attacking a monojet

[Barry Donovan]

huge

all griping aside..
i did exceed something. it is arrogant if you are 3 feet tall sitting in the backseat of a bentley with someone else driving your whole life.

strange standard for auto inspectors to come from..to grow up to 3 foot 5 with a hammer and no knowledge of what work is.

anyhoo.
cold start was just obnoxious. it almost made my eye twitch..
I am ridding of something with a sulfur relation. iridiums are kicking some butt. they set a draft so hard, even intake heater full blast at an idle is quite a long warmup. fuel appears to be high twenties as of now...

and I am going to making it even louder.

this one is for the wobbling harley crowd. A vengeance with some legality backing it...

how long can one get punched in the face with opinion?

I was playing with a compression calc, my memory of more than twenty something engines...

this one is touching off 11 something in the cold. the static number seems to be 10.5 at most..add some cold to this, a big draft idle setting the pace.
I understand how subaru played with air to write a compression number. that was clever. As injection years roll in, people are woo'd by the high number written...in actuality, the draft has a kickback to an injector..
this is how a 9 to 1 can beat an 11...
they should have left static and theory separated. I do understand it however..that was smart for emission passing...not smart for people and environement int he long run. It has been quite a battle getting this one right. Starving any real compression is very bad news.

if it needs to sound like a 10.5 to 1...getting fed like a 10.5 to 1
that is the way it is.

the puff of sulfur odor, that must be the cat breaking away from something. the decibals was obvious. I even got the rich smell for some seconds well into startup, its last stand I presume..the crud stopping flow. being as one can eyeball through everything...it must be the sulfur chain. Very tiny amount, little tiny engine having a battle. I did not think to remember the first quenching of gods kind in the cold on my welded collector would break it away...

I forget more than I learn..only to be reminded. My 301 v8 was my first learn of sulfur in gas engine catalyst. carb cleaner takes forever..but it is a sure win. get it from the topside, feed a good amount while running...a few days later..away it goes. High octane for the compression if it needs it.

this start today sealed my decision. Antique status it goes...
the freakishly correct part of it all is squaring up air fuel to be safe to high compression. No more starving the way subaru killed these things, and even made people sick.

thinking ahead for next exhaust, like a modular bolt up to the hefty collector ..
I found some cats called thunderbolts, as I like the cat it acts like a check valve on engines that scavenge, the boxer allowed to breathe on short pipes has a huge scavenge if you let it. At least give it a filter of some kind..that is where I have strangely good opinion about catalyst convertors.
I'll find a cheap pair, brand new..to make the two pipes exit before rear wheels. I would not be surprised if to calms way the heck down.

I got an article about SANS (sema action network) from dragzine..
i know I signed up just for info, but stopped getting it. reminded me to fill out some info get some emails.

groups like that can help my previous posts.
I speak unprofessional journalism, I have suffered my whole life local. Every strong thing built met a puny runt...
strength in a place like maine is not a sock stuffed into tight jeans making "big trucky" noises.

the battle goes on..shame to call it one.

a question for the next battle, even after antique status.. why is miles and use limited for the machine registered antique?

there are cars that will never ever satisfy the modern thing going on. 1987 is a magic year for alot of vehicles.. it must be a good time for owners who hung on, into 2013. I am happy about 26th year birthday indeed..
more than for freedom, the builds are old school, and shoved aside...all while 1987 isnot even that old.

did you know GM shipped the I-6 with amonojet right nto the 1990s?

those trucks must get a very bad time if they are even allowed to run.

anyway.. battle goes on.

[Barry Donovan]

the new reg

antique, maine (sans has this incorrect and so does dmv .org) this paper is downloaded directly from maine.gov to bring to the bmv notarized for some odd reason..my sig needs a witness for the application.

an automobile, motorcycle or truck, manufactured after 1915 and more than 25 years old; equipped with an engine manufactured either at the same time as the vehicle or to the specifications of the original engine; substantially maintained in original or restored condition, and used primarily for exhibitions, club activities, parades or events of public interest or for occasional use as a personal vehicle. An antique auto may not be used as the owner's primary mode of transportation of passengers or goods, and may not be a reconstructed vehicle or altered vehicle or a vehicle that has undergone a change in some of the component parts of the vehicle

there is still several strange things written in this version..such as "component parts"..coming from a former miltary crew chief:
WTF is a component part?


I do satisfy their rule, just going to go ahead with it. An easy defense already in place is years of miles recorded in their computer. this year saw 3k miles total...years prior no more than 5-6k. joy riding stopped in 2008 for this one.

the rules are not dynamical enough, it crushed the not so obvious classics in maine. above in quotes is just one example.

if you do not rework a machine, you too could write something like above..seems there is no defense by real buildrs, and maintainers in other words.

I'd sum it up with "carbed or not by manufacture?"
inspection realm completely differenced...including unique decibals of any kind.

decibals.
I grabbed a song from the net as I always do..99cents.
finding 120 and 200 hertz, amplifying ,normalizing...the same song is now different...keeping the same title, with my initials added to the end.

another reason on the plus side for going ahead with the plates announcing old..
the same chassis ran for 9 years. I do not know of a single american story to relate..this adds to the inspectors twisted mind.

