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Post by NachaLuva » Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:31 pm

those photos are pretty cool :cool:
Yeah what a peice of history if they still exist. lets hope they're not swimming with the fishes lol...
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Post by NachaLuva » Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:32 pm

mud_king91 wrote:my guess is they lived the same fate as every other limited production car thats touched our roads.... someone heard it was good then took it that tad to fast around a corner like the holden coupe4 AWD monaro who wouldnt hahaha
What happened to the coupe4?
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Post by Silverbullet » Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:36 pm

That does it, someone needs to go out on an expedition to every NZ wreckers yard and scour every old subie or even the engine pile for this engine/cylinder heads :)

Would make a pretty cool YT documentary though, hunting down the mystical EA81 Safari engine :mrgreen:
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Post by mud_king91 » Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:09 pm

nachaluva wrote:What happened to the coupe4?
theres only a couple left due to either being thrashed solen or written off
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Post by NachaLuva » Wed Oct 12, 2011 4:19 pm

mud_king91 wrote:theres only a couple left due to either being thrashed solen or written off
:(

Then again...i'm a reformed Ford guy, now Subie fan lol :p
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Post by isnowi » Wed Oct 12, 2011 4:47 pm

Silverbullet wrote:That does it, someone needs to go out on an expedition to every NZ wreckers yard and scour every old subie or even the engine pile for this engine/cylinder heads :)

Would make a pretty cool YT documentary though, hunting down the mystical EA81 Safari engine :mrgreen:
Unfortunately anything as old is these is pretty much crushed or smelted complete these days, unless someone knows what they are looking at, it's hard enough to find a rough brumby to rob parts from, let alone something more desireable.

The NZ climate is pretty hard on japanese steel from the 70's and 80's

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Post by mud_king91 » Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:05 pm

nachaluva wrote::(

Then again...i'm a reformed Ford guy, now Subie fan lol :p
eh ford went up the preverbial creek when they stopped producing the X series... cant say i dont like the eb- ed,s tho
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Post by spike » Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:06 pm

Brumby Kid wrote:So somewhere there is a heap of rally nissans swimming with the fishes, at the bottom of the sea.
theyre not at a single point, theyre on the whole path. One of the people on the boat at the time happened to be a Nissan rally guy from america apparently he got some of the good parts off it. The was talk in the 90's about going out and getting everything to document it but sense provailed.

Silverbullet wrote:That does it, someone needs to go out on an expedition to every NZ wreckers yard and scour every old subie or even the engine pile for this engine/cylinder heads :)

Would make a pretty cool YT documentary though, hunting down the mystical EA81 Safari engine :mrgreen:

Been done already. Paul from Subarwreck spent 6 months in newzealand hunting down parts and sending them back. Also got a load from Japan. There arent many places to look.
mud_king91 wrote:theres only a couple left due to either being thrashed solen or written off
most never made it to the road?
Its the same with all the HSVs most specials get to the show room and put in the shed.

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Post by mud_king91 » Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:22 pm

yea theres 5 left the only 2 driven on the road are in new zealand and aus the new zealand one was found in a wrecker and was restored or repaired back to factory the rest are in museums etc i think theres one in the S.A motor museum
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Post by Loyale 2.7 Turbo » Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:38 am

I Found This on my Computer:

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Post by Loyale 2.7 Turbo » Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:06 am

Also this one:

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Post by Loyale 2.7 Turbo » Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:58 am

subaruby wrote:Dont know anything about it but found some old pics on my computer

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I Just came across This engine, found in a First-Gen Subaru Brat (Brumby):


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Could it has the same setup as the one on the Picture above?

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Post by steptoe » Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:36 pm

Wow ! Isn't that some good find, great piece of fabrication on an EA71?
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Noticed the thermostat housing at the top and manifold looks to be hacked off at the ends to keep water circulation job

Must have been a screamer in its day :)

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Post by Silverbullet » Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:48 pm

Loyale 2.7 Turbo wrote:
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When I saw this I thought "No, it couldn't possibly be..."

Then read Jonno's post about EA71 and fabrication and realized what was going on :rolleyes: Very very interesting that someone would go to all this trouble, I wonder how it turned out. Seeing how they drilled big holes in each head and welded those manifolds on, makes a DIY quad carb EA81 seem a lot more do-able...no no no what am I thinking, shouldn't be getting ideas :mrgreen:
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Post by TOONGA » Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:57 pm

If one was crazy enough, they could weld the supports for an EJ manifold onto an EA81 then run it with a turbo and injection.

at least until it went pop :) but Im sure it would be fun up until that point :)

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Post by Loyale 2.7 Turbo » Mon Jun 25, 2012 11:47 pm

Yes, it is an EA71, but I was thinking about the Single Port that the Standard and the Fat-Case EA71's Heads does have, and this thing looks like it has Two.


Well, in another note; There is one Second Gen Subaru Leone RX coupe with one of those EA81S Engines (with Four port Heads and Twin Downdraft Weber Carbs, each one directly bolted to the Head) from the Safari Rally, is Now For Sale in New Zealand!!!

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http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-ca ... 634699.htm

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Post by steptoe » Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:45 am

not just the heads, it is a whole car for a bit more than 10,000 NZ $ !

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Post by nncoolg » Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:21 pm

Not a bad piece of gear, of course for 10k you could buy a few sets of Sub4 heads...
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Post by steptoe » Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:31 pm

bet Tweety goes harder ....

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Post by Loyale 2.7 Turbo » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:49 pm

Well... that EA81S engined Subaru RX Coupe is still for Sale, I Wish I could buy it, but it is So far from me...

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