$300 subaru engine for speedster?

Good price - BUT 280k miles is really pushing it I'd think.  I had Subaru with 160k and it was still going strong although did have head gaskets and timing belt go. 

Gone anyway.

I'm with Greg on this. Rebuilding a Suby is a bit of money and bother. The sweet spot is to get an engine with less than 120k on it--preferably less than 90k--so you're not having to do rings and bearings and what-all else.

Here's '94 EJ22 with KEP adapter and flywheel for VW on SAMBA for $1200. Says 170 hp but stock they were more like 140.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/cla...etail.php?id=1762095

I had a 90 EJ-22 and I thought it was 130hp. But without a CAT and a shorter exhaust, more is probable. The EJ-25 had 150-155 at first, then they altered a couple things and from '96 up had 165hp.

I was going to install the Suby into my 91 Vanagon but sold it. That engine is in my friend Jack's Vanagon now and is doing quite well. Tom Shiels from up Stroud's way did the wiring harness for him.

A NA Soob from that era would be about 140 but doesn't this one say turbo ?

I missed TURBO in the title! 

By the picture, the turbo isn't there any more....

Weird trivia about the 2.2l Soob engine. An early '80's Ford Escort distributor will bolt right onto the rear end of the right camshaft area of the head.

Ed rightly pointed out earlier that it would be inconvenient to frig with the points but with electronic ignition it's quite doable.

Turbo 2.2 is 170 hp out the box. Those blocks have oil squirters under the jugs and some other HD stuff that make them buildable. Trouble is, a lot have been pretty beat up by now, so you're usually in for a build. Get out the wallet.

The kids say you get 180 hp from an NA Soob by bolting the older 2.2, single cam heads onto the later 2.5 block. Bumps the compression ratio a bit, breathes about as well as the four-cam and as a bonus saves hassle (they say) with head gasket leaks. 

This rig is called the FrankenMotor. 

Frankenmotor! Me likey. Ed, if you had that much power you'd wheelie from light to light!

Ed in his dream car, between the lights, as it were: