johnnyfive

^ +1 I have no idea what the suspension setup is like on your car, but if you have double wishbone and torsion bar, the torsion bar will most likely run parallel to your chassis rails and the adjuster will be at the end of the torsion bar. Have a look under the guards around your front wheels and see if you can see any coil springs something a little like this If theres no springs there you may just have torsion bars. Take a picture.

So fresh so clean. I'm sure whatever you decide on will do it justice.

So quite a while back when it was getting used regularly, lost wipers, washers, and maybe indicators and some other jazz, I don't recall exactly. Bit of this Resulted in this, got soldered back up and is still working, but will fail again. Then on Sunday while at the Rotorua swapmeet, amongst all the American, British and Australian, I spied a grill which looked familiar being sold by a man that also had a chair, a shelf, well crap basically. So he sold me a new grill and a second hand but not fucked steering column switch assembly. He also talked forever about things that were completely irrelevant and ruined my will to give him any money for said parts. But yeah, the grill is less busted up than mine. Will need to attempt to swap over chrome and badges etc as seen here Will be moving the GSR to its new home soon I hope.

This is the truth. Don't really have a lot to say cause its spot on. Would be interesting to see what it looks like with some dishy 4x4 rims, but looks sweet as, as is.

Does the engine power run off that lighting fuse too? Such a slight short that only enough current flowed to blow the fuse when the headlights are turned on? An interesting way I've heard (but never tried) to track shorts in cars is to temporarily wire a bulb in place of the fuse that blows, the work your way through the vehicle unplugging and moving sections of wiring, when the bulb goes out, you've found the area of the short.

I think from memory that might have been some grotty lift off oversteer. Kinda keen to try it again, didn't really have a clue what I was up to, still don't.

Nah not one. Brumby is mostly due to rust, and GSR just due to broke-ness. I kind of had a reckoning when it comes to attempting to have 3 cars and a bike registered at once. Will be attempting to buy a welder of some form sometime too and get into brumby, might attempt something a bit more intense with it. GSR first though. And yeah, no need for 1400 bits, don't have any, cheers. Where was the rust on yours?

I have no idea. I should probably look into this more-so.

I'll try find some pictures of the actual suspension, is a fairly standard McPherson strut looking thing, but the sway bar doubles as the radius rod's. Non cartridge front struts, asin, the spring perches and lower mounts etc are all inclusive. I have a pair of spare struts which I think are ok out of my crashed brumby which are a little different lengthwise so I will have to compare and see what could be gained there. Oh and the cv's are pretty poooooo's, unkeen to get them refirbed though, if that is even possible, the pair of rack ends I had done was painful enough.

I think custom will be the go with bushes, its a different setup in most of the front end than anything else I've seen. Gonna have to do some tinkering with the back end. Will attempt to move the torsion bars a few splines and then work out what the shocks need to be like. But yeah, we shall see how it goes. Kinda keen to have it in a semi nice state and get down to Taupo a few more times. Rear drums will need some attention also as I suspect they are past maximum wear stz.

Looong, time no update, basically because there ain't been shit happening. This post is to try and stir my motivation a little. Drove round for a few months, but basically every bush and shock in suspension is poked, possibly steering rack also, and a bit of rust has returned in the floor. So I parked it in a barn with the Brumby to try and save a bit of money to give it a holiday. Before parking it up I tried on a dualcarb manifold + carbs I'd gotten off trademe. Gave up with it as I couldn't get it running right, but plan on having another attempt sometime once I get a bit off my plate at the moment and get back into Subaru town. If you weren't aware, Subaru had the excellent idea of using a stud pattern of 4x140mm, this is somewhat less than common, so anything bigger and more interesting than a 13x5.5 factory steel or alloy ain't so easy to find. I had been pondering changing the stud pattern, but thats more than I'm willing to do just yet. But I did manage to buy wheels off a bloke in Rotorua, he had them on his Leone rallycar. I was under the impression they were 3 piece initially, but I think they're 2 piece 14x6. Pretty rough and poorly painted, should look a bit nicer with a cleanup, but no time soon. I also went on an OS track day as many of you know back at a time I don't recall. It was awesome fun, but pretty shit in its current state. Photo credits go to some people that took them. The current plan is to get it into the shed, and start the process of finding bits, now that I have the space. What is the best way of getting shocks and bushes for things that no-one has listings for? Motivate me.

I hope for the sake of awesome that those fit. AWESOME.

Vectra C's, have bizarre remote pump assembly under RH headlight/bumper also. XC Barina/Corsa, I believe the pump is built into the rack. I'm not sure where you'd begin looking at wiring one up though.... I'd almost bet the SW20 MR2 system is a bit more comprehensible.

Are exhausts with removable silencer tips illegal? Also, find a cop that knows wtf is going on when he sees one. I vote yay.

You do not mess around. Christ, good on you, good to see some quick projects.

kinda keen to see this paarping around stat.

Make my pair 4x140 K?

New Years at the mount?

Yay ring-a-ding! Did some work on mine today. Yay! Yay!

Combine Austin with BX for ultimate ultimateness in true six million dollar man fashion.

He what?? This made me chuckle quite hard also. Props to all the effort you two are putting in though, Chur car is Chur! Time for another rotorua Meet perhaps?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Car-parts-accessories/Wheels-tyres/Alloy-wheels/auction-274766318.htm Chur to see someone with one of these who might actually do something. Keeping 4 speed?

That is shitarse luck. Do what hairy says and do it now.

Use the AW as bike transporter. Just drive up the front.