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Hmm...can't say I like the chrome, but the body is straight and shiny. The other beater got the hole shot because all that bling on the Subaru can't be helping the inertia at a launch.

Make sure you order the sparco kidney supports while your at it. They are pretty cheap and if you can get past the fact that you will have mismatched brands they really help when goin' slideways. Also, with the Forza you sit down alot lower than with the stock seat, so driving position and angle all...

All the concern about cam adjustment is becoming less important due to almost every manufacturer offering variable valve timing. A hydraulically operated cam gear in the new K-series Honda engines (RSX-type S) can vary intake timing as much as 50 degrees either advanced or retarded. Not to say that ...

I did think about pulling a set of rear AWD hubs, but ended up getting stuck in this mess. I suppose it would be possible to do this in the future if I wanted to. The ride height looks normal now with the redone rear fenders and the whole car sits flat with respect to rake, and I still kept the trav...

Allright…for better or worse here’s the story. I don’t know if there is anybody else out here who has done this setup (probably are) but I just finished working out the bugs and thought if there was anybody else interested in the process they might learn something from my struggles. First let me say...

Grant - Thought there might be some other options for your seat quest. Try http://racing-seats-usa.com as they have Sparco and Corbeau seats. It is also a bonus that they have free shipping on seats. A while back I bought the Corbeau Forza with mounting bracket for $300. I like the seat, though it n...

Josh, I'm running the same engine with 120k miles. I use the NGK V-Power plugs and last time I checked them (during a compression test) they had just a very light tan color to them. All cylinders are the same color. I have a few engine mods (more suspension mods than anything else) and I consider my...

Do you weld? If so, pick up a quality aftermarket muffler like a magnaflo or some such. You'll have to weld in custom piping, and it may not be "tuned" like an expensive exahust (a good V-8 muffler probably doesn't present that much of a restriction anyway) BUT it will be quiet (a good low...

NA headers for ~US$ 98.00? Either the currency conversion is off or the quality is terrible. Of course I could be wrong and this is the deal of the decade for the NA guys. You might think that with prices like this and even a semi-decent product, somebody would have tried them before. I'd be a littl...

Just noticed Brat4by4 posted a link to an ebay auction for new 550cc side feeds over in the Misc forum. Might not work with your car, 91 right?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... 2421904585

Perhaps we might be better able to help you if we knew exactly what you are shooting for. Are you building up a big turbo, displacment increase or something else? I would hazard that the stock injectors would probably be sufficient for most applications (provided the fuel system behind them is good ...

Thank you for the scanned diagram. Low vaccum probably explains the oil in the hoses. I guess other than introducing a lean condition (the extent of which is probably pretty minor, though still existant) the breather setup should not cause too many probs. I'll plumb it back to the intake just to be ...

Just thought of something else. I can't exactly remember the routing of the original plumbing, but I think the valve cover hoses connected to the intake before the TB. Under closed throttle conditions when the PCV valve is active, would the engine be pulling fresh metered air through the valve cover...

Ahh...good points. Well, nobody said building your own modifications would be simple, they are just cheaper. This is why this board is so useful. Replumbing the breather lines into the oil separator later today.

Hmmm...not sure exactly what you mean ciper, though I can say that I have taken into account all the vaccum routing and carefully capped or removed all extra inlets no longer used by the hoses. No extra air is being introduced after the MAF (wouldn't want to confuse the ECU). The breathers for the v...

So I finished building an oil separator and replumbing the breathers for the valve covers. Of course, I don't have any pictures of this yet, so in reality this post is of little value. Yet I will at least describe the parts used so that if any others want to undertake this you will have some initial...

Your question has a few (a lot) of variables. First and formost when considering the life of a transmission is the way it was treated and the amount of maintence it recived over it's lifetime. Given a well cared for and non-abused subaru tranny, 200k is easily reachable. That being said one would ex...

Even though most of us here don't have the EJ20 NA motor, I would suspect that your issues might be similar to the ones detailed through in the sticky topics at the top of the engine forum. I would predict that most of the other people here would tell you to try most of the ideas posted in those sti...

After searching I found this topic has not been brought up in while, so I thought I might pose some more questions, facts and theories (my opinions of course). In the process of cleaning the engine bay, and doing away with unneccsary items (saving weight) I came across the PCV system. Subaru’s syste...

I would suspect that a local Graingers outlet might have something similar, though it's not something you'll find at the local home store. The product that came from McMaster-Carr was developed by General Electric for thier aerospace applications. In all honesty ordering online from McMaster is pain...

Thank you Jason and Josh. The text pic is correct yet probably not too helpful for those who haven't seen the actual mount. Also the lower trans mount is only two plates connected with a rubber insert, though the method for its modification is exactly the same. Good call on the different mounts. I w...

Thought some of you mechanical types out there might like to give this a try. After getting the idea from a miata webpage I decided to make my own stiffer motor and trans mounts. I reused my old mounts in this process and the old mounts were in pretty good shape. I did this while I was rebuilding th...

Checking the ECU codes (thanks Josh for your website's excellent description) my CEL flashes constant short flashes. No breaks or long lights just short flashes. I searched and was unable to track down this particular cryptic ECU code. Can anyone enlighten me as to what this means?