I have explained this several times. a knowledgable memory could identify 85-87 by the rear.. left camber negative, and a peculiar deciphering at width...and even wheelbase.
being the cars metal man, finding 3 inches wider and fat tall beams up front was easy.
front end a little bit bulldog when it had little tires. the wheels now verify they did not ship big enough. (big wheels fixed it just by mounting them)

american stuff changed enough, except for trucks in the 70s..which is still easy to see what is older. the little sube could be a 1994 for all anyone knows, the chassis did not change much to the unknowing.
I had one of these with four headlights, most thought 1985...and it was not. It was six months newer than the one in this thread...and shipped with the 1/87 onward rear end..the one in this thread has the rx racer, up to 12/86...and 20 pound later loyale glass lenses by factory. they overlapped some stuff in that year. One of the first in the world to ship with the 9000 series bulbs...and the last with a ten speed and carburator.
history is fun , if you know it.

some more interesting stuff..
if it were not for american aftermarket, this would simply be an engine and tranny sitting in a rusted box.

spec stage clutches are the only ones on earth that came out with the strength needed just for the factory runtime of the carb and ten speed together...that was in 2001, 14 years after it left the production line. 70mph facory, clutch slipped so perfectly, one would think the car was low geared...and not the clutch slipping. I did that for more than ten years..finally burnt one entirely, it took the ten speed to show me.

of course an american carb was the finale helping to make "immortal" as defined by classics, a bit easier.

antique would not be happening without american..

that is a bigger statement than an old subaru related.

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i did wander off a bit, the title of thread is spot on however.
the rockauto newsletter nov 2012 has a good read on viscosity..an owners story of a ford explorer. This ten speed sube went to tractor trailer diff fluid, and a witches brew for the other end of the same tranny..all in one mix...the only origina is remains of what stuck, all else was on my own, like alot of owners encounterring real world against their books.

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rereading,as i do try to edit. I tend to be barbaric in the typos out here on the net.. have trouble typing..my hands are large, serisouly..I was going to get a keyboard for visually impaired just for large keys. I cannot do the traditional keyboard lessons. I am pointing one to two finger at a time on each hand, my thumb grabs the space bar.

I really am enthused if this post seems pessimistic. Keeping after even the most bizarre tales of automotive, beyond the elite list of "everybody knows that", is well worth it. I am not a ricer fan, as I love steel. I love heavy machines..I took this on as an unknown orphan, and the story is exactly just as sad.

it made it to antique status, and deserves whatever defense it has to offer.

I left off in the suby gathering world, seeming to be disliked. my predictions have not been wrong making me more the asshole. A positive thought to leave for that next generation (I despise it truly), the < 2.2 liters, very early 90s..may have left off in 92 or somewhere i there. Those too are going to get some antique status when the time comes. Same problems with floating header, lively high compression n/a..quit beating yourself up over the hard thump and big air fuel, subaru built it. As for the rest of the subes...firecracker your way to hell for all I care....

except for this little sube 360. it was telling the future, can ya see it?

[Barry Donovan]

hot vent can hose

changing out where I stabbed thermistor through plug boot, which holds the vent can hose on the CAI boot..

I had the vent can hose on top of thermostat. This engine is that sensitive. moved it to its original place, let warm up..exhaust is even quieter.

it is a repeat of the same thing I have done in the past..imagine a little vent can hose sucking on the heavies to interrupt runtime. As vent can has a bottom opening,that is where the heavies go..it does not go down and out if you heat it.

silly mistake.

am loving the rich starts, iridiums must take a moment to come online completely..and end up much faster than oem stuff.


...and definitely going with an H dual exhaust, two new little cats as mufflers. the ultra fine honeycombs of today should be plenty.

I have a strong intuition this gets quieter with the setup in my mind.

I have had this weird anomoly with v8s. a bigger exhaust got quieter, more power...very casual. Some fuel tinkering needed of course, same as anything after getting installed...the monojet makes that part easy.

no more odor today , and cold smoke is a big push..tells me plug temps.I like those iridums with the accel ignition... I did not like iridiums on the factory bleeding wierdo ignition. Glad to find a home for nearly 50 bucks in spark plugs.

Winter 16 with an ea82 climbing in...or is that 17. the grey hairs I had earlier are buried in sulfur from the exhaust right now. they'll come back like my memory.

maybe I should write a book and shut lesser knowledge down.

[Barry Donovan]

a riddle...

what engine gets quieter to two pipes with no mufflers?


hint:



I chuckled at this not taken yet.

actually ambiguous...and of course, I am landspeed fan.

[Beagle]

a question for the next battle, even after antique status.. why is miles and use limited for the machine registered antique?

Miles doesn't matter here but it is supposed to be driven to / from antique club event, car show, never to work or some other pedestrian venture. I'm not sure how strict they are, it seems silly to me... damn hard to prove you weren't going to a car show at Sonic with your imaginary friends, and just happened to stop at the grocery store on the way.

[Barry Donovan]

a question for the next battle, even after antique status.. why is miles and use limited for the machine registered antique?

