attacking a monojet

[Barry Donovan]

crisp throttle..new power steering?

I had an intuition this was going to happen. The throttle changed. intake heater is still a must do..raise oil temps, help atomizing..a bit like an airplane. Stuff lasts longer if to be that anal retentive.


This burned in nice. No noise at all turning left right, no play. Gave the top of engine some carb cleaner, dried old pump leaks out. nice little engine. throttle response is improved. The monster was indeed the power steering pump. Understandable. This car even started off with no fan at all at the water pump, alot of stagnite years. The last thing left was that pump. I gave it the first fan direct driven at 20 years old. the little custom fan is proving to be just right. The clutch fan oem needed a diesel…or wherever they borrowed it from. It did not make much sense. I like the setup now. That energy this was giving away has been encountered before…it all went away when cars got real power steering fluid. I have this one on power steering fluid clear, and not atf. Doing just fine. Evolving well. Nothing past tense to focus on. "It be where its at," ready to go.
like alot of classics, the "use atf 1" sticker on the power steering cap is useless..just there for history. That "atf 1" actually coincides with the darkest days of american autos.

I was just finding, with the sale of this pump on ebay...
it was on the anniversary of my 13th year on ebay. Good way to start off this year. I went that route avoiding any questions on a core charge. of course that costs more..but I wanted the old one to rebuild on my own.(going to be a core to hand in anyway, too many updates to do myself- and it might be nuclear)


some ice on the little roads going to store. Awesome. rain and ice and a carburator working big. when does that happen? hardly ever.
I am creaking some newer transaxles into alignment right now.. I wonder if steering track had to tuck itself back on new pump. hard telling. AWD is awesome, this is the reward for this tin can right now. ice and rain, and heavy and it sucks..and it keeps going. Feisty as injection..only bigger for this engine and the different versions it came with. The one big barrel was a good call.

something funny..just the idle air circuit is many times larger than the entire primary barrels fuel curve on the old carburator...and it gets 10mpg more per gallon.

anyway, remembering what little advice along the way, this steering stuff reminded me of some. I was not to change the steering track unless it is a physical blowout..as in chunks, and even then, it keeps working. The power steering is just an extra on the slide gear rack, those functon by grease. I could not believe it. I am understanding now I guess. The power steering is just an extra for the same rack that can be manual. Glad I stayed cheapskate. No slop at all. I'll take the spare rack out of the back and put it back into my pile.

[Barry Donovan]

fat start and sick

I was reading my local news. maine started with the ethanol additive in 2007. that is the beginning of the end for my old sube.

in fact it was violent.

anyway, that took 3 years to figure out. the huge air fuel and fat cold starts now is not even an out of tune condition. the small engine has to have it or it will blow. I see maine is stepping up for legislation to cap ethanol. No e15 wanted. New hampshire is in..maine just needs one more new england state to make the bill worthwhile.

it is amazing to think..this one subaru went through every fuel change since 1980s. there has been 3 dramatic ones that I know of. The 2007 one is horrifying.

of course to step up with a 2.65 inch stroke as the big fact..who is going to listen to the runt? that is the evil path of evolution...like a food chain.

being so very quiet in the winter, I come up with more plans for this little monster. The tiny turbo seems to be a smart move. small enough where no intercool is needed. I am talking 3 psi on 32mm volume. That is very small boost. I had read of this on an early impreza. Guy made a good penny on 3psi. the engine loved it. The ea82 heads being a brick will go even further. make those whoosh noises all so intimidating.


some bad news..the power steering has a clocked oxide. I should have expected it. I can feel it in the back of my nose,its been two days since sticking my face in the old pump. I am one with a warriors deviated septum (no I don't know what that means).

this oxide is actually a mild version this time. The original build had one that sent me stupored for more than six months.

so.. onto a little booster. I'll be in a cave for some weeks ahead. this above freezing spell gets me going as a tease. The carb in this thread mounted up in february had indoor work to make it easy. the boost stuff needs some precision, warm weather. So...off to relax. Drink alot of water.

the turbo stuff got so easy... the engine blowing this past year simply delayed intention.

the fuel vent pipe threaded, the tougher bowl cover gasket..that was part of future thoughts on turbo.

