attacking a monojet

[Barry Donovan]

finale #..?

no more to be done, drove to the ocean, that is where I like squeezing out the pine trees, old gas, 25 year old skunks, somebodies cologne..these things gather to intense welds. tha back end was a big sweet spot this time.
the chassis change was large enough, not even the catalyst could do what it does for quite a few miles.

about 40 miles in, it started to gain that low line, that old school I-6 sounding dig. I am trying to go slow mind you, the screamer is still there hidden among the long throw of the monojets giant throttle. I keep it like a biugger engine in the hills, no more than 3k rpm. the accel ignition does make use of multispark there as well. I associated the near hitching to old fuel, I could finally smell it coasting down a hill. I'll have to remember that...that too was about 40 miles into the ride. the old stuff is on the move. As large as I made it, it still takes a long time in first the cold squeeze. The only real time to do this stuff.

fuel just at 30 mpg, even with the fuel pedal floored when it got a bad spurt. A bad spurt to this is probably 1/10 of a tablespoon (I am not kidding). the more I drove the better it got.

And it was cool to conquer a problem i had with these in the cold..no matter what I did, no hot heater for the cabin. I clearly remember the worst of times. 28 below I had one of these up and running. manual steering dl. Even the newer loyale engine, with bigger coolant channels and intake. The loyale did good until 7 degrees F, then it was time to stay home.

Now with intake heat regulated thermally, at my control from inside the car.. I could feel the heat change. Its like I owned it for the first time in 15 years.

1 exhaust gasket sounds useless. may calm down. they usually do. First colds squeezing the routes to disciplne. My v8s used to get all kinds of drama this time of year on the piping. this little boxer is a smaller scale version of the same stuff. my home made gasket6 may need a factory like one.. the cat must be up to temp. Big static pressure when the cold contrasts the pipes. this has not had a full 14 foot exhaust in a couple of years.

A good several hundred mile run would be nice. Clean off the engine, get coolant up for winter. Oil is almost gaining a carbon black...go for a long ride. It over 1200 miles now, needed no oil. at .25 down, this is very good. I want the ea82 to gulp a quart less than 2k miles.

come home, change it out...this could be the for sale sign.

[Barry Donovan]

finale #...? #2

I refused to let this sintered filter go to waste. I am still using its housing before the carb in engine bay. It was pricy for such a small filter. The carb loves the sintered filter. Just making its presence workable is fine by me.




as long as the fuel is 80 degrees in the cali sunshine this filter is nice. I killed it within a few days after new tank. with non paper element pre fuel pump, this should do nice in the engine bay. this is flowing as normal, but I gave it three tiny holes with a dremel. The old carb like the brass just being present. This does act as a splitter through the 3 holes, and filter is stil flowing after a boiling and cleaning, verify at the water faucet. Drying this tough filter off was a matter of sticking it on the oven heating element.

The brass processes something, I learned that a long time ago. Attacking before carb is a good thing to do, and the placement of holes still allows some thing to be captured.

a quick errand, this is back to normal. above idle to midrange is back to friendly. An exhaust gasket is annhilated..could be 100 times since I have owned. this process with the filter will hang onto yet another one. I am simply going to manhandle the header.

with this filter in, another 3mpg kept in the tank. I am truly,against all grains of normalcy, trying to make it use fuel to 30mpg. beyond 35 is a real nuisance.

I have not stepped this up to my idea of a racer yet. that is simply a 82 short jet, and the all steel 3 inch duct with a mandrel at the top of carb.

I'll share that some time.

I am hoping there is an interval of several weeks with this thread dormant...

the intake heat controller. I started first cold start today with it inside car. not much of a chill in the air, but it did drop to 38F last night. I like the thought of that controller after prying some icy doors open and dreaming of my run to get some hot coffee some place. I am finding choke back to full on, and cold start like the old days, intake heater off is the genuine routine. once started, crank knob to wherever. When the bimetal in the controller is cool, like the duct outside..the heat stay on longer for initial warmup, then pulses in shorter intervals as car warms up. Clever. I did not think of that part of it. The colder it is, the longer it will stay on. Could not ask for much more. this also means as cabin heat increases, the switch will get shorter intervals. That is not so good. As outside temperature of duct needs to be in equation. I'll possibly think of something else to go along with it. finding a cool spot for controller is a must do. maybe remove dash clock, as controller seems to be the same size as that hole it is mounted in. nice cool windshield not far off to keep bimetal active.

for now, pretty darn good. the amp draw is large enough to change tone of engine like an a/c compressor with off on intervals. The battle is on. this anything but formula 1 monster needed every inkling of it.



found spot for controller. this is inbetween heat ducts, seems to be cooler. the off setting is really an off today. electronics, even basic..peculiar stuff to layer in at an invisible layer. the dual range sticker is in this photo as a mystery to the need...

an embarrassing note. As this car started even in February, nothing tuned, ignition with a wiring problem.. I looked over the choke linkage and realized I removed the dome bar from top of carb, in turn tightened the steel o-ring, which then left my gasket a bit fatter. it kept choke from closing. Trimmed it a bit more, choke is free.

"on the ball" as the saying goes.. I must admit, time catches up to years before it does not my will.

another thing I do forget, the actual thing I am creating to everything else typical. I did learn the boxer zero'd can work its way into anoither dimensia. like a cam shifted into 3k and beyond for racing v8s. That is the other purpose for heat, and making a splitter for fuel. I need to have small mode for the city, cold starts. damn those are loud now. I wonder if it can suck superlights out of fuel before it even processes...leaving the strange clear gelatin my old tank had in it after flushing. I did admit, I do not like hypermile. It is not even safe.

confident to be at 30mpg, and option to be little race engine...the boxer can do that all on one throttle. part of the silent legend. should not be its own fuel distillery of science anymore.