Miles doesn't matter here but it is supposed to be driven to / from antique club event, car show, never to work or some other pedestrian venture. I'm not sure how strict they are, it seems silly to me... damn hard to prove you weren't going to a car show at Sonic with your imaginary friends, and just happened to stop at the grocery store on the way.

I did find it changed alittle bit, the personal use limitedbut able to.

3k miles a year is even less than antiques that go to car shows...
and another prejudice.
the car fits in absolutely nowhere.

do I park the ten geared wagon next to the 87 audi b-rally hillclimb in new hampshire?

no. not quite fitting the bill there either.

onto the cold climbing in..

it starts and stalls like a diesel in the cold.. I ponder what dual pipes will do. last evening was the twenties, the real version leaving chimneys in the white fog and north wind moving it...for many hours.

I keep an intake heater on for 60 seconds, prior to starting..
comparing the chamber to every other gas engine is useless.
it is entertaining...I do have the start to one stall. no grey ghost to leave the chamber. its as if the cleaner I make it, the bigger it gets...and it yet still needs to move through a perfect scavenge time exhaust, openly much larger than factory. the thunder catcher of dual belts I made as a collector is doing alot of work. I go two pipes as soon as I get a chance..ordering the cats is the longest part of it.

I also remember maine went freaking out about side pipes, sometime in the 80s. the rules as I remember..follow the double lined tunnel, the double of what the back of peoples feet kick below rear seat is exit no sooner that that. The pipes can't be at any single layer..which led me to the subes back cavity for muffler in the first place: it is all single layer for the last 3+ feet of the car.

the two pipes fix that too....to be nothing above pipes but double/laminate, and no gas tank nearby.



antique is way more than showing off. this one has been my education to very unique physics, never seen again.

I still think its an airplane..the chamber itself is the fire keep..no exhaust is correct.

the sarcasm in the vanity plate, I try to keep fun with this.

now the next hurdle, as antique is an "application"..is there some judge beyond the rules determining what is antique?
will find out in about two weeks.

ashame about the exhaust now, it is the greatest version I ever built. the chassis is tightened, could not wait to use the channel they gave it, a hollowed out body channel in the back..and tuck the pipe right in there. This car ha snot only no movements, the winter belly dance is never going to happen again (also an exhaust mover)

I said I built it. Folks challenging integrity falsely are going to get a thump about their own

anyway, the term "cold snap" is in place, I got a whiff of the loyale versions of ignition coil and amplifier, a little bit of battery. that is the loyale castings as I know them..and that of course is great news. (The block plays with cryogenics, changes mean squeeze)

the engine I blew in may...old grey engine, had death, and oxide chains resembling nuclear...add to that the below 32F of antifreeze going to battle doing its job. wow. I doubt I'll ever encounter that bad ever again.

another bonus, is this casting has had nothing but the centered large lobe cams its whole life..no use for EGR.

with a single ground at the disty as engineers intended, no more madness, even on the good casting..this is a little ea82 that is only going to get better than the best runtime nobody has heard. This is a faster casting being clean and hard..looking forward to the content. Iron seems faster..making it more a mystery.

I will give antique a year, simply go back to regular when this does what I know it has to...the opposite of a project sitting on blocks...but like this car, waiting to go back together on its own.

a smart thing to do.. is go for an inspection before the bimetal cold snapping begins, change its schedule, and then go back to regular regsitration. that is actuly an ode to my welds this past six years. I knew to not quench cold but by gods version..nature. This kept things for idiots inspecting. no creakers of change etc..not to old, but to new.
september, like welding...no later...good sticker for this one.
not sure how hard 26 years is, but at a pace of 1 year at a time. Malleable is for girls. not an effemnate piece of this left at all anywhere.

remember the wagons of tin, the hatchback slamming could pop an eyeball if inside the car as it slams behind you..?

this car makes the back hatch just what it is.. lightweight piece of metal. no thunder echos.

years.

I annually mention another year gone by. as of oct 16 last month it is 6 years for me with this one project. Dec of 96 or 97 was my first old sube...no years off since then, my only daily. I have learned alot...making strong is easy. monkeys falling in the abyss all around it, are like arms reaching up from hell for my bad foot.

I bet a maine auto inspector would let this go as good. just needs a gmc logo...

[Barry Donovan]

dual side exit exhaust

after finding a legacy wagon with dual side exhaust...it made up my mind. My theory is in fact true. This is not about being a rebelling asshole by a long shot.


getting a listen to you tube clips..the rare motorhead going ahead with side pipes for the subaru boxer. I noticed the annoying bark that goes with the EJ series echo was nulled entirely. I almost mistaked it for a two valve engine like the one in my car…very casual.


I am officially going ahead with this. I found the cost of two thunderbolt OBD2 cats are still costing less than one replacement outdated for my car.

a crude drawing, but you get the idea. The 2 valve engine has its own keeper, unlike the modern EJ series..the EA can run with two stubby pipes right out of the head and not even be as loud as what I have on the car now. An old boxer engine anomoly…

looking forward to getting this done. Depending on cost..the vanity plate may have to wait, but according to what is written, I am assuming to get this all done at once in coming weeks.

