1987 subaru: dual range

[Barry Donovan]

electric car

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This was interesting, as we only see electric cars ready to go. This one is a noobs point of view.

My subaru snaps a negative to big changes, only engine I have ever had that does this. although an old 327 at 12 to 1 did a number on anything less than 1000cca.
This means the boxer uses the pressure of the battery, and high comp effects them too. In a way every car is an electric car and gas at the same time.

food for thought.
this separation of everything, like 8 coils for an 8 cyl. Gas for gas, electric for electric. We got it all mixed up and working already, and go blind to those facts. It is the fractal geometry of experiments that , once back together, will have it all in one answer.

[Barry Donovan]

old pc final shutdown.

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using the google blog again. simply gave up windows live writer.
it is actually easier to use the web interface. Not sure what I was thinking.

Battery did not go dead..been 17 days. Warmed it up good. Decided to give some more fuel pressure. I may change the idle screw design a little bit, simply to add more threads staying in the hole, and add more fuel.

I did not get to this stuff last year.. but it was in the back of my mind. This uses more fuel at idle and to upper mid range. Interesting to learn through 3 different intakes..the top ends are all the same. 3 different engines. 2 different sets of cams.

Will give it 3 more weeks, go at it again. Warmest winter I can remember in place as of now.
I had another birthday gone by, I am now 43. Same as the throttle size in mm as an old rochester monojet...petty's race number...and ken block.

I have a xeon computer on the way, e3-1270. Large machine in power.. will rummage through videos. Encoding should be incredible, given the numbers I have studied before purchase. Still impressive today, going on 5 years old. There is also revisions still being made for the socket 1151 (h2) cpu that is in it. Some years to go. will treat it nice, if it starts and runs. I did buy used.

This year , in october, will be 10 years I have owned the old subaru. Will make a montage, from all videos from 2006 to today.

I also shutdown my old 875pbz. I am calling it for the last time. 75000 hours runtime. Gave it a last post in a ten year long thread at silent pc review. I have had that PC up and running every day, as long as my subaru.
The chatting and social, it all dwindled away. I did not forget much. It is now, if you were to speak up with what was a small crowd, now down to alone..
it may be worth it.

This applies to anything but old computers. The xeon lenovo e30 is in the mail, I hope it works out ok. I cannot go back to the old pc...
well prepared for whatever happens next anyway. "Backup backup backup" was the old motto..

this laptop at 2.1 ghz.. simply by being duo core. Big difference over the 3400mhz monster. I did push the limits of time.
I wa sin need of something called TPM, a security chip, and beyond noticing that multicore and threading is very much in full swing, even by amateur programmers.I pioneered as a user...the first to 1ghz on a regular person computer, then onto use multithreading with the last of the p4.

That feeling of on edge of history... it is long gone. Computers are at a maximum. Atomic worries are next. It has been fun.

the boxer has not had its day on the edge, monkeys with fake glasses on to look smarter will fall again sometime.

that is what my thread is about here, at a hot rod forum...with a subaru.
back to thoughts on the sube..
Idle could be richer. The fuel in the cold likes 7psi...and I know that proved to be year round. 1 happy number. It will always be an odd number to rochester specs due to millimetric japanese fuel line size. So.. the idle screw will get a trick, as I made the one that is in it already.. I know just where to do some fancy grinding. I use my 20/10 eye for that.

This does have an old sound. Only downdraft gives it..always enthused by that. 2.62 inches of stroke coming at ya!

[Barry Donovan]

watching "smarter every day" interview obama. It is easy to understand how one person can wander to many subjects.

I have narrowed down what I do with my subaru, with some of his words...it does lead to many other subjects.


I am a bit older than the silliness I may portray. Everyhting I have done mechanical, became analogy for everything else.
The lack of negative feedback is a declaration of a battle, or a war. A storm. One just has to listen, feel.. pay attention for all their worth.
It is rare to encounter, but does happen...no thoughts on negative feedback.






that is the purpose of this hovering boxer engine subaru...

apply it to anything.
Since a 50 year old 707, disabled into computing. I have even found times to use negative as the forward (in C programming)..but leave the label. The stampede of what accepts 0 as an exit..
never used the number 1.

you may decipher, that is a futuristic characteristic. A different exit, than what is expected..and it does not end there.

[Barry Donovan]

[Barry Donovan]

the bomb

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I checked under the sink, as I was getting dizzy for no reason. Odorless gas.

A jug of water decided it did not want to hold water anymore..cheap particle board taking 3 days to dry, all drooping under the sink.

the gas odorless got worse as I have a house fan on it..
so I am digging with half breaths, like I was a crew chief on a kc135e again...

sure enough.

The subaru was at the heart of it.
two old oil pumps in a cardboard box, the box was wet. As soon as I took them away from the box, it was instant. No more gas.


just another trigger for the ever sturdy suby alloys:
old oil pump in a wet cardboard box.

I called this nuclear more than once, but narrowed it down to hydrogen from coolant reacting to alloy, and very lively on the resistance values (battery snapper)..
So, I guess I learned it:

• Never let the sube get wet, or dry
• or sit in the sun, or the dark,
• or below 32F or above 32F.
• or add power or take it away.

