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Hi Joe Welcome to the group. I'm nearly in the same boat as you. I have a older Berrien shortback rail that I converted into a longback and had a 1915cc T-1 built for it. Long story short, I'm soured on T-1 motors and looked into a T-4 as they are reputed as being very reliable. I joined a couple of T-4 forums to see what the current options were as to building up a stronger, (but more expensive) motor, and as I read, I kept thinking, a Subaru makes the same and even more hp for a lot less money. And their famous for reliability. This is a big point for me as my T-1 didn't last a season. So I have acquired a 2.7 from a 88' XT-6 (yes Paul, the body is trashed) :-) and I'm in the search for an ECU/harness. That is what led me to Paul, finding his posts on the Buggy-Talk forum at Dune-Buggy.com. Also the recent discussion there about the Mega-squirt system seems to show promise and is much cheaper than the Link system. As for the motor/transaxle adapter, I've found a guy who makes a adapter kit for $400 and it seems to be of the same quality as the KEP (KEP wants $500). Take a look, http://www.heckermachine.com/new.pages/motorsports.html. Currently, We're building a new home and all resources are going into it, so I'm basically in the window shopping stage until we're further down the road to completion. Later, Terry

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Hi Paul and Group, Thanks for the invitation to join the group. I live in Michigan and do my duning at the Silver Lake Sand Dunes. I have a fiberglass bodied (Manx copy) dune buggy with a type 1 VW engine. I am interested in the Subaru powered buggies because they appear to be a great alternative engine for the VW which will make lots of power, be reliable and not leak oil like the Type1! I hope to learn more about people's experiences with this conversion and eventually perform the conversion on my buggy. I am looking forward to hearing your stories. Thanks, Joe

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subbug@(email hidden) om> cc: Subject: [subbug] Joe C has joined the group our group. 12/22/2003 11:57 PM Please respond to subbug

Hi Joe and welcome to the group. Can you tell us a little about yourself and your interest in Subaru powered buggies?

Thanks, Paul...

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