attacking a monojet

[Barry Donovan]

fender with airbox inside

I looked out today as morning usual. As in the past, I had chemistry chains that went on for weeks with this satanic buggy. Dead as a 40 pound pile of mig wire today.. I noticed the fender, the only single layer welding I have ever done on japanese tin, shrunk to the steel scab backing overnight. Looks more like I did something correct. New lesson for me. All else is doubled, tripled, shaped, and hard seamed. This fender, the toilet paper fender, is extinct like reasons for mystery red in a river (no respect for real reason). The pressure from an incorrect airbox, still left it workable at 25.5 years. I must call it a win…a lot stronger than origin. Even a new one.

I am sure this will get bumpy back into warm season. That is what this spring loaded buggy tries to do. This fender was an absolute killer on all that overthunk airbox design. one draft at the edge is sucking on the prius pussing battery to hounder cheevics and fish guts.

part of the win just might be the science experiment of incomplete lower airbox coming to an end. No more mouse, and goopy petroleums of unknown origin. This does need an air heat riser more now than never. No recycle at all.

these little things make my day. the quarters needed to self smooth as well..that took two years, to learn the subframing needed strengthening.

the cold evening snapped carb to life, but did need full warm engine. It is a large flowing little engine too. rumble a door and steering wheel with little dead revves. Getting the rubber boot off the bottom of hood might be in order. The heat riser will be on a switch .. was going to run it on at all times, changed my mind. Not an easy start today..blaming the fuel still working the disrupted lines and all else attached. A little heat gets it.
it has occured to me, I may be fighting off a disease..immune to stuff like mono and colds etc, it really had some serious ingredients. Powerful version of a long term sickness. My own disabled is non-organic, I never catch an ill. Pussing cold eyes in the morning, cough a chunk of rubber flem like a bullet, this disgusting life they created is survived.

someone can enjoy this car as normal.

from a single 12v+ ignition to positive flow airbox, to high pressure fuel tank keeping the fuel. Even the exhaust can carry the 14 feet ina hurricane barometer for the little engine.
I admit I like it. I am simply outgrowing it. The animal snap of a precise rally..inches from things sideways defying logic of travel its whole life. It is to never outgrow. ..but I am getting old gracefully I guess.

the all white 2005 crown vic with a cop car package at the downtown dealer. My back cracks to a stretch of my bones meant to be 6 foot four and I do daydream for a moment.

if a car is a result of an owners being. I do have big lungs for my size. I could run for miles and miles. a long legged stride needs no high revving.

[A/Fuel]

What happend to the windshield?
Too bad you can't weld glass....or could you?

[Barry Donovan]

What happend to the windshield?
Too bad you can't weld glass....or could you?

in a round about way, I guess this did get welded glass, as the chassis densified.

the glass is mint, must be photo playing a trick?

the one in car now is approx 250k miles, an original 1987. been through 3 cars, miles total is near half a million. two of those are junked today, this glass was thick nough to keep a-pillars in both of them and bend a tunnel instead in a bad wreck I had...the other one popped a floor right out of the front. A DL model that shipped with a tin can front end.
I have this same 5.5 mm behind the fridge as a spare. Replacements today (stil one of my complaints) is the thin glass one gets. I keep an original if to find one.

this dual range chassis here can do any glass, as weld is up to par. oem stuff could pop it right out like a sardine can.


a follow up on the orange stuff in the fuel. my dads experiment shows it started off as a white jelly, heavier than diesel at the bottom of the jar.. and the anti-algae chemical turned it to orange. same orange stuff in my fuel. This tells me, high octane gas for cars kills it like the chemical he was given, bungs up filters. I did not need to add it to my tank, but did to the offer, and it disappears to enough water. dry its like the most fine silt you ever tried to grasp, finer than baby powder.

2 ounces does like 200 gallons. powerful stuff.

I am still sticking to the sun theory...and open fuel system for some time. he gets it at filters, I got it at old gas tank and filters. both open for some time on a "nice" day.

[Barry Donovan]

accel diode

I was really thinking back to what the blip might be at lower throttle.

