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all the breathers are connected together and if you follow the rear breather tube on the drivers side valve cover you'll see it goes to the intake after the maf. soooo if one of the hoses or plastic lines is cracked in the end you will be sucking in a bit of unmetered air... like having a tiny vac l...

did 2 fairly aggressive and long accelerations today and no issues whatsoever

hopefully its for good!

-Alex

sure sounds like an air leak check your intake gaskets (manifold, throttlebody, iac...) as well as all the beather tubing going from the valve cover gaskets through under the manifold and then up to the intake. and i'd recommend using carb or sombustion chamber cleaner and listening for the idle dro...

did a motovac and put some new plugs in. car idles smoother and overall drive is smoother (i think due to the motovac more than the plugs). its nice having the coolest people in the world as bosses. i did my plugs and motovac on my lunch hour and they charged me a grand total of 0$! they didnt even ...

well used subaru stuff is a no go cause the second a subaru appears at a junk yard they're usually bought complete before they even get fully processed. and shipping would be alot for 4 assembled struts n springs... however i guess that does sound appealing since the outback stuff will give a bit hi...

yeah that is nothing like my miss... buut

kinda sounds like maybe its leaning out. i've seen dirty maf sensors do weird things including causing poping sounds cause of leaning out or maybe running too rich cant remember

clean your maf! cheap place to start. wen was your last tune up?

the whole point is i want an easy way to gain the 1" i lost that can be done when i put my snow tires on and undone when i take them off. i have my stock springs (i'm using H&R lowering springs now with gr2 struts) but my lunch hour isnt enough to do 4 springs...or struts... and 4 tires. an...

so usually i only really go wot when racing a stupid kid in his riced out honda or daddy's mazda 3 off a set of lights so only up to 50-60km/h. and all is well, lots of power i always win very linear and a nice kick in the back when full boost hits. but lately i've been using the highway more and th...

yeah thats normal the movement will take the path of least resistance just like electricity
if you hold the driveshaft keeping it from spinning and spin one rear wheel the other side will go the opposite way.
-Alex

in neutral the engine turning over is turning the half of the tc that is bolted to the flywheel. the portion splined to the input shaft in the tranny is also spinning since the tranny is in park/neutral so there is no gear selected, all clutches/bands are disengaged. once in gear the forward clutch ...

i'd say thats a deal and a half!!!

time to start looking

-Alex

yeah deadbolt's a good company
do you remember how much they charged for the rebuild and elbow/crack welding?
i might just go this route...

-Alex

i never actually got the car aligned after lowering it i just adjusted the toe a bit but thats a 5 minuite thing so i'm not worried about it i knew this would be the last summer on these tires and i figured that the change in camber might even help the handling so i didnt care much. that being said ...

ohh itsa cable system!? werd
yeah i'd bet on the cable being rusted up n seized
only way to make sure would be to pull everything apart, you are half way there though...

i got stuck once last winter but almost got stuck like 3000 times i like being stupid and going out when the weather is intensely horrible and even lifted pickups stay home, its just fun! my winter tires are off a vw and are almost an inch bigger in diameter than my summers and are on vw rims with s...

yeah i've decided i want a vf-39 now too. i've heardabout people putting the wrx p/s pump reservoir on the ej22 p/s pump and then being able to run the through the intake piping

whadayathink?
-ALex

i wasnt saying there was an issue it just sounded like maybe there was still a little leak somewhere. my car never went into safe mode but either way its running better now than right after doing the gaskets so the almost 400km i've put on it has made it re learn stuff and run even better. give it r...

talk, no..... roar, yessss

i just remembered i used to have a pet cockroach i named patti in second grade when i lived in trinidad... weird i know, i was special

still am

-Alex

pick it up by hand!? jeeze ur a beast! but yeah i know all about cutting corners to do things easier and usually it all ends up a-ok

yeah i've never removed the engine yet so i'd say no to that but just in case i wouldnt i'm sure the manifold isnt meant to take that weight...

-Alex

good luck on that bud! i admire your passion in this project. even though i've only had my car 2 years i am also very attached and wish to do some kind of rebuild/restoration once i can afford another car as a dd. to me a car isnt a means of transportation, its a hobby, a job, the friend that always...

the point of the hand crank is to be able to close the sun roof incase the motor burns out. so i'd say if the crank wont open it the motor under its own power wont open it. so dont bother with a new battery yet. pull the sunroof cover open and shine a light up there what do the tracks look like? if ...

still idles like shit eh? did you clean both surfaces up reeal good? did you get the gaskets in place properly? as easy as it sounds i had trouble with that .... you torque the bolts down nicely? you sure all hoses are on and not torn and all clamps are tight etc etc... i had my battery disconnected...

so i did my suspension this summer and lost an inch of ground clearance the way it snows here that could make all the difference and plus i like to play in un plowed parking lots... soo whats the easiest way to lift the car and inch? i'd prefer to not have to remove springs from the struts and stuff...

yeah i ran 15 psi on a td-04 on stock injectors for about a year doesnt mean it was a good idea the fuel economy was SHIT power was decent but nothing compared to with the chip even in normal mode (so 1 psi less is making noticeably more power) and i'm getting close to 500km to a tank in the city......