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The time may have come to turn my L RX turbo into whatever I can get for its parts . I spoke to Coxy and he thinks its worth more in parts than what it is reassembled and running considering it doesn't have much rego remaining . I doubt anyone wants it not running as in heads etc off and not being able to be driven away .
The only issue is keeping the thing as a rolling chassis untill the wreckers come to take the shell away .

Anyway the tasty bits are :

Twin core radiator .
Spider manifold conversion for 3 plug computer TPS . Have 4 plug as well .
Rebuilt EA82T .
Dual Range L AWD gearbox with L wagon low range gears .
Diff lock solenoids .
Tailshaft with all rebuildable uni joints .
One off made larger anti roll bars .
R160 LSD .
L RX rear disc brakes with newish pads + spare calipers and discs .
Good turbo front shafts .
RX arms A arms with replaced bearings and seals and also rear swaybar mounts , stronger brackets and urethan bushes for the custom larger rear bar .
Stainless header + Garrett GT2554R turbo .
Quiet big bore exhaust .
RX interior
RX dash .
STD engine suit rebuild
Std gearbox .
VL Turbo fuel pump made to bolt/plug in .
RX EFI sedan tank .
Spaced castor rods with urethane bushes .
RX body shell that needs some work .
Any other RX Turbo bits anyone can think of .

I need my garrage back , cheers A .

Shit to hear this mate. PM sent

What's the next build going to be?

Cheers

Bennie

I'd be interested in the rear disc set up. Let me know how much your after for them. Thanks

Part out the Skyline and put the money into the EA82T, QuikRX had 280hp out of his
Did you end up finding out what caused the demise of your engine?

It will be a shame to scrap the body, its in pretty good nick. Half of me wants the rolling shell, but it seems un-economical for me to pull the pin on what I have done to mine so far.

I still feel I will be better off repairing the rust and dents in mine.

Im interested in the swaybars and castor rods and possibly the exhaust. What rear struts/springs do you have in this thing?

PM sent to you.

Disco Im guessing every single PM you have had has been about the LSD diff

so instead of filling up your PM box, how much do you want for it if you do part out your RX.

I really wish it was over here as I would find a way to raise the cash and buy it off you.

TOONGA

All PMs read but no replies yet because everything is up in the air ATM .
The issue is the difficulty in moving the shell so it can be disposed of once things like the rear suspension is removed .
ATM rear struts are wagon ones .
To me it looks like semi disolved carbon crud flowed down the valve heads and stems and into the guides making the valves stick open . The inlet valve stems had the hard chrome plating partly worn away and I had intended to replace them with good spares from other heads I have . Between the carbon grinding paste and the HLAs pumping up we had bugger all compression .
Be very very carefull how you use Subaru UEC , when it goes bad it goes real bad so don't let it sit in your engine without it runing - running fast .
It is unfortunate that EA82s valves angle uphill towards their heads so anything fluid will run down towards their valve guides .

Skyline is now the daily and no not parting that out .

Will talk to Coxy about parts and pricing , cheers A .

Harden up and fix 'er up. Even though in portions Ellie may be worth more but likely not at the same time and some intending buyers may let you down and yeah being stuck with a body that won't roll in between that rock .....

once you get her rippin' again all that pain fades pretty quickly especially as you glance in the rear view mirror as you squeeze the loud pedal

steptoe wrote:once you get her rippin' again all that pain fades pretty quickly especially as you glance in the rear view mirror as you squeeze the loud pedal

That is so true!

Cheers

Bennie

Yeah as much as I'd love to get my hands on some of your goodies, Id much rather see you get the old girl running.
You have done more that most to get a reliable daily RX turbo that goes and handles much better than when it left the factory

Trouble is that the other two cars have more than twice the grunt with a lot less than double the weight .

Tied up with work for a couple of days and the weekend into next week .
R day , rego , looms in early November .

A .

Are you going to finish the engine repair and get it going before potential stripping or is there going to be a very cheap short motor on the market?

