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Well, it's official - We'll be leaving wednesday morning for Elko, NV. Just found out that our client is moving this week as well, so it's perfect timing to get out there and get things rolling.

Assuming everything makes it there OK, I should have some semblance of a shop within 2-3 months. Gonna take a little bit to put up the building and drill the well and such... I'll have my cell internet access along the way so I'll be on the board every so often.

Man I can't wait to get started out there.

It was good to meet you Chris. Hope you enjoy it out there.

You'll have a garage right? A place to... oh... install a VF36 perchance?

You too man. Thanks for your help and the oil pan hookup. Too bad there wasn't a chance to show you this turbo in person before I leave.

Oh, I'll have a garage... maybe not right away, but we've got plans for two garage spaces. One of them will have an underground bay like the oil change places, and the other will have a hydraulic lift. Giggity goo. Should do wonders for my VF36 install, and any transmission swaps...

The LegacEBC will be first though, since I'll be prepared to work on that way before I'll be prepared to install the twinscroll. Which is probably a good thing.

gonna be "interesting" there in the summer.
I guess you are probably used to the heat though.
hope all goes well for you in the move, and that you have some sweet rally roads out in the desert near you. shit, youre going to have to build a legacy prerunner.

If you find that your trip will take you past SLC, let me know.

^^^werd.

maybe when your done with the car you can bring it out to wendover and race with the local autox boys adn gals.

I'm writing to you all from the truck workstation (laptop, cell modem, etc). We're almost to Chattanooga, TN and will be passing directly through SLC on I-80. If it's timed right, we might stop there and stay the night at a hotel, although there won't be any time to meet anyone. But after the move's done and we're settled, I'm down for some autox. Always wanted to try it.

Of course I'm not driving right now, we're at a gas station. Anyway, gotta run!

If you see a big-ass white box truck pulling a silver Legacy and being followed by a white Legacy... that's us

Greetings from Wyoming... should be passing through SLC later today and then reaching Elko by nightfall, if the truck makes it through the mountain passes. So far I've only encountered two 5% grades, which were tough enough to keep the truck under control on. I understand there are some steeper grades out near SLC's I-80 passes. I might be creeping down them in 3rd gear at 25mph

Yeah, there are a bunch of 50-mph and 60-mph curves going downhill in Utah before Salt Lake. They'd probably be fun if you had the Legacy off the truck... but in the truck I doubt they will be.

50 and 60? I took them well over 100!

They're marked 50 and 60 for trucks. My wagon feels fairly stable taking them at 80, but the suspension's soft enough that I wouldn't want to go higher.

Well I doubt I'll be able to take them at 50 and 60 - because if the grade accelerates the truck in gear then I have to keep on the brakes, which will fade quickly.

So anywho, yesterday the inner right rear truck tire blew. Turned out to be a recapped tire, and that was the problem. Limped on the overloaded tire for 40 miles before finding a tire place that could help mount the spare on the rim, and that ate up the entire day.

So I'm at the edge of Wyoming now. And it snowed last night! Crap! There's like an inch of snow on the truck. I guess this means we might be stuck here for a bit. Hopefully it'll warm up and melt soon so we can get on the road.

Well, it's raining today, but should be very warm the next couple of days. You won't run into any problems once you get down to lower altitudes.

OK - made it into Elko about 2:30pm today. Those 6% grades were crazy in the truck! Anyway, the brakes only got hot enough to smoke once, no fires.

It'll be a while before we've got something going here, man I can't wait until we can start building the shop...

So when can I come steal the twinscroll?

cool, whats the shop going to be? dimensions/material?

We're going to get a steel arch building, 50' x 50' footprint I believe, 17' high in the center. There will be a few skylight sections and initially a garage with an oil change bay. Then when we expand (lengthen) the building, there will also be a lift in front of the bay so two cars can be parked or worked on. The rest of the area will be used for electronics work and living quarters.

