Subaru Engine w/Boxster transaxle, Perfect fix for 914??? Options

[precisionchassis]

I know there may not be a lot of people on here who will be interested in this for their car, but it will be nice to have more options for people who want more power, and a modern shifting mid-engine transaxle. These pictures are of a 6 speed version, but the 5 speed will use the same adapter plate and flywheel.

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[DBCooper]

Is part of the plan to put Subaru engines in all those early Boxsters that had their motors go crispy? If so you got a PLAN dude! And I'm in line for one myself.

[precisionchassis]

Is part of the plan to put Subaru engines in all those early Boxsters that had their motors go crispy? If so you got a PLAN dude! And I'm in line for one myself.

This is EXACTLY the plan! I think VERY soon there will be a TON of these early Boxsters in the $3000-$4000 range with bad engines. I want to be ready when it happens...

Test fit the engine today to see how it fits. It's almost like it was meant to be. It almost looks like the turbo might be able to fit in the stock location on the engine, although that's not what I will be doing on this car. There is almost 6 inches between the crank pulley and the engine bulkhead which is WAY more than the stock M96 engine.

Next is motor mount fabrication.

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A stock Boxster S weighs in at about 2940lbs. The test car will weigh about 2300lbs with a full cage and track prepped. The classes I'm planning on running it in at first is NASA's TTS and ST1 so I will be limited to a power-to-weight ration of no less than 8.7:1.... so about 280ish to the wheels.

[DBCooper]

Is part of the plan to put Subaru engines in all those early Boxsters that had their motors go crispy? If so you got a PLAN dude! And I'm in line for one myself.

This is EXACTLY the plan! I think VERY soon there will be a TON of these early Boxsters in the $3000-$4000 range with bad engines. I want to be ready when it happens...

Actually you can find them already, so I believe you've got this one by the tail.

There's irony here. Poor Jake. Lately I've noticed that in forums where he used to spend a lot of time talking up T4 conversions, Shoptalkforums, Spyderclub, etc. the Subaru conversions have taken over. Not so many T4's any more, they're just too expensive. So Jake shifted to Boxster motors, which are a problem. Now you come along developing a way to put Subaru motors in Boxsters, too, again because the Porsche motors are so much more expensive. Subaru's are going in to everything, and seem to be following Jake around. No wonder he's so annoyed.

[Jake Raby]

Is part of the plan to put Subaru engines in all those early Boxsters that had their motors go crispy? If so you got a PLAN dude! And I'm in line for one myself.

This is EXACTLY the plan! I think VERY soon there will be a TON of these early Boxsters in the $3000-$4000 range with bad engines. I want to be ready when it happens...

Actually you can find them already, so I believe you've got this one by the tail.

There's irony here. Poor Jake. Lately I've noticed that in forums where he used to spend a lot of time talking up T4 conversions, Shoptalkforums, Spyderclub, etc. the Subaru conversions have taken over. Not so many T4's any more, they're just too expensive. So Jake shifted to Boxster motors, which are a problem. Now you come along developing a way to put Subaru motors in Boxsters, too, again because the Porsche motors are so much more expensive. Subaru's are going in to everything, and seem to be following Jake around. No wonder he's so annoyed.

It doesn't bother me a bit. The Boxster is just another car and the Suby conversion just makes sense.. Our aircooled backlogs are just as strong as they were in 2000, I might lose two sales a year to the Suby conversion for a 914, and that's fine because those people aren't looking for what we create anyway.

In the M96 world our work is to support shops, sell information and create engine solutions. We are not building high numbers of the engines and don't want to.

The Suby might be growing but we have grown 400% here in 7 years and it shows zero signs of slowing down.. During this horrible economy I have added employees and added TWO more buildings, both of which are paid for. If even 1/2 of all Boxsters were converted to suby power there would be more M96 busines than we could ever want.

BTW- We haven't shifted any focus, we have just expanded. The same people are working in the airccoled division that have been there for years. I added space, added capability and much more defined spaces to carry out work with the Boxster and 996 engines.

FWIW I did a suby conversion into a sandrail in 1994, it took about 6 months to finish and I took it to Glamis in April of 1995 for the first time. Been there and dome that with a 2.5 even before ole DB Cooper.

This post has been edited by Jake Raby: Aug 12 2010, 09:19 PM