FUBARU, Stirarri? 76 308 GT4 -turbo Subaru power project

[Devastator]

Cool project!
Personally, I vote for calling it the Fubaru, because it has the term FUBAR in it.

[panel]

Are those BC plates on the Ferrari?

[Fiatdude]

Cool project -- I think I would went turbo'd 3 rotor myself, but you work with what you've got.....

The best way to mount a bastard engine/trans, (I have found,) is it to drop the thing in there and get it into the location that you want/works and then custom build your mounts from what is on the car to what is on the engine .. .. .. sometimes it requires some ingenuity, sweat/blood, tears .. .. I believe this will be a first anywhere for this swap, so your are going to have to make your own everything ... .. you can borrow ideas, but your gonna have to fab everything to meet all your needs -- -- good luck and have fun -- -- if you get stuck, take a lot of pictures and post them up and ask for ideas -- a lot of ideas are out there floating around on these forums.... Join the subie forums and maybe the H.A.M.B. (diffently not the Ferrari's forum LOL) and post your build and listen to ideas that are thrown at you...

Keep posting on your build, we'll be watching

[ttriebler]

.. .. I believe this will be a first anywhere for this swap, so your are going to have to make your own everything ...

Even though there's pictures in this thread of exactly the same swap already completed?

[crankwalk]

Are those BC plates on the Ferrari?

Oh the pic of the red car I posted to show the vents? Maybe, it's not mine. Just got that one off the web for reference.

.. .. I believe this will be a first anywhere for this swap, so your are going to have to make your own everything ...

Even though there's pictures in this thread of exactly the same swap already completed?

LOL, thats partially why I am doing the Subaru motor. I wanted a v8 rover and that would have been a first in one of these but I went with the Subaru because I found out it could work, thus enabling me to copy the first guy. I email him from time to time and he's pretty helpful but I sort of want to road trip 1000 miles up there and just take a million pictures of everything.

[crankwalk]

Also, Todd I just bought the axle flanges. I decided to do something in increments and see how it works out. I ordered the standard 930s instead of the extended ones since I believe that's what the white car has.

Thanks everybody!

[Piledriver]

Ferrar-U.?

Slick in any case, nice to see some alteratives for the mid engine stuff.
Almost makes me want to build one.

[crankwalk]

Here's a question for you guys, I've searched and I can't find what throwout bearing I need for a 97 STi? Any throwout bearing for like a 2.5 rs in the US work from that vintage?

This as an example:
http://www.partsgeek.com/gbproducts/MC/ ... nQodjyEAMg


Thanks folks

[ttriebler]

Nope. A 97 STi is likely to be a pull to release type clutch whereas the RS is likely to be a push to release clutch. Totally different clutch forks (STi is a cast fork instead of stamped) and totally different throwout bearings. Google the different clutches you will see good examples.

[noslzzp]

Cool project - but I would have soooo done the 3.0L six instead. It would have still sounded somewhat like the flat-plane crank original!
Cool project though, looking forward to the updates.

Yes, that car is screaming for the EZ30R boxer 6! I bet no one would know it wasn't a real Ferrari with that motor! The Subie "burble burble" is gonna make that car look odd (just my opinion, of course)..

Sell that 4-cylinder and get an EZ30R and have $1,000 left over to put back into the car!

In any case, I love this project!!

[noslzzp]

Cool project!
Personally, I vote for calling it the Fubaru, because it has the term FUBAR in it.

+111!

[crankwalk]

Cool project - but I would have soooo done the 3.0L six instead. It would have still sounded somewhat like the flat-plane crank original!
Cool project though, looking forward to the updates.

Yes, that car is screaming for the EZ30R boxer 6! I bet no one would know it wasn't a real Ferrari with that motor! The Subie "burble burble" is gonna make that car look odd (just my opinion, of course)..

Sell that 4-cylinder and get an EZ30R and have $1,000 left over to put back into the car!

In any case, I love this project!!

If I couldn't have a v8 then it had to be boost. I feel more comfortable with the overall tuneabilty later down the road with the sti motor for down the road as opposed to the six. I like how turbos feel and sound over NA cars anyhow. As far as fooling people into not knowing what's in it...well[ imnot interested in that either. I'd love to show people what the motorswap is all about. I had a 911 with a Turbo rotary with a street port. Didn't sound like anything other than a Mazda racecar

[Plasticfantastic]

I had a 911 with a Turbo rotary with a street port. Didn't sound like anything other than a Mazda racecar

A sweet sound indeed.... BRAAAP, BRAAAP, BRAAAP, BRAAAP, BRAAAP...


Jeff-

[crankwalk]

Flanges in today. Fast shipment and look great. Todd, Thanks mate.

I'm doing stuff one step at a time.

[RonW]

So this is Subaru to Ferrari cv joint flange? Nice. So todd makes flanges VW, Porsche 930, Ferrari 308 axles, anything else ?