Very simple. Simple rules to follow for the old subae.

..noticed this today in my you tube travels:


the 25 second video is now at 13000 views. Ima supah stah.

some serious cold coming through. -11F last night. I think nothing of the truck out there. Sube is under the snow.



Memory in my "new" used pc has never seen this. They know outside temps. I first encountered this in 1999. windows 2000 beta 2072.
Bad time for new data by windows 10, middle of winter. It does not make changes easy going. I found it fighting with the page file and compressed memory, going in indecisive circles. Deja Vu to some aging memories. Gave it a long burn in with memtest86 from a bootable CD. Yesterday was memory coolers, which are keepers here,more than coolers. Back to super smoothie.

There is physics drawbacks to computing. Cars can do the same silly shit at times like this. The truck pummels these times with a puff of new ground smell.. keeps right on trucking, to full warm. I think nothing of it. LED lighting is very reassuring. The -40F stuff with heatsinks. This subaru would need 90 minute warmup, and 8psi for the 1 barrel carb. Home made variable intake.. its all in this thread.

[Barry Donovan]

google earth pro, and doing what i do.

This is a difficult shot to take, believe it or not. Still not quite right..best I can do. The Sony SLT is a great one.



I am only guessing, last night was the coldest night for us this year.
Car under a blanket of snow, headed for rain and 50 by wednesday.

Been driving the truck around. 3f was the high in the sun. I have never been so comfortable. I wanted to drive around and find places.

Will spark up the old sube at the right time. May or june perhaps..

[Barry Donovan]

been almost a month again..
freak warm melted all the snow. It had sat covered in it, uncleaned.. was going to let it stay there until spring.
The last idle settings really helped. took less than 3 seconds to spark up to an idle.
Fast AFR gauge is an awesome addon for this one.

Will rework that idle needle in the warmer weather.
This one is about 20mpg to be normal...8psi fuel.

I just had to build a little monster, I guess I am going to have to push the fuel to earn it.
my truck does better on fuel, with 3 times the power.

I'll run this 2.6 inch stroke just for the sound. It is truly incredible.
8k rpm limiter goes to work...hard telling how far it would go beyond that.

The biggest pleasure for this one is nulling retards climbers, wimps, big mouths, wannabe yyou tube stars, forum heros, keyboard commandos and air guardsman faking straight guy.

A world record written is still in my mind. 136mph, natural.


fission, fusion, molecular bonds, pressure, vacuum..
this one pushed all boundaries.

it is now at 18 inches, like gm always used.. it used to go past 26 inches at times. In fact, that was the headgasket popper.
thermite fire flaming down I-95...still made it home. That was dec 2010..I think.
the oil pump from that engine was under the kitchen sink in a cardboard box. I was getting dizzy random for several days, this past week..spotted tiles peeling up on the kitchen floor in front of the cabinet doors below sink...

the cardboard got wet, and set off a chain undeciphered. The ghost of the old nightmare continues.

I will never understand what drives an engineers mind into paranoid monkey...
fast and furious and dead. All while having no power enough to make any difference..
a bit like suicide built in.

A shameful shameful thing they did to the slickest four cyl design on earth... that has nothing to do with bad chemistry and hairless..
ambiguity is part of the problem. Different interpretation for the same damn subject.

the man wins. The one with kids and future and...

[Barry Donovan]

this is the chevette my carb needle and seat came from. the fuel was so small..it is the only precise needle and seat, stainless metal, ever made for rochester. They had to stay very precise to work that small.
Rochesters engines were typically large..3.8 liters and beyond. Hence big.

The only tiny rochester is a sight to behold.

Today we get all that tiny stuff in every injector.

[Barry Donovan]

benz crank v8.
intel xeon is making this alot of fun.

its pretty much two boxer cranks.
I may animate it for fun.

[Barry Donovan]

I did not know where to stick this car until the internet.
Diverse..
a diverse gathering of non-prejudice intellect.
There is some good channels out there.
I of course have to watch the younger crowd emerge with my old thoughts in action..and I love it.

this one is maturing rapidly.

if you really want to see the vision you have..go out and do it yourself, go pay for it.

I have actually let go of this old sube, may even find storage. Driven less than 300 miles last year.

[Barry Donovan]

useless

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just kidding. I am quickly forgetting my little car project.. the miles of v8 emerging subconscious, like 500k pounds of a kc10 in the fog.
not many believe what large does...

I guess this subaru is not slow for the given standards of its day, compared to this little monster.
0 to 60mph is about 7.. the td04 began on a 1984 subaru. way outdone. The inline fours were never designed for the boosting.

in a way subaru is the asian grandpa of fast...
less than 2 liter wonderfuls.

nissans story is more interesting. Most swapped the subaru stuff into them little inlines, but today the story is a flip flop. Rob the nissan stuff to make a subaru move.

by 1994.. even the nissan alternator was headed for 3 times bigger than the subarus (direct fit. I am using one) Sad about the subes..a bit stuck about evolving.

the posts are getting difficult here, that error code has not stopped. I need an internet break anyway..

