Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:46:29 -0700
Reply-To: Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
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From: Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
Organization: The Cobalt Group
Subject: Re: Subaru was: 2.1l engine for sale too $900.
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I have to second what Ken says.
I seriously considered this conversion and ordered Kennedy's wiring
harness diagram for $20 to get an idea of what is involved in modifying
one.
Geez, this is good documentation (a six foot full size layout chart) but
what a job of unwrapping, cutting, removing, measuring, splicing, taping
etc. some 60 wires, not to mention the difficulty of extracting the
harness from the donor car! Expect to spend several hours (days) on
this part alone.
You will definitely have a test car, and you better be a dedicated
hobbyist with lots of time to put this together and maintain it.
With all the used 2.1's that pop up on the list for under $1000 I think
I'll just buy one of these each time mine fails! It would be cheaper
than fixing it!
P.S., if anyone wants this diagram you can have it for $15 and I'll pay
the postage. (Maybe I should loan it out for $5.00 with a $20 deposit;
I don't think many will want to go this route once you have seen this,
and I may be doing the list members considering this conversion a
service!)
KENWILFY@AOL.COM wrote:
>
> Anyway the Subaru swap sounds really good when you talk to the folks at
> Kennedy Engineering about it and the price for thier kit, and the parts looks
> good. However, as I found with my 5-cylinder kits, no conversion is cheap.
> It is either costs money or it costs time (time= money for those of you who
> don't know). In the guy that I spoke with case it cost him lots and lots of
> time. He got a motor for around $1000 and he said the wiring harness was a
> nightmare. The whole thing took him several months and finally he had to
> take it to a local Subaru shop to get it running. Then he had a problem with
> some coolant lines catching fire.
>
> All in all when you do a swap like this you are on your own. You get the kit
> and some sketchy instructions from Kennedy (some things aren't included in
> the instructions) but you are essentially a test case. You turn your van
> into a test vehicle. You experiment around with what coolant hoses to use,
> where to route them, how to route your wiring harness, your intake setup,
> everything.
--
Stuart MacMillan
Manager, Case Program
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