Ben and others,
I have to chime in here. My subie conversion was around $1800 after i sold my waterboxer, or about $2500 not factoring that in. That figure is for a soobie 2.2 that had 128kmiles on it, kep kit with complete new exhaust, tom shiels manifold and t housing, new clutch, exchanged coolant and heater lines all the way to the front........ yes i did the harness myself. In terms of experience, I had done an oil change and changed my shocks before. That was it. Did it take me a while? Sure, maybe 100 hours plus another 20 looking for parts on the internet. Would I be considerably faster next time? Probably. was it fun? you bet. did i make mistakes? yes, including not tightening the wheels properly when i was done. yes, i had to take the harness out again because i did some ground wires not carefully enough. but all in all, not too bad. flo |
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