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sort of thinking the MY EA81 series of vehicle owners got the short shift with engine variants. If you exclude the EA81T sold in the US - all most of us got just EA81 and never an opportunity to upgrade in the late eighties and early 90 Brumbies to an EA82 spfi, mpfi or turbo let alone any EJ powerplant when ordering new.

Got me thinking about the Ugly series where the later models got [was it an option or did every last one get EA81? ] then the MY must have come out with EA71 1600cc and then upgraded to EA81 - or was EA81 1800 an option for every early MY of 1981 to 1982'3 ?

The L Series could also have been offered with EJs huh ?

Of course you'd want the five stud and bigger brakes etc .... starting to understand why now

I think we were lucky that Brumby's continued after 1986 when the US market stopped importing them. As it was a built-for-export-only model, the volume globally must have been pretty low overall - Australia and the UK were probably the biggest markets, and I don't know if they were made post-86 in LHD (maybe parts of Europe). The volume of different cars Subaru must have been making in 1992 would have been unfeasible - three generations of cars (MY, L and EJ), and then there is all their Kei cars and Samban's, etc.

I believe the EA81 was offered from day 1 (1979), with the EA71 a base-model-only engine (I have only seen one base model 1980 sedan with an EA71, and it was el-strippo - not even intermittent wipers).

(I think a few of us would say not offering the EA82 in the Brumby was a blessing rather than a missed opportunity - especially the EA82T. A SPFI version of the EA81 would have been nice though).

a few ...not me

Maybe not yet

The only other motor I would put in a brumby is an EJ of any sort

TOONGA

Slap a turbo on your ea and shes all good .

Subydoug wrote:Slap a turbo on your ea and she's all good .

Funny you say that Doug ...this baby has a turbo crossmember, the heads are turbo heads with the longer EA82T exhaust valves with oil feed and drain stuff ...got a few other bits n pieces and baby is off the road as of midnight