Questions about wrx brumby conversion

lawsiejr · Post by **lawsiejr** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:10 pm

good vid hope to see more in the future.
Also good to here there isnt major problems with it.
Sounds like the brumby is serving you well

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:15 am

There are a bunch of WRX converted Brumby owners on here including me, but unless you already have a ute with a lot of time into it, buy one thats already converted. It'll save time and money and hassel.

lawsiejr · Post by **lawsiejr** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:29 pm

thanks brumbyrunner. i am just finding it hard to find one in nsw

lawsiejr · Post by **lawsiejr** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:10 pm

im guessing this is a full custom rear suspension.

stamp_licker · Post by **stamp_licker** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:17 pm

Looks MY with a custom diff hanger,not hard to build a solid mount one like in the pic.Is that from the autospeed article?

lawsiejr · Post by **lawsiejr** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:22 pm

if i remember right it was nathan town.......somethings so yes i thinks its from the auto speed article on his brumby
Soz cant really remember where i got it from

BrennyV · Post by **BrennyV** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:23 am

thats a sik diffhanger setup!

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:01 am

I wonder how they achieve no vibrations....i can't see any rubber mountings in that photo, the diff is solid mounted to the body of the car. Unless the bolts on the actual diff have rubber surrounds...can't quite see.

vincentvega · Post by **vincentvega** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:26 pm

its a drag car so i guess they dont care..

lawsiejr · Post by **lawsiejr** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:42 pm

does anybody know if the owner built the brumby or a workshop

Suby Wan Kenobi · Post by **Suby Wan Kenobi** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:54 pm

Love the twin pipes but where would the towbar go?

99_FGT · Post by **99_FGT** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:34 am

vincentvega wrote:its a drag car so i guess they dont care..

Sums it up really

stamp_licker · Post by **stamp_licker** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:23 pm

lawsiejr wrote:does anybody know if the owner built the brumby or a workshop

Built at performance.
http://www.pms.net.au/

lawsiejr · Post by **lawsiejr** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:17 pm

thanks for the info.
A good mate of mine wants to know if you can run the wrx drivetrain with an ej20 or ej25. He was planning on converting a brumby with this configuration for his son as he has just started driving. He wont be aloud to drive a turbo so thats why he wanted to know if this would work because later down the track he will most likely put the wrx engine in.
thanks

vincentvega · Post by **vincentvega** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:21 pm

yeah you can - it all bolts up.

will be an expensive way to do it though as you will have to source box and engine seperately

lawsiejr · Post by **lawsiejr** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:35 pm

ok thats good to here
thanks

Phizinza · Post by **Phizinza** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:40 pm

AndrewT wrote:I think Phizinza's experience with making an Impreza into a ute heavily involves Photoshop

Oh yeah.. Of cause, why bother any other way. Its so much easier in imaginary land.

I'd love to see some proof of an EJ DOCH in a Brumby that is street legal in any state. Modifying the crumple zone on a car to my knowledge is not something you can do legally. But who knows, prove me wrong.

If I were to do it, I'd just make it look good and never look back.

dfoyl · Post by **dfoyl** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:06 pm

>>Modifying the crumple zone on a car to my knowledge is not something you can do legally.

Well that kinda sucks...though if you could get an engineers certificate that your work improves the efficiency of the crumple zone you could probably get around it. The logic from the government would be that if you are as safe or safer than you were previously it means in an accident you are better off physically and it costs them less

The logical option would be to bring in a damaged Baja from the US and cut&shut the rear onto a local delivery. You already get all the modern good stuff (5 stud, and a chassis that is designed to take the extra power), and WRX bits are drop-in.

Dean.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:10 pm

I didn't know the brumby, MY or L series had crumple zones... Thought the Liberty was the first in the subi family to have crumple zone...

News to me.

Bennie

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:30 am

They sure do Bennie.