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Subject:Re: Timing belt - Subie engines
From:Florian Speier
Date:Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:49:41 -0700

Ben and others,

I have to chime in here. My subie conversion was around $1800 after i sold
my waterboxer, or about $2500 not factoring that in. That figure is for a
soobie 2.2 that had 128kmiles on it, kep kit with complete new exhaust, tom
shiels manifold and t housing, new clutch, exchanged coolant and heater
lines all the way to the front........ yes i did the harness myself.
In terms of experience, I had done an oil change and changed my shocks
before. That was it. Did it take me a while? Sure, maybe 100 hours plus
another 20 looking for parts on the internet. Would I be considerably faster
next time? Probably. was it fun? you bet. did i make mistakes? yes,
including not tightening the wheels properly when i was done. yes, i had to
take the harness out again because i did some ground wires not carefully
enough. but all in all, not too bad.
flo