even weirder about other subjects. Just add arctic.


some photos

car running, choke pull is pulling. Choke wide open. the only measurement exact needed was the grey secc metal bridging the choke link to choke pull, and it can be off by an 1/8th inch or even more. I have found these never adjusted...still running. My local problem was very freakish, I mean powerball odds of freakish.



car off, while warm. Choke stays open by sliding along the choke pull after the choke pull is released. I was hoping to have this traditional setup eventually. I am glad 30k volts is not smashing me and my Subaru anymore from the wires above. Imagine explaining this stuff on forums that cry over a spark plug or everyday chore...


here is a few minutes after shutdown. It is getting cool outside, choke closes within minutes as the bimetal cools...sliding back across the released choke pull.

the option with the spring added to choke pull works great for various choke errors. While choke is in a good working order, spring is not needed. Most cars go for 25-100 (I am aware it was invented as mainstream for 1969, GM) years with the electric choke up and running normal. I am glad the option exists for the spring...helped conquer strange errors. I actually kept the spring in the glove box..and added a note to this cars little book getting thicker.

This is the only oddity with the Rochester monojet, and the secondary adjustment screw permanently covered was the other one.
The choke simply reveals a very bad ground in the cars environment. The error being as bad as it was, also attacked this cars fuel pump. so, it is not just the carb.. bad is bad.

[Barry Donovan]

seven years of clips

I did find an old folder, found the very first clip..and that led to this 3 minute montage. I am going to leave this as my last vid. By the time I find eye to eye with this little genius, half the planet will be annihilated.

my insanity, my pleasure.

This started off in 2005 at another forum, another Subaru. The real builders seem to disappear, I ended up here at a hot rod forum. That is my brain power behind it.. alot of years of gm v8. This little Subaru is my dynamical quest. Still future to me...

the humble beginning? I was afraid of the broadway bangor southbound onramp to I-95. That is this entire project..that simple.
The last real builder I talked to that knew how to make an ea82 move lives in Australia. Aside from that.. nobody. Not even here at bangshift. It is time to let the 2005 vow go, keeping track publically is complete. The goals are met. Dreams are the only thing left.. the reality is nobodys business anymore. That is my way of saying, the sky is not even the limit.

Upon attempting "rapid renewal registration", I was told I needed to sign a new form for "antiques". A bit ridiculous. I am assuming I will be registering this as "custom." it was a toss up last year as well. Ended up simply antique. Maine law has a flaw with the antique stuff, demanding a primary plate of the primary vehicle. ..and that is illegal. Demanding an owner to have two cars, because one is antique? May as well buy two houses because one is 100 years old. The newer one has to be the primary, because maine said so.

the second fault with antique is saving the car for shows or displays, parades etc. A 27 year old Japanese vehicle does not have a show in maine.. nevermind a parade.

lastly, the longer battle with this car was the states inspections. The better this car is towards oem, the more noises it makes. Could not wait for the older realm of registrations. Even the hill holder works with a bang. This one does not do what modern cars do. All mechanical. The rear end is changed enough structurally, custom certainly fits the description...but antique also fits. Will see how this goes.

Today, my brother and I stopped and looked at a 1972 delta88 royale, mint condition, low miles.. still had tall 235 75 tread with whitewalls. A 455 is only a guess. We both remember them everyday, there have been 3 in my family. My dad, brother and I all had one. A memory worth living again.

[Barry Donovan]

custom registration

This state and formality is a bit retarded, always has been. It is beyond memory to list examples.

Not to be a downer, going into re-register the car for this year needed a primary plate of another vehicle. does not make sense, in fact that is the retarded socialism that keeps this place at forbes bottom of the list. It is that stupid.

Last year, reeling in the memory of where to go with the sube.. "custom" was the goal, as I had been calling state police to do the inspection...somehow ended up antique. Mechanics go monkey over this car...even when it was all factory. The guy who owned the speed shop and stalled it trying to get it into his garage. Real winner there. Special people and their special business.

I know where the real builder went, they are not coming back after this states mentality...not anytime soon.

Anyway, after the new plates, there needs to be an appointment with some state police garage and go from there.

The rear end structure is not Subaru, nor is the rockers. The air fuel.. etc etc. To keep a record of one of the worst tin can oem compilations ever to slither into America explains the extreme work easily. this car could not hold its own back end with dual range, and shipped with incorrect struts. Previous owners kept trying..

on the right track anyway. It left off needing a new tire, so delaying all this to the right time. This month gets the plates, yet another pile of money, a new registration. A lot of work to keep this in normal inspections, deserves a sticker.

This also means miles are not limited anymore.. or whatever retarded think they have written per the antique section. Absolutely ridiculous. I ranted about this last year as well.. the antique rules are really out there. No common sense in the overall idea of it.

I wanted a label to ensure this car gets left alone or segregated. The custom plate is correct.

edit: remembering last year, I assumed the state police were swamped , and the deadline for me and a sticker was not happening. all of a sudden, a call to some office and I am antique instead (antique needs no inspection). So there ya have it. It was almost done correctly.. only took a year to get it where I wanted. I do remember chatting with some cool cats, within the state police. The mainstream is expecting a plug in to check codes etc etc. I joke of this one and the hill holder, it has to work with a bang if in reverse (car thinks it is on a hill). Aside from that, all else is normal..a classic carbed runtime etc. A bit tractor in the cold.

anyway, "get er done" is something I heard from a machinist. It holds true. That is a pun.

[Barry Donovan]

(custom cont)

thinking of regular inspection. Custom spans from completely home built or components change different than factory.

My own is the latter. The rear end only has the oem subframe, this one was a letter "L" in design. This was the other factor in nowhere near strong enough for dual range from the factory. That is the days long welds in the back end. subframe to a box beams, all the rear wheel wells gutted, remove pinches from the skin on strut towers, etc. even the rear quarters got some rod to hold their numbers.

anyway, looking it over.. this just needs the new tire. Ordered that first. I do not know what comes first in the registration process. Inspection or the plates? Two places have it in two directions. The other factor of maine. A straight mans face, butt a...


that is another subject. Never spelled out right.

I wrote an email to head of inspections. the same guy I remember talking to already.

hello,
my name is barry d. You may remember me from years prior trying to put my 1987 subaru with dual range AWD in the correct place in the registration realm. For some reason last year, it ended up in the antique category...I actually wanted "custom". This year I am going for custom registration due to the back end being dramatically strengthened away from original design., alnong with some rally race oriented beams. The original design is only the outline today.

A question I have not had answered is.. which process comes first:

inspection or registration?

I have a form notarized for "custom" registration, but have not registered yet.

thank you,
barry d

p.s. I am preparing for inspection before registration, as i do not know what I am doing to go about this yet.

my last name is actually in the email. Attempting anonymous out here in the web. I think that is written here at bangshift anyway.. what the heck. old habit.

I joke of this state and formaility..as if underdogs move to the north, get what they want because its cold out. sounds kinda .. g-a-y word, not allowed to say on the net.

if getting lost like a Spaniard was not strange enough, modern day bangor has a statue calling harbin china its sister city on the other side of the world. Exactly the other side of the world for bangor maine is a desert in Mongolia....

Now that makes sense.