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Could be something mechanical or it could even be an engine/transmission mount. Does it do it on light acceleration or only on hard acceleration? Do you feel like it skips/misses the 2nd gear when it "bangs" and then goes into 3rd when you lift off the pedal? This is from my experience with my trans a while back. The 2nd gear Sprag (freewheel hub thingy) failed 'cos I was doing a burnout when I hit a rut in the road right when it was shifting to 2nd and BOOM, blew it to shreds. Didn't have 2nd gear and it did what you kinda experience here. I can start off in 1st and right when it's time to shift into 2nd it'll make a bang sound and then have no gear at all, but if I lift my foot off the pedal and then let the car roll a bit and then get into it, it'll catch 3rd gear before it makes the sound. Takes just a second to do although it sounds like a long process.. lol

LOL! I'm gonna steal that line...

Ship it to me and I'll hand it over to my friend who is the local rep for Trico. You'll be responsible for customs and picking it up from paliyagoda. I'll let you know what the shipping was and you can reimburse my mum in SL Only issue is it's sea, not air, so it takes a while.

that's some serious stuff man!

... Or someone spilled minty toothpaste all over the carpets. Important thing to know is not show how much you like the car and not be too eager to put down a offer. Dont take it too far and act like a dick, but just relax. Make them sell the car to you at the price you want to pay, dont buy the car from them at the price that they want to sell to you. Just don't do the stereotypical kicking the tires to check how good they are, it'll actually piss some people off lol

No performance, no need hahah

1.Do internal engine parts like pistons ,rings,crank,cam etc.differ from the natural aspirated 2c engine? though men there told me they are same I doubt their knowledge. - yes, they'd have at least a few tougher forged parts 2.How much will be the power gain if I convert it to the forced aspiration? Depends 3.Can I just convert it by adding a turbo charger? Not quite, you'd need a proper fuel/spark management system to handle it and also a higher capacity fuel pump. Also do forget drivetrain parts like axles/etc. 4.Do cooling system like things are different? Cooling system may be the same but are sometimes bigger to handle more heat 5.Even though I don't care much about fuel economy is there any significant difference? depends on how it's tuned. If your foot is on the floor most of the time, prepare to have more gas station visits. Also, youd probably need to fill up on premium fuel too 6.After all is this worth? Yup! haha Sorry it's short replies. I'm sure someone else would also chime in, but it's pretty intensive to do such mods and definitely not cheap if it's done right. It's easier to just sell your car and buy a turbo version honestly.

So I re-torqued the flywheel/TC bolts and it got much better, there's still a slight bit of vibration/hesitation when first getting on the gas. May have to run some fuel system cleaner through it ... or maybe re-torque them again; third times the charm! lol This was the first time I had it running for longer than a few minutes and also outside in the daylight. There was a bunch of white smoke coming out the tailpipe and it got me pretty worried that it may be headgaskets. However, after taking the maiden voyage up and down the street and around the neighborhood, it cleared out and there's only a very slight hint of it now. Possibly was coolant in the exhaust (it dumped a bunch of coolant through the exhaust valves when it blew the block) burning off ...hopefully. it's not perfect, but it'll do for now.

That's AWESOME news!!!

Finally got the damn plugs replaced. After fighting with the one rubber ring on the plug, I put some glue on the plug boot and reinstalled it, waited a bit and pulled it out again. IT WORKED! Should've thought about that before, it would've saved me a whole lot of asking god for forgiveness for swearing so much! lol Also, when I replaced the spark plugs I found one spark plug that was in there to be extremely short?! When the spec'd plugs have a thread length of ~1" or so this was like .5" ... it wasn't even close to the combustion chamber! lol Now I'm still trying to figure out why the damn engine still vibrates so much. It runs very well and has spark and fuel but just vibrates! Gonna re-torque the flywheel/TC tomorrow to see if it's that. Hope it isn't something worst...

Well I spoke too soon about the spark plugs. I guess since there are subframe spacers, the spark plugs line up exactly with the frame rails and there's literally 2"-3" of space to work with. one of the plug boots left it's rubber ring stuck in the plug way deep and it's been a pain in the ass to get it out. Between a cranky 2yr old (because of the next statement) and the wife going out for "girls night out" with the neighbors' wives, I said f*** it and came inside last night

to pass inspection ... needs a side marker light and I need to figure out why none of the turn signals/etc. aren't working. Also needs new tires, 'cos they've dry rotted and 2 of them keep losing air if they sit for about a week. May just need to be patched, hopefully. Or, I can pay someone and get an inspection ticket written up ... What? no Sri Lankans don't do that ... haha

thanks guys. Well I haven't had the time to work on the car since I got it running on Monday; have had to run around and help ship some boxes for my mum. Got spark plugs on the way home today so hopefully I can get them in tomorrow and take her for a test drive ... with video if possible. Ripper, lol dude yeah I have too much shyz!!! also have a welder, toolbox full of tools and an air compressor ... total work is over my wife would like to know, haha. I'd put it all in the $15K range (SnapOn shit is expensive!), gulp! Most of it's what I collected while I worked for the speed shop through college but I'm still paying some of it off on the credit cards 'cos I had to close my shop account and transfer it when I left; can't exactly sell them (man law, lol) ... although I did get the engine hoist for free, haha

Its alive!!!

