US Brat motor in Aus brumby

Brumbyowner · Post by **Brumbyowner** » Tue May 28, 2013 11:56 pm

I was just looking thru the ebay website and noticed that the US Brats had engines from 1800 - 2000 - 2200 - 2500. Does anyone know if these are interchangeable with our Brumbys. I would expect that they would be close to a simple drop in......... maybe that is just wishful thinking!!!:D

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Wed May 29, 2013 8:41 am

Im pretty sure they only ever had EA81's. Some parts parts like oil pressure switches and water temp senders are common to all those engines you listed.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Wed May 29, 2013 11:09 am

You have found your first error of a parts book - CONGRATULATIONS

may this be the first of many !The engine they got and we didn't was an efi turbo EA81

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Wed May 29, 2013 7:09 pm

Brumbyowner wrote:I was just looking thru the ebay website and noticed that the US Brats had engines from 1800 - 2000 - 2200 - 2500. Does anyone know if these are interchangeable with our Brumbys.

I'm keen to know how you got onto this as there are reproduction badges to replace the original 1800 badges with what ever (EJ) litreage you have - sleeper style

Cheers

Bennie

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Wed May 29, 2013 7:16 pm

Brumbyowner wrote:I was just looking thru the ebay website and noticed that the US Brats had engines from 1800 - 2000 - 2200 - 2500. Does anyone know if these are interchangeable with our Brumbys.

I'm keen to know how you got onto this as there are reproduction badges to replace the original 1800 badges with what ever (EJ) litreage you have - sleeper style

Cheers

Bennie

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Thu May 30, 2013 8:04 am

same post, seven minutes apart - in a bad reception spot "Bennie" ?

sublime · Post by **sublime** » Thu May 30, 2013 4:34 pm

To the OP the stickers you see on eBay US are for people who have transplanted different EJ or ER series engines. Hence the larger capacities. There were never any Brats sold with larger than 1800cc engines originally.

Silverbullet · Post by **Silverbullet** » Thu May 30, 2013 6:10 pm

I think this topic should be added into/made into a sticky, the question comes up often enough, maybe a FAQ for Brumby/MY owners

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu May 30, 2013 7:24 pm

steptoe wrote:same post, seven minutes apart - in a bad reception spot "Bennie" ?

Yeah had some issues with my internet last night - it was frustratingly slow!

Sorry about the double post, I'll delete one of them

Cheers

Bennie