regulate fuel by sticking pressure and a valve to the fuel bowl vent hole, forces fuel when vacuum is beyond zero. very simple. All needle and seat. I checked out all the pint size hondas, a 5 cylinder, and even some subaru with the t3. Nothing dramatic at all. In fact, I saw writings of fuel savings , not loss. That gives an idea of how small it is. A physics trick that gets alot of people..is converting vacuum inches to psi. my own at 22 inches at all times needs 10 psi just to equal power in another direction. Funny stuff, the turbo and daydreams. This one.. I'll play with 1 to 3, like the impreza I remembered reading about. Simple addon. the price is so cheap for brand new..why not.

intake heater can be removed..and all ea82 have a provision for feeding a turbo oiler at the oil pump. in fact my own is not even stuck, fresh build.

the turbo I refer to is sold as t3/t4, being sure no hack. I found a new one at $150. oil only. little t3. 400 cfm max, that would be 13psi or some number near there. being a tiny intake..that number will climb fast, but volume is no threat. makes it even more fun to put together. the cams being centered, no weirdo egr lobes..should be simple and nice. maybe 6 psi max is my guess.. two places for extra settings: a manual boost control, and manual valve at fuel vent.

[Barry Donovan]

cold start noise

it sounds like the mic is climbing a gradient...but the data shows it is not.

stupid camera.

I am second guessing a turbo. the compression is in the tens already.
the cold start is just fat enough.
I look forward to bigger fuel jet and try the racing realm.
at 30 something mpg, it is still hilarious.
the #82 jet is the fattie, drops the mpg into middle twenties. As fat as the 1781cc goes. I have run it fat in the past... bellowed like a quadrajet.
this vid as the chrome plated #81 (slight ream)


edit:
the reason for recording (and this is ironic).. I cold started a few weeks back and triggered a subaru car alarm where the camera is sitting. I do not show the cars distance, but its about 70 feet. I think I captured the focused decibal.

rather than go for the shreak of a ferrari testarossa, which got me pulled over on the highway already,
I will attempt a test of dual side exit exhaust and go from there.

be it my camera, or whatever the electron gathering problem is.. I cannot seem to capture how silly large this little sube gets.

its a sound that leaves one looking around for the source of the echo. bigger than a ricer bike, the shreak the same.

if its the one thing that pisses me off more than anything on earth..an inline four attempting the same.

[tardis454]

That's fine & dandy, but I like this video the best Barry

http://youtu.be/t_rYuTvraa8

[Barry Donovan]

That's fine & dandy, but I like this video the best Barry

http://youtu.be/t_rYuTvraa8

the seatbelt commercial..its as sarcastic as my reply. My path with automobiles and survival is freakish. I say no more.

I do feel confident in the current tin can..quite welded. Before that. may as well have been a coffin.

I opted out of turbo, but did find turbo engines still for sale, about 1 grand delivered. I'd be hacking some things, but keeping the compression and facotry rebuild.

anyway..next up is another camera. A 40 year olds view to independent films.
I do subscribe to alot younger.

alot of the reason I keep talking..is choosing a quiet life , single..head pain for months at a time.
hardly to be sad over.

looking up my birthday, 40 is just days away now.on that day, Led zeppelin was playing a concert in scotland. Elvis was singing in las vegas. I was born on the same day as his illegitimate son (that was the comical find of my internet search for january 25th 1973- I never verified anything, but it has since disappeared nearly completely). At 30, I did not know how i got past the age of 25. All teeth exploded. no diagnosis, no questions...disabled. Nobly done in..I am lucky in that way I guess. A military tour is good for that.

to come out of such a dark coma while living is alot of memories all at once like gasping for air..except it was my brain.
Cars and trucks seem to be my favorite. That is what I have been running on since the late 90s. Not even women or beer. that was a big change, as for any man. I do realize I am the scary martyr.

A key turned on..growing up was no sound of electric pump, just the clicks of chokes shutting. no thoughts on seatbelts. Alot of hub capped cars out there. Alot with lack of power. Tires were always bad. balljoints and sloppy front ends was so common, inspections allowed a half turn completely..with no response in the turn. Rust at all times.

