Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:00:09 +1200
Reply-To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: subaru 6 conversion
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>Thanks Chris/Ray/Andrew,
>
>Glad to hear from you guys. Do you mind if I fly around the globe to test
>drive your
>machines when your finished? :) I have been hearing a lot about that
>engine (from
>my mechanic too) and was wondering if anyone was doing it yet. Since this
>is a new
>engine design, I assume you can't find them in the wrecking yards yet.
>Buying new?
>$$$$$? Electronics come with??? Kennedy Eng. must have an adapter/mount
>kit is my
>understanding from what I read on smallcar.com.
>
>I've got my eye on this engine/conversion now. The opposed design and new
>technology
>sounds like a perfect fit - and its water cooled! Heat! And sounds GREAT!
Once my Caravelle is done you're welcome to try it. We could both die of
old age before it's built though...
The EG33 (240-250hp DOHC 24V 3.3 liter, a stretched EJ22) engine from the
Alcyone SVX is no longer in production. It went from about 1993 to 1997. As
reliable as the EJ fours, that is, very.
I don't know exactly what years the old Alcyone's ER27 engine (140hp SOHC
24V, a stretched EA18 four) was made, but it was replaced by the EG33. They
are known to crack heads like the EA18, but not every example will do so.
Hopefully our listees' examples won't!
The new Legacy six is the 3-liter EZ30, which unlike the EG33 has
chain-driven cams. Expect to pay big bucks for one! It's lighter and
shorter than the EG33, but puts out about 40-50hp less than the older
engine. Reliability will prove itself one way or the other with time.
For an EG33 check <www.copartfinder.com>. It listed 7 SVXs in US yards a
year or so ago. Avoid cars with frontal impact damage to the engine, unless
you can get parts cheaply... they are vulnerable to cam/head damage in
accidents.
KEP has kits to fit the EA/ER engines. The basic EJ kit (flywheel, adaptor
plate) will fit the EG33, and I'd expect it to fit the EZ too. The KEP
exhaust and crossmember fit the fours, not the six. Your VW starter should
have no trouble with the EG; my old Bay's starter cranked a 3.6 Toyota V8
and my Caravelle's starter turned a 3.8 GM V6, both perfectly happily.
Wiring? Toss it and fit a Link management system, as 2 subaruvanagon
listees are doing (and I will when ready). Contact the NZ South Island
distributor Neville Stowell <engine-performance@xtra.co.nz> and tell him I
sent you. Also look at <www.warmotorsport.com/linkcpu.html>. Don't contact
Link Electrosystems directly, as they want to sell through their
California importer at ripoff prices (THREE times what it costs here in
NZ!). Neville is happy to sell to you. He will be the one doing my EG33/G50
trans conversion... eventually.
Warren Chapman reckons the VW trans is strong enough, but German converters
don't agree and I'm not taking thsat chance (my Caravelle's 5-speed
failed), and am fitting a Porsche G50 trans. A German acquaintance is
fitting G50s to BOTH of his T3s, and was looking at a watercooled 911
engine; now I've got him looking into EG33 power too, and referred him to
KEP.
Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin, New Zealand
ph 64 (3) 473-8863
fax 64 (3) 479-7527
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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