Bay Area shops: Any of you want to try to swap this into my Subaru?

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05-29-2008, 12:01 PM

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ATTN GST, LIC: Any interest in trying to swap this into my Subaru?

I know there have been a ton of engine swaps done with all kinds of Subaru's, but non have been done with a non subaru flat motor. There will be some of you die hard Subaru fans that will flame the **** out of me for even considering this, but I just think it would be to cool to pass up. What do you think about swapping in a small block custom made v8 in a Impreza plat form? v8 power, with the grip of AWD would make it unbeatable.

Here is a video of the custom v8 I'm considering to swap into my Subaru:

http://jalopnik.com/391187/lego-mani...?autoplay=true

GST? LIC? What do you think?

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05-29-2008, 12:38 PM

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Someone on Nabisco attempted putting a corvette drivetrain into a bug eye. Don't know if it was ever finished. I don't know if you could find an AWD Transmission that would bolt up to a v8(atleast one that would fit in a subaru). If you can do it, I think that would be badass.

05-29-2008, 12:54 PM

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thats awesome! I have one of the OLD lego mindstorm brain units laying around, I should get working sensors/software for it

05-29-2008, 01:26 PM

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Maybe you should look at the link first...

05-29-2008, 01:47 PM

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You could put one in the front and one in the rear!

05-29-2008, 02:01 PM

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haha... pretty crazy and cool!

05-29-2008, 08:46 PM

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05-29-2008, 09:14 PM

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wow thats nuts!

05-29-2008, 09:40 PM

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do it and make it work

05-29-2008, 10:00 PM

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do it and make it work

we need to hook it up to an engine dyno!

05-30-2008, 09:22 AM

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turbo it too

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Saw this a few days ago at Jalopnik. At first I thought you were being serious about swapping in a V8, which would be pretty awesome in it's own respects, and then I saw the link and was greatly saddened.