My first sound of modern coming our way was a little car with an electric fuel pump and a carburator. Gauges. precision just beginning to leap forward in the 80s...

this subaru is personal. Even if I don't like it.

I do remember a bizarre ride, it was in the 70s in my mothers 68 falcon. A bad quality radio. I had a little back window to play with. the air was clean. Always had my nose in it.Before 1979 no doubt. the little v8 fired hard. there was grass in the cracks on a connecticut highway. We were the only ones out there...
the fuel crunch was real.

that is my life. I want roads that empty...with a solid lifterd v8 under the hood...an exhaust that never seals. A downdraft that never quits...and 30mpg.

I have grown to like hydraulic lift. nothing less than 10 to 1 compression of the old kind. The little carb is part of that mystery mileage on v8s and bigger engines. those were actually nightmares to keep going..carbs too small etc. This is more than a silly gimmick, this little subaru with the thumpy boxer and a monojet....it is well thought out. Fixing something that could have been...and to never really die. As if to see a bright life with it.

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back to future thoughts.
accuweather must have a guru, I was reading an article about predictions of record breaking cold. I have been saying that since 2009.
I ought to wager a -26F record broken for my birthday..only 3 years old. Whatever the routine, here it comes. It seems it may climax around that time again.
Being old enough to remember a sun cycle as an adult some 12 years ago..this time is much easier to think about, my second go in Maine. It gets pretty darn serious. I am letting thie stinky foggy air in now..as that disappears after two days below zero, end up boiling water to keep moist. the tiles in the ceilings become like shards of glass in my nose. Alot of things become annoying. Nothing is strong...but barely passing a southern standard.

I am only a little nervous about the buggy. Going towards 30f below exceeded antifreeze in the past. It is smarter now, partially non-organic, special thoughts now in the chemistry....if it even gets that intense. I think it will.

[Barry Donovan]

aging subaru nascar driver

Started right up today..simply ready. the iridium plugs and accel ignition is a good match for the big one barrel. looking out for some brutal cold now...

going on 40 needs some elderly person sunglasses.


simple errands in the tin can today. Warm up is very fast. looking forward to driving farther. Hardly overthunk for coming cold days. Something I forgot was the junky that rummaged through my car and stole my cheap sunglasses. Waiting in line at the store, I saw 50% off and a total price of 6 bucks. Just need the sun now I guess. As it turned out the guy that rummaged through my car is in a federal penitentiary. I ponder if I caught in the act what violence would have ensued.

I really could put any extras backshelf and go try a dyno someplace. Curiosity. This locale and interpretation..very strange. the normal folks who build, very defensive. I did learn why over the years, as everything I owned was built by me. Its like the tough guy who came back from the marines, assumed strong and then gone transvestite, still having its way with opinions as some freak leader...and then you got the masocist retard..lastly, can't forget the child brain for life stepping up as a big daddy mechanic.

this little car has made more jackasses out of jackass than I have ever encountered. What a long road defending it from the freaks mentioned. The straight little brut. I even encountered one opinion on the web, to be comical..guy calls his car the "lezbaru". No wonder they attract what they do. This ten speed actually got ambivalent more than once to defend. Alot of people are damn dumb.

the most evil of all is the market.

It could be a reflecton of me..but thats for a poetic brain to figure out..

amazing fact:
this is from an article at nasa about the suns solar maximum (every 11 years) . we are headed for one, or close to its max in the near future.

One of the participants, Greg Kopp of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, pointed out that while the variations in luminosity over the 11-year solar cycle amount to only a tenth of a percent of the sun's total output, such a small fraction is still important. "Even typical short term variations of 0.1% in incident irradiance exceed all other energy sources (such as natural radioactivity in Earth's core) combined," he says.
Of particular importance is the sun's extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation, which peaks during the years around solar maximum. Within the relatively narrow band of EUV wavelengths, the sun’s output varies not by a minuscule 0.1%, but by whopping factors of 10 or more. This can strongly affect the chemistry and thermal structure of the upper atmosphere.

quite a ball of energy. Alot of the build here revolves around remembering how crazy my locale got during the cycles maximum. when it is crazy enough, it is like brains that create ptsd, by forgetting the "shock and awe" of it all. I don't forget. I think its awesome.



i have never had the time to setup what I wanted to take in extremes. this is my first. the freak fact of this old tin can is how simple it is, that allowed it to be stronger in the first place. steel and mistakes is another story, but overall its been fairly easy. The carb, safing the ignition etc. the best is a diesel, probably still that way today.
The most complicated things in the subaru today are what I made of it..and still easy to decipher.