I blasted the hell out of the rear crossmember, the recent tow hook, the muffler finally sealed, and alot stronger leaving cool area underneath near tank..not to mention the tank has no more superlights flying around as science. the high mode in the welder could dim all houses sharing the transformer. I love that work soaking in like a glue gun...the old ricer does not take that in all places. Very happy when it does.

that is a weld to find 457 years from now. I'll break it again, of course.

the continuity dialing back in has gone as far as sending an inaudbile shreak and tooth ache into my brain...days later.

today I remembered the "big" battery (memory) for delco radio was not hooked up, I say big because it does something perfect to smooth out everything from headlight switch to ignition. After welding, that radio was a blessing keeping monster spikes at bay. just needed battery (memory) wire hooked up.

what must have taken its job peacefully? the accel 300+. I am quite enthused. More than one purpose for the digital ignition.

will hook battery wire for radio back up , see if it is ready. not often do I disrupt the delco..but recent welds, the finals...they are really large for some odd reason, maybe new welder... even on a 13 foot long ricer wagon. Radio went crazy for a time. did not hook it back up yet.

still not delaying air intake heater...but thinking of other smooth things this buggy liked.

there is some dangers to these simple things. Not one to preach. Some of the memories, haunting for days..the steel that was not content fixed back to normal.

it is easy now..a very serious journey to get there.

[A/Fuel]

Yeah, after looking closer it's a reflection in the glass. No blood or hair either, lol.

[Barry Donovan]

Yeah, after looking closer it's a reflection in the glass. No blood or hair either, lol.

my little nikon strikes again.

you should see the welding photos. a perfect grind can be as black as a hole next it. I guess one can gain an instrument from a digital camera and welding: if it don't know how to photo it, the density exceeds the dumbass chips recording it. Call that chore success.

I did find after painting, or a cold chassis, things get better. A DSLR with an anti-fisheye (true photo lens) is worth the bucks they are getting.

[Barry Donovan]

decibals

when one fills a cam to the old definition of "full", it means it starts will not be easy, draft has to be teeter tottered into the full suck. Of course it gets loud. high compression normally has to go with it. I am self conscious of decibals after my 84 wobbling cammed monte I drove into a mobile home park late at night to visit a relative. I have never been that asshole since. Those mobile home beams don't like getting beamed by headers. People came out in their pajamas. Lucky I did not get a lynch mob. Not many go there, because it usually needs a motorhead/enthusiast...a bit of gangsta at heart. Not for me. Injection, retard digital timing, all that gets real easy today.

this one is old school..but does have some options with the accel. I just have not bought the extra gadget. I am inspired by some machines..the gt40 that stays quiet an sub tens in a quarter. there is porsches that do it, secret americans have versions everywhere. I chose a small self balanced engine, with an ability to scream to the ground and less out the exhaust. I can't say I have won completely..but it is so far so good. more exotic than a window rattler. Fuel mileage, downsizing, evolution in my own mind... I am going on 40. I was not too far off the mark actually. This model and engine little buggy was joked of 20 years ago over a beer, to take on as a project someday. I did not actually think I would do it. But here I am. Segregated from the source, of course..that was in the plan too.

the sube ea82 has been there ready to live since the bent lobed egr cams of 1985-87. they were terrible, but lobes could not get any bigger, and on solid lift. fun little engine down low. died going fast.
the loyale version does it all...hydraulic lift to stay civilized, gets even bigger at top end. filling the gaps.

four bangers from japan, keeping up with america were allowed to do those things, make it as full as possible on the tiny engines. A very full zero.

I was remembering fixing an old loyale to act like a CAI fed engine, when that chore was an "in" thing to do for a hot maf.

it did not even get a mile before realizing the decibals of the hot maf doing what it did to the enlarged intake was outrageous. I am curious what this engine will do with a much larger breathe and an intake heater. I am only guessing bigger air, the bellow that ached my eye will not happen, as volume should be slow with an exit out the other end. No blockage.

anticipation. I am in the city as mentoned, this buggy is known for pipsqueaky cute and gentle.My version went little devil the day I got it. I do not know what I am annoying with the exhuast, bit I will be challenging it yet again with the heater at duct. Will know soon enough.

if it is the last thing this car gets.. I hope its a recording worth more than the junk i have been using to try and capture it.

describing it is fairly easy. You know it is not an inline, like a honda might echo with a fart can and four carbs..it is not quite a porsche, no overlap like a six drafted would do...

it is inbetween, all by itself. a unique race engine. old draft. I love those designs.

other things that prerequisite the hot intake..
I found the loyale engine could suck up its own oil pan. my carb cammed engine did not. it was that day 7 years ago..I knew this car not only had centered full cams, egr was not in use. that problem has happened to some v8s, (I owned one) when draft is put in a perfectly peculiar place. pcv in use is very full cylinders.

