I am in the middle of changing over to Subaru power in mine. Just the little 2.5L DOHC model. The price of the 3Litre 6 cylinder JDM's has come down. It is Medeola favorite.
Joseph
Manx Club #1095
Having fun with Buggies since 1970
Worked in VWs in shops since 1970
Thanks all, the color is Sun fusion yellow from a Toyota FJ. I'm planning on using a Subaru 2.5 also, is Outfront the best place for Subaru's ? I didn't get a top yet because I thought I might want to build a roof rack, but since I also want to use side curtains I think I'll need to order a top at some point. A friend of mine is a transmission builder and he's trying to convince me to use the stronger type 2 waterboxer transmission with the side shifter, has anyone installed a transmission with a side shift ?
Greg & Jeanne Lewin
Member 2805
Tow'd 1679
Dual Sport DS-025
I found OutFront to be the best place for parts and the most important of all they will share their knowledge with you.
Mac is the one to talk to at OutFront. He has incredible amount of insight on what it take for the conversion.
Everyone there is very friendly.
Jon has a 5speed in his Manxter and made his own linkage. Weddle and others have linkage for the side shifters. Plus the WasserBoxer trans has a real reverse gear.
Get the top your wife will appriciate. Plus it keeps most of the water out of the buggy during high speed water crossings.
Did you get the rear wing for mounting the radiator.
The 3Liter 6 cylinder Subaru engine is only about 1 1/5in longer than a 2.5L engine and does not weigh that much more.
Kevin at Medola says they have more low end torque than the 2.5L.
Ron the guy from Mammoth has the 3L 6 cylinder in his green Manxter Dual Sport. He used it to run the Mexican 1000 rally last year.
Joseph
Manx Club #1095
Having fun with Buggies since 1970
Worked in VWs in shops since 1970
jlowery wrote:Congratulations!
I was beginning to think the Dual Sports only came in green or orange.
Joe
I heard that a Sea Spray Metalic was made, but no one has ever seen it.
Greg - I have the Vanagon five speed in mine with the side shift. I made my own linkage that I finally got all work out and it shift nice. I have plenty of pics if you decide to go that route. Like Joe said, Weddle and others now make a nice cable shifter too.
We'll its been a while so I thought I should post some pictures of our albeit slow progress of the Manxter. Over the summer we took the body and cage up to Dave Barrett at Manxchassis and Dave did what Dave does best. Since the pan I bought was pretty badly rusted we ended up building a complete sub-chassis.
Greg & Jeanne Lewin
Member 2805
Tow'd 1679
Dual Sport DS-025