I would even thrash on the ground in the snow to get this going. Blowing $2200 engines suck.

the serious reason for no full dual, is not the space..in fact this is a double hump little sube..full duals can go all the way to rear crossmember..
this is about the rubber timing belts. I use the hard goodyears...but still. it needs scavenge timing. I would do this for any subaru. rubber belt is a rubber belt. big or small. ...need timing for the separated engine.

some notes for the ea82..
I am going to use two cats for a reason.

due to obd2 of the thunderbolts... and the extremely fine mesh of the honeycomb, the ea series is designed to spit small kitten sized oxides and chunks of human, w900 kenworths, and the sulfuric love of new jersey...

so the new cats need volume slowed to replace the large holes in the old honeycomb to be nice to the old engine, or they will clog.

one who knows manufactured glory is a jackass more than any other, is my dad over the 6 million mile mark as a trucker...owner operator.
from 290 hp all across the country, to the 550hp cat today.
he described to me exactly the purpose of an oil catch can you might find on overboosted hot rods, especially ricers...and he did not even know he was describing one that he needed...never heard of one.
I related right away, told him those are called "catch cans", as i learned that stuff in rcent years with boost getting slapped onto everything. the 550 cat is 50psi or more, and does very good mind you..but maine as it gets cold out, reveals the tolerances. he says there is a bit of a vapor cloud that does not end at idle...and it is good on oil. Cat makes an oil catcher for the big behemoth..

it just keeps me going with my own stuff..stories older than I meeting modern day.

that is hot rodding, no matter the engine or size.

a bank loan handing over a speed shop with your name.. or the mechanics with a name tag..
they don't mean anything the older I get.

the real world worker does.

[Barry Donovan]

analogizing air bleed

this may seem childs education to a carburator guru.. I like analogy, as most adults I know have no clue.

notice the changes to the fire changing the air mix via a funnel. the length of the same funnel can also change this.

that is how some carbs are incredible versus not so good.

add to this a sideways engine, that plays with earth for an atmosphere in the chamber...

well... it is time to stare at the floating chunk of paper thin potato in the grease moving to the heat underneath the frying pan containing it. the thin side of the potato is its little engine, to keep it moving...because it got hotter than the thick side. This is a dangerous game...
where to keep the potato chip thin in the hot grease?

refining the catalyst in the exhaust, allowing more mix to the burn is the thin side of the potato in the grease...

I hope to not seem silly about this.. I have lost every subaru forum in the tech section for years.

the two cats on such a small engine question answerable.



in the drawing of the merge above, two thunderbolts welded together...
I found a U bend stainles smandrel exhaust with a 4 inch radius for the U bend..

the cats are 4 inches wide at the center.

merge premade:
2 inch ubend witha 4 inch radius, holesaw the point out to collector, weld it up nice.

a forced split is easier, but that is a sharp decision for exhaust flow..the u bend will even allow for gravity to determine where exhaust goes..
the boxer plays with earth as part of its equation, as mentioned. The gentle U bend will be like a see saw side to side, as car travels. Sometimes one bank more than the other..via weight of exhaust. two cats a good idea there too..no more thunderstorms.
light cat, gets the light gas.

oh, here is that legacy vid. I read the description, and he made his own header...
thisi is 2.2 liter, which means injected with an air bypass..so backfires would be less anyway. It still sounds down and out, the goal I am after. Not a single backfire in the vid.

The only thing I cannot do as the legacy is keep a high comp breathing two valve as calm as the EJ flows. they even got exhaust valves at an angle to get things out. I waited for antique status to do the pipe final..not sure on decibals...and for real..not sure why I would get targetted with 900cc a bank climbing out in the first place. ..and I have. No ticket, seemed a bit comical about it, this buggy just cannot do what is completely expected of today.



..and here is the U-bend. 304ss 16 gauge. found this at burns stainless.com,
they have a lower grade section, will browse for cheapest 16 gauge they got..this means slight dimples, yet still mandrel.I'll be hacking a hole for the point in the U bend, so I don't need beautiful.
the legs will be the back of the cats, onto cold cheap pipe to finsish it off..just like the header on the engine. the hot sections got stainless mandrel.

where it says 2clr+OD helped me to determine 4 inch CLR to mate up the thunderbolts, and mate a Ubend perfect fit, no hacks.

[Barry Donovan]

24F..23F dewpoint

quite a quenching this evening. As a unibody, this is a nice magic trick after the welds this year. I got rear end back into subarus weirdo left rear negative camber, I got it staying tucked even on a lift...and around gas tank. that stuff was just sheet, but tin cans use that as a percentage of strength. I know its a japanese version of tank already.

no flipper forestor trick coming from the back end of this one. I am glad subaru built it like that..honesty saved lives. Not exactly a Le Car with two wheelbases from one side of car to the other..the 80s was that honest anyway.

further digging at memory, the up to 12/86 crossmember was very problemed in the exhaust builds. The loyale had some updates nearly undecipherable to just simply go get a walker round mini-bus looking thing and slap it back together..this subaru can't do that. I even hand welded the back end exhuast (as I did do the whole thing) out of 3 pieces to get down and under the rear crossmember, then two strange angles up and over to muffler in a very tight space...to find a muffler can't even stay together as a standard knows them.

the side pipe thoughts go way back to 1985 at the RX. america did not let subaru do what it had to do for these models, hence the loyale came along only resembling them.