..and that corvette 2014. spectacular.
I am in the age group that drooled over 64cc heads. I need say no more.
beautiful ode to history and evolving at the same time.



the sole reason for tackling this subaru, was seeing gm math.(I still have way more miles with my gm v8s) and bore stroke relation.
this sube squares up natural at 140hp/tq to be maximum. gm still plays with that algorithm and much larger numbers of course. The rest is easy...until compression limits for fuel. gm tackled that one in a big way for 2014. Awesome stuff.
I have keep this one at 10 something to 1. old classic.

[Barry Donovan]

a big boring movie

22 cds at 650 mb,
more than a dozen 4.7gb.
photos began oct 16th 2006. First video was december 2006.

six years of more video than I can remember. I heard my own voice on a cheap microphone, saw my turtle distorted looking head on video (no I do not look like that in real life)...I kept all people out since then. I even got falsely described with just my hands on video. I am not a sasquatch, the sube is just that midget. Don't want to give me and my family a correct looking shot, you won't ever see me. anyway, targetted the little car and scenery ever since.

all video. not high definition, thats alot of air time.

I was reading of a bicycyle journey done in hd, they ended up with 14 terrabytes of data, and will take 3 months to edit for a movie.

I instantly wondered how to turn 6 years of tin can with no people in it into something. I even caught onto a tree that sits behind the car in some of the photos tripling in size. I made a routine out of one spot for several years. All they did was trim undergrowth..the sumbitch grew like a steroid freak. Funny to catch that looking through photos.

would be stephen king like I would guess...if to make a story out of just a machine...no people or talking.

my dads rigs too, another gathering.

I did find an accidental web cam shot of me smoking a cigarette in 2005. Now almost 8 years later, I look much older. I wonder if I can do something. A script kind of mind would have to intervene. Blogging helped get me into that node of think. I may do that myself too.

maybe that is the story. I did the whole thing myself.

the time span, its witnessing my own think get older. silly music and video, spells of on earth documenting. its just weird to see yourself.

another thing to notice..my theory on cars cycling out entirely, like 3 years at a time. it did happen. In one vid I was simply behind a chevy cavalier. used to be everywhere. there is next to none today. This also coincides with my thought on solid state, and what lasts. Even the diesel got beat to death..engine still running or not. the machine is well beat by now.
I saw an old ford diesel, stick shift, with a home made flat bed for some time. thats gone now too.

that was one I expected to see for years. or at least hear it.

A 28F cold start in september 2007 while the grass is green, to 18 below and a web cam in the window listening to the little subaru rumble the wall...all the way to the engine blowing after the 669 mile trip...5 years later. alloys howling at the moon after fresh timing belts gain a concentric, like only a 3 main bearing can...at 90mph even. I have done that many times. Took me a couple of years to figure out the speedometer. Some of the sounds...nothing replicates this engine working. From soild lift, to beyond zero pistons..the very slow death of an old build. Concentric on a 43 pound balanced mass of the flywheel. I have even heard that singing in the quick stabs of 50F to 20 below here.

some trips I did not get enough. I jumped up in the middle of the night one january, and drove all the way to boston. middle of the night. I was back in about 7 hours. 600 miles or so. Drove all around the city. one blurry photo of prudential building at a strange angle...I must have been close to it, looks like camera is near straight up. never shut the car off. that night was 100mph even for quite some time heading into the sticks. hovering at 32F and moist... not even police were policing...the next day I found the wiggle to be a broken rear end. I had just lived a rally legend.
I told subaru forums off and most of the planet for that matter...that day onward.