I stamped the oil pan on this one, the diameter of the pickup, gets more room off the bottom, adds a round rib to pan. I then painted it CAT black (they make a black for chassis) to lock in the fresh stamp. given throttle is large, it may have been unnecassary..but at 9000 rpm possible. Best think of these things ahead.

found this on ethe net. as temping as it is to see a direct bolt in. this is very dangerous in my neck of the woods. Perfect bomb maker. imagine glowing red resistors in the intake airstream? crazy.


they actually make an air intake heat, this one would botl right up easy. For 274 bucks before delivery, I have an unfriendly way of telling them to keep it. I do not like resistor in the airstream anyway. pretending nothing wants to make a bomb is as insane as automobiles get. the old sube had enough of the retarded suicide monkeys in engineering. I’ll stick to the 38 dollar route..

[Barry Donovan]

intake heat summary

I was just chatting with my dad..getting his 550 cat truck tanks flushed. problem is attracted to the fuel filters. could be as simple as a mulch pulp load, acids etc getting whiff of the fuel paper elements.

the interesting thing to my own buggy is that high octane gas does the fix, I just don't use paper elements.
to be such a small reralm of stoich, and spark up like something much bigger than itself to get over the same problems, has been an inline four killing mystery for 111 years for the boxer.

wondering why I needed a heater at the air intake is simple. I went beyond velocity of its original design. Very very fast now, can't even heat up WITH coolant at the intake to meet the mix. Math proved the static compression is more towards 12 to 1, especially with american helpings at the fuel/air. Japanese games are done. They have not runted a big little engine since. Only the owners do.

my scenario is not common at all...I did read up on some diesel engines, even a 7.3 liter had an air intake heater. most likely for modern comfort than old school run, they proved they did not need one either.

to put a 1781cc boxer into the industrial realm for fixes and mishaps, comparing notes, has been comical since my first one, in 1996.

an interesting lesson about air fuel, how it is delivered. if to go to an intake larger that would drop 22 inches to maybe 14 (the rochester can run there), the fuel mix would be slow enough on the large runners to not need any heat. That may require twice the volume of 32mm in area, (that does not mean 64mm). I would love to make my own, fancy tig welding job. I am only guessing, but 43mm runners would be fun.

the drawback to large, is fuel consumption. No small mode ever. This setup here can go all the way back to the 80hp runt they tried to keep, and all the way to the max this engine could run...all humoring the 32mm runners...just need to keep up with 22 inches of vacuum moving very very fast. Hence the heater before carb to catch it.

interesting stuff.

[Barry Donovan]

the dead tree

five years for me at this one place.
something peculiar happened to the maple tree near my car..near the mud puddle, where I dumped the mystery orange from a fuel filter. smells quite potent in the building, only days later. It is coming from the maple tree. I unhooked the celing light entirely, one of theose magnetek atomizing photon anything-but-nuclear ballast for flourescent lamps. That is yet another douschebag of engineering indeed. I still can't put the two events together. The orange and the tree. I called it an herbicide too..coincidence?

I was concerned for my health yesterday..took a mop to the walls, wondering if it was some mystery flying out of a sink drain or something. the tree smells like it is on fire, leaves are not autumn, they be dead. the whole 30+ year old tree taller than this 3 story building. I did take note that orange stuff was feisty. puddle of it disappeared after the big 3.5 inch rain some days ago.
last night a neighbor got hauled off in a body bag. Wow. I am thinking the worst right now.

save a hypermiling car, kill everything else. (I am not a fan of hypermiling.. it is dangerous.) I find it funny those cars are the first to gain recycling grotesque poisons and chains of chemistry that don't stop until vegetation and people are sickened.


I don't even joke when I call an 87 subaru deadly.

the neighbor event is the house of tweakers, and I mean this literally, no mercy. Source of violence, mental patients gone wrong, and it is not even over even after somebody dies in their house of hell. one at a time, I bet some don't even get a burial.

it is a warm day for a heat riser install..but backwards cars called "anti-life" are like that.

