I was up in Colorado Springs last week and saw a street-legal Subaru diesel.

Gregoire Blachon was driving it, he also owns Boxeer, a Tennessee based company that imports the EE20's and transmissions.

http://boxeer.com/

I believe he used a 1995 Impreza coupe as the starting point.

It had Bosch ECU running a race map. Gregoire said he had some inquiries about using the EE20 as an aircraft motor, so he was running the Pikes Peak Hill Climb on Jet A to do some r&d.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STiD, so cool

http://www.rs25.com/forums/f128/t185042-subaru-diesel-ee20-swap-stid.html
 

Edited June 30, 201312 yr by cal_look_zero

I've been seeing updates to this build on their Facebook page. Very neat little car.

You can get your very own EE20 with complete harness to run it for around $7500.

IIRC someone from that company is on here

There's a quick clip of this car leaving the starting line here:

 

IIRC someone from that company is on here

I'm pretty sure he has advertised those engines for sale in the vendor or products forum here.

Holy crap, a Subaru rollin coal... nice

Very cool! A diesel Baja would be perfect!! And I just happen to have a Baja laying around...

I still don't understand why the US doesn't have these as standard - we have a huge amount of Subaru diesels rolling around on NZ roads. The sedan model gets something ridiculous like 6.7l/100km (35mpg) on average..

 

I haven't heard of any reliability issues with the EE20 either - which is always a good sign. I work as the stock controller at a car auction house so I see them and drive them quite regularly. They feel like they have a remarkable amount of torque for a two litre turbo diesel.