Yeah.
I'm happy too, heh.
I'm really sorry about blowing the plans for this weekend, we didn't foresee any tranny issues, but it's also the longest the car has sat undriven in the past 6 years, so, eh, whatever.
Ah well, shit happens.
It just happens all at once when you've got 175k hard miles on a car.
Speculation is that when we pulled out the tranny today to swap out the rear main seal again (that blew out on startup yesterday) that all the crap I had worn off/shaved off/broken off in the tranny got shaken up and jostled around, and as soon as we started the car, even after changing fluid, it shelled out all the internal pumps and crap.
We've got a hookup with a tranny shop who's helping me out, and we'll be revalving and raising line pressure as we rebuild it to really make it pop.
On the plus side, the motor runs and sounds great, pulls nice (when it's not making the tranny slip to all hell) and will be the supreme dopeness once we get the header-back on.
So, another little delay, but I'll be back in action soon, and with what amounts to a new drivetrain, which, while it's not the STi swap I wanted, will revitalize the car for quite a while and keep me from doing something stupid like buying a new Leg Turbo until they come with a 6-speed. Shooting for coming up to Reno with toys and tools in tow the second weekend in November (the 13th or something), if that sounds workable.