I am here now. ..bigger than it was. Going with american sized, particularly gm (they work big bore little stroke)... better than expected. I did learn why I liked what I did. it is the only four cylinder resembling my favorite v8s. That is gm. I guess it was subconscious. did not know for sure why I liked it in 1996 when I bought one from a dealer... going on 16 full years.

brand name marketers waving the freak longevity flag are gonna be snapped. That is my number one goal. let the car do the trying more than me..thaanks. That does not mean gadgets.

maybe I'll start off with the google map photos..that google mobile somehow found my sube twice in the local twin cities. Still had 13 inch wheels. That batch is almost 6 years..

[Barry Donovan]

warm january ride



snow on the roof, and mid fifties. (I have the thermistor hangng outside on a warm wall in this photo) Some records got broken for warmth locally. bangor got close.
wanted to see what the steering did in the warmth. beautiful. the old one was a monster..physics. finding the design, I guess they worked as high pressure, low volume. poisoning little pathways under high pressure explains the carb attacked.

it is no doubt a little sports car. Being back to chugging around like a v8 will last longer. the big throttle is there for those that know it.

A staged launch and a jumpy gear change..but that is the way classic rolls. Still gentle enough.

climbing the san-franciscan bangor mini mountains to get home, lug it right down now. the other big win for this one, forgot all about it. Was a bit honda plague for awhile. now back to normal. lug it like a diesel...and scream it anywhere but the city.

win.



now off to the cold spell. which does not seem much in the forecast. it may change. the pattern is there to drop some 20s below on us..they like to pretend it is not going to happen every year until the last minute.

[Barry Donovan]

rennsport in english

Trying to find a goal to look up to. I remembered the early 70s porsche, the 2.7L. I like this one as 1.8 L to four cylinders is 2.7 to six.
I found a 2.7 L RS at 229 hp, factory specs to the wheels.

rs = race sport in english. Alot of people say rally sport.
then why not call it rally cross?

I go with germanys meaning. Race Sport.

145 am, another sleepless winter.

I set a goal, if to ever find a dyno. The pennies saved from taking a break.. I could actually go for a good ride to find one at this point. A winter run on a dyno.

anyway.. to slap an rs sticker on the wagon, I set a goal of 152 hp as natural.Direct proportion to the 2.7L porsche of the old downdraft kind (I absolutely love them). it is pretty close...
anything less. just an old wagon.

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observing the weather.
it is one degree colder in ft worth texas...and a town called lakeside california, just east of san diego. ..that is as so cal as so cal gets. amazing weather. I can't wait for this pig slopping front to just go away dammit.

[Barry Donovan]

mtx-l wideband o2 sensor

cheapest I could find. Now digital.

Innovate MTX-L Wideband Air Fuel Ratio Gauge Kit

I do recall these emerging at SEMA, 200 bucks. did not like the cost. I did like that they were 460ms faster on a quick change to get to the gauge, and you have outputs to play with (I pondered a primitive home made injection).

anyway, would like to see where it is at. 13 to 1 someplace would be nice.

when injection came around years ago, me and my brother were taught at the same time about the o2 sensor etc.

the funny things we learned along the way..

my subaru with a carb has to heat up the exhaust to pump to gain proper mix. the o2, which is supposed to be a measuring device, heats up the pipe to pump the exhaust changing the mix.

add a digital hertz to that. Just silly. I am going to get one anyway, the fuel air combo is too unique for most crowds to trust what I did. I want to sell this car with as much formal written and witnessed as possible. Alot of people talk out there butt to have a similar looking subaru...not knowing mine is the 400 million dollar version.

I have messed with so many tunes, my ears and eyes in the dark if its 20 below in 40 mph wind can tune it with frostbitten fingers..but hey. no need to brag among the lesser. I am the last of my aging kind.

Down to 160 bucks, will slap one of these in. A mount for intake heater and this gauge in the same place will be easy..and the intake heater can actually coincide with this gauges reading.

another neat thing to look at I guess.

This will be sometime at the beginning of february..

an interesting thing finding this gauge on vehicles, was seeing a motorcycle utilizing it got a laser beam precise reading, very fast..must be the little stroke. This sube will be the same. will be cool to look at, play with a tenth reading.