[Barry Donovan]

spring tune

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warm day.
gave it some fuel.
ready for battery and tidy up exhaust at the head.



started right up.


fuel is somewhere near 8psi.
warm day, took advantage.

idle screw is way out compared to loyale.
15 something stoich slow speed. Exhaust leak, I let it have a point lean on the reading.
Timing is exactly factory...the msd6530 is incredible.

Will tidy it up this spring/summer. I do miss that sound, after running the ea82 for 18 years.

nothing like it.
The tranny shifts like my 4x4 gmc. Every gear as if to grab 5000 pounds empty.
the dual port has a fuller sound from idle on upward.
listening into the flows of traffic..
this subaru is far from the casual little front wheel drive. Just the sounds alone..

it is worth something... glad to hang on.

[Barry Donovan]

hotter than...

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I saw the thermometer at 56F, and it is cloudy.
I did something rare:
I went outside.
Sure enough, very warm. Could run nekkid.
Today warmed up fast.

I deciphered my backache as another chunk of zapped hypothermic tooth I ate while sleeping.
I spotted it in the mirror, another little piece is now in my bowels someplace.
it is only my kidneys trying to secrete the stuff to dissolve it.
ouch.
No worries. I am animal. I eat bones and all...and subarus.
The smell of the 150 pounds of meats since december seems to come from my stove vent only.


The subaru looked tempting after a harley went by..
Remembered my computer generated cone for a rochestor to offenhauser lid I made out of stainless steel, and put that on.

A little less enthused this year over last..
will run this a little more this year.

fuel is lean, I smell death.
will dig at it some more.



maybe I am my own smell of death.
maybe I am outrunning myself.
the whiff of an open wound and latex and powdered metal.
somebodies thick saliva is on my breath,
like the goo of pus..
breaking free from my own tooth I just ate.
it did make it to 43... like me.
I awake in the pile looking at the sky.
I walk away and wonder how i did not die...

carb was loose, tightened it down.

[Barry Donovan]

new timing

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this should be final.

A new timing curve. I knew the engine seemed like a log even on the dramatic map. After a year of the new engine, the timing curve was way too much for the fuel and air. Gobbled up 8 psi on the 1 barrel and full fuel to the max for the current carbs build. Stoich would lean to no gain.
Should have expected it.

yellow is old curve.

thinking more like factory, the 4 degree tug on the map sensor makes sense. the intersect at #4 is the idle. So the real win for this still stands at the actual hard curve, top graph in the photo. Still 18 degrees at idle.

the 4 degree blip is very similar to their old vacuum disty, this sets a pace and conquers fuel dump by accelerator pump. The fault with the old one was not only stopping there.. it would actually lose before any rpm could be achieved for power.
The basic purpose of what I needed the 6530 still stands.

This engine is ready to go. All burned in...

one entire year later.

drove it to a place called milo, 20 miles round trip. Fuel was real bad here in this little town.. most likely water. I added some gallons from a little store here in this town. Bad stuff.
Being a desolate ride, 75 was no problem. Round some sitting tread to balanced again.
I got this one nailed..
it may need 93 octane. Heads and gaskets squashing down...

the last oddity goes with this being a genuine race engine .. the idle is exactly 1100 rpm, no vacuum leaks... timing at 19.3 (pulled 1 more than factory).
whistling like a tea pot.
Need a good summer day to finish this one.

with it at the 4 degree tug, a little more intake noise is noticable. I simply went too aggressive. This setting is just right, best yet.
I guess it is 17 different curves now, playing with the msd6530 since fall of 2014. The msd made something impossible all too easy.. I did not hesitate to experiment.
very difficult little engine.

[Barry Donovan]

timing curve 18...

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I knew this was going to be stubborn.
I am finding the idle is almost all the way backed off..and no vacuum leaks.
still at 1100.




27 degrees pulled of 32 or 36..idle down to 950. The book on this exact engine is the only one at 900. It is indeed their old race engine.
calling it good...and using high octane to be sure...that may get the other 50rpm.

This is as old classic as it gets. 6 degrees or some crazy number at an idle..it is almost self combusting.
You'll hear this one coming. The exhaust is something.

I realized this is cleaning right up, as intended...demanding the timing changes.

I forgot how long it took to earn EGR removal on my other subarus. Engine goes right back to american '60s once it is won. This year long interval, sudden demand for timing cut way down, removing retard..

I am thinking timing may go into 20 something curves by the end of this summer. This last one was a big leap..
indicated internals clean.

I bet it goes to the 6-10 degrees at idle, and the idle screw (not the mix, but the rpm one) turned back up.

I'll quote myself I guess.
This one is a little locomotive... old hot rod style.
Can't wait to hear that old rochester bellow.
I only earned my loyale engine previous to this one, just once.. and it was in the summer near solstice. The intake was so small, there was no set curve.
hence the msd 6530.

this big intake and the msd.. I knew it was going to be interesting, that change to earning the real runtime.I was not kidding when I said they took a year or more.. on my build. The clean one. air- fuel- fire- and done, no more games.