April 20, 200718 yr Has anyone heard or done it? put a diesel motor of some kind a legacy? maybe off a VW I dunno what's your guy's thoughts?
April 20, 200718 yr Depends which engine your going to use. The VW opposed 4 deisel is a gutless wonder (the bus held the record for the slowest vehical 0-60 for those years) and has very expensive parts. I dont think anything else will fit. nipper
April 21, 200718 yr I've thought about putting the VW Golf TDi engine in a Brat. I reckon it would be possible. But the work involved would be too much. Like they say with putting a turbo in a Subaru, it's easier to buy a turbo'd subaru. Still, major things you would need to do are custom radiator(s.) Engine to gearbox adapter. Fuel system. Massive engine crossmember modding. And you would probably have to mount the engine on a fair angle to fit it under the hood.
April 21, 200718 yr Normally when one of us wants to swap in a diesel it's into our 4WD EA car for offroad use, and the problem is figuring how to hook up the new engine to our weird Subaru transaxles. But if all you wanna do is paved driving and get really good milage / burn veggie then you can just use the FWD trans that the VW came with - all you'd really have to do is find places to mount all the peices. On a somewhat related note.... it seems like every RWD American car ever built can accept just about any other American L6, V6 or V8... are American automakers more consistant with their engine/transmission bolt pattern or is it that there's just a huge aftermarket for conversions?
April 21, 200718 yr On a somewhat related note.... it seems like every RWD American car ever built can accept just about any other American L6, V6 or V8... are American automakers more consistant with their engine/transmission bolt pattern or is it that there's just a huge aftermarket for conversions? Yes and yes. Also RWD is tradditionally 3 point mounts, two at the engine one at the tranny, so that makes it really easy. nipper
April 22, 200718 yr the VW 1.9 TDI is 300lbs dry and has roughly the same performance characteritics as an EJ22... probably more torque. It is probably the only diesel engine you could reasonably expect to shove into a Subaru (until the Subaru boxer TDIs are: a) available in the US, and affordable I have been interested in this for a while.. It will fit in the engine bay of an EA82.. top clearance is not determined as it would depend on how high the engine sits after the clutch/flywheel and bellhousing are adapted.. I would STRONGLY recommend using a lifted EA82 as a platform for this to minimize the chance that you'll have to put a power bulge in your hood I've not yet started on this (my EJ swap isn't even done yet!) but I am fairly set on making this happen someday. The good part is that the longer I take, the cheaper the VW front cuts will become..
April 24, 200718 yr Depends which engine your going to use. The VW opposed 4 deisel is a gutless wonder (the bus held the record for the slowest vehical 0-60 for those years) and has very expensive parts.I dont think anything else will fit. nipper The Vanagon diesel was a standard inline four, mounted more or less on it's side, it wasn't a boxer diesel :-( (Good news is you can stuff 2.0T Audi motor in there and do wheelstands )
April 24, 200718 yr The Vanagon diesel was a standard inline four, mounted more or less on it's side, it wasn't a boxer diesel :-( (Good news is you can stuff 2.0T Audi motor in there and do wheelstands ) I thought the early ones were boxers, then they abdoned that and went to inlines. Most seem to like to stuff subaru engines in them instead
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