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Ten Weeks later and I've finally found the last few hours to finish the job. For those that are interested I had an old Australian delivered EA71 engine connected to an Australian EA71 gearbox in a motorkhana special. Unfortunately the old engine expired and I was able to source a late model JDM EA7...

Thanks Paul, I may well give you a ring. Will be working on this tomorrow. I've given the engine a closer look. Distributor missing and the inlent manifold is broken just below the carb. Hopefully the old twin-carb setup and distributor will simply bolt on. Will let you know how I get on. Cheers Mark

This may answer my question, though I won't know for sure until I remove the bellhousing.

http://www.ultimatesubaru.net/forum/sho ... 163&page=2

I have been able to source a late model EA71 engine. How late that is I am not sure. It has a broken carb but otherwise looks OK. Now the question. The bellhousing with the new motor has the starter motor at about the 10 oclock position. I do not have a gearbox with the starter motor there but on th...

Steve,

It sounds like you really know your engines. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can get my contact details from my www address

Cheers

Mark

Thanks for the comment. I have spent the last few weeks trying to source an EA71. However, most people, including Subaru "experts" laugh when I ask for an EA71.

Could you tell me what makes the EA81 is a "boat anchor"

Heres a pic from a competion day last year http://noisemapping.com.au/hscc/Tigger.jpg If you want to see slide shows of a couple of events, with other members of HSCCQ competing try the following files. They are large files 7.2Meg and 12.2 Meg We won the Iron man MKhana on the 24 Sept http://noisema...

Hi all I'm in need of some advice. I have a frontwheel drive motorkhana special running an ea71 engine and gearbox, the one with the starter motor on top. The motor has just expired and I'm thinking of using an ea81 motor on the existing gearbox. Now I known the stud spacing is not quite the same. H...