From the Creator of the FrankenBRAT “Return of the King(RX) 4/19.
From the Creator of the FrankenBRAT “Return of the King(RX) 4/19.
From the depths of my little garage, I am about to unlease another creation into SoCal.
Backstory
In the late 80's Subaru took a typical 80's 2 door econohatch, they crammed in a puny turbo motor and then hooked it up with a 5 speed fulltime 4wd with a center diff lock and a high low transmission. In the back they installed a mechanical LSD. Then the wrapped it with a nice body kit. They dubbed it the RX sold it from 1987 to about 1989.
Now having obtained that same body I will be bringing this creation back to life with a life with a new heart. (insert sinister pipe organ music and thunder)
I have in the works a ej22T that will be plopped into this chassis. Heads were gasket ported, high flow exhaust and a WRX TMIC to improve performance. I hope to increase the HP over to stock 167 HP that the EJ22T was rated at from the factory to about 200 or so.
200 HP in a 2700 lb car....:banana:
so barring any setbacks..... This should be all set to fire up on April 19th.
Come one down for a BBQ and stuff. I might be able to arrange for garage space for other people to do stuff as well...
Will post directions when the day is coming up.
BW
Backstory
In the late 80's Subaru took a typical 80's 2 door econohatch, they crammed in a puny turbo motor and then hooked it up with a 5 speed fulltime 4wd with a center diff lock and a high low transmission. In the back they installed a mechanical LSD. Then the wrapped it with a nice body kit. They dubbed it the RX sold it from 1987 to about 1989.
Now having obtained that same body I will be bringing this creation back to life with a life with a new heart. (insert sinister pipe organ music and thunder)
I have in the works a ej22T that will be plopped into this chassis. Heads were gasket ported, high flow exhaust and a WRX TMIC to improve performance. I hope to increase the HP over to stock 167 HP that the EJ22T was rated at from the factory to about 200 or so.
200 HP in a 2700 lb car....:banana:
so barring any setbacks..... This should be all set to fire up on April 19th.
Come one down for a BBQ and stuff. I might be able to arrange for garage space for other people to do stuff as well...
Will post directions when the day is coming up.
BW
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