Japanese domestic market.
A made-for the Japanese market engine.
They always are pretty low miles too, about 40K> 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Miller [mailto:mwmiller@cwnet.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:42 AM
To: Scott Daniel - Shazam
Subject: Re: -Now Engine Conversion - doing your own soobie wire harness

What's a JDM engine?

On 3/10/08 9:58 PM, "Scott Daniel - Shazam" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
wrote:

> One major advantage to doing your own subaru wiring harness is that you
will
> be infinitely more equipped to deal with any engine management issues that
> might ever crop up, should that ever happen,
> 
> than if you have someone else do it.
> 
> PLUS, depending on who you have do it, if you do it yourself and are
careful
> and meticulous, at least then you know it was done correctly.
> 
> And they are not that hard to do really either.
> 
>  
> 
> Re the 300K on the Subaru car engine -  a vanagon puts a fair amount  more
> load and stress on any car-type engine. Just how it is.
> 
>  And shortened oil pan too, might be a factor in  how they can do 300K
just
> fine in a Subaru car often, they are less likely to do 300K in a vanagon,
> unless you drive it really nicely and take really good care of it - oil
> changes. Mostly once dialed in, you don't work in them much at all.
> 
>   And you can always get a low miles inexpensive JDM engine and put that
> long block in, using your US model fuel system parts.
> 
> Scott
> 
> www.turbovans.com <http://www.turbovans.com/>
> 
>  
> 
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> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
J
> Stewart
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:01 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: body work vs. mechanical work-Now Engine Conversion
> 
>  
> 
> <And besides, a low mileage used Subaru
> 
> engine is pretty darn expensive these days. I know if I were going to go
the
> 
> Subaru route there is no way I'd put some engine in there that already had
> 
> 150K miles on it.>
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Bryan,
> 
>      You are mostly correct here, I am in the exact same situation that
has
> been described here today. I "started" my Subie coversion back in June of
> last year. Got the engine pulled from the donor ('91 Legacy w/144K that I
> drove home 100 miles-I have no qualms putting this engine in my Vanagon as
> it ran beautifully, good power, no smoke, etc.) and got off to a good
start.
> Problems with parts from a vendor stalled the project for a few weeks,
then
> I missed my time line. I wanted the engine in by Thanksgiving and then
have
> the winter to sort things out. Never happened. Since my wasserboxer is
doing
> fine I now plan to wait now until this fall to start-unless the
wasserboxer
> has some catastrophic failure before then. The cost so far? Ballpark
around
> $3,000.00, and I haven't had the wiring harness modified yet (thought
about
> doing it myself, but the ONE thing I've heard everyone say who has done it
> is it's worth the money to pay to have it done). One last thing about the
> Subie engine-
> 
> a neighbor of mine has a Legacy, same year/engine as my donor (2.2) with
> over 300K miles and still going strong. One last comment-if I were to
start
> all over again I'd give the Bostig a closer look.     Jeff
> 
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> 
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