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Wrecking yard question for Ron or anyone else that's gone that route.
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John Seehorn
Hi Ron,
Glad to hear you had a good trip, too bad sagefox had to stay home. Look forward to reading about it on your site. Here is my question....when you ordered your engine from Redding did you go check it out in person? It sounds like it was all done over the phone. My KEP adapter kit should be here any day now and I really should start getting serious about getting an engine. I'm a little nervous about ordering up a used motor site unseen. Sounds like you had very good results though. Did you have anyway to verfy the mileage, did the compression match what you were told? Is this the part where I just need to have faith that the motor will be good and not worry about it? The wasserboxer is still running fine at 168 k miles with the exception of some really noisy lifters that usually quiet down after 1/2 hour or so. Still has reasonable power and consistently getting 23 mpg except for last weekend when my distributor rotor broke in two. I taped and wired it back together well enough to get me to the parts house. Really strange. The plan is to have the 2.2 motor on the shelf, the kit in hand, the wire harness made up and do the engine swap when this engine dies. It would be very convienient if it happend this summer before the rainy season gets here. Don't know if I could bring myself to pull out a running VW motor. Also don't know how long I'll be able to stand it once I have all the stuff here ready to go. The price on 2.2 subarus has jumped to about $1500 from $1100 a few months ago here in the Seattle area. If you or anyone else has any more advice on wrecking yard motors I'd sure appreciate it. P.S. I did check into the engine that was posted on this list a few days ago.... didn't get any response. Thanks |
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Warren Chapman
Ron,
While some have been successful with "mail order" engines. I was not and I STRONGLY urge you, if possible, to get your engine from a place where you can see it in the car. The mileage/condition of the vehicle prior to its wreck may be a hint as to the status and care the engine received. (Its interesting that wrecking yards have so many 50K-70K mileage engines on the shelf but the insurance auctions show very few under 100K from years 90-94.) It is also very useful to participate in the removal as much as possible. My experience with wrecking yards has been an eye opener. They are just not very committed about getting you everything you need for your conversion. They are interested in pushing parts out the door and people come in daily to remove misc pieces here and there. My engine, harness, and parts all came "off the shelf". None matched..... and I ended up returning them all (after a lot of work on the harness) in exchange for a set certain to be a match (i.e.parts still in the car). Its also extremely helpful to see the engine and wiring harness all hooked up in its "original home". Take some masking tape and a marker and label the important wiring plugs as well as fuel supply/return lines (all three). Note the engine and chassis ground connections. In addition to KEP's parts list, get all water hoses, exhaust and motor mount nuts, the "MPFI" emblem/coil cover (if you want it). My van had cruise control so I also got the cruise control vacuum servo and pump and linkage. I am hoping these items will allow the Vanagon cruise control to work with the Subie. You could even eliminate the wrecking yard entirely. Check out these sites for auctions of wrecks in your area. www.copartfinder.com www.iaai.com Good Luck! Warren Chapman --- In subaruvanagon@..., "John Seehorn" <jseehorn@e...> wrote: Hi Ron, Look forward to reading about it on your site.did you go check it out in person? It sounds like it was all done oververfy the mileage, did the compression match what you were told? Is thisgood and not worry about it?after 1/2 hour or so. Still has reasonable power and consistentlygetting 23 mpg except for last weekend when my distributor rotor broke inthe parts house. Really strange.the wire harness made up and do the engine swap when this engine dies. |
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Ron Bloomquist
Hi John,
Yes, I just did everything via telephone. I live way out in the sticks. Redding Auto Center seemed to know immediately what I was trying to do and expressed interest in my project. I did read them Hobert's list of items to be included with the engine. They didn't have an engine at the time I called but said they would watch for a good one. A few days later they called me and said they had a very clean engine with 68,000 miles on it; they ran it and said it sounded real good. I told them I would take it. Once I had the engine and was well into the project I discovered I didn't have the throttle cable and O2 sensor. I called them and they sent those items; no charge. I would recommend LKQ Redding Auto Center anytime. I hope to pass through Redding sometime and stop and see those guys and show them my conversion. Paul is who I talked to. He seemed to really know what was going on. 1-800-424-2002 Tell em Ron Bloomquist the Vanagon conversion guy sent ya. No. I didn't do a compression test. I just put it in and away we went after I corrected MY mistakes! I have over 15,000 miles of trouble free motoring under my belt now. No smoke, no leaks, good power. Maybe I'm just lucky. Ron Bloomquist |
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Mike Barfield
Hi John,
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Check out my web site for my story of how I found my Subaru donor car. My links page also lists sites to salvage yards, auctions, etc. Mike Barfield '84 Westy '91 Subaru Legacy Tampa, FL On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, John Seehorn wrote:
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