anybody ever wheeled a subaru?
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The Stranger
Stranger Danger
- Location
- Draper Utah
I would love to see a Scooby crawler!
jeepin4x4james
WAAAAA
- Location
- Bluffdale, UT
I always thought it would be fun to have a Scooby powered crawler!
Rallying is fun too though!
Rallying is fun too though!
This is one of my favorite Subie Brat sites...
http://www.subarubrat.com/
click the My Brat Mods down the left side. VERY different.
All Subie, except for a Nissan transfer case.
http://www.subarubrat.com/
click the My Brat Mods down the left side. VERY different.
All Subie, except for a Nissan transfer case.
The Stranger
Stranger Danger
- Location
- Draper Utah
I always thought it would be fun to have a Scooby powered crawler!
Rallying is fun too though!
Is that your car? I installed a gt35R kit on a friends 07 STI. It turned out pretty decent, but I can't stand to work on those engines. That boxer engine was a pain to work around.
I have an imported Evo VI and would never dare take it out rally racing. But if I had the disposable cash to rally a new car I would do it in a heartbeat!
Houndoc
Registered User
- Location
- Grantsville
Never at the level I now see as wheeling.
However, around my high school year family had an '84 Sub wagoon. Had low range, adjustable height suspension. We used it as our hunting rig for a number of years on some fair rough dirt roads and trails. Did very well in snow, had about 12" ground clarence. Was pretty fun.
In college I drove a '78 Brat. Mod dirt roads is the worst I had the chance to take it on.
I like the idea of a SAS Brat! That would be too cool!
However, around my high school year family had an '84 Sub wagoon. Had low range, adjustable height suspension. We used it as our hunting rig for a number of years on some fair rough dirt roads and trails. Did very well in snow, had about 12" ground clarence. Was pretty fun.
In college I drove a '78 Brat. Mod dirt roads is the worst I had the chance to take it on.
I like the idea of a SAS Brat! That would be too cool!
jeepin4x4james
WAAAAA
- Location
- Bluffdale, UT
WAS my car...
I got married last October, sold it right before... I've never regretted selling anything more, makes me sad just to think about it
I got married last October, sold it right before... I've never regretted selling anything more, makes me sad just to think about it
jdub
Scrambler
- Location
- Provo, Utah.
My brother did the light truck tire and wheel conversion in his garage. I was impressed. No lift and decent sized tires and it seemed to help the ratio out for better highway speeds.
Stranger, My buddy has an imported evo IV RHD that you'd like.
Stranger, My buddy has an imported evo IV RHD that you'd like.
Tallz
Active Member
- Location
- Murray, UT
I used to own an 84 GL Wagon with the limited slip rear. It was a blast to drive and was tough! I had it in water once to above the hood and it kept going. I jumped it once about 4 feet off the ground, and it kept on going. I drove it to Colorado, Utah, California and Arizona on numerous snowboarding trips sometimes in a foot of snow on the highways and it kept going. It never let me down and was THE funnest car I ever owned. It was beat up and ungly when I sold it but I wish I still had it.
- Location
- Smithfield Utah
Scooby's rock :greg:
My first 4x4 was an 88 2 door hatchback (H-backs kept the early 80's body style much later into the 80's). I had a 2" lift on it, with a roof rack with handy man jack, all season tires, tow hooks and some fender trimming for clearance in the rocks. Me and a buddy would go wheelin all the time on the old logging roads around here, and his actually had an ARB bull bar (jealous!) with a winch!
They DO NOT flex, but you just have to adapt to that and pick different lines. There was a dude on Pirate that had a nice mild build under expedition vehicles (I'll try and find the link) Also check out www.hatchpatrol.com
I don't care for the Loyales pesonally. They have more power, but the engines (EA82) don't live up the EA81's in the early models. Avoid the automatics they don't get near the power or the milage the 5 speeds do 21mpg vs. near 30mpg. Also the later Loyales don't have a low range which is a must for anything worse than a gravel road :-\
Edit: Found link: http://pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=755142&highlight=subaru
My first 4x4 was an 88 2 door hatchback (H-backs kept the early 80's body style much later into the 80's). I had a 2" lift on it, with a roof rack with handy man jack, all season tires, tow hooks and some fender trimming for clearance in the rocks. Me and a buddy would go wheelin all the time on the old logging roads around here, and his actually had an ARB bull bar (jealous!) with a winch!
They DO NOT flex, but you just have to adapt to that and pick different lines. There was a dude on Pirate that had a nice mild build under expedition vehicles (I'll try and find the link) Also check out www.hatchpatrol.com
I don't care for the Loyales pesonally. They have more power, but the engines (EA82) don't live up the EA81's in the early models. Avoid the automatics they don't get near the power or the milage the 5 speeds do 21mpg vs. near 30mpg. Also the later Loyales don't have a low range which is a must for anything worse than a gravel road :-\
Edit: Found link: http://pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=755142&highlight=subaru
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- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
That Hatch Patrol site is AWESOME! Those lifted Justy's are sweet!
- Location
- Smithfield Utah
They are pretty cool... I really miss mine it looked just like the light blue one in the "gallery" aside from the roof lights and mine was red.
I always thought it was too tall geared even in low, but recently I found a company that makes 4:1 crawler gears for them :greg:
rockreligious
NoEcoNaziAmmo
- Location
- Ephraim
in the early 90's when I was still young enough to motorcross I used to make a couple laps around the mx track with an old subaru.. tons of air, and tons of fun.
I used to take my stock 93 Impreza up trails that it never should have gone up and never had a problem (well except some body damage and hitting a rock on the belly causing the floor to come up almost 12 inches ) it was a great car.. moved up to a forester in 03 it hasn't seen as much off road action though
) it was a great car.. moved up to a forester in 03 it hasn't seen as much off road action though
jsudar
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Cedar Hills
I saw a fairly large Brat out on Hell's Revenge on Saturday. Didn't get a very close look at it, but it was enough to make me do a double take.
