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Options on Subaru conversion, I have a very solid 1989 Westie pop top I have a gearbox or diff wine the exhaust needs changing and looks unlikely to come off very easily, one of the hydraulic tappets is noisy. I don't want to be plagued with a load of change this change that every time I want to use it. The cost of a new 2.1 is not cheap and with no real improvement in performance other than reliability I have decided to find out more about a Subaru conversion which engine what year and has anybody had one done that would change anything

Thanks Keith

https://club8090.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=193

2nd post in Alt Engines, Petrol Engines, all about Subaru conversions

also www.rjes.com

also subaruvanagon yahoo forum

I have recently acquired a sccoby powered Caravelle Syncro.
It has plenty of free revving power. tho I suspect more available from this engine.
The wiring looks nightmarish to me but I hate electrics.
Pics of te loom on the bus website, link in the signature.

.. and who's that in the white top on george the Bus Syncro Saturday

and who's in the light blue Doka with white back, no recognisy?

P.S. TC should have given you the full size loft of the wiring diagram we gave him (Kennedy one) plus CD + reams of copies of all things Subaru/electrical as documentation of your wiring.

Clive, the white poptop is me, and the doka with canopy is tomanytoys

Right, only just worked out that was Simon's Doka

HarryMann wrote:P.S. TC should have given you the full size loft of the wiring diagram we gave him (Kennedy one) plus CD + reams of copies of all things Subaru/electrical as documentation of your wiring.

T'would appear not, kinda working blind. Will contact TC and ask.

Think it might be wise to have them.. particularly the full-size loft blueprint of the loom, whether he followed it exactly or not. As you say like a lot of us, you're not that keen on the electrical wiring side, this drawing is not a schematic, but the actual loom laid out and what sits at each end of the connections - so would make more sense if yo needed to follow a wire. But if it all goes well, and no hitches, then he's done a good job, a lot have a variety of minor problems, though almost every Subie engine did vary month by month with continual mods (improvements ) and some are more sods than others I think.

Thanks guys the links make for interesting reading, I will also need some one to install it, looks like TSR wants about £5000 the time you have had a new box and that is for a 2.0L. Not sure how keen I really am to spend that kind of money.

Keith

New box, just put a good 2nd hander in?
Talk to Richard (rjes) and get a quote for all the bits, th engines are usually cheap as chips (well, they're not taht cheap anymore, in the London area anyway )