I was just thinkng .. when the throttle "barbara wah wahs" going slow, something top end is too big. that means trying to go slow on something timed to be huge. on counterbalanced engines, that means cam. simply said, that is called a race car. That is my other awe of a balanced boxer of old. it is like feeding a turbine. center the cams fat, it can be big or small. I learned back when saturday night live was funny. (barbara wah wah)

[Barry Donovan]

working up some decent attributes

I do not know how to sell a car, but I do know how to fix and buy.
I am trying to gather up the facts for an ad of sale sometime.
adding up the gains of the monojet on an engine from the land of tiny things. They build little giants sometimes and keep them small. Strange breed of culture. Then they claim big things from junk...and then, well american gets angry at the wrong things too, as a result. must be a market coo. I had a relative with a nissan 6 cyl diesel in a lobster boat. Facts of reality end up in the darndest places.

this water boxer, it needed something..
the monojet fit the bill. the original fuel air was so small, foggy weather changed intake pressure to nearly no idle. for what? was not even 100mpg. the sloppy open jet sucking at 22inches hg. The hitachi primary jet may be smaller than a human hair. It did not take me long to decipher how just weather changing killed this.Start it up and idle all day..don't demand work at full power. Ran like a 1 cylinder atv if to run one all year. not even possible to keep heat for the air fuel to keep firing. nevermind keeping you warm in the cabin..or simple things like defrosting the windshield. This one fact revealing left me wandering away from midget brained suby gathering clans forever. What do you think your sube is "large" about today? thumping mess of 3 cylinders firing. that is not a boxer rumble. that is an engineering butthead. /rant

I must brag of doing something just right for this one. right down to bending the little pedal arm up to gain the whole throttle of the "giant" monojet.

this has become small and large all one engine. Knew it was going to happen. just needed the 3 main boxer. this means chug it around like grandpa, or scream it to the limiter..no effort for either one. all there, one long throw of the one throttle.

another thing is how low rpms can stay to reel in the 140 foot pounds, seeming a tad before the book number. it may even be more than 140. Robust full fire from all four on a self balanced engine. it is a bit motorcycle indeed. I compare it to old straight sixxes with the same carb. go figure. Ironically, there is an old 3/4 ton with an i-6 in my neighborhood. same leaks in exhaust, no full muffler ever again.

140. that is my guess at hp now too. I learned these square up when max cfm is achieved. no porting needed. they shipped very runted.

this gets right up with real traffic, no games, no wondering. just go with it. dumb with four cyls is quite ok, treat it like a honda or an old torquing v8.

all physics went larger, even kept engine cooler. intake heater will allow for the extremes that kept the runt mode famous. frigid does not stop it from starting and running. lack of heater in the cabin did. this one works as a normal car.

just had to take the straw away, and the tiny open jet.
rochester fixed both.

fully fixable, the american way. that may be all I have to say. A drive and start should sell the rest. If you are a fan of manhandling old draft flat six..you are right at home with this old sube. The long throttle gives it a pleasant rheostat. that is something the old drafts on boxer never did. They focused on all large, or all small.

first of the stronger fronts, autumn like coming through. 30mph winds, and higher gusts. Birds here. they hang out in the beginning spinning in circles. when they disappear, I pay attention to the forecast.

coincidentally, a video popped up on my subscriptions titled:
Sie laufen mit Wind (They run with the wind)

stuck in my head like a tv commercial. odd thing. my brain.

it is actually metaphoric for a boxer to me. no other engine needs to slow a natural draft. most fight like hell to feed it.

[Barry Donovan]

sea ice

explaining the cold that shatters crank pulleys like glass, and deems coolant useless..
rare events. I have been through them twice in 25 years of maine. this year with sunspots has the prerequisite.

beyond a myth, NH-maine may be the coldest overall inhabited place on earth. even russia gets a heat wave.

note the ice does not retreat to the north and east of hudson bay. maine-nh, canadian maritimes is to the southeast of it. Northwest winds should be setting a cold pace in coming days and weeks. It does not stop for many days. I do not remember a year without that.

this may explain the 200w intake heater needed for the boxer. I not much quibbled in the past enough to do anything extra. This year the freak engine and chassis is being different. Every year, the lateral earth interaction is a prophetic act of science. my 15th year with an old sube.

the signs of winter start in mid august. I stop welding chassis then. Squeeze is on..next 7 months.
when it starts creaking at the passenger side brake line, spring is springing.

That seems a long way away right now.

post finished, checking on my chicken in the oven...

two bald eagles flying above my place. full white heads and tails. It is 5 years for me here in this bangor place.. I have never seen anything like it.

eagles don't like cities...unless there is something worse in the quiet place they stay kings and queens.

a clean south wind is the smell of life no doubt. I am a bit animal there too. they must be taking advantange of the tease. ..because it is a hollow wind.

[Barry Donovan]

its a plague!

I was just talking with my dad. if you think I go over details bordering OCD...

ponder a 180k rig and a tougher winter coming.
I offered to help change some fuel lines (he melts his like I do on my boxer lately) in exchange for some genuine CAT premixed coolant. my engine loves it. green blob for maneating coolant be gone.

as he was describing the errors, the fuel filters getting mushed up to useless. I got to thinking, my old tank swap was in the driveway where he parks. I swapped on a hot sunny day when it was not in use. I got to thinking the tank was right below his fuel filters, he swaps them often ...after removing from car, I chucked in in that general direction in his empty parking spot. he recently blew a turbo gasket at the exhaust side, I recently pulverized a metal sleeved one on the boxer..

whatever the detective work cannot decipher, I either attacked his rig, or his rig got my sube. The only two weirdos with fuel plague simultaneous..and healing the same.

the car is 20 years older than the rig..but we've both had arctic. 550k miles versus 138k. I still blame the buggy, canada plays with rubber balls for fuel from irving. local, the rig gets good stuff. my car has been alaska to maine, and midcoast usa. I certainly had quite a potent combo going. Another odd thing is what the cat coolant so graciously finalized in the little boxer. I assumed molybdenum related, stripped the rubber hoses and pop the old worthless grade of them.



back to normal now..making final mends. rubber gas or coolant lines. another bad fact putting the blame my direction, is the perfect seam leak the car must have sucked at for years. The truck does not have any.

on a note not really related to the carb hacking.. I found another engine in alabama. I stay way back conservative with no race build, no spare yet...stay tuned.

