Hello everyone, this seems like a great source of info so here is my q?

I have an 82 brat and an 86 wagon, I want the 5 speed and D/R from the wagon in the brat. Is this a hard swap if I use the engine and all of the running gear ( tranny,drive line and rear end) from the 86? Thanks for the help

 

Ed

my 83 wagon(like a brat) had an entuire ea82 setup. is the brat an automatic(probly not!) if its a 4spd, MT, you use its crossmember, bolted to the 5spd trans

 

now, the 5spd will have some clearance issues in the back, that can be over come by slight beating of the trans tunnel. you mat have to cut out the shifter hole or part of the tunnel(as i did). you can drop the tranny crossmember down a bit by spacing washers between the frame mounts and the body

 

you will need the driveshaft from the 5spd, its the right length for the brat, but you will need to make a mout for the carrier bearing.

 

you can get away with keeping the same rear diff, 3.900 is what you need, its on a tag on the back of the diff

 

the rear trailing arms will swap, but that is not necessary, for the conversion, but they will if you needed them if a wheel bearing went out or bent one)

 

the motor out of the wagon will work in the brat also. but, you will have to relocate the hillholder back an inch or so. i unbolted it and tweaked the brake lines to make room(wanst hooked up)

now, the distributor will be rather close to the master cylinder. if you can find an MC from an auto, that will clear better, but is not necessary.

the trick is to REMOVE THE DISTRIBUTOR to install or pull the engine, but thats it.

 

dependin on how you alt/ac bracketry is on the wagon, you can keep all that, and delete the power steering and ac pump. now, i have mocked up an ea81 power steering rack to the ea82 pump and lines, but that car never was complete. on my wagon, it had manual steering

 

you will have to be creative for the dual range lever, it wont mount like a stock brat one will. there is one example(mcbrat) who made an ea82 console fit. another guy here (bratsrus) makes a kit to use the brat style lever with teh 5spd tranny

 

if you want to go further, you can adapt the ea82 suspension in the front, but that requires fabrication and relocation of the lower control arm. it can be done, as i did on my wagon

hey miles! or anyone for that mater. i have an 80 hatch, is it basically the same as a brat? 83 (second gen?)i thought it was, other than body of course. if so the same swap as above will work correct?

subawhoohoo, i think all that info applies to you/us cept you would have to have a custom drive shaft made to get power from the tranny to the rear end.

sweet thanx.

this is the method I followed with my '82 Brat.

I had a custom one piece drive shaft made though for now...

 

http://usmb.net/repair/?CurrentDirectory=FOLDER_3f29b58f50d9b8.15492800/&FileType=Article&File=ARTICLE_3f29b750a92b88.77574552.art

 

and here's what my console looks like

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=18377