[Barry Donovan]

installed intake heater

a bit pricy for what showed up, but wow. it is some kinda powerful. this little vacuum cleaner 1781cc needed all of it. even on this warmer evening.

a late delivery, near dark, wrapped up steel part of intake in a hurry, quick ground to engine, and then run power lead. Very robust heater. I am only using one lead. 30 below is going to be quite a conquering I have not had yet. Remembering how the loyale worked, this resembles it, but as if to be on steroids in the same genius. Imagine an ape with a brain. Not quite an engineering bridge us americans get often with an automobile.

I did prove within 20 minutes, it is a fuel that needs to settle in to better. the warm air digs right into slow rpms as the city needed. I do not like the sound, but ricer fans do. I leave this setup as is, making neater in the daylight. A real interesting experiment ..grounded to steel air box, watched sparks fly within the static of the tube sucking in, seeing the light of the little sparks through the small draft I made hidden at box to fender.. That is how freakishly high vacuumed this little 1781cc is. creates a thunderstorm on a 12v ground. kinda cool. I may get that on camera for you tube kiddies. I needed to ground the intake heater to engine, and not the box to solve that of course.

the response of less than ten minutes running is an awesome sign. Treat as normal, it only gets better.
A smell of mouse, like the first day I bought this 6 years ago..I know the airbox is working as most normal cars do. they really did forget something for an opening. All is well. I will be peeking outside occasionally, as that heater is very powerful. After shutdown, who knows. the rubber tape that came with is great, but I made a mess, need to redo over.

if you want this air heater, as I remember some cold rochesters over the years, this one will keep up. Link to ebay seller

there is other gadgets, waste veggie oil related, but who knows where these things can end up.Even my upside down suby needed a few diesel like items.

on a larger scale thought of this 7 month thread. I am learning a carb from another place is like steel here. It needs an entire year on this weeble wobble of northern earth to find its molecular routine. 30something mpg is indeed invisible to look at. A sloppy shot of accel pump is not a carb. This year with the sunstorm routine every 12 years or whatever exact number that is..another first for me and a custom build.

Back to normal thought..the acids of autumn are an incredible cleaner. if any poisons at all exist in the car, any part of it..it will be this season to shed them like animal does fur. clockwork of nature.
I guess I am lucky to find a very common one, the herbicide looking stuff. Now as a solstice approaches, that squeeze reaches a peak..then comes back out, maine has big drama there for a machine. I am lking that needle in the jet like a twin turbo cat. Both stay close to its set tune all year. Injection is still smarter, but I do like making old school better.

[Barry Donovan]

the dome




watching an f1 engine start..
don't laugh. 2.65 inch stroke on 305 pistons needs to find some lessons somewhere.

I noticed they not only have no choke whatsoever, they got giant throttle per barrel. open. nothing in the way. I know a battle spits out to suck back in like a sprite of a sunstorm collapsing back in on itself...and that is its atomization. smarter today, rules and injection..but once upon a time. with a powerful heat riser in the slow part of duct, that part of the storm should go from carb all the way to heat, then back in again. I read warming fuel was a cheat in formula 1. I am working upside down with the suby. I have to simulate everything successful backwards.

I am going to remove the dome and bar first, just leave choke attached and working.
if that does something. I will try removing choke assembly entirely. plug shaft holes, nothing but venturi to look at down into carb.

seeing the red sparkles of the ground on air box. this one wants to sunstorm, to be successful. an animal of science to breathe. I'll experiment. few days of nice coming through.

at worst a maple tree will melt, and a neighbor hauled off in a body bag.

I got the surge of the lag on the quick errand this evening, even with poppers in the fresh fuel setup. to speed that up, it is exactly the battle turbo subarus get..above chores seem necessary in theory. will give it a go.

edit

removed dome, it helped..and there is a pressure that needed some serious connections for the heater wire to keep going. Wanted to unhook its own wire. that is some freak cold above that intake, even a 3 inch tube...heater wire is in direct battle with it. Good call on the heater wire. very much needed. Intake above carb gets much colder than the air. Not even my 8cyls did what this freak does. the cat white smoke was a good sign, needs some serious heat to work. For that comes in a september fog like an ice storm in january. Dense air battle. cat would not even keep a heat to flow. No flow? no big fire..battle never ended. With big ignition, air fuel, tuned intake.. today was an awesome day to know if this works. It does nicely. about as cold making density as maine gets, a whiff of cool ocean in the fall... and it conquered it. I left lead on a smaller gauge to act as simple resistor for how much power the heater wire wants. Now it is just a matter of more of that rubber stretch tape, lots of it. The sale was skimpy with what arrived, have to get a whole roll.

