January 24, 200620 yr I'm Back at it. The longest project I have ever been apart of aside from my marriage. It started as a turbo charged justy. Then we put a cage in it and it got rolled at a rally cross. I put an EA82 dual-range tranny on an Impreza 1.8l engine and shoe horned the thing together. I was getting ready to reinforce the suspension and I noticed that the roll really tweaked the body and in part the cage, more than I thought. I started cutting bits off and out to get to a nice point where I could straighten it out when... NOW, It has no body. Just a roll cage. I kept most of the body parts that will keep it looking sort of like a justy. I have it in 3 major pieces. The rear suspension clip, the roll cage, and the front suspension/engine clip. I have been going at it hot and heavy for several weeks to get it to this point. I plan on building a solid tube frame chasis on which I will attach the justy body bits. I want a safe car that will track straight, and that will sort of look like a justy. Now I wonder if it really is a Subaru. Granted 90% of the drive train is Subaru. But that is it other than cosmetics. This is the silliest thing I could do, but it wouldn't be as much fun if I had to build it for real. Then there is the fact that I want to RallyCross it. It will resemble a justy in a Picaso-sort-of-way. It will pass any tech, Safe is most important, BUt based on a stock vehicle may be pushing it. I know I can do it in Utah, those guys all know me. I hope I can do it here in Colorado. With any luck I will have it together and on all 4 in March and running by April. Then I have to make it look like a Justy, that will take more time. A lot of folks on this site build some crazy Sube-based beasts. Are one-offs like this Suabrus? or just Subaru powered monsters? Justy? Justy-esque? Justy-based? Just-no-way... Just thinkin. Troy
January 24, 200620 yr From the sound of it all I have to say is who cares. It sounds like a fun little beast. Enjoy it and call it whatever you like.
January 25, 200620 yr Sounds to me like you have more in that car that's Subaru, then what NASCAR has in any of what they call their Chevy's, Ford's, Dodge's, Pontiac's, ect... So yeah, it's still a Subaru. Call it, JustyFied.
January 25, 200620 yr With the EJ18 and the EA82 tranny, sounds like that justy is more subaru now, than it was when it rolled out of the factory -Brian
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