Well, I finally had time yesterday to pull the motor and wiring harness out of my donor 88 XT6. BTW, who's the brainiac that thoght it was a good idea to put the ECM in the trunk?! I think it took more time to pull the harness in one piece than it did to yank the motor! No the hard part of coming up with the $1600 to rebuild it properly and dump it in my Brat. Damn RAM is proud of those forged pistons and stainless valves. I honestly figure it's gonna take about a year to get it built (with turbo), installed with the lift and 5spd d/r. But hey, what project ever goes quickly and smoothly?

Cant wait to see the beast finished. Let me know if you need moral support:-p

holy cow, youre doing that???!!!

 

cool, good luck. my dad had to install a new engine in his 89 XT6 back in 1991... imagine how much it cost, yech...

 

i was discussing something a thread on the forum here where northwet was talking about the flow of water thru the EA-82, and that the er27 is almost literally nothing more than two more cylinders on it.. and he said when his blew it seemed to run out of coolant on the passenger side (autopsy observation)

 

it only blew because we got a bad case of motor oil. motor in the subaru blew, motor in the lawn tractor blew, and the 351 windsor in the fordE-150 my mom had blew all in one month. good times, that.

 

well, captain off-topic salutes your project, youve got more subaru motivation than I!