What did you do to your subaru today?

Well unfortunately I cant jack my car up in my driveway due to the tar sucking balls. It just sinks in, and so do jack stands. Also my bov isn't on top my motor, it's down on the bottom off the charge pipe.

 

That's the new fandangled sh!t for ya.

 

Man i used to do all my work in a dorm/apartment parking lots. Y'all live in luxury.

 

I was there for long enough. Even did brake lines multiple times on the side of the road or in random parking lots. Haha.

 

If your driveway is level enough to use ramps that could be an option as well. Not to mention in these cold temps I would think that the tar in your driveway would be alot harder now then when you are used to doing it in the summer months.

 

I'm happy to lend the garage whenever! Unfortunately just a busy weekend! Hope you can find a place! I'll let you know if plans fall through on Sunday though.

 

Believe it or not, still sink lol, the tar is garbage. Haven't been able to do work at my house for a good 10 years

 

Hey sounds like I found a place for on Saturday, my buddy's coworker said I can do it there.

 

The memories. Replacing the water pump of a Mustang II in a Best Buy parking lot. Pulling the intake manifold off of a VW in a Cub parking lot.

 

replacing Derp's nissan starter in the middle of a dark campground drunk...

 

Got the hks installed today. Seems to hold boost better now.

 

So what did you have to go under the car for?

 

Which engine in the Mustang? I had all three of them, 2.3L four, a 302, and the 2.8L V6. Only one didn't suck a$$.

 

curious as well

 

To remove the one that was leaking. On the fa20dit the turbo is up front on the bottom. The bov is right off the charge pipe right off the turbo

 

It was the V6 and belonged to a friend. He had a rule that he didn't allow anyone to pass on the freeway (he wouldn't block them. Just drove faster). Well we ran into someone who clearly felt the same way and did 100+ for about 20 minutes on i35 heading towards the metro. We got off at the Hwy 13 exit to go to Best Buy and as soon as he parked it the cooling system puked everything out. Collect calle my dad ( long before cell phones) and he loaded up tools and we walked about 1/2 a mile to an auto parts place and bought a new pump. Installed it right there in the middle of the lot.

 

So what's on top in your picture then?

 

That's where hks routes the air from the charge pipe to. Idk if you can see the hose running off from the bottom of it but that goes down by the turbo.

 

I once replaced the whole front end of my g35 (bumper, grill, hood, core support, radiator, headlights, alternator, brakes etc) after a front end accident in my condo parking lot with a rule of no disabled vehicles overnight so I had to get it all buttoned back up by dark lol .

 

So the old one was mounted underneath, closer to the turbo and the new one is kinda "remote" mounted up top? Just asking out of curiosity, because what Josh said... Haha.

 

The VW was a '74 Karmann Ghia that was running really rich and when starting cold the choke would cause the engine to flood, so I was used to sticking a wrench into the carb to hold the choke open. I was using a smaller wrench than usual and it dropped through the butterfly when I cracked the throttle and fell down into the manifold... Cub Foods lot, St. Cloud circa 1989.

 

74 ghia, so what Solex 30 carburetor? that must have been one tiny wrench lol. I literally just fixed the electronic choke I had on my spare 1600cc in my garage. someone added a helper spring to keep it always open instead of using the mixture screw...or cleaning the jets.

 

IIRC, a 9mm. But that was a very long time ago.

I rebuilt my first carb when I was 15 ( 77? Plymouth Volare with the slant-6 and so much pollution control stuff that it had like 1/2 the hp of previous iterations). But I've never really learned to tune carbs. Give me fuel injection and an ECU anyday.

Of course, the 2-stroke scooters I've been messing with are forcing me to finally, several decades later, learn to tune carbs.

 

I reluctantly learned carbs on vws. I think I'm nearing my white new balance sneakers level of experience now.

 

For the love of God you better not mow in them. They'll never be the same.

 

Yes this is basically what's going on. And yeah I was used to them on the intercooler too, till I got this one lol

 

This site is still up? Neat.

Subaru doing Subaru things.

 

Not my subaru but I made house calls to two different friends to look at crusty Outbacks yesterday to diagnose a total of 5 torn axles, 3 wheel bearings and a live squirrel in a snorkel.

Also not a subaru I got an inside lead at a pristine garage kept S14 (allegedly a Kouki) I'm looking at buying in April.

 

I had to Duck Duck Go "Kouki S14".

 

https://carbuzz.com/news/subaru-to-replace-sti-with-ste-for-high-performance-electric-cars

Pictures always garner more clicks:

 

Dear god...

 

They're just getting more and more gaudy...

 

That's a render somebody dreamed up. Not anything from Subaru.

 

What exactly does that involve? Haha.

 

Talking about knocking the dust off, I put 15 ish miles on the silver car today for the first time since November of '21. She was on empty so drove to the nearest place by us and back, then around a little more.

Seems to drive okay other than the obnoxious clutch chatter/shudder. The donor motor I put in it had a brand new clutch on it (I could tell because it was still spotless and bright red...). I debated on running it because it was new (but probably cheap) or using my old setup (Exedy OEM replacement) that I knew how it was treated, even tho it was used.

Wasn't even out of the garage yet and I was regretting that decision. F**k me...

Anybody dealt with a chattery clutch before? I don't know that I've ever experienced one like this. The pressure plate must be pretty stiff because the pedal is really hard, and seems like the disengagement point is lower than I remember. Short stroke, but very firm. (Calm down, Josh...)

It's almost impossible to take off from a start without shaking the hell out of it unless you rev it up to a point that seems unnecessary. Once moving you can shift smoother but it still takes a little finesse. Definitely doesn't feel as nice as it used to.

If there's a break in period/procedure that can be done to help alleviate this I'll do my best to get through that, but otherwise I'm already contemplating just pulling it back out and going with the old clutch and flywheel.

Ugh...