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I am feeling an overwhelming sense of bliss and achievement with strands of thanks twisted and soldered all through.

The Wonder Brumby II is alive!

I have unleashed 210kw of AWD dual range power upon the unsuspecting tarmac of the East Coast of Tassie.

Groover lost traction in the tray and slipped uncontrollably towards the tailgate @ exactly 3500 rpm, precisely when I said ohshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitwhooooah.
Boost came on, obviously.

Lots.

I got near ¾ throttle!

Summary for the newbs….
Wonder Brumby, 89model, 50mm lift, large black bars, very wide tyres, (stupidly infact) and now ……. A 1996 AHEM. wrx donk with all the fruit.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand a nasty Japanese ecu (notice the capital letter for the very first time)
which basically spits fire at the TD05.

The list of people I am in debt to, is as such…
BYB…great instructions, good advice, thanks (top of the list you will see, I know which side my bread is buttered)
MY-STI…..Will, Thank you… again, GURU.
BlueSteel……Again, great advice just a phone call away, thanks Champ.
LegacyTT….Masterful work, idling @450rpm thanks to superb assembly.
Duncan..non member, long nights chasing a bugger of a problem, a wiring gremlin of course.
Sir Will tracked it down in 15 minutes…..he’s good I tell ya!
Cannot discount the long, cold and damp nights we spent working under torchlight tying to track it down.
Thanks guys.

OHMYGODwhenitcomesonboost,

So happy it is hard to describe, I am now off the nasty korean hook.

You see, If my WBII was not operational by the birth of our child..(due grand final weekend for poor sad AFL fans)..
I had to give up completely, the Subarus and drive the spare car.
Permanently.

A 1997 daewoo lanos.

Hatch.

Can you spell incentive?

I have just returned from the official lap of Cranbrook (2 miles or so, 5 houses) and The beautiful ONE is satisfied…thankfully.

No woo for me.

sounds sweeeeet build me one

Would dual range cope with turbo?
Cheers
AP

So cool it all came together for you.
Great write up as well.

that wuld be a bit to harsh to have to drive a daweoo and give up on the subis
wt a sad day that wuld of been for evry1

but wiekd it all works, now u can be flinging the baby into the back window when the boost comes on

Nice Work. Matt congrats on a job well done, so where are the pics of the beast, i finally have mine running, kind of anyway...

yeh good stuff dude, great to hear your happy with the results! pics pics pics!

alex

majic mate just majic...cant wait for the pics...

awesome. great motivation there, if only some others were as keen as you ...eh hem 4muff...Alex....cough.

lets see some more pics!

nice work

I went through some dark times trying to get the supercharged one running, seeing that project Brumby WRX one come up for sale made me realise I was very near where that bloke was.

Winter in Tassie is no time for working outside on cars.
Days are too short and its damp and cold after hours.

I need a better shed.

I have just put a tank of Ultimate in her, (98 octane @ $1.54 a litre) Its just getting smoother and quieter.
The ECU is pretty aggressive, boost comes on hard, very hard.
My good Lady and I are 7 1/2 months pregnant, care with the throttle is needed.

I have a heap of cosmetic stuff to do (flares, grill, tidy up of loom etc),
then some runs down the airstrip are in order!
Then pictures, and video.

Thanks for all the kind words,

Matt

Oh Groover is SO happy the Ute is back.

more cosmetic stuff like a capsule bolt somewhere ? Next to the Groover bolt p'raps ?

nice wort matt

glad to hear ses finally come together

see you next time youre down

Excellent stuff Matt, glad to hear it is all working. Looking forward to a demonstration of the brutish power soon.

Great incentive... i think we have a happy board member here.

I take it dark cold tassie nights are no problems for you Brumberty when your on a mission!

Well done, can't wait for pics.

Congratulations (first round of).

Congrats, Your efforts should be commend… Oh and now you have a new toy (and I also can not wait for the action shots).

Very nice... and yep, that sure is some wide rubber you've got on there.

I like the instrument cluster too, never seen one of those types before.

Cheers

Gracias Benny, the dash came from a MY coupe,
extras are boost below to the right and air/fuel to the left.

That looks awesome Matt and would pull rather nicely to boot!!!!

The sedan/coupe gauges look good. Must admit not seen one before I bought my parts bomb last week. They got a few extra lights in them to iluminate bits the wagons and Brumbys never got. Next some wrx seats?

In the coupla years I have been in here Matt has gone from twin port EA81 screamer to EJ22, to EJ22 with blower - now rex motor surely it won't be long before he wants to improve on 210 kW !!