Subaru SVX Engine Conversions - Bay Kombi

Brad · 2005-07-12T22:12:57+00:00

Due to the ever increasing demand for more power and people constantly wanting to put a turbo motor in their kombi we are soon to offer the SVX 6 Cylinder engine as a conversion option for the bay window kombi. AT this stage it is going to cost $10 500 drive in / drive out. Exact engine specs will follow and we maybe able to do it much cheaper when I buy a few. For that matter the D.I.Y Kit we now offer suits the SVX engine just as well as the EJ22. Anyway just thought I would see what the opinion was ? Yes this is a result of me towing silly weights with my EJ 22 and wanting more power..

fozee Seriously Crusin Dubber

146 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 16 Jul 2005, 4:29 pm

#385550

Check the years printed on the Spark plug leads for build date/year of manufacture. It also helps assosiate which car it came from.

Mid mount sump is a from a Toyota Crown. Have heard these make between 178 and 191kw in stock form at the flywheel.
Front or rear mount is either a Toyota Celsior or Lexus Soarer. These engines came something over 190kw standard.
There is also a VVT-i version manufactured in the mid to late 90's. I think youd have a little trouble finding the right Aftermarket ECU if you went with this option. But once again she has even more power that the two above.

Over 200Kws of rear mounted 4ltr V8 Quad cam action.....
In a Bay

fozee Seriously Crusin Dubber

146 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 16 Jul 2005, 7:55 pm

#385697

Dimensions

http://www.lextreme.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1382&stc=1nn[ Edited on 16-7-2005 by fozee ]

Over 200Kws of rear mounted 4ltr V8 Quad cam action.....
In a Bay

StenGuns Veteran Volks Folk

2,147 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 17 Jul 2005, 1:34 pm

#385982

Great Idea.. This is (could be) an AVD collaboration to make this project a reality.. I will detail the project and stage we are up to in the next day or so..
Rob

seagull wrote:MMM thinking we may have over run Brads post here guys , we need to start a new thread , how about Stenguns open one and we can go to that ? seagull

seagull Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,979 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 17 Jul 2005, 8:32 pm

#386288

I missed a motor to day ( v8 ) for $500.00 , bummer !

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kombi_kid Moderator Good Kid too many projects

124 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 20 Jul 2005, 11:20 am

#387569

sounds awesome guys cant wait till i can afford to do something like this!! i dream about it everyday and buy a lottery ticket every week 😀😀 mine will also be done in my dual cab when it happens!!
cheers
rhys

it aint just cool its aircool'd

Doug Sweetman Nil Bastardo Carborundum

2,128 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 20 Jul 2005, 12:05 pm

#387577

Ahh yess, I forgot that Mr Pilmer's "unique' buggy had a lexus in it..... SO is that the one that you have been talking about when you say 'the race car' ?

I can remember watching Max drive at the Beverley Short course and having gearbox issues..... he is absolutely crazy that bloke 🙂

2443TT Fahrvergnugen

962 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 28 Jul 2005, 9:26 pm

#391103

My mates commodore (that reub posted a pic of) made 450 rwhp at 6lb boost. It would break the rear wheels loose in 4th gear with 3.4 diff gears at 200km/h. They did this while street tuning it. He has no license at present because of this car! In 5th gear at redline (7000 RPM) the rear wheels were doing about 280 km/h. He didn't do that speed while driving on the road anywhere though 🙂 it was done stationary on a burnout pad. New tyres to the belts in 58 seconds.

The engine has since been removed from the VK brock commodore and fitted to a VN. We did the entire conversion in a week. The car is being re-sprayed at the moment and will be registered in about 1-3 months. I'll post some pictures if anyone is interested.

The conversion is using the lexus transmission, which apparently is good for 800hp easy. It uses a standalone electronic shift system so you just put it in drive and press a switch up and down to switch up and down gears, like a formula 1. The gear is displayed on a 7 segment LCD display.

The VK has since been tubbed and is being fitted with a 4 link rear end, shortened 9" and a "built" lexus engine. His uncle is doing engine development on the 1uzfe in a speed shop somewhere in brisbane.

Thus far the new race engine is fitted with a stock crank, H beam rods, forged custom wiseco's, mildly ported, custom grind cams, and twin XTR 1200HP turbo's. Running methanol and 45lb boost it made 2250 crank HP on the engine dyno. The commodore will be running this engine by the end of the year and should be able to do 8's and maybe high 7's.

I installed a Wolf 3D ecu on both commodiores and I can say for sure that the 1uzfe is the most advanced engine i've ever worked on. The amount of additional sensors these engines have in them is amazing. There are two conversions in Cairns at the moment. The other is using an autronic, and it made 240rwhp.