Some could claim the first gen needed pipes out to side...very easy thing to figure out.

today, 26 years later..antique status should leave this one alone.

my curiosity is peaked again, as when pipe is not in the axle back, the rochestor and even the old hitachi..air bleeds even on a rubber boot CAI was audible. Down draft big.

in fact, it was way back on the hitachi, I killed the clutch..with pipe level unconnected.

a huge improvement to the throttle curve, extremely dramatic..overall power stays the same.
very small engine.

looking to keep busy in other ways, this thread should be dormant for a time.

I posted at another forum, seeking the cult of side exit exhaust...as subarus seem to clan together like the same colored monkeys at a zoo..
for now, leaving car as it is. the stance is perfection just a day in the cold. the weirdness of this..it never loses it, until broken.

funny thing with this one. I took it crabbing down a trail in 2008, truck tracks sunk in the hard ice were the skinny subes guide. the rear left sideways, in a rut..the little monster crawling along on 13 inch tread with a four low.
it took a year to find the rear end crossmember went into a crack and spring loaded.

fixing it 3 times more to straight up and down camber.. I found the negative goofy appearance by factory is in their engineering..I was welding it wrong to look right. this car is not deisgned to look right.
fixed again, smashed into by my stepmother in the driveway...

weld #5 has more than 1/2 inch thick bead on the left end of member, 4 rods. oem struts useless.

keeping positive rake at 80mph for more than a hundred miles at a time..must be strong indeed.

compression babble..just when I think I have it nailed down.
.039 is felpro permatorque..using summits calc,
static number is 9.5 to 1..and that matches factory book.
the largeness is air curve..43mm throttle, giant bleeds. this gets even larger on solid lifters at slow speed...but get real dumb at high. hydraulic is the champ for this one. the upper rpms is huge by huge for 1781. right now, idle is gentle. oil psi at 45 is huge.
block cold to a brass radiator, fire hot to the fuel and ignition...headers flowing. goal met...

there is a biggest version, it involves solid lift, and oil climbing to 80+..that is the last day of my 25 year old engine, after it spun the crank pulley off.
live and learn.

finding spec of the brz, just two wheels driven on a large hp (big air), I found the overall ratio is the same for the 1987..
final gear brz is 4.10 and a .73 in the tranny..the old wagon is 3.9 diff and .780 for top gear.

feeding the old one air, with all the classic numbers being at 50% (a msytery)..it keeps up with it, and may even go by after the first 400 yard of 17000 parts in the brz start squashing its casing with a thing called friction. A funny past..the 2wd ea82 5spd would have played with the brz...and then go by in stamina.

better than no offering at all to get a new boxer, but me.. I am getting old. No more boxers for me.

my hobby/knowledge is a result of real world growing up with 2 valve heads and v8s. many miles...even from extreme contrasts of icy hills to coasstline, many days at a time. No one can just step up with modern opinion. Even today, with only one injected machine in my list, I blew that engine at less than 100k miles..a corsica.

it triggered a lapse in my quest of not driving much anymore, and choosing what machine I want outside. the little sube was unique, goes with the times..less fuel to max power, without a dildo vibrating under the hood.

I browse for vehicles.. I sum it up with search words like "diesel"... or "GMC"..and the get smaller from there.

there is several "firsts" in my own lessons about the sube. I have never had a machine where all people throw themselves at it with a belief. Very non-neutral..a pun I guess, to ten gears.
it is also a first where a typical auto inspection brings out the pretending rocket sceintist or the ape...how something this simple gains like that. I may never have that again.

the last first..is finding the depth of mechanical anomoly by factory. this car cannot do a whole pipe. Needing a different status its whole life..maine never gave it. in fact, this state and doing something unique is quite bizarre...

morons are that offended.... as if to be attacking existence.

[Barry Donovan]

update/change

a few days in the cold..
this is turnng out to be quite nice.
the low and high, fast and slow have met..big deal for an ea82. blip the throttle around to move..its like a miniature f1 with more bass frequency. very alive.

the snappy electrical teasing header, left side.. I am glad not to have attacked it again.
it is alternator to battery relation. I demanded regulator be huge and fast acting with a direct connect from alt to bat ground.

the fix?
a bigger battery. I had mentioned it..never got one.
this one does accept a charge, header calms down. As it turned out..full warm to be quiet had nothing to do with it.

very sweet runtime..and quite unique.

traditional approach to errors is so very satisfying. no mysteries at all..
treat it like an old chevy short stroke.

and that pipe work, it was alot of work. cold start is a loud one..but exactly correct. I may leave it all winter.
the contrast of ice fog, a warm western sky, and below freezing at the same time is a big battle brewing. I must stay patient and leave steel work alone...

it does sound fantastic, no boasting. I made this out of necessary resolution to problems. nice reward. Those do happen sometimes..