Damn, who cut the cheese!?? haa, getting ready to drop the new motor in... Trying to line up the damn dowels and get the engine and trans mated... IN!!! Well, my joy was short lived 'cos I forgot to put the TC bolts in, so the intake ducting needs to come back off. Also, only got what I can get from the top, need to complete everything from the bottom next week ... Baltimore Grand Prix starts tomorrow!!!

Works! thanks! ... yeah I know how weird stuff happens. I'm an administrator on another forum and the options there just drive me crazy, lol

Cleaned the front subframe and some of the lower engine bay of all the oil/dirt today. Got most of it, will get the back/underneath later when I can ... or get it steam cleaned when it's on the road. Had heard about it, but I only just noticed the ~2" subframe spacers on the Outback ... may take them off if I plan to lower it later (that would require different shocks I've read).

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yeah dude, I wish I could afford to do a STi/manual swap right now. At the least, get a wrecked WRX and swap everything. Found one local for $1500 with rear end damage but just couldn't get myself to spend that much right now. Damn family obligations! lol

Well, mounted the new rear main seal and oil separator plate. Here's a pic of them mounted and also the part numbers for the plate and the two different types of bolts required next is to clean up the front crossmember and the general engine bay area and drop here in!!!

The plan is to get her running good first. Have plans of a custom turbo kit but only if I can afford it. Also, this block can't handle much more than a few PSI so it'll be expensive to swap to a wrx or sti engine. I may end up selling it before anything crazy happens, lol Stig, not that hard to get to spark plugs. Thanks for the link Scooter, hadn't seen it before.

Wow, it's been a while since I updated this thread! Have been busy with life and only recently got the time and very little $'s to get back to this project. So I've attached the pics of the car the day I bought her home ... very dirty from sitting in a field. Haven't washed the exterior yet, but I cleaned the interior out and threw away two trash bags full of junk (bags, bottles, paper, etc.). Needs tires 'cos they're dry rotted and leak air when just sitting there. Here's the engine coming out ... got the engine hoist for free ... lol Here's the old engine... And here's the new engine waiting to go in ... got it for $600. Hope it'll hold up and the seller was honest of its condition... I had two old racing tires (335/35-18's) sitting around that I had used as a table (with a glass across them) and they came in handy to place the engines on, haha Replacing the rear main seal while it's out and also putting on a new oil separator cover (steal vs. plastic that warps and leaks); you can see it through the flywheel on the right, not too clear though. I could have put it in this weekend but the bolts for the new oil separator cover are different and would need to be ordered 'cos the dealer didn't have them in stock *** Sucks to have to wait *** Definitely a nice little project. The wife just doesn't understand the a man's need to be able to take something off the ground and get it running and looking new ... 'cos she constantly keeps asking me what I'm doing with this pill of crap when I can save that money and get something that's already running ... that's not the point honey, that's not the point!!! lol Total spent for now, I'll keep this updated for my reference too... $500 (for the car) - $425 (from selling the bike I got for free, lol) = $75 $600 (take-off engine) $36 (oil separator cover) $13 (rear main seal) Grand Total = $724 ... lol

not gearbox, rear diff/axles/lugs ... anything weak. lugs can break off with a locked differential in drag cars when they make tight turns with really sticky tires

I'm not even sure how that happened dude, I bought it like that. Must've really starved the engine and it messed up the bearings; that I can still see welded to the crank. Heat build up I've seen do crazy things!! lol good thing is that I was able to rotate the engine to get the torque convertor bolts out, would have been a big mess of fluid everywhere had it been stuck solid. Have been messaging the guy with the motor and getting more info on how much it needs/etc to be rebuilt and hopefully this deal doesn't turn around and bite me in the ass. However he agreed to trade me the engine for a bunch of car stereo stuff i've had lying around (amps/sub/head unit) that I'm sure will just lie there if I didn't do this. Well that and $50 for the gas to deliver it to me cos he's driving 7hrs total to do this.