I just want a spinning short block, no holes in it.

[Barry Donovan]

e-bat again


the battery connection from ground to alternator..(the letter E in photo.)
damn that got important. I got a rich odor after car started, hard start for a not so cold start..a big ignition was fixing that for a time. I knew something was gong lame..as when it started, it was like a switch found a ground. big start..what was takling so long? and why rich after that ignition pulverizes everything in the chamber?
the wire was unhooked for reasons I forget.

this was not hooked up by factory. I thought I was giving a simple extra, but am wrong indeed. Being on your own with upgrades..no one knows the backside of a chassis until trial and error.

the E wire does not apply to the pipsqueaky origin of this midget monster. the 5k volt coil did not need more than a 20 gauge wire to gound. I found it along the way, just upgrading coil, and battery, then all copper radiator..
nothing extreme. It does need it now however...it took 4 years to find that one.

a bigger exhaust can trigger this problem as well. the alternator needs battery negatove to function regulator precisely. I found the internal E connection, and it simply used the block...not good enough when flow is in the middle to disrupt the bigger ground connection at starter..the other end of engine. it literally loses the whiff of battery, does not know how to regulate nice once things get big. Seems simple now..I had no real clue until learning myself the hard way.

this really should be a finale.

I like to mention the odd info I gather from this chassis, me owning it..as years go by. it reels in time.

I was reading local paper, truck hit a bridge on local highway for being tall.. this particular bridge has never been hit in the 25 years I have been here. for the driver to get that far as a tall load, and hit a bridge that is never low?

steel is doing something big this year. my car feels the beams on the one crossing penobscot, gets hit by lightning if at the wrong place and wrong time on the other one crossing the river, I joke of grade and psi communicating, a steel thing. I could not explain the rear end in the buggy in a normal way..welds outrageous, forever'd..and suddenly a spring board without failing. That happened just a month ago.
I always wanted to go through this maine routine in realtime with an instrument telling it. the car seems to be it. Steel says it all. it does coincide with the sunstorm stuff. sometimes this place only gets a few freak events. I remember a hurricane in january, I was in my little mobile hut, picked up on two wheels slammed me back down. winds unknown. With the latest weld on the scoob..its kind of numb to drive around. little brick. my dads rig has more flex..hes got the 100+ ton version. special cat engine, 280 wheel base..room for a third axle. kenworth made it a show truck instead, aimed for owner operators. That is also a pile of steel that won't get bothered this spell. I have witnessed him giving up on a rig..just once. He been playing the big buks for better ever since. He was my first inspiration, his job, the fails.. I was there for all of them growing up. I could not wait to make my own machine for when hell hits this place leaving blank memories of ptsd. I don't forget. Does not make me tougher...

when "it" decides to happen, next spring is routined cars/trucks not seen ever again. it is sad actually.I have been through this, only twice here. It surprises even the veterans. being disabled, by a window and my computer.. I watched the last of the realm of my subaru go away, that was 4 years ago...much of the next generation died already. Funny enough, the last one in my neighborhood, the owner, approached me to give me a handful of parts and the current hood I am using. it is a small world. I hope this place gets the hell this season that keeps it that way.I tend to keep an ear open for sounds..my favorites died a long time ago. the rest are restores or collectors, like me. This year has tell tale signs of no easy. According to history and calendar..its right due to get nasty. no mythological voodoo divination involved.

I am expecting to be proud of steel I put together.

[Barry Donovan]

gps speedometer

read some reviews. 100 bucks, for 158 mph speedo.

I cannot, without a 1/4 mile track or landspeed run, show what I have been trying to show for years..
the sound of this boxer climbing to even a simple 80mph. it is similar to several years of mustang, the first second third..then the v8 walks its fourth and fifth, the boxer dies of course. 103 in third, same redline. I found that vid a few years ago.

this is next gadget on my list.

the last vid, carb test ride #..?

the end of ramp was 80 something, coasting up the hill riding a nominal throttle in fourth, bog it in fifth for a further slow down to the car going seventy something in front. I don't like sneaking up on people. I was slowing way ahead.

made it seem casual didn't it.
"unbelievable" has got to put to rest.

I also found the HUD can be kept in a camera, and camera on road at same time. I instantly thought of this nearly incomprehensible 1781cc...

[Barry Donovan]

battery ground

being I just slam wires around until it works.
if it hangs there in circles, there is no direction..and asian loves to put things there in the weirdo of engineerings. hovering until death to car or living things.,.anything but a short circuit circuit.
ignition was literaly dual 12v positive for no reason at the disty. Accel fixed a huge freaking problem.

I literally had to look up what direction a battery ground goes in energy.. does it suck in at its post or give away..

the answer?

it sucks in. That explains the miracle at the alternator in previous post, and that extra umph. the carb likes it alot. even the tank cleaned right out within hours, those groundable nuisances knew to go towards the front.

this may have been the last engines sintered block and failure. The wire at alt was needed to go to bat negative.

meanwhile, a sickness has creeped in to my lung. Seems trivial this year compared to first year ripping into channels. only one was air tight, the one the tow truck ripped out the hook in. that last channel was not open for long. Blasted by weld in the few years prior is keeping the original sickness I got away. that is something else peculiar about the bat negative. no monsters when that is correct. one weld, that nasty killer is done. The tow hook was easy. no games with the old feeling of stuff. I found my new steel at all four of the sides of tow hook to weld to.



the back end subframing is one that took 4 weeks after summer welds.. not sure why. it even steals at the cold start snap I normally like about this combo. All electric mystery. can't even force a fix, does it on its own. Only temporary, the dial in of density and slow hertz talking again to normal..eventually priceless.

