So glad to have found this awesome website.

 

I have a 1973 VW Baja Bug project.

This will be a woods buggy for tight hilly woods which are rocky, rooted, rutted and slow to mid pace speed.  Not a rock crawler nor a high speed desert buggy.

The plan-

- Use a Subaru engine and automatic transaxle mounted mid-engine driving just the rear wheels.

- 1997 Subaru Legacy looks to be the likely victim err....donor car candidate.

- EJ22 and 4EAT.

 

I'll be perusing the Off-Road section and searching as much as possible.  Any good advice, tips or other info will be greatly appreciated.

A 97 with an auto is most likeley an EJ25.

You may wanna hunt a 96 back 5spd, or impreza for an EJ22. Dont discount the EJ18 either, they're torquey, and do better on fuel.

Not true crazyhorse, my 97 Legacy is was an auto when it began life, and it's definitely an ej22 car. You're thinking of an outback or legacy gt.

And Aloha to you, East Tennessee!  Funny, I saw your thread title for nearly a week before I noticed the "incongruity" of it.

 

My wife is from a small town just outside Knoxville--still have a lot of family in the area--but we've lived in Hawai'i for nearly 50 years.

 

So welcome to the USMB, a place brimming with Pono.