ATM I'm searching options for what to do with my RXs body shell because I don't want to store it much longer .
Option one is to remove anything thats worth anything because I can store the mechanicals . I know of a mob that takes body shells for zip and thats what happened with the old Bluebirds body . It was depressing watching them run a chain through its windows literally to lift it onto a truck then putting the hydraulic boom through its roof to hold it down .

Option two could be someone buying the shell for a small token amount and taking it away on a trailer .

Once the rear hubs/brakes/arms come out its not really a rolling chassis any more and that makes it difficult to move around . This is the problem you have when you don't have a large shed to house your toys .

Too busy to do anything just yet , cheers A .

Im çlose enough to pick it up. Wish I had the funds to take it off your hands and put it back together. Keep her alive! Sounds like you done so much hard work over the years on the old girl (in fact she sounds like she was running sweet before the treatment).

I've done Head gaskets before, and I have a full rebuild gasket set for an EA82, though the carb version. Valve guides would be the same no doubt.

Can someone else take the car whole and fix her up? Would be such a shame to part her out.

One of my 85 GLTA's came with drums fitted to the rear to enable the rolling shell to stay rolling and that it did until it was rolled out for the scrap truck.

Maybe that could be a condition for disc rear buyer, supply drums to keep it a roller.

Poor Ellie - we've never seen her either. Are your kidlets biggenough now to take and post up pics dad can't ?

steptoe wrote:Poor Ellie - we've never seen her either. Are your kidlets biggenough now to take and post up pics dad can't ?

Or "pass on a project" to?

Cheers

Bennie

I thought there was pictures of it here somewhere ?
Nothing exciting to look at , imagine a white 86 L RX with the side decals polished white . Then sit the tail up a little higher than std and thats about it . She always had the H pattern std wheels because I could not get the Subaru factory 14s or Scorpians .

I did advertise this car 18 monts to 2 years ago and no one wanted to pay for it . The price probablly looked steep but with all the hard to get bits and a fresh engine it was peanuts compared to what it cost to build .
This is why its worth more in parts than complete , just a shame its a real one but that doesn't seem to make any financial difference .

A .

It's a shame Coxy is encouraging you to part out some of Subarus iconic history, with an improved zing to it

Did you actually advertise it for sale here or an expression of interest?

Surely the forum has enough like minded members in the Sydney area to lob at your mancave one long day and help get it finished going again - old fashioned car club spirit (that may involve beer )

Thinking that it may not even fetch your desired target in parts as some are gonna find paying too much for stuff impossible.

Your main dollar items of interest would be the engine, gearbox and disc brake rear end. They are all gonna have their limits.

Maybe advertise it again as a for sale going -, some pictures and links, maybe a dyno run sheet.

I know myself would no more buy an engine as something I wanted to rely on, rather spend the money on rebuilding one. Every EA82T I've bought has had issues.

Maybe if you told what you spent on items, people will see they get a bargain at even a third or quater of your expense a few years back ?

Coxy has been around cars for many many years and he knows at the end of the day that they cost something to buy/maintain/modify and when it comes time to part with them - you can't just give it away . This car cost me a furtune for what it was and while some would say I spent foolishly the thing you can't put a price on is the information and experience gained from developing it . These old specials or real ones as we call them are really only worth anything to someones who knew them in their era and has an interest in restoring them .
Because my car is not showroom condition I know people would find superficial blemishes and want to beat me down because of them . In reality I just want my garrage back and a bit of money to show for the trouble effort and expense of finding and fitting the more desirable L family bits .

Look at it like this . If I said I wanted 1000 for the box 500 for the rear LSD 300 for the radiator 400 for rear brakes/hubs/arms 300 for unobtaneium sway bars 200 extended control arms 100 seats and door trims and christ knows what for my unique engine it adds up to a lot more than the 1500-2000 that you could try to sell it for with little rego realistically . And that assumes I want to spend more money for gaskets machining etc and sink days ito getting it running again .

Anyway it cost me a lot to feed my interest in this car , it really would be stupid financing nostalga for everyone else .
Its just time for the little white daily to go and while I have fond memories of it the time has come to move on . The fact that I disabled it by doing what I thought was the right thing with the genuine SUIC and followed their instructions to the letter is a bitter pill but sometimes things go that way .

Cheers A .