The real win for me is the nastiest ice heavy storm, every machine hates it. this one just drives. no creaks of pansy tin can. It seems I did it all for those storms..but the gentle climb to spring attacks too. again in the fall.

[Barry Donovan]

the last bleeder

I finally got the littl bleeder out of the 1978 chevette monojet. most likely never to be used..but did get it out of there. these both fit the bigger monojet.



one last thing not swapped in the camaro monojet, (the 43mm throttle carb on the engine) are these smaller diameter bleeders from the chevette monojet. they fit the big monojet, but it seems bleeders go with barrel size, not an engine displacement. my sube may not even start with these little bleeders. When a spare 43mm monojet is purchased, will attempt these small bleeds. As I remember the chevette, the air was so small, fuel filtering was not even precisely possible to make these work. That is some tiny demand indeed. the bigger bleeds were needed to stay real. Most likely another piece of midget history in america, never to be utilized again. I did get them out of the carb, and kept them.

I owned and drove a 1981 chevette ..that came with a holley. less than ten years old, no rust. just under 100k miles. miniature big car, RWD, 3 speed auto that worked nice. A guru fixed it for me, at the time gas was less than a buck. 20 something mpg kept my chevette normal. As oem, 40 something mpg would try to tune itself in, and was not even possible. random no start, cold start needed a prime like a model T..no errors found but size of fuel they had dialed in for it. That is when I learned little inlines from little boxers. The inlines REALLY need to be fed, and they take in every bit of it.

as my own history unfolded..I was a bit awestruck at 35mpg ten geared AWD, 1.8L boxer, weighing in at 2800 pounds dishing out more torque and grunt than a 20 mpg 1.8 liter chevette...on a very tiny opening for carb.

live and learn. I can't wait for my age group to take over the industry.

above is another reason I hang at bangshift. Defense of the real strength can't hide. there is big ones and little ones.


update on the ground cable for alternator..
as the cold start is getting stubborn, this may be an 87 octane winter 91 summer. I was hoping air intake heater would just allow for high octane. this , as turns out, is the same for the solid lift engine previous. same routine. I took note the electro valve I have for intake heater kicks off alot sooner in shorter intervals. As that works by an amp reading to self heat a shut off...the cable on the alternator is in fact working right away. The more amps, faster it shuts off. I will try adjusting it again to stay on longer. it loves that heater...
speaking of heater, this car finally has one. looking forward to the cold. intake heater keeps the battle broken, coolant flows, and air within the same intake runner. I may make a 43mm out of steel and the old intake. I found alfas even played with rubber hoses for intake runners. I am sure jb weld if need be, steel and aluminum could do better.
the next cold start may have some more juice from battery, and the fuel quibble can subside.

on a rather immature thing to like.. it is very robust. every fire. way beyond an oem sound for sure.
on the best of runs, the old one let out a howl, as if a huge balanced steel were singing. I have since learned it is the 40 pound flywheel warming up to perfect fires...like a singing sound. would not expect that density coming from such a little engine. I love machines coming to life when there is a chill. I do have some scary lonely stories. Seriously.

it is also some memories revived. I used to start the rig as a chore in the winter. locomotive. not "like a locomotive." A locomotive on its own.

[Barry Donovan]

my own mille miglia

approaching that time again, can't sit still. My first long ride was in 2005, the ea82 unfelt in the 2wd chassis. the back end was so light with no rear diff, one had to pay attenton at all times. a quick jerk would have been like a poodle lugging a giant dogbone with its back legs off the ground trying to take a quick turn. That is how I ended up wrecking car eventually. being the wagon is the grand touring tank of the same engine. What I built needs a challenge. some of the stuff compiled was remembering that lonely ride, a psychological one (I thought I was dying, for real). I thought this simple compared to someof the hopeless machines I have tackled. I was in for a surprise there too. socialist suicide grade A is an old subaru.
right down to the 43mm rochester carb, I think of that one hill in new york. getting passed by cars going 80 on that steep grade, I cowered in the little subes seat hanging onto 55. the 32mm throttle wide open to the 500F maf feeding a disaster in the making. my CAI invented saved it. it did not meet its match all the whole ride..but that one bizarre interstate hill in new york. I never forgot.
a few grey hairs, seven years older...


pointing and dragging points around to stretch 1000 miles. this one came out to 996, into manhattan.

My first ride, no map.. I did not stop, no plan..did not even let anyone know I left. I drove 25 hours, led me to PA. , then back north across new york, then east back home. 1357 miles. I stopped to take a nap..dizzy. I knew to put a fat custom header on some day. I also exceeded plastic radiator, funny enough, it only swelled to take in more fluid on the long ride. About 13 hours was the nonstop, no shutdown. off for two hours, back at it again. the restart, it was in PA, cool morning in the hills. something cleaned out in the cylinders, reminded me of an open piped cessna. a cleanliness I had never heard from a non-EGR little ea82. As if to be exotic. crisp fires in my control. I killed a monster that robbed power after the long 13 hours prior to shutdown. that was 2005. I knew to build another.

Watching a motortrend show, mille miglia, sterling moss and an incredible ride in the mercedes in 1955. Their mille miglia is 5000 feet per mile, 946.7 miles american. I was very interested, as I wandered about on my own before ever hearing of it.

The above would be an interesting ride.

A timer, now with cameras that record vid. I wonder how many hours...of course no race, that is not the point. sustaining 80s in maine is about the fastest highway.

that was interesting too, that last long ride. fought all the way down and back..then the last hundred miles of maine, exhausted, bordering 90mph. toughest gas engine I ever encountered. I have had the tall geared v8s into heatsoak on a thousand mile run , (one day run). the little boxer don't go there. in fact, its incredible. after many miles, i could see every cylinder getting its share of breathe in the heat diperse category...it wanted nothing to do with me or the cabin.

