Oh great TLB advise me/pick my reasoning.

as a keeper....I'd start with a new crankcase and build a solid blueprint 1776....I'd also replace the tank with an LPG tank and fit a small sill tank for starter fuel...
for all the benefits of subaru, there's a lot of work involved, and when people say 'well if it pops, I'll just buy another one for a few hundred quid', it's still a lot of faffing.

 

I know where there's a nice condition Porsche 3.4 six pot, with gearbox and hydraulic clutch for sale at £3,000.
That should go up hills ok, you probably wouldn't have to change gear much.
I'm guessing it would pull away in any of the first 4 gears and it would do more than 15mpg if you kept it under about 90.

 

I just bought a Porsche without an engine or box, any details on the 3.4 ?

 

PH Sportscars Shardlow

 

what way? rattly slow and fuel heavy? or run until pop and then decide?

 

my choice would be a damn site easier if i wasn't an auto!

 

scoobie conversion 3 grand tops if u di it your self

 

Wheres the faffing after its been converted i xan drop my enginee quick and easy its just 4 bolts u no

 

That's my thinking too... You could run a flipped passat box... So 5/6 speed....

 

Sell it and buy a landrover and a caravan

 

been there done that

 

you touting for the job? mind you i'd want a decent timeframe, non of this para time for me.

 

I missed that...

Yeah I'd be up for a job like that!! Right up my street

 

ok, sorted run it til it explodes or i finish paying the loan i had to buy it then ship it to you for a "quick" ahem, turnaround.

 

I can do quick turnaround, just the logistics of paras van is very different to anything else I've ever done before!!

 

Talki.g of.paras.bus is it done yet

 

Been painting the dash top today, and put the steering column back in, and did a couple of other bits too

 

Isn't the 3.4l too long to fit. I think @darren.moss had this trouble when he went this way.

I wouldn't do scooby, if you want the modern power drive ect buy the modern van. It's like air ride if you can't drive them low don't lower them .
Just saying though. ;-)

 

If anyone wants a Scooby lump with all the bits and transmission adaptor give me a shout - the guy I'm getting my bus from is pulling a Scooby lump out of it and wants to sell it. Don't have any details unfortunately apart from he wants around the grand mark for it and it's in Berkshire.