I know it's been covered, but I'm very keen on doing a Scooby conversion. Is that better?

£6k! Ouch....... Right, decided, I'm going to do one of these, document it and see if I can do it for less than £1500 - how much is a good 2.0 CJ just stripped, serviced, valves lapped in etc worth?

 

type 4 in good order must be worth £1000 to £1500 complete and running as a turnkey possibly more.

 

im impressed
im sure i can manage to do similar,
im good with looms and electrics but it still looks ''interesting''..

 

think mine cost me around the £2200 mark exhaust alone was 650 it is stainless and it sounds amazing

i bought my engine, loom etc from scooby split it was all delivered on a pallet for 600 quid { i didnt think to buy a doner car}
there is a lot of pipe work from rad to engine and this stuff isnt cheap

bought everything else i needed from rich at rjes his web site tells you everything you need to know about the conversion

it explains about clutchs as well and what gear box is best to use {6 rib is the better box}


my biggest headache was sorting the wiring loom out {theres a lot of wires that you dont need
but if you have the whole loom you can send it to rich at rjes and he will make you the correct loom for the conversion
{i read somewhere that subaru wiring doesnt like to be cut and rejoined}

what ever engine you buy i was told you must get the ecu and transponder key with it .
engine to gearbox have a different thread pattern

mine is very much diy its probley not going to win any awards for beauty but it all works
it must have done over ten thousand miles now.
i will get a new loom for it one day and that will tidy it all all but whiles its still running ok im going to leave it

 

10 out of 10 for doing the job yourself. The best thing about having done it yourself is that you're in a much better position to fix it if anything goes wrong.
Did you have to cut any of the chassis to fit it in?

 

Anyone running a Subaru ever have issues with petrol slosh/ ie a very minute loss of power when hitting the brow of a hill. I have! First I thought it was vac lock(air trap). The more investigating I did it appears that the original Bay tank I have fitted which has been modded with larger outlet valve, doesn't allow for 'swirl'. I'm told that Red 9 now do a tank with swirl pot included for Scooby conversions. Will be looking to fit an external swirl pot in near future on existing tank. I did find out that running on half or three quarter tank goes some way to stopping this happening! Any ideas?

 

I don't mean to be picky, but when you re-do the wiring, you might want to think about moving the ECU. They're not designed to live in the engine bay (not waterproof) and on a Subaru they live in the passenger side of the dashboard, just above the footwell. That's why mine is under the back seat.

 

I haven't noticed with hills but definitely when I go around a corner a bit quick with about 1/4 tank. I know it can happen so I'm just aware of it and try not to push it when the fuels running low. But sometimes you just can't help it lol

 

ECUs definitely don't like engine bays... Receptive to heat! Mines under bench seat!

 

i dont disagree with you about the ecu but i fitted it where it is now then drove 3500 miles around spain without a problem

 

i only had to cut a little bit out and that was for the starter motor to fit properly

 

Had a visit today from Baybirmingham - that Scooby engine sounds really good - I'm liking it!!

 

I'm not 100% sure about "slosh and swirl"so I'll ask the question..
Is it because you are travelling at speed around a corner and all the petrol goes to one side of the tank causing starvation?
If so I understand why the original Subaru petrol tank has a "swirl pot" built inside.
Could one remedy be putting petrol tank foam into the VW T2 petrol tank?

 

I think foam would probably do the job but it does serve as a but of a warning that your pushing it a bit when the power drops off

 

I have decided to do this........... But not to Winnie!

Just bought the perfect candidate - couldn't resist

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/2866/qy3j.jpg


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Very nice - are you keeping the writing on the side? (My dad would like that )

Sorry I couldn't stick around yesterday, we were meeting friends at Stowe and we were late. mind you, when we left them, and I started the van up in the car park, one friend's head turned in our direction so quickly he nearly snapped his neck.

 

You may have noticed me watch as you drove up the road, it sounded really good and I think that's the moment I decided to go for it and get things underway.