[Barry Donovan]

electric supercharger

here is one the net has been giggling at for some time..and tricking others.

they bust the myth of course..
I left a comment for them to try something I did here.
the superheat of cold source outside engine bay is as far as one can go to help the little suffocating engines. never add heat if it is using air from with engine bay. that is certain death.

Heating fuel is also an option, I decided by my own learning , that is not very friendly at times. the dispersal of static of fuel pumping, synching into system ground is worth the weight in density. A warm up in other words. a big n/a has one.
14 parts of air to the fuel. we all know how fast the gauge goes down and cringe every time.
this little sube, on the dl especially, it could bend its own front end to the cold air source getting sucked at outside. this gl likes to break the back left end. that means output, not a sucker problem. you want the latter for sure.

did I post 3 times today?
this must be my last one for today.

[Barry Donovan]

some sube notes

this should be coming to a close, already planning trips. Alot of work beyond the air fuel and ignition, exahust. The typical stuff hot rods play with. 38 pounds of mig weld and more than 60 square feet of steel...
this post is a disclaimer.

I am not sure what crowd the subes gather, never met a motorhead like me hanging in the realm...although there was 1 from australia dialed a loyale into ten seconds.

I got along with fabricators, subes destroy themselves need ingenuity in the welds and steel.

I can't stand for false impressions...

I learned 1993 was a 25th year anniversary something for subes. that may explain my version of an ea82 and the fuel. By no means the pipsqueak some crowds make them out to be. I have not found a nice gas tank in any but my 1993 that I wrecked. That is important to mention. it may have been a silent attempt by subaru to finally get ea82 correct. The parts I keep for beating on are 1990 and later.

also the beams for the old a10 chassis, they seemed to have leaped into a good attempt to accept flat six, and then went tin can around the subframes whent they changed their mind.It is another falsity about strength. Don't just slap a big engine in an old sube.. or heck, 300cfm on an ea82 will kill all versions of oe and replacement clutches, rear end crossmembers, echaust..and well read this thread you get a good idea of the fails.

the stage 1 clutch saved this.. Spec clutch out of alabama. Available starting in 2001. not long ago for an 80s sube is it?

I also found, oem ignition switch is useless if to go aftermarket ignition, the fuel pump runs on 8v low mode by factory, and even slower if the car has an ecu for injection. That all has to change to stay safe.

plastic side radiaotr? hack in a brass one from an ea81 subaru if need be. their radiator is physics, not just cooling. I also found s10 radiators can fit easy if you are a fabricator.

..and the last is physics after true weld on chassis. The most peculiar resolve is the E wire at alt .. it HAS to be connected after gaining density on the whole chassis. Subaru is not even 64k psi, (the low mode on cheap welders), working critical areas to 80k psi may blow the headlamps apart the first time from the abyss of suby no one mentions, days after welding. The sealed channels have a surprise for any chassis builder attempting it..

the small wheels. anyhting smaller than 15 inch rim is not even possible for a weight rating to be safe on an awd subaru. I have found the 14 inch on legacy. they can't hide. I speak of my own into 120mph capable..thirteen inch wheels would be a death wish.

legacy. A secret for old subae owners..the first few years of legacy has alot of swaps for the older subes. A 1993 loyale master cylinder is the same in a 500 pound heavier legacy. which one is the hot rod with oem parts again?

stay careful. The net and info gathered does get manipulated, leads to dangerous outcomes. It is yet another reason I left other forums. Just today some guy called "eric the car guy" on you tube hacking subaru headlamp wires for projector beams with solder and backyard techniques. someone want to tell him the headlamps are the biggest amp suck on an oem legacy? that solder may be found in the key switch someday. Stuff like that gets on my brain. I have 15 year of sube memory...I must be getting to be an old fart.

I wanted to mention this stuff..as I broke a rear end again, and it was after some serious welding. Four years hung in there, this years changes are power related in every way. it still may not be at 130hp.. To my surprise, this year took in an 80k psi beads, never to be bothered again.

when a vega gets a v8, no one judges chassis, even though weak...its a given to be strengthened. When a subaru is a hot rod? Best be doubting oem original. I am not sure what cult layed on facts of strong for the subes. Seems the seattle area is the most bizarre opinions ever, claiming strong old subes. I wonder what WTO has to do with seattle..hmmm.

no politics from me here.

moving onto other things....

[Barry Donovan]

steel intake

some last details. I remember grabbing a chunk of sonotube for filling with concrete, a thick steel, then add concrete.
the rest of america, I found, gets away with cardboard and other asian microfim thickness for fairy tales of sonotube.

anyway.

my CAI needs to be just as freakish. the steel from the cat 550 radiator was just right. my first go with this was a painted steel, the car pulverized the paint then choked on it.

I thought back then.. if I do this again, I am not even painting it in any way on the inside. Outside ok, inside not ok.. I did find some options, rustoleum has a high heat aluminum gloss, resistant to gas and oil, good for 2000 degrees. I may give the inside of steel duct a shot of that to be nice. I found if steel wants to create an oxide to air, it plucks some nitrogen out of the fuel and kills its own oxide. hence the mystery of steel ducting near a carb that never rusted. It happens..as long as duct is a modern seal, plenum on fender, filter before the steel pipe.

I remember talking of this on another forum years ago. The unpainted one also acts as a lead to earth, stuff falls out duct after shutdown, the electric charged inerts (alot like a stinky basement if your car has some). cylinders hang onto that for years. the duct helps it. The only thing to check is if very long sitting times, take a look at inside of real steel duct before starting.

as a whole, car is getting one more yokohama trz. At 15 inch the supply seems to be dwindling down. I have never had a good tire stay in production. sucks royally.

