The Japanese-market DOHC 24-valve EG33 engine (SVX) puts out about 150hp, and with the lack of smog gear and ari mass-flow sensor, using the programmable Link computer, mine will have about 260. The 091-094 trans will not handle this for long before going bang, and neither will the weak 4.86 diff. Which is why I'm going to fit a Porsche 911 trans. I have bought a 915 trans because I was told the much stronger sweet-shifting G50 is very expensive and then needs $thousands of work shortening the bellhousing to fit the VW (bad advice, I noe believe). I now intend to sell the 915 and get a G50. I doubt the VW trans will handle even the low-output US EJ22 Subaru engine. The illustrations I see in the websites appear to show US-market Subaru engines as SOHC; is this correct? As far as I am aware all Subaru multivalve engines (apart from the troublesome ER27 six from the Alcyone/Vortex) sold in NZ and in Japan are DOHC. Andrew Andrew Grebneff mollusc nut 84 Caravelle Geology Department, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz |
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