I just remembered the trick about functioning o2 even on a carb setup. it does something feisty. there is a nasty battle, always hertz at cars that need to merge in the header, or balance out two banks. when you install an o2 keeping busy somewhere in the merge, it breaks the battle of hertz, and that in turn feeds a calm merge for banked engine. mystery stuff. its like those cars that have a fast snap rev between gears today on the paddle shifters...you know what that is? it is a squirt of fuel in an open exhaust valve...sends it like a rocket for the big noise...double fired engine. so today, it is more than the o2 physic mystery conquering..the double fire is the other trick. you may not get power, but it is something to notice. feisty.

My brother and I learned that strange o2 phenomena on a 2.8 v6 camaro. his screamed like a formula 1, most of those models are known for being slobs. of course..it runs in the family. the strange but true outcomes.

that was almost 20 years ago..

[Barry Donovan]

regulate flow volume without a valve

some might think I built a monster. Big carb, little engine. it really isn't. it is actually quite similar to the injected mustangs with aftermarket giant throttle valve openings. it is there to get big air..but it does not, not like other v8s. This subaru utilizes that same concept...here is how it works:


my rooms heater. 20 feet long, a doubling of pipe that feeds it underneath. The btuh could be 200,000 if left open. of course that is certain death with blisters on the brain. how to stop such a monster flow with no valve on the pipes anywhere? Simply shut the top down to stop air.
increasing static pressure can be achieved by increasing heat. Increase heat, reduce flow. Strange reversal to ponder. Take away air, to increase heat, to reduce flow, to make the room comfortably cooler.
Getting to the automotive point. my subaru plays with this (and quite a few year of modern mustang). what engineers did to a big engine in a small place is similar to what I did to reduce flow with no valve on normal sized piping. It is tricky..
For the 3 main engine in this blog, it actually has to have it to be normal. the harshness of no buffer, full cooled air would be a snapper for other parts or even itself. that is why making a custom intake, it needs some thought. For a home builder, that thought is always trial and error. not an easy task. Subaru left the ea82 off with a slightly larger than 32mm runner, and it gets fatter as you go towards the carb opening. Now to simply climb the air fuel to my 152hp goal with a venturi enough to atomize…?
I do have a one time theory, and may try it. My winter thought for today.. looking for other projects to give this one. The dual exhaust first, may be enough to leave my desire of intake hacking alone. Will see..

[Barry Donovan]

deepest cold since build...

..add a contrast of above freezing. moistures not dispersing. This project has been there many times, already thoguht out. even the high grade silicone on the roof rails...
the weather, its a killer sometimes.
feeling confident as usual.

now with my very own thermometer. 5 bucks from the net. I have no excuses for never getting one. I am just peculiar like that. Today snow warming on the roof of the car…36F. By the time I came indoors from warming car up, and to keep it from freezing at the seals by removing snow.. and fluid check, it is 30F. the contrast to 9 below from way above is amazing. I gave the old engine a .25 gallon of high mix antifreeze, for the frigid and watched it disappear. the winter shrink is on.
I know not to fill that all the way. An iron engine is much more forgiving, the little aluminum needs attention special.
started right up, intake heater is a miracle. still does not need to be on at all times…just to set a pace. It must get some frost away from above venturi, where carbs freeze here. A funny thought is comparing these to all my past machines, all carbed. This one has that perky fuel injection “ready to go” about it, the intake heater did all that. The warm up is longer than most my others..only comparable to the big cam swap on my gm v8. I know this is big air fuel , idle on up. The boxer does not rock its counterbalancers (oxymoron..attempt at comedy).
Aside from making a giant ea82..this one has some other things to remember. quite civilized. As if the trail for this one and my stubborn will to keep going, does not have a pile of amazing already. Now it is the contrast of old ape, wearing a suit and tie I guess.


..and the idea for movie, i found I'll just go slightly silly, analogize facts with imagination. fact finding within is for whoever. I found a song that is legally usable via audio net, and will get editing. That is also a first for me..finding music for producers.

I am learning that the crowd I launched with, must be 9 years now.. they all faded away. Not a single one left, volunteering for video diary. I learned my own difference right away from my first video.. as to desiring to have fun. Music, etc.

A B grade version of a real movie..only adds to the easy going.

that may take me a month.

