Subaru Fever, Choices, choices--2.5 or 2.0 T.... Options

[tgbo]

Okay, all you avid Subaru converts, my 914 1.8 is up on stands for rust removal and re-engining...I'm mostly a Fiat guy who has wanted a 914 for years and finally acquired a one owner from a friend who just gave up! Been searching the Suby threads ( wow, some nice work) and made the decision to go with more modern power--sooo, what I have gleaned is this: the 2.5 (ala Scott T., etc) will allow radiator in the engine room, the turbos won't--correct? (Fiid's pix show way more cutting than I want to have to do). The Suby ecu will work fine, with minor fiddling--Fiid, are you willing to share some MS knowledge from your conversion? (yes, I have studied the squirter and may put it on the Datsun, too).

That said, motor mounting--Scott's bar or something like the Downunder bar seems the way to go. Scott, have you decided to make copies for sale, or are you allowing reproduction by members for personal use?

Last question for today: engine vendors -- lots on Ebay, any recs on non-ebay vendors for JDM or NA motors ( and price ranges on recent buys if you don't mind)

Yes, pix will come as the work starts!

Thanks,
John

[Matt Monson]

QUOTE (Mueller @ Oct 26 2005, 09:47 AM)

QUOTE (Matt Monson @ Oct 26 2005, 09:44 AM) ...a bunch of stuff (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif) anyone supercharge a suby motor? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smash.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/screwy.gif)

Yes,
It was done years ago by a guy named Rimmer, here in Colorado. He never worked out the bugs and didn't get it into full production. It was done with an Eaton Roots blower. He is rumoured to be playing at it again with vortech centrifugal units.

I've also got a friend who made his own from a roots blower off of a kompressor MBZ intake. He's blown up 4 motors in the process, but he can run 8psi and about 220chp on an Ej22e with it. For all the time and trouble, you can get an EJ25 there without a blower on it.

And speaking of that, it was mentioned earlier about bolting a turbo onto an Ej25. Not a good idea. They crack pistons and lose rods at most anything above 5-7psi. The EJ25 turbo engines run much lower compression and signiicantly different internals than the NA variants. If one is going turbo, they should start with a turbo block to start with...