sub-buggie

Thanks for everyones input I am building it for trails and desert running mostly. I was driving around town and ran across a 87 GL wagon 5 speed duel range, would that be spfi or mpfi did not look that close? could probly pick it up for $400-$500 it was in pretty good shape had 160,000 and needed new CV's in the front but overall not bad. too bad I an not at the point of needing a doner yet but I tend to run across deals prettty regularly.

I have been kiking around the thought of hooking a subaru engine to a RWD trans for install into some custom cars I have been looking at I know you can use a 4X4 trans and plug the front shafts but it seems that it would be extra chance of something breaking. my thought is that they make adapters for sub-VW and ford 2.3-vw so why not a sub engine-ford 5 speed. with the right mesurements it should not be that hard. what do you all think?

Hello all first let me introduce my self I grew up in a little town in Alaska where every othercar was a rusted out subaru and I spent a good amout of time keeping them running and learned to love them. I then moved to Oregon and whent to school for automotive tech. where I am now. My new progect that I found online is a subaru dune buggie that is made in australia I orderd a set of plans (they have not come yet but soon) and hope to get building soon. It uses a single doner car 82-90 sub wagon. My question is do you all think that the extra work of using a turbo wagon is worth the extra work, or should I just go with the standerd 4X4 wagon? I know I want a 5 speed with duel range 4X4.