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Now funny story. just how dumb can a state stand in front of a nation?
the old school midget la cosa nostra of maine is in the news...no doubt the last of mentally retarded idiots stepping up with strongarming instead of brain. it used to be funny..in the movies.

out of state trailer regs allowed in maine


even bigger than the silly inspection/registration problem for cars is what they allow out of state trailers do.

So we have to get our vehicles inspected yearly but those things called trailers that haul all kinds of stuff are given a free pass. Maine doesn't care if a trailer tire comes off or someone looses their load but my windscreen wipers better be pristine.

a funny comment below the article. if you have never witnessed extincted genetics still alive. Come through as a tourist sometime.

as for a theory deciphering the reality of this..

it seems while on the table as new rules once upon a time..the trailers and cars got flip flopped with the focus that was supposed to be the other way around about inspections.

cars get treated like they are needed at 10 below in the winter..may as well be gold. owners go beyond factory in more than one way..the day they leave the new car parking lot. My own subaru story used to be typical..with everything. every make and model. Not much of that anymore..inspectors go discriminative on a federal level, it even breaks spirits of moving ahead with older machines and repairs.
me inspecting?
I see your car pull in and stop. just toot your horn flash your lights..the maine state sticker is now yours for another year.

This trailer stuff is in that mix up, within their legislative doings.

get my point? I bet it is just that simple.

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ramblingon in the single digits this 3 am.
I just found spec clutch added my 80s subaru in 2009. I bet I am in with the first customers. The buggy was 22 years old before it got a clutch manly enough. No wonder my power claims even on video aren't quite comprehended. I know how far factory can go...not very.

Types of Driving:
Street, Drag, Drift, Road Race, Rallye, Pulling, Autocross
Features an integrally molded carbon kevlar-based, high performance organic lining that offers smooth engagement and excellent life. This lining has an integrally bonded steel backing for strength under high clamp loads and temperatures. The hub is double sprung with spring cover relieves for flexibility and heat treated components for strength and durability. Best for street and many track/off-road applications.

* High clamp pressure plate
* Steel-backed and multi-compound woven organic material
* High torque sprung hub and disc assembly
* Bearing and tool kit

this description to go with my past year..I'd buy another. This is also the coldest spell for the clutch. It has been a year within the past week. nice clutch.

[Barry Donovan]

hale bopp and a subaru

a warm memory I guess. my first ea82 subaru was just sitting outside, just got home from getting it from a dealer with a dirt parking lot. my birthday..
january 1997.
I was extremely sick from work.

if it were not for such a big event, time and date would be gone from my brain. Seeing that in real life was amazing.

my grandma was alive, we both watched it.
she reminded me it was my birthday (I was that sick- did not know)

"you're getting old kid."

she said that back then. I wonder if she was thinking ahead.

anyway, a new comet to possibly light up just as bright for december 11, 2013 6am

time and space.

imagine today with all the home users with HD cameras. This could be something amazing.


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as for the little sube today, I am leaving it alone. chimneys are down to ground level, the mill in old town maine, a dump site...in my nose and eyes.
I won't be starting in the 40 degree weather today. When the wind howls to the arctic direction, I'll get a battery charging drive in. being sure chimney smokes are back in the sky. This ingredient may have helped kill the original sintered engine. no way to keep carcinogen or nitrile rubber killers out 100%...until the weather changes.

[Barry Donovan]

purge and cap

taking advantage of a 45F spell, tonight and this week, will be going to single digits to way below zero.
full warm run, tighten radiator cap down, I left it half closed just for the purge surge. After checking what kind of purge the warm spell gave it... this is the cleanest ea82 I have had yet. no monsters.

I can’t even begin to emphasize the sound. if to have never heard, I‘d be looking for an old porsche to drive by as the source.


this is strangely the only ea82 I have had where waorking to full warm ismost welcome. the other designs of the past…the cold intake gave the power. This one has a set think and it is nice. not too much of any direction. cold airmeeting hot intake, no EGR. Nice little engine. With the monojet, when power seems to fade away about half or 3/4…it simple needs a bigger main jet to allow that climb to continue into the hellacious famous bellow. I do not let it go there yet. I will this summer.