I drove my car to my new bank today.
there is an old quote about that...



interesting weather…forgive the bad shot..the haze is actually real. Freezing fog the way maine gives it.
the intake heater was waiting for this. Very good call on the intake heater install. a half wave diode..? the intake would seem functionless. It was worth the nerdy quest to get that in right. this weather.. it only took 5 minutes idling for the boxer to realize its own upper side and flow like the summer. A new learn there..it just needs to get a whiff of its real flow. the intake heater does not even need to stay on.


5 minutes after the photo above (I can barely see the building next door):



this gets me thinking..if intake heater is a kick in the pants for this one.. an all steel intake at a gauge that does not disrupt alloy morphing to heat...?
I bet it would not need heater. Maybe..might make it more stubborn..the kick in the pants.

worth some more thought. 22 inches is a small intake sucking hard. maybe go larger, a fast acting steel pipe..slow air down to let steel win at engines pace. I bet thats a win. I'll get a crude one in next summer. >40mm

[Barry Donovan]

turkey day

I cooked my own bird for the first time..a few week ago. I mentioned , I wanted to fix everything I did not like about thanksgiving growing up...the stampede of everyone cooking on the same day was one of them. Why not get it done ahead of time. Rush hour is for bad schedules.


I'll be 40 in january. time to think of family today..the unique tale of no close siblings , no kids, a disabled veteran with an undeciphered diagnosis...

my kind is usually mumbling drunk in a ditch..
me?
I smile at what drops...and pretend I care.

anyhoo. I do have a brother, gave him a call, and that is going to be my first trip after the old buggy gets antique plates. 320 miles or so.

He was the last one to drive with me on the 700 mile journey through four new england states...that is a day of course. not much more than a day.

He was telling me about tolls changing.. being to gain freedom goes along with my health feeling good..
there is four tolls in 163 miles.
I guess I'll be less highway this year. old roads for the old buggy.


happy thanksgiving.

one month left for 2012..




this years reflecting the past is a longest ever.

• high pressure gas tank
• welds around tank area on chassis once it was removed
• loyale casting engine (simply means last generation ea82)
• the worlds biggest monojet
• accel 300+ ignition at a cost over 50% less (still happy about that)
• first new tire I ever bought (inside joke about 15 inch wheels..and the time it took to gain not just four, but eight ready to go- VERY rare)
• a 680 mile journey with the monojet-
• pulled over for loud exhaust after the tightest exhaust system was built (my favorite event of this year)
• learning some electric functions..fullwave diode rectifier, half wave, feedback for open ground alternator to regulate.. I have millions of cars running in my head as a result. I look forward to other projects.

I guess today is a day to give thanks..
there is alot to that.


Was watching the landspeed bike "seven" at jay lenos garage..he got to explaining the way exhaust exits even cools the engine, that number is exponential, to continue to gain..
that is all I did to the subaru. same engine as most anyone elses.. I made something move. interrupting ignition was the turning point in finding that..the rest was up to no books at all, just intuition. I did like comparing free science to this..the word hydro static comes to mind. A boxer is like a human laying down to stop a heart attack. This tells me the boxer four is proportionately the biggest engine in the world..even beyond a wobbling flat six. To be as runted as it was..astounding. they had to work very hard to make it that runted. So...the longer this went on with no power, the dumber I am. The facts are there to be huge.

For those that know a boxer, pretend to have built my car...the side exit exhaust does not lead to an old two stroke detroit runaway problem, especially on a needle and seat carb that is rugged enough for 3 times the displacement. I know what I am doing...don't bother me in error of trial. At least I try, at my expense...

I just might get in a landspeed run for normal cars to see where it is at. Funny with that stuff, the walls of air.. one could leave a roof rack on if they could get the engine bay cleared out...it will stay gaining way beyond the roof racks drag. Air is funny...it carries noise...if you are ahead of it, it is silence.

I won't forget the fuel pump. the one in it is good for 115..wagon ten speed or 2wd cracker jack box. same results..strange isn't it. mph related..not even weight of car or rpm of engine.
interesting thing called earth, as we move across the ground on it. Where is power needed? that is trial and error..for the young world of automobiles.

best have a continents worth of room to step up...an island won't cut it.

[Barry Donovan]

codependent on diode

as with alot of people older than me..
moving onto electrons guiding things may seem stupid to witness, like my first days on windows 98..
adult kid those years ago. Building my own pc, and still learning the words of some of the things I put together..one thing got ahead of another out of necessity. I work alone at at it. Not much to say there..

I am finding the theory on killing itself to static pressure, instead of going forward like an army standing its ground was sadly true.

the switch for intake heater kept blowing the little bulb, today I soldered in a tough set of them in a package of four in a high temp square plastic casing.. using same resistors, the bulbs are smaller, but stronger, and more than one to light up. Thay came from an old motherboard. This disrupted something even with the car off just unhooking it to take inside and solder. The cold start was a bitch...but did get it lively of course. that accel is not backing down either..that was a great thing to install as well. This tells me there is something that never stops attempting to go backwards...must be related to the extreme malleable of aluminum engines going from full warm to maines ice fog..

The start was delayed, pretended to be flooded before it caught on...I then realized, the diode stuff is in fact the kick, almost as much as the heater. Good idea on that stuff installed..was not my imagination by a long shot.

there is no circuits setting a forward charge without my switch as oem, in fact oem bleeds and never goes forward...

back to normal, but wanted to mention this finding. New stuff to me.