Else, roll with the punches as usual. I met the extreme strength needed from a ten geared tin can. The real lesson is rear end geometry, it needs to be like a tractor trailer..not to be embarrassed by breakage, it is a number 1 fail today for anyone in the car realm playing power. The sube is very interesting. As japs do not know suspension (an inch off the ground is not susupension - tough ricer guy)..referring to bmw 2002 for strengths etc, it works.

and a last note, the cold start issue recently. I forget the rochester monojet is as malleable as day one under the cover. Give it air it swells, put cover on, tighten...give it a few days. It needs a retorque. air leaving shrinks the aluminum. Back to tight static pressure cold starts. The little race engine I inadvertanlty built trying to be normal. That leads me to something peculiar about asian vehicles. Most things recover in a realtime one event. A retorque, a borken bolt, a weld. Just do the job, its fixed. Asian vehicles do not do that at all. The ideas are there...but that real umph that comes with things strong and tight and willing to work... not much of it stands its ground to my giant huge scary american standard. I really am the guy who was taught machines on 115k psi rails and 80000 pounds. I broke my first cars frame, a 70s american delta88. I thrashed it like a rag doll. all 19 feet and 4000 pounds of it. The sube is almost a sick joke on my life..but an awakening more than anyhting. the world suffers my extreme lesser. My favorite thing about building. It is almost satisfied with my conquering of this ten geared sube. A true half ton truck like rear end would be an awesome finale. That boxer is at least 3 times bigger than the evil midget suffocating it like a cat to a baby sleeping. Put the facts together and watch and hear the strength do something. My last ricer for a reason, my only one.. I want to mention it truthfully.

I actually love that chore with the rochester..and forget it everytime.
35 years young...the carb is ten years older than the sube, and willing to go on without it.

a metaphor to finalize this 7 month long thread..
if it can't stop chasing its own tail... Start with the backbone. electrical gets bothered first...to bad steel. This one stayed straight (I would have scrpped it if the metal backbone was bent)..it found a way to sway side to side like an old heavy sedan without a cop car package. of course it was creaky, more than sway. I added white beams, bigger than the factory front ones. Been a pleasure to weld everything after that densified.



to keep a peaceful opinion of a machine I have not ever hated so much and fixed so much... every owner of these has a loss. to encounter one with a paint job, or fancy turbo, or wheels, or loud to the point of arrogant to gain what we all want...

I give it no shit. I am not the terrorist hating on subarus. This did get serious for me as well. I won't discuss it again. I am disabled, it was life and death at first. Coached along from vegetable.. I was even typing poetry as medical advice. Remembering what I liked to do, work on things..crew chief career done. I chose facts of a car. A liquid 3 main bearing self balanced boxer with a ten gear awd. 3 modes. ..diff goes long with it mechanically. A pile of monekys 2 inches tall surrounded the gem in poisonous tin. For those that do not see something worth ten million more than a sloppy carbed v12 ferrari superleggera. Well. Continue to pay too much for your sideways honda today. My defense of machinery is truly exotic...as a man who does not pitter patter across a puddle like a kitten. As a man who does get underneath on the side of the road and fix it without a laptop..I see where subaru died in history. this car was it. They lost the facts of man after this tortured car.. and it was not even correct.

these do not have much of a crowd. mostly sharks of business. real owners know worthless as it happens. The brand name driven places do not. I do like the thought of those who did get it together, lost all brand name asociation. they are more real than evil. It would be fun if just a few got together on those silly rides gathering. No "jdm yo", perhaps badgeless..a pile of tin sounding like their own engine.I almost fell through that group gathering stuff..until I caught onto the brand name game. A real owner knows who the terrorizer is.

I did mention liking the thought of group rides, if the idea is adultly diversified. For fun looked around some local stuff, as long as they had any vehicle. Classic and vintage seem to be an old carbed sube today, right now. If you do take on an old boxer, they seem to go anywhere. I mean the real definition of boxer. The japanese insanity post 1990 , five main bearing, is not only never going classic... there is people like me praying for the fake demise. have fun.

the sube in this thread is the "legacy" that goes "out back" as a real legend. I do not forget what some forums did.. even you mr admin in 2001 with an ej engine.. you know what group I am referring to. My sube is not the only one older than the net. I don't care how smart you think you became. I witnessed all prejudice on the old stuff, and walked away...the market will be crushed by real people and real loss.

no need to ask why I am at a hot rod forum with a rochester , spec clutch, and an ea82.
one thing I cannot do on the net is simply post a video of 130, or even measure zero to sixty. by the time my speedo hits sixty, I leaping into an 80.

Something funny i did more than once... I posted a video titled zero to sixty 1987 subaru, and brought it about for comments to guess how long it took.
12-15 was in the guesses. What I did not tell them, is they were timing my quarter mile.


impossible prejudice never ended. I do not forget...

seriously, business stuff aside.. I do not hate on a brand, I hate on what was done incorrectly, my own chassis and engine of choice hurt people (my first witnessing was my younger sister in 1993- loyale automatic). There was even diseases. Chemical chains. suspension could flop a wagon into a turn..and not one lawsuit in defense. My own evil was loving that 3 main liquid boxer. Rid the evil encapsulating it for the reward.
As unique as I have made my own pile of common sense, the sounds, improved air...there is this kid who posts is 2012 br-z, the equal headered n/a just getting into aftermarket exhausts. It dynos at 137 foot pounds. I am humbled somehow. Impossible to stay angry at an entire company. I have been there for years with something 25 years older...like somebody important enough listened and did something about it. Took a long time.

