In high school (2003ish) I had a 1985 Subaru GL Wagon which was a California emissions with a feedback carb (ECU and carb) and had several miles of vacuum lines in the engine bay. It never ran right. I think it was rated at 85hp when it was new, but I’m guessing more like 50 when I had it.

FYI, the A340 transmission in that cruiser is a variation of the popular Aisin-Warner 4-speed (AW4).

I own several vehicles that were available the year I was born (1985). Second-gen Subaru Brat, Subaru XT (although mine is the XT6, which didn’t come around until ‘88), and first-gen 4Runner.

It’s almost impossible to predict where an object is going to go, especially something oddly shaped and bouncing. He obviously moved over to one side of the lane, but in hindsight, it was the wrong side.

Perhaps it was jumping.

I keep a no-name one of these in each of my vehicles, all the time. Our Outbacks have a power port in the cargo area, so I keep it plugged in so it’s charging whenever we’re driving.

Not if you do it right. And that’s the point, feeling for the friction point, and letting it slip until the car just begins to roll, and then releasing the pedal just a hair more to put more pressure on the clutch, etc.

I’ve done many engine swaps on vehicles. But this time (‘87 4Runner with ‘94 Lexus 1UZ V8), I’ve been keeping an incredibly detailed spreadsheet.

Yea, my comment was intentional hyperbole. They do have their place. I own many Subarus, so I have a 12 and 14mm each 12 point, as the head bolts and block bolts are 12 points, but I keep those in my drawer with the specialty tools, not with the sockets.

12 point sockets are pure evil. I’ve gone out of my way to get rid of them from my tool box.

Yep, Husqvarna has been making them for years, and I assume they weren’t the first either.

Came here to say this...

“Look how quickly I put out the fire!”

I really do think that with unlimited space and budget, I’d just have hundreds of $2k cars. Most of the running ones would be engine swapped. My wife wants an H6 Subaru Baja something fierce, I want to shoehorn a Toyota 1MZ or 2GR V6 with a manual transmission in an AWD Pontiac Vibe.

lol

Beautiful

So. Toyota is going to badge-engineer a WRX hatch. Cool.

I watched it a couple times...can’t decide. And a lot of it looks normal, but there’s a few shots that look odd.

I’m not talking about how fast it’s moving forward. I’m talking about the unnatural jarring when it hits the bumps. Specifically the way it comes back down after hitting a bump, gravity is a constant...

The footage in that ad has been sped up, right?