EricYellow

Has anybody ever fitted (or heard from) a Cossie engine in an Impreza ?
If so, how hard was it ?
Any pics/info/links are welcome.









Just curious if it'll work...

abdr500

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looks like your almost done the hard bit

EricYellow

Nope....this is the easy part...the engine will give more trouble...
Sump will hit the subframe, engine mounts hit the steering, etc...
But nothing that can't be fixed.
Once it's in, then the fun of fitting the exhaust, GT30, mapping, etc will begin

Lloyd

why bother to do this?you will just upset the handling and balence of a well thought out car.

fuzzy

im all for unusual engine conversions but this idea seems a lot of work for not much gain

Mark V8

iTrader: (2)

At least it will stop the Scooby sounding like a VW beetle running on three cylinders

Mark

BM08

Cool, a scooby with the reliability of a ford cossie, where do i buy one of these?

gkandr4ch

What a waste of time. Sticking a lovely cossie engine in a Japanese car!!
I'd like to see the end result.

matts1

Gti Gti, your looking at it all wrong, you mean, a cossy without rust issues

Cos500

The subaru is a well thought out car as said, the engine in its design has a low centre of gravity to improve the way it handles and after having a few can say they did a good job. The cossie on the other hand was not well thought out, just bang a semi decent motor in a barge and see what happens, mix the two and i think you can figure the outcome.
Just so you dont think im bias, i have a nice stage 3 sapph which wouldnt touch a standard impreza uk model round the nurburgring.

MK5RST

why fix something that aint broke i can see why people put cossie engines in mini,s ect but wny an impreza? no point imo

col cos1

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i wouldnt go that far imprezas havent been out long enough to see them all rot away

matts1

As said, the subaru is a well designed car, lets be honest, them and the evo are the cossies of their day.

Sticking an old lump in one is a bit of a waste.

KW-rscos

Give the guy a break, if he wanted to put a micra engine in then thats his choice thankfully he went for a cossie engine which has steel pistons not chocolate ones

Ginge !

not to mention more expensive to repair parts, older engine ect

fair play for going for another idea,,,,, i LOVE engine conversions but you seem to have taken a half decent car needing some mods to make a pukka car into a half decent car that no longer handles as well as it now less reliable but will cost more to maintain

but each to there own

saff_cossie

Fair play for trying something different. Yes as others have said, you may not get the handling of a factory impreza but it's a good challenge if nothing else to fit it and get it running.

Make sure you put some pics up of it finished.

Charlie Chalk

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It has NO engine, so Im guessing somethings broke LOL

McGoo 69

screw the other comments this is the best idea ever.

sick of seing the same chavd impreza over and over.

infact im quite sick of impreza's there common and bore me, but this might convert me

a family cossi? a rwd impreza? something different?

theres loads of ways you can look at this build but i think its ace

so what if its gonna be a big cost for little gain, it aint like everyone on here has stuck to there budgets

Dave McB

pardon?????

Chip

iTrader: (3)

Fantastic idea, Ive always fanced a RWD scooby, and I like the YB, so its a good combination IMHO

LS2 would have been perfection though!

tabetha

It has defo been done before, but can't remember anything other than that.
tabetha

Dicko&Vacant

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well done for giving it a go mate

should be pretty cool when finished

coswurv

iTrader: (8)

Fair play for giving it ago, but that diff doesnt look very well mounted to me

EricYellow

At this time it's just looking if it'll all fit, permanent fitment will be the next thing.

Moonstone Mart

iTrader: (1)

Good work mate. Be good to see it finished and running, dont listen to the "whats the point in this" comments. If you want to do something different - do it!
If it was a well known tuner posting this little project it would have had alot more "great project, love the idea" comments and it would be on page 10 by now.

Lets see more updates

Mart.

Dan

Errr, blinkers anyone?

Fair play to you mate for trying something different I say!

Cosworth Bassie

I think it's the best off both worlds

A good car, with a better/stronger engine and gearbox/dif then it came from the factory......and it's different.

Love it mate Let's hope the car is finished before the summer.

Some more pics:

NEIL A

iTrader: (6)

Will be good to have something a bit different Be good to see how much work is in getting all the rear set up done, as it could be another option for fitting to a cosworth ?

Graceland

Impressive so far.

Not so sure on the diff mounting tho

fuzzy

a cossie powered bmw estate?

Moonstone Mart

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EricYellow Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:19 am Post subject:

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At this time it's just looking if it'll all fit, permanent fitment will be the next thing.


Mart

Stavros

It will be a ball ache length wise.

Scooby engines are about half the length of a YB and even then there not tons of room.

Always an idea ive wanted to do for a laugh tho, even if it serves no useful purpose. There been Scooby powered Focus's etc, so why not.

Rear diffs are rather weak tho, RWD converted scoobies always break em pretty easy.

Cosworth Bassie

The rear dif that is used is from an 2wd Cossie, not from a Scooby

Stavros

Thats ok then

Hope your not using Cossie suspension etc, as its shit

EricYellow

Nope, it's already got a coilover set fitted.

rscostalot

Go for it will make a change....Looking good so far keep us posted m8..

BigChuck

cool project this, nice to see something different.

foreigneRS

interesting

phil_focus

well done to you mate. i recon this is gonna be a crackin car to drive at the end of it

keep us posted on how its goin