[Barry Donovan]

35mm monojet

finally found the "other" monojet. This may be one spotted earlier..with that silly throttle nutted, it would be no surpise as to no sale.
I run the papa bear monojet at 43mm (they did not get bigger)


this is the mama bear at 35mm. forgive my label of it.

as you can see a six cylinder tortured this. The 43mm was quite small for six, this one must have rumbled like a devil.the one in photo is the 76-78, it may be just as rare as the tiny chevette. (that throttle is near 1 inch)
the baby bear is very rare, goes to a chevette (two years of it, also 76-78 ,) I kept one in a parts bin.

the 35mm is a 1.375 inch throttle. this is 3 mm larger than my intake. Seems tempting. No race car option, but for low speed savings, granma like spongy throttle, confident tune..it is an option. I feel 43mm is a more dynamical thing. high gas mileage and option for little race car. too small on the boxer gets problems. can't treat it like every other.

3 ways to attack a monojet...or 1 way to to attack 3 monojets.

I will make one more vid summarizing this... it is finally done. I like to clear out you tube stuff, as not many find what I was posting anyway. I am in the "anti-brand name" category of business hurting you tube terrorism. "They" even took ads away. I am a badass.

glad to be here. bigger guns win..
where decent credit is due, I give it.

for this all to work:
spec stage 1 clutch
fel pro HG, 56 foot pound heads
accel 300+
accel electronic supercoil
accel wires
custom equal stainless header, header wrapped
insynerator bullit (system still has a catalyst)

15 inch wheels, 118mph rated yokohamas
2 rear hubs scrapped for updated ones
master cylinder
32mm intake manifold 1993, machined for rochester to fit
rochester machined for full return line at spot where oem paper filter would go, down low
brass/copper radiator, exact fit
stainless thermostat
temp thermistor moved to open a water jacket

fuel injection harness
custom ignition switch, wiring, fuses (nicely done, no hack splice)
fuel pump set to 12v
"E" wire from alt to battery ground
high presure fuel tank, 1993
breaker bar custom pitch stop (a subaru boxer thing, holds engine by the middle)

professional products fuel and oil filter, both lifetime
kem pcv valve
steel CAI intake, all outside tight
heater for steel intake with manual valve to play around with inside car. This heater on carb engines was actually a recall, a cardboard tube strapped to the hot exhaust. funny enough the owner had to do the modifying. That I did. I actually wanted to play with electronics to get this going..and yet might find something that steps volts instead of on and off. What is there now is smart. auto functions. I recall at the time, 2005, owning an unmolested subaru carb DL..everyday driver. A funny thing when car is 18 years old and they issue a recall. That was trivial compared to the serious steel mishaps and chemistry chains, weak gas tank, wheel wells that rubbed pinch welds to dust for chance of explosion (my welder set those off. it was fun)..absolutely insane what they got away with. Another serious recall that could have went in..smoke gets caught up under dash, no vent outside. I caught onto that welding. days later..it got heavy enough to fall out. if the right combo gets up there in lightweight gasses. kaboom to a relay. I could babble on to another bankruptcy....but no. I am a nice guy. poke a hole in the wire grommet coming out into engine bay back end. the one that lays flat. my own worked a way out on its own peacefully. A permanent hole.

steel plug for EGR, valve removed.

I'll read this as checklist for the one vid that gets it all.
above list is not for fun. any one thing not changed became a serious problem.

..oh 1987 rear bearings, I had six piece like an ea81 would get. I swapped left side for 3 piece, right side stayed 6 piece (master slave assymetry due to locking diff)
toyota 4runner front struts, for the rear. soon to have moog 278# springs made for honda front

the welding and a 3 year diary, hundreds of photos to remind me.. it is freakish. the welding chores.

don't just let an old sube breathe into 280+ cfm.. life and death in an oem subaru hurry.
as this thread in hot rodding is boxer related, much more than the tin poison car that tries to kill people. Some other hazards were astounding. Stuff matching a chemical called PCB with an attitiude (tons of it in maine dumpsites pretending to be buried) also found in flourescent lamps invented by men who do not enjoy having a healthy penis.

Result, with e wire disconected, years gone by.. headed to a normal run, the oil filled coils sucked it in and spit "it" out slowly enough to trick. "it" got so hazardous, I welded the same steel 3 to 5 times in some places to finally rid of "it". If I could prove it collapsed my fathers lung.. I'd curse out loud. the silent wonderful will have to do that without me. Not once in owning twenty something machines have I encountered such a perfect killer. Not once in a thousand vehicles as a pit man at a quick lube.. hence my locale in the equation is ruled out. subaru made it, and whatever terrorist was allowed to approach it before it came to america, way back in the 80s. This car sat with 10k miles on it all the way to 2003. No need to ask why. I have even had 4 tires tread disappear in chunks after first weldings..chemical chains for days. Anyway, taking on one of these, you need to be smart with the 85-87 inspection, also some freaks in 88 had similar killer. after those years it is smooth sailing. the chassis, and engine appearance is worlds different. I have found the rotting weirdo years all the way to alabama. This is not locale related. Some even blamed the body caulking, also not true..the caulking simply gathered it is as soft as useless. have fun. don't just dive in to the first years of the ea82. There is somebodies death wish..and it shipped undetected (I have had 3 of these in 15 years to decipher).
this problem can happen all the way to 2001 for some automobiles, it became more rare after 1979. I have only come to some quick conclusions for some simple fixes, avoiding chemical chains. Welding is ahuge one. A dense chassis is like the earths core, the denser it gets. of course..the earth doesn't just fall apart... make it a hard body to worship that fact. Be sure battery has a connection close to volt regulator. For gm, and like my old sube..the wire that tends to get in the way off alternator, going to battery.. that is for internal regualtor. do not remove it. and no pvc in the engine bay. that piping is temping for home made CAI. also, the old coils, oil filled.. they can go to hell now. that was the number one fulfillment of perfect ambivelance.


when one thinks of older, someone that set a pace, yet it is still here, and no one knows who set it anymore...time gone by. There is a realm of leaders that may never speak..still just doing. That is what I got from this buggy. Not all hopeless. More future than past.

back to title of this thread..I like to list everything before I don't post anymore. what was learned here, even the length of time..it applies an answer to: where did all the cars go? alot of american is not even the steel, or the size. it is all in this thread.