The ice fog in the past couple of days , drops this into a frozen prehistoric state, 30 minute warmup..

very hard. A good thing to listen for on the ea82 was beyond zero deck slap on warmup..this one is excellent. My last discipline to install is a 60 second timer, and a thermal switch for heater. leaving all else as is for a manual over ride.

this was very difficult. Waking here to go start the car one would catch on quick to what I am conquering.

the carb is excellent.

with physics out of the way.. it is not even disturbing to think of the trivial things. The back left camber, at least once a year..some dufus has something to say.
I wonder if they knew 2 ton gm cars played with washers to set camber..
anyway, with tube locked in where subaru wants, ready to jump small cliffs as usual.. the appearance of a dynamical camber can still happen with a drill gun at draglinks tiny end attached to rear crossmember. I like it locked in.. the advance is in action at 65 and beyond. Identifying 1985-87 is for gurus like me. ..but I can change it, depends on next owner.

with that said..the book value for these is a rape like I have never seen before. they claim a gl had no options...
that is very sad to do for subaru history isn't it.

this year puts it over the 5k mark for a "no option" GL..
this ten speed with a clutch that can hold a real air fuel on tires and wheels safe enough?

holy crap.
I won't mention the 1 year garnet paint again..still never paired with another vehicle in 26 years...just this one.

anyway, bangshift and collector values, they go hand in hand. some even have a career out of saving a worthy model into restomod etc.

it happens to japan too..with americas help. they keep nothing really for themselves like america. We make that collector value for them.
if it s a 280z with a 350, or an old sube waterboxer with a rochestor and a Spec clutch from alabama....it is america that makes the real value.

I was looking at a grand marquis, early 90s.. I wondered if it had metal intake.
$1850, park lane edition, vinyl top still nice..

I forget the size of myself I guess.. but that car is not all that large is it.
I'd swear my subaru was bigger in more ways than one. I still assume superleggera defines small from large, more than body dimensions today.

kinda funny, fullsize to subcompact..the definitions and how they changed in just 25 years. Big culture clash.

[Barry Donovan]

intake heater

followup on the updates I did not get a photo of..
the little led swap was perfect, even the heatsink stays cooler. the carb has no errors whatsoever.
a texan carb, this is the alloys first change into maines nightmare. Excellent materials. I did give it many helpers, the paint is one of them. Smaller fan leaving it in a gentle environment..a long list, its all in this thread.

this one, with no doubts, will gain a 30F below start. I'll get it on vid. I am guessing this years gets some 20s below anyway..
antifreeze is a delicate mix. too thick rejects puddles of water..too thin of course is also bad.
50/50, pump stops purging..the little engine has a tell all for everything.

A run into the store, when the lottery jackpot makes the news for being outrageous, I go get a ticket.
maybe a minute inside..the cold is really flying in maine style...
car gauge up to halfway...thatis a freak fast warmup. no zero deck thuds. full hydraulic is my choice for now on.

power steering is done, no more rebuild..needs a pump entirely apparently. Rejected seals.

never ever done is it...

a chore to ignore is the piping for exhaust. needed the cold or whatever..its as perfectly mathed as I dreamed up...
watching rally vids, especialy boxer driven..the flame throwing coming from the cats glowing. I am in that realm at certain temperatures. side pipes may be a flame kicker..not sure.

don't need to chance it. As winter climbs in, I remember why I want what I have built now exactly..can even hit a deep snow pile backing up without ripping everyhting exhaust into a pretzel. everything rigid enough to keep a pipe in a channel not even subaru could use due to the dumbass flexible build in the belly..
this one is a brick in the belly, I built it.

it is a win. Even old sube owners could relate to that. Nobody uses subarus channel on dl/gl tucked in to be 1/2 - 1 inch room...and not hit anything at all. In fact, that is more than win..it even reveals machining tolerances.

the exhaust stays as is...
and the carb likes it of course.

a reminder to myself and continuity changes...26 years and something new. All new. resonant frequency is not subarus, it is mine..
to need as simple an event as cold to get the pipe in a new place.. I have no complaints.
these can't fill in new stuff like an 8 cyl. I forget that too..always think there is something wrong after new exhaust. this one takes weeks..even with carb set to rich, get carbon going.

..an odd note, not related to the carb thread.
my nickname, of course, was confused for other things..sometimes literally "boxer" as in fighter.
growing up, I was small with a reach, second fastest runner on my baseball team, and second from being the shortest. I found that was my path through life..
standing next to a taller crowd is a mystery not many live with.

reading the news about macho camacho...
I had an italian uncle that made me watch lightweights boxing in the 80s on the new cable network tv..I was a little boy.
he assumed i would be in that realm as an adult. I watched close..the lightweights boxing.
I grew up to be unlike any prediction physically..but that name in boxing, I remember, I looked up to all of them.

RIP macho camacho.
it seems as height gets shorter, there is more of a fight.

my own height, I learned it in the military. in a line of 50 people to go through basic training.. I was exactly one person over on the tall side of the middle...#26 one could say if to start counting from the short end.

