If you know what you are doing you wont be building a POS. Some people actually DO have good fabrication skills and take pride in knowing they BUILT their rig, not BOUGHT a bunch of bolt on parts.

-Bill

+1

 

 

 

Ontopic, in this case I'd just buy the alloy sheet and cut it oult like I did. Doesn't cost mcuh at all and is really really easy.

the sawzall was used to cut the piece off over 3/4 of an inch. I agree that it is way to hard to get things accurate.

 

The end product is adapter split in two.

 

I took a grinder and a vice and some caliper and did the grind/measure grind measure.

 

I have one piece done. Holes for the EA side are pending.

 

RX has been giving a lot of trouble and I just got back from a trip to the east coast.

 

Will try to get pics this weekend.

 

BW

This thread needs more pics of EJ's getting attacked by sawzalls.

Personally I prefer Phizinza's method as it not hard to take an EJ dual range and an EA82 and mix and match to build a box Subaru would have done themselves,As well think about the mileage of most EA82 boxes,you are now putting much more power through them and they probably need a freshen up anyway.

New bearings and seals are not expensive and unless it is totally stuffed a good trick with Syncromesh cones is to glass bead blast them and the mating gear cone section as well ,tape over the part you do not want glass beaded then they work like new again so it doesn't end up being too expensive,but gives piece of mind twenty miles from nowhere down some lonely trail,and if you are lucky enough to find an Awd RX box you have the best of all worlds constant Awd a good low range with carby EA82 wagon bits and a centre diff lock and factory engine to gearbox fit with the EJ case swap.

When modifying cars for customers over the years one thing I always strove to achieve was to finish up with something the factory would have done,this way it is easy to live with,otherwise if it rattles squeaks is a pain to work on or live with on a daily basis it soon stops being fun,then you sell it usually at a loss ,and if as in my case someone paid you to do it you then get a bad rep from your ex customer.Remember whatever you do make it so it is easy to live with if it will be a road vehicle,for off road or competition you have more leeway in the easy to live with stakes.

I took the liberty of editing your post just a bit,

 

Personally I prefer Phizinza's method as it not hard to take an EJ dual range if you live in Australia where d/r ej's are available and an EA82 and mix and match to build a box Subaru would have done themselves....

Edited February 22, 200917 yr by lostinthe202
added a smiley to seem less offensive...

we never got EJ dual range trannies here in the U.S., so we dont really have the same options some of yo Aussies have. AFAIK, there is only 1 EJ dual range that ever got imported here, and it sold not too long ago and I know not who owns it. So EA guts in EJ D/R is a no-go for us in the states.

-Bill

Said it once, I'll say it again.

 

"Problem I see is that once you cut it off, there still isn't any meat to drill the 2 EA pattern holes? It isn't a wide enough lip to be a full plate, it would basically just rim the EJ motor."

 

I'd like to be proven wrong, but I won't.

 

There is no meat below the 2 top EJ bolt holes to drill the hole for the EA bolts. If there was enough space there to redrill holes, no *adapter* would be needed, you could simply tap new holes lower in the EJ bell and bolt it straight up with just simple spacers.

Edited March 2, 200917 yr by Gloyale

Yes Australia where FEDEX and DHL are everywhere and actually go stateside,on a serious note a container full of dual range boxes would find a home easily over there.

We may have dual range boxes but did miss out on some things such as single point injected EA 82's,and constant lockable EA 82 dual range boxes,but we do source the stuff.

A 20 ft Container full of gearboxes and some of our wheels you guys like would make for a cost effective group buy freight wise for sea freight, just use someone reputable who wont send it as deck cargo on a Submarine.

 

No matter where you live it's always on the other side of the planet or you're broke when it's available locally

all we really need for a ej dual range setup would be the front 2 case halves from that type of trany our internal ea dr should slide right in...and the tail shaft section/transfer wil bolt on the ej case.