letting sit for a day or two, I took the buggy out for an errand. it is exactly a race car getting to warm up. some extras keep it nicely usable. Full warm is an awesome jeckyl and hyde. all calm, all screamer and all inbetween. That was not easy. Taking a left turn, up a grade, decided to be stubborn. people on sidewalk, people in thier yard..as if the intersection is not torture all day long in traffic. the snap crackle of 3500 rpm launch into six thousand rpm bellowing through houses. it is not my fun. maybe it was entertaining. Car at 25 years old, I legally can drive like this if need be.it does have a calm mode, needs full warm. until then, watch a race car vid, it is the same, especially old drafted porsche. throttle may need fiddling with, a finesse of someone smart enough until full warm. A sale won't be for everybody that is for sure. The 35mm carb option may come into play.

coming out of store, count on a start..bam. very fast snap to life. Another race engine characteristic. I know its precise. took it easy home.

[Barry Donovan]

just a few more chores

time away from the tin can, seasonal change...






the cold starts elongated may be a battery. I let the ten plus to one compression get big air, whole throttle.. even the airbleeds at idle. all large. Starter seems slow. car rocks like a diesel turningit over. Its firing a different wave length it has never had. The real compression comes through. I live for that. Online and talking kept me from normal tasks and traditional path of making high compression breathe. if where you are at shrinks the car instead of allowing bigger? time to leave that part of the net. go big or go home is a saying the net does not defend. one is on their own.

• I do have a need to upgrade battery beyond 700cca
• automate the intake heater further..find a way to step volts. steel does good absorbing timed intervals as a switch automated..but what if I could dial in by volts? the heater wire understands. cooler to low amps, hotter to big. its a long winter. if not traded off or sold, will think of something.
• get rubber boot off of bottom of hood. As smooth as a boxer is..the car is just going to get even harder into the cold. no need to idle my brain rattled like a diesel rabbit.
• insynerator muffler. VERY loud when cold. because rice car. I got an idea from a two stroke, tuning expansion chambers. long tube headers, 900cc a bank..maybe scavenge timing is a storm when cold. buffer with some volume on the headers? will learn more.
• one tire is beyond limits..that does become an electric thief. Will get the new tire on first, see how the starts go.

State automotive inspection next month, its a go with confidence. A real one (my other reward for this).

Not all that much to do really, to set it up for anyone wanting to own this. disclaimers are written above. No need to follow this as if perfected..on your own tin can sube from hell.

today got a thin hdpe gasket, top of carb. drops boot off of bottom of hood tighter to carb. power steering reservoir drained itself past the new seal I put in the pump. Car started right up, cold start.

it has got a nuke feeding through the front. most likely radon. That odor is familiar. may be basement vent, but am sure its the street one. Engine sat around as well..I noticed in 5 years, neighbors come and gone (I am in rental building) all the cars develop leak at power steering. my own took a bit longer..but it has one too, rebuild, attacks continue. Ignore it is only option at this point. one of my neighbors even blew out at transmission, fluid come out with vengeance. must be atf as a trigger. A few weeks ago a cab blew a tranny cooler line, lost all fluid, right behind my car, and street in front of this place.. I helped push it off the road..I am certain its at the drain on street after I noticed the begin of blowout stream all over the street..

This one needs a 500 mile run. power steering/atf is number one thing attacked...goes away. been there a hundred times in maine. no brand tough about it. in fact, I forgot why I wanted manual tranny. it has been 15 years with one. That crazy attack is one of the reasons. the foam gasket on top of carb was the other item elongating a problem apparently (carb is right behind pump)...must have been a thief absorbing byproduct. All hard now,hdpe gaskets, even filters at fuel are no paper glues and goops. its only defense..toughen everything as much as possible. I would love a stainless mesh air filter. As long as it is as safe as it is being..it is ok for now.

searching for ingredients of the little loyale that just might have run into 300k mark (I totalled it before then).. the hot pcv intake line (into valve cover) on cold start engine was one of them I deciphered. the little amplifier for ignition right next to coil in engine bay, as cheapskate and dangerous as it was, was another one. all oem.
This build got all of that in a more robust and safe way, including power that may be more than 50% gained (just enough to be modern). A reason forgotten for wanting intake heat, that pcv inlet side (passenger hose) went right to work. I remember being startled about that back then when I was checking hoses while engine running cold...about 7 years ago. The pcv inlet sucks all the intake heater heat in for a short time after cold start. Gets pcv going by thermal contrast, else nothing will move, and it will wallow in oem suby pig.

I did blow one of these engines. That would have saved it. Sloppy bearings and all. (these can run without the rod bearings). This may explain cold start issues, dead/inert gas needs to get out of base turning it over. have to live with it. the base dials in first. A boxer is different in that way. It has to happen.. the big barrel monojet can handle it. Another reason for the 1 big cfm at all speeds, no split throttle two barrel. This process also calms exhaust, and am just getting signs of that now. A unity in every way. Base, heads, fire, exhaust, fuel and air...it has to be one, the smaller the stroke gets.

on my last subconsious thought in the real world.. the exhaust is actually quite nice. At a store next to a gmc 2500, they had dynomax or flowmasters. I conclude sube is same decibals. you know its there, you know its coming and gone by..but it is not a scream. I am ok with exhaust now. deserves some sign of sport sound anyway.

oh, a weird note. I poured water on top of engine, the reservoir leaks that is where it goes. it is so small, even full is a couple of tablespoons. anyway, whatever it is that wants ATF, or power steering..the end result is water makes it disappear. cleans right up like it was meant to have water. no oil residue, fell right off its spill puddle. It could be autumn acids.. the only red as bright as atf is a leaf of a hardwoood tree...as weird as the stuff in the fuel line. Inventors in atf glory and fame don't listen to that. they know the world. every square mile of it. just ask em.