about as far as I go. the blips are fuel sterilizing to the fresh setup. Could do that for some time. It is already alleviating some of the harshness of the little poppers in the lines. the full return system comes into play on this hypermiler. 30mpg would take a long time to clean a fuel line, if it ever cleaned up entirely at all...return always seeping is a good answer, filtering at all times.

taking one thing away needed another, performance should be more down low in the heat, and a chance for bigger towards 4k rpm and above. The dome was indeed a functon. something seems to be catching up , big flow. Does not want it anymore. maybe tight exhaust, several weeks needed for new ignition to sterilize chambers. hard telling what makes the magic at 25 years old. keeping clean is all we can do...and big fuel. big as the carb wants.
a 100+ quarter would be fun written. I keep it my secret now.

I noted the change below air filter at fender box a week ago or so. bugs, even a slime. big sucker from such a little engine. More chores were coming. this was my answer. I may get an auto switch eventually, thermal it off and on cycles. I am thinking a 140F in a spot that changes to intake heat. auto cycle it.

final followup

a run around town, the sweltering pig sun in autumn acid, and maine still feeds arctic at the same time. the heater is just right. The loyale the tank came from did have a problem similar, I learned to just make sure maf was hot, not for being a maf, but to help treat the air. That is where it is at now. it has an option of a whole other bank of 100w more heat, not hooked up. wrapping this with the high temp stretching rubber to complete it will give steel duct more heat, and that is where I am leaving it.

I hope to offer this up for sale or trade. will humor the inspection of a real kind next month, no antique auto cheating for this one. I should have 5 tires ready to go as well, another incentive.
feels good to drive, steel is in a final density. A more race feel will be to change tranny mounts to tighter via rubber shims. I may do that, may not.

I also heard the cat whistle out the insynerator muffler ..first time I have heard a cat active on this engine in several years.

[Barry Donovan]

fuel density

as I am forced to think of every detail, as a hillbilly with a mig welding machine. Some stuff really got dangerous, never hurt myself..but I do catch onto dangers creeping up. More than luck, I was a crew chief in the military. Details, details, details...looks aren't details. details are details that mean something.

I have learned resonant frequencies, density changes over periods of weeks and even years. I think its fun, with time to go slow, learn it on my own.

this post is a good one, as I am sure a finale is setting in.
changing tank and welding around it, explains the need for intake heat.
tank is high pressure, and welds are very dense.
changed fuel density all the way to carb.

neat trick there.

this very well could be the end of a long running learn. this one old subaru. I still wonder how many years is added.

don't chuck your old ea82 engine. chassis like mine are out there for some time to come..

a thought of a detail, not mentioned. removing the perculating pump from its level mount, intentinally mounting it at an angle on the harder surface was a must do. those pumps will clog or fail sitting level. I paid 53 bucks to get towed home because of a perfect mounted pump. came right back just removing it. live and learn.

a long list of peculiar.

[Barry Donovan]

a whiff of resistor

the big wire heater has an odor, of course, its quite hot.
for a wire to be a heater, it is a resistor.

I mentioned this chaining pile of chemistry flies in the window when it is doing something, telling me, its owner.

I don't know how it does it actually. It may have a soul hunting me down.

got a whiff of intake heater, been several hours since shutdown. this tells me ground side of car is still responding to density of welds going on two weeks old. I hit a very serious spot ...again. Anything with a resistor delays this weird action. Weld is the slowest big action ever.

this also tells me to ignore fuel air tinkering, and ignition until I know it is ready for more of whatever I feel like doing. Continuity disrupted with structure weld. this goes away, and gets bigger than ever. over all resistance signature is altered for the rest of cars duration.

