The latest Subaru offering for the Beck Speedster

We finished this build a little over a month ago and I am just getting around to posting about it. We have been using the Subaru engines for some time now, but this is the first one of our Subaru builds with a factory Subaru ECU and factory OBD-II port.

This build features a DBW throttle, OBD-II port (all the stock Subaru diagnostics are unaffected and can be scanned by the Subaru dealer or a good independent shop), check engine light, pre and post Cat o2 sensors, and all of the factory Subaru emissions and engine controls are left in place. The only change to the motor itself is a cold air intake in place of the airbox. The performance of the car was spectacular and the additional convenience of a factory mapped engine for AC use, cold start, climate changes, etc... just can't be matched...

Congrats Carey---that is just sensational.

Very nice!

Very nice detail, Carey!

Impressive !

excellent! The engine looks great in there.

Never saw a Suby 2.5 without it's plastic covers before and yours gives the subaru idea a whole new aspect.
I'd thought I wouldn't want to install a modern plastic covered engine in my car.

Give us radiator install photos and descriptions!

Carey, have you built any with a Subie transmission?

Nice work, Bro.

Here is a shot of our fully dressed up version, still no plastic covers. :)

Radiator is custom made by Griffin, to my specifications, and is hung at an angle in the nose with dual fans.

@Ron, I have not finished one with the Suby box yet, although I have one here that I was building for myself. As with most of the projects that are for ME, they hit the back burner when the shop is busy...

Nice to have the shop busy, though, isn't it? Particularly in this economy.

I can't complain. Overseas business picked up the US slack and now it seems to be balancing back out. We've kept a pretty healthy backlog and are just about fully booked for winter already.

Every time I see Chines1 I think Chinese One.

The red engine looks beautiful.

I like the fact that the radiator installation doesn't alter the appearance of the front of the car. But, in the photo it looks a little bit vulnerable.

Yeah, it DOES look vulnerable without some sort of pretty beefy protection. The first rock boincing down the road from a semi tire could hole it without something to keep it safe there.

Excellent work!!! What transmission do you use?

Dang....something looks awfully familiar... ;-)

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WHOA! You're switching over to water-cooled?

Ya Mon ! Gonna have a bitchin' heater too.

Well get busy! It's only 6 1/2 months to Carlisle ;-)

Really, David? That was a quick turnaround decision. I thought you were still rebuilding the Type I. BTW, nice photos of last years expedition.

Giday, Lane and Rich. No sweat on the timing, Lane..it'll be on the road before Christmas. The change to Soob seems logical to me, Rich. I'm more familiar with them than the aircooled variety anyway having put one in an airplane about 15 years ago. The extra 50 hp will be nice too. Not being familiar with computerized FI and not willing to go through a painful learning curve, I've opted to go with a carb on this one. I have a second engine on the floor which may get different treatment down the road. The ignition is Ford EDIS based with solid state Megajolt Lite Jr. advance components. I should point out that on Jack Crosby's recommend I got in contact with Jake Raby who is persuing a Soob program right now. He put together a very thorough proposal to build up and install an EJ25 into my car. The timing wouldn't work for me and really, it would be putting a world class engine in my daily driver and triple my investment in the car. Where would it lead to ? Chassis and suspension work, upgrade on the brakes and I could still only run 5" wide tires. I'll start a "how I did it thread" on another channel when I'm a little further along if anyone is interested.

Good for you, David. You seem to know what your doing and want to try out that new heating system just before Christmas. Suppose a brand new windshield scraper is on your Christmas list!

David, sounds like a great way to go. I'd personally stick with the factory EFI and computer, but to each his own. I have Megajolt in my Spyder and absolutely love it! Any problems give me a holler. I will never use a distributor again!