I’d like to mention that counter person at carquest..confidently handed me the coolant for this subaru. right on the money, thanks a million. The one subject alone left me in more trial and error that I can remember…and the pump is right back into its seat, even at a surge like todays warmth. No leaks anywhere..goals are met.

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my aching noggin.

dropped 27 degrees in 12 hours.

46F to 17.2 at a quick glance right now.

that wind is something legendary. Air masses so different, you can hear the head of an entity a long time coming before it slams the rugged building like a wave, creaking like an old ship...and its "only" wind.

I attempted several winters in a very old steel moble hut. 1946. not big enough to be called mobile home. Sad story..not even premeditated. winter does have some super powers, I learned it all there much younger than I am now. At least I was independent. I'd do it again.

when I realized that hut changed my life for the worse forever. I tore it down by hand. took it the dump in pieces.

maybe I wouldn't do that again. keep just a memory.

edit: the next day

Seems it did not get cold as claimed. this delay is either a hell for february or a summer full of heat strokes.
I chose february last year to attack a carb build, because of signs of warmth. the coming weeks passing by now are the coldest all year locally.
Forecast has teens below zero..will wait and see.
An old trait that is unfolding, boxer related. As it gets very cold like a mountain top. the engine thumps like a locomotive. the air getting ingested is so useless, its like an incomplete fire.
I recorded in 2007 at 18F below, car simply warming up outside. The air was so altered the car thumped the wall like a tractor trailer.
thump thump thump. Another time to look for any engine but a boxer making that noise. funny little car.
As much as injection keeps up with measuring, as I have had both versions one engine, it does not change the path of a self balanced engine. A lesson there for anybody.

meanwhile, am finishing off my computer build, might kill it and be off the net for awhile. Been a long run this time. I built it to server integrity 7 years ago...
Tougher than an old subaru for sure.
it made all videos, music, memories and purchases..
1 computer in a place not likely to survive.
It goes to show, there is engineering out there... one has to find it, and shew the youthful blind stampede aside to get it.

I may also, finally, do something alittle more than you tube. that place has hacked my existence for the last ficking time.

[Barry Donovan]

cold test



seems like a short ride. Until one actually takes it.
I took that ride all the way to the border, 2001 or so. another old subaru. Hit a deer on route six, late at night very low single digits. hair stayed stuck in the bumper for the duration of my owning it.



I have always wanted to do this again, but in the daylight. tomorrow and the next day is my chance.
only 88 miles.

add a north wind, ten below, and a hillclimb all the way to the canadian border. Adds a twist (pun) to this short ride.

if this is my last post. My frozen carcass is on the side of route six someplace.

tininess aside, 1781cc is earning it day in weather like this. big strokes are welcome, even at 8mpg, a bit tougher.

The trip in my dads rigs are many. A lumber mill in greenville was and still is a common stop. A funny thing my dad did many years ago, we first moved to maine. instead of realizing he had to back track, he went around the north side of moosehead lake where the big trucks roam like prehistoric exincted dinosaurs...on a road called the "golden road". That is not known to be for "tater haulers"

The events that made him feel like home. I joke of him being the ken block of the tractor trailer world. his canadian story north of quebec in a january. Astounding. the cabovers get real cold because feet are behind a piece of sheet metal...nothing else. The way he explains the contrast of just one day. could be above freezing in the mdwest..and bam..another world north of the border. he came to a creeping halt, wind howling..diesel gelled. this was early 80s. No cell phones. CB is talking to trees.
The call to death was certain enough, he was climbing into the bunk for the nap. A big bang on the door, some very old man, 100% alcohol and a blow torch. Started up the 290 throwing flames.
when he went to turn and say thank you..the guy was gone. it was so windy and snow..footprints nonexistent. if he ever slowed down to tell his story. I bet he would cry. For years, right up until the past few. he'd be one wearing a t-shirt or even sleeveless, right down to 50s and 40s F. Falsely accuse of some macho man wannabe..it goes beyond words. Altered for life.

anyway, the cold process for this is well planned. the exponential gain on the intake heater just for a few minutes..it stands its ground even in the cold. I can even shut it off. strange trick. likeit had to be taught..and then it learns it. Having had injected and carbed. I mixed up the best of both. Should be a nice ride. Below zero in the sun. I love it. the rig is way better of course.