I really do not know what extreme is... I sure as heck don't live it.

maine is extreme, most certain.
an interesting thing with this place, when it appears to be warmer..
I was looking at 3 day history in noaa weather for bangor maine.
just now, it hit 33F...
the last time it was above freezing was 43 hours ago...or 1 day 19 hours 59 minutes and 1 second.
this place fools a lot of people. those shocked disappear.
I started randomly checking when national weather from the net was easy to track. When florida gets a freeze warning, or alabama, etc..deep south. They count the hours for crops, critical. It helped reveal maine for what it really is. This year is a bit late, but I can tell its deep. January will be interesting..it peaks around my brithday, arctic silence. Blazing northern sunshine or not..it can stay frigid for weeks on end.
I am thinking of the modern yokohamas I use today. The first of not to get lost to an oval hard shape. A good time for old cars, alot has changed to help.



does anyone know where the love of god goes...
when the waves turn minutes to hours?


I have never learned stocks, but in the sixth grade. played a fake game as a class excersize..came in second overall. funny enough, that early 80s, and a small computing firm was one of our fake sixth grade investments. we worked in groups of very few people.

I could call them fellow billionares today.

this line on the map, it may be my own, but it is real. analyze it how you will. I found on google, investments are about the shape of that line on a graph...call it nature. that is all that can be analyzed after all...


waxing gibeous 98% full clear moon, headed for 13F..
It is these ingredients, even the bigest btu spreader known takes a while to warm.
a warm up for no other reason but to keep a battery up, fresh compile dynamical..this evening is a chill. I can't even describe how perfect that intake heater is..
the stage 1 leaps, attacking at a sharp hill is about the only hesitation, easily overcome with more throttle. A boxer trait I never got away from, even the injected. Keeping a summer similarity in runtime was the goal..for the first time in 16 years, it is met. A heater in the cabin is a nice bonus. these cars do something with heater on floor only.. it was some of my last instructions from a real subaru dealer in the 90s. Something ground related to weather changes.
still works.

[Barry Donovan]

rumble the choke

there was almost a day that went by once with nothing to say..almost.

today, looking forward to the perfect cold start , all set up..
a bus goes by and I could feel the bus going by..like a vibration through the steering wheel. Car dead cold.

get starter cranking , expecting a start..no start. I went all the way to battery slowing down to pop the hood..found the choke was kicked open partially. WTF?
it is spring loaded to be shut...

the bus going by shook the choke open as I was exactly tying to start... Tiny little sube in the big bad scary cold place.

shut choke, knowing plenty of fuel is in there now, gave it a shot of starting fluid...sparked right up.

biggest carb in the world..continues to get attacked.

set tension tighter for the choke, all good.

as summing all carbs as a generalization..the monojet is segregated.
43mm is a very large end of the venturi world, especially as stand alone. I may hunt down the v8 version of choke tension, I am currenly using the little chevette resistor choke on the big throttle. it works ok, but cannot use factory marks to set lean and rich I guess...will set it to tight.
these oddities, they are mine really..no one elses problem... goes with custom tuning.

just went and checked it, a cold spell will be coming though..below 32F for some days.
anyway, I was dialing choke tension, found the marks by factory meeting up to the choke casing..it was set real lean after all. I remembered why I did that..the diode acted as a power reducer, choke was taking too long. Now without diode, settings go back to normal...full power.

should be all set now. in fact, the one start nd stall was making no sense..that must have been the reason. plenty of fuel and fire, choke set to lean..too much cold air on cold start.

this won't change how I work intake heater, that is another realm of air tuning..am really liking that extra installed.

[Barry Donovan]

proportion

I get mad at small things..the exact stereotype that gets attacked.
I would be one with a 3208 cat in a 1 ton ford pickup..I am that hillbilly.

anyway, the sube has been a lesson in what small things can be big. the boxer is my only four cylinder, I won't even ahave a five main boxer. My time stops with the 3 main.

it has been a powerful lesson, I am taking alot with me to my next venture..no need to say what that is. I did calm down alot, especially with the big fuel crunch on normal enthusiasm.

with a draft big enough to need an intake heater, that is a realm beyond a choke setting a basic cold start.

5000cc would need a 120mm throttle on a draft timer to equal what I have done to this cute little sube...injection can do that big, but the draft is nonexistent...some might know what I am saying. Builders normally do...
if you or anyone was wondering.

I was watching some salesman videos, toyota corolla..very old 1.8 liter carbed RWD. I knew to look for something from my subaru to relate to..
that is where the double advance came from on disty, I spotted it on a 1980 unmolested. None of those cars were here that I remember. the only four cyls were mustangs, the vega and others like it..rwd.
the sube was scary enough with the 13 inch wonder wheels and AWD.. imagine a live axle mini version with an engine that tips to the left and right. great southern car I guess..

I did not mention the heat wrap I was using..some brand name stuff.
disintegrated both versions.
about a foot back from header, I can shred with my fingers, but it is staying on as fully wrapped. Will keep it there until I get some titanium version.
the claim for those is over 1000F... the sube pulverized it, some of it just disappeared. I flaked off what was left.
I like seeing the stainless and welds ground up nice anyway.