The Subaru made it to the land just fine over the incredibly bumpy and fubar'd dirt road leading to it... but the truck would probably have some trouble getting there. We'll probably rent some heavy equipment to smooth out the worst sections of the road ahead of time. The land has a hill on one end of it, which we want to dig the building into, and pile earth on the sides so it's partially buried.

We're looking for a used pickup truck somewhere around here that we can use to get back and forth to the land without worry. Too bad Subaru didn't make one. I mean, the Baja is too new, and really doesn't have much of a bed. As long as we can find a non-Ford pickup...

freakin werd hardy

sounds like you need a prerunner.
get a ranger. freakin indestructable. fords are actually prett good trucks. Ive spent a lot of time in a 95 f150, a 92 f250, and a late 70s f250.
or an IFS toyota.
what kind of shop are you starting up?

A Ranger??? You've got to be kidding me. Prehistoric build quality, and so slow they're dangerous. There is no vehicle for sale in the US that is in more desperate need of a replacement, in my opinion.

I like Fords. Rangers are pretty fun when they have a built 351W in 'em!

Nah, no Fords. Too many bad experiences with them. The chopped Brat looks cool as shit but I need a truck before I will have a shop to convert a Brat

The shop will be personal, not going to work on the public's cars. Just mine. The main purpose of the building will be a residence, it will just happen to have a lift and a sunken bay.

Saw a 3/4 ton 4WD '76 Chevy pickup for $1900 from the owner, looked pretty capable. Don't want to drop that much but it's the first option so far. I'd rather have something with fuel injection, with little appeal to those who collect the "classics", so I'll keep looking.

Some other guy down the street had, among other vehicles, a 1991 turbo Legacy wagon! He didn't want to sell it but it was still cool to see my first TW.

There's all kinds of land for auction from the county treasurer, from those who didn't pay their $7 - $9 / year property taxes. The bids start at like $350-$400....

So not sure if we'll develop on the land we've got right now or not, but using Google Earth with a plat map overlay and my Pocket PC GPS to find the coordinates, we roughly surveyed the property's corners and staked them off. Should be within 10-15 feet, hopefully good enough to get the site plan approved.

The Subaru sure could use some airbags for these offroad ventures though, a few more inches of clearance would really help. Anyone know where to get airbags for a Legacy suspension?

subyluvr2212 wrote:A Ranger??? You've got to be kidding me. Prehistoric build quality, and so slow they're dangerous. There is no vehicle for sale in the US that is in more desperate need of a replacement, in my opinion.

strong words. there are still yugos and taurus'(tauri?)on the road.
not going to contest the fact that ford has made some terrible cars, I learned to drive in an 87 mercury sable. also the first car I ever worked on. big V6+FWD+spark plug change=hell.
FWIW I was never talking about new rangers. I could care less about most newer midsize pickups, and really have no direct experience with any except a nissan frontier.

ford made some pretty decent trucks from my experience.

no, not kidding. my good friend has a 4.0 2wd with a shit ton of miles on it, drives fine and decent enough power for what it is. I-beam suspension is some of the most durable IFS around.
also my aunt has a 2.3 2wd also with a bunch of miles on it, she loves it.
I personally put about 10,000 miles on a 92 F250 2wd/5.8/ZF. freakin workhorse. a truck in every sense of the word; clunky, noisy, crude. people that cant deal with that ought to stick to cars.
free5tyle, keep an eye out for some of the prerunners and stuff running around. I bet that more than a few of them are rangers.
subyluvr, sounds to me like you dont have any actual experience with rangers and are making the typical import fanboy domestic hating comments.
I am starting to prefer nissans, all of the toyota reliability without the purchase price. look for a late 80's-early 90's hardbody 4x4. VG30 or KA24. my father drives a 2wd KA24, its slow but has 250k on it and drives like new. easy to work on.
if you need to go fullsize, get a ford with the 300 straight six. 20mpg, low end torque, motor is good for 300k or so.

free5ty1e wrote:There's all kinds of land for auction from the county treasurer, from those who didn't pay their $7 - $9 / year property taxes. The bids start at like $350-$400....

please say they have a website???