I have not encountered this in any other vehicle, it is supposed to happen ..but this one is real lively about that stuff. I never notice it in others with a c-frame. Welds ,days weeks, years and hours after getting it done, the steel sending beamers I did not know possible. the cool thing about this, it is density gaining, never a loss. Does it just once. the real signal of change is always just once. the setting of a car you find a long time from now in its stance, appearance, quirk in a fender, panel, or even ripple in the glass. that hard setting that gives the car its real signature. The 80k psi mode is the biggest I have ever given this one. Some shots of subframing at wheel well roots took this too, but nowhere near the drama of that recent rear end tube weld. I thought it was done, as strut is back up to perky, spring unhindered. This must be sniffing the new heater? yuong steel, new electric. I like the maine fall and dewpoints, this has made changes a bit faster, long summer of hot welding.

I like to mention these things here, old car builders relate.

looking at records. the most intense weld chores are only two years (more than 30 pounds of wire, and much more than a 4x8 sheet of 18 gauge).I altered a non stop 23 year old tin cans existence in two years..
one end to the other. sunshine fairy talers may not know how tough that is in a northern place. there is no old cars here for a reason. it sure as heck isn't rust.

by overall singature of resistance, those that have used roll cages can relate. ever notice how far an engine is willing to scream after getting a roll cage in? energy has a place to follow and escape. in the carb days, that actually stilled a perfect air fuel mix. All invisible. density of steel surrounding a drivetrain. Oem cars for years have had the "other" resistance retard mastered. japanese tin is the most engine retarding ever. that is what I changed on this buggy. It is funny for some to assume an internally unmodified engine going as far as this does..all because of stilling the air, adding a better steel path for mystery energy of electrical and heat physics. density thumping a harder compression for the same pistons meeting the same zero deck.

they call that a race car.

being fascinated with steel since hauling beams in my dads rig when I was a boy..hard spring suspension. no air ride. back then the diesel compression could twitch a brain, not just an eye.

This little car has been fun, to watch the curve of density gain over a couple of years. Steel does not stop for much. it will follow the dense path you create. I write this post, as the dome on carb needed removal. the last retard, humoring the last chassis retard...something got still. A serious still. It is a finale.

from out of the blue. this post finished with rumbles of thunder and a blue sky. Was not expecting that, mid september in maine. playing with steel, is playing with earth. I pay attention to those storms in particular. The comical note is the nickname "thunderhorse" this car had for some time (it used to get hit by lightning, I mean so often, you could predict when). if there was aver a pile of steel on wheels fixed in the name of an angry god..this one was it.

[Barry Donovan]

no choke

1781cc.
280cfm, one big fat barrel.

no choke?!

what kind of tuner goes that far on a 35 year old carb.

rumbles at 250rpm for a minute or two, the air duct heat really carries towards 500 fast enough. it will not start with choke. This "problem" started after new tank. big fuel, right away.
I do like this as a start, as the engine is a screamer. snapping to 2800rpm at frigid can be real annoying...not just to me, but people around it. I often have a business next door open when I am going about my business. big flat shaking windows behind the car with customers waiting quietly. I must have been an asshole more than once to that place.

a little more intake heat, after hunting down some silicone rubber tape (500f) to insulate further. Call this complete. interesting product, never used it.The stuff that came with the heater wires. it even kept the high heat of wires away from my hand, just wrapping it. steel duct gets it all. this will get even better. No wait for warm up like it used to. ..and that stubborn left side header is liking it already. imagine a sleeved, gasketed, stainless header connect into the cylinder head..and it fights like hell to create a seep.

I do not know as fires get any stronger than that...should just let it be a cackle fester as intended.

but no. I stay nice to my neighbors. ignore the melted maple tree and the neighbor in a body bag. an old subaru has nothing to do with it.


thinking of an insultor..fireproof. this was it. it came from this subaru,I have two of them. both side in the back behind panel, aft of wheel wells. I kept them out as they prevented flow to tailgate vents when everything is buttoned up. fireproof stuff layed down on a rubber sheet. I wrapped intake tube, over the wire heater, which is wrapped with silicone rubber (500f) , then electrical tape over the rubber insulater, then a final aluminum metal tape. It still got too hot too touch. I went over it again with what you see in photo. That should finalize it. two layers of fireproof.

all hesitations stopped, the intake needed every last morsel of that very hot heater. ready to drive.

this is final shot, and is safe to touch of course. this also keeps engine bay from sucking on my neighborhood of crap after shutdown. like an upside down glass, or whatever it was doing.
I find it amazing it needs all the heat that had to offer. a 3 way switch to get both wires going as the inventor indicated may come in handy in very cold. (a wiper switch may be a better way to word it, 6 pole, multi combos for the same destination)
..and if you are into weather almanacs. the sube engine only gets this stubborn when ungodly cold is on its way...months ahead of time.

Note: the usa cap in photo is not upside down. the subaru is. I hope they have great joy out of a typhoon.


babbling on in another thread, I mentoned subaru made 3 similar cams, to do everything. faith in electrons no doubt.

the only dramatically different one is the carb ea82. bent lobe at #3, pointy sharp duration on all lobes... to worship a hard thump into egr recycle. american insanity actually..subaru did not like that build either. cams extinct after 2 years of ea82. cannot buy them again.I keep two of them for conversation. Remnant of the craziest setup known to man. Cars were much less than 100 years old in 1985.I keep the crazy items, they are not coming back.

the other two are multi, singular injection, and turbo on either one. I love those. very big fat lobes. timing at the belts has to be the hard ones by gates or goodyear. the stretchy ones could blow exhaust or pop a topside gasket. I am using the fattie cams in the build in this thread. I have had solid lift snappy time on the fat cams, until engine blew, and now hydraulic of the full squishy kind. quiet at the valves of course, even bigger at top end. 8500rpm limiter goes into action.. It occured to me the carb draft got quite big enough, I needed to fake a turbo at slow speeds. Heat on a tight duct does the trick. fat volume heated, force it into the skinny.The slow draft has a pressure approaching neutral headed into the small. this pause was crucial just to run around my city civilized. Can't have a 5k rpm rally snapping launch every red light.. hesitation stopped. nice ride right now. cold starts should be real nice in coming weeks into the 30s. The rally mode option is fun, I will have intake heater on a 3 way switch. HI-LO-OFF.

what could be funnier than that? they did the same thing for 20 years of natural EJ engine. The slow draft drove owners crazy. The ea82 is very feisty in comparison.

[Barry Donovan]

electro warmth comfort controller

appropriate name for my hack as well.


from an electric blanket my dad used in his rig. took it all part…deciphered how it worked. useless at first, but then found a way to calibrate to the amps I needed. off equals 5 second spurts of power on, and several minutes off. the draw is large on the heater with both heater wires hooked up. I needed a controller. On #7 setting it is much more on than off. plenty of control, and gives the alternator a break. The heater has plenty of time to own the steel duct. A peculiar thing I noticed.. the heater in the cabin gets warm as this shuts off…just for a few seconds. As if to be shaking a stubborn flow I have been fighting with on this ea82 carbed. Always a cold heater in the winter, with everything correct. Smarter than a loyale right now..and smelling like one.

the tank and its perfection of never leaking a single vapor, I may be warding off electric made gasses..not to be confused with radon. The loyale did this too, after adding a cold air intake. It was then, I drove for 25 hours straight. Runtime felt that bulletproof..and I proved it.It was at 160k miles, and drove 25 hours like it was nothing. This engine is not that happy. but it is 10 years older, nothing but pure carb. I'd still go a long day with this.

I don’t even want a thermal switch now. I’ll leave this in glove box. The pulse of the above controller is bimetal, and a calibration for how much heat, or how fast you want or need the metal to come away from a connection. it cools down, connects a full connect again for whatver interval the setting dictates. clever. getting the calibration wasted a few gallons at an idle, but was worth it.
full off is as close as I can get with a 5 second on..then several minutes off. I dialed in the little set screw they have, but it muust be an amp draw demanding that quick connect once and awhile. fine by me. Can still call "off" a full cool intake duct. #5 setting seems to be a 50/50 on off. I must have done something right tinkering with calibrating. #7 is a roaster, as I wanted for an option. Smoked some solder at first, like this switch never burned in, or never worked. I think my dad mentioned that as he gave it to me. Simply never worked. must have been a bad electric blanket (which is also just like the wire I am using for heat). Not a total hack. Some realistic thought put this together.



just in time for the heater I guess. I still got 80% water in the mix. The saying: there is never enough time and money. The old engine has really got the squeeze on, I forgot I am the first one to ever treat like a natural. no games. my other subarus took a year to come out of constipation. The hard body is getting it done quicker than I can remember. Install of engine was May. Now in its first winter to act like a man.