EJ gearbox with DR and locking center diff ?

discopotato03 · Post by **discopotato03** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:00 pm

This thread was pointed out to me over at USMB .
Since the native DR locking EJ18 boxes are kicking around in NZ I thought a few of you would be interested .

Don't know how strong they'd be or if they'd hack turbo torque in an EJ weight car , only one way to find out .

Cheers A .

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/sho ... p?t=103125

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:08 pm

I dont think there is centre diff locker in EJ gearbox?
Cheers
AP

Edit - After reading thru the posts, I think its an EA box with diff locker in it... I havent seen an EJ box with diff locker because if there was one I would have it by now!

discopotato03 · Post by **discopotato03** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:48 am

The go would be to get pics of the linkage side of the complete gearbox , that way you could see if it was a "long" EJ type box with the diff locks fork linkage . The EA type AWD rear extension is different/shorter because the center diff is behind the transfer gears not in front of like in an EJ's gearbox .
BTW by "transfer gears" mean the pair that take the drive back up to the rear output shaft not the hi/low transfer gears .

The right pics should give the game away .

Some people in Victoria (Gareth) found a way to do a locking center diff conversion to an EJ AWD type box but it still had teething problems last time I asked him about it .

Assuming the Kiwi box is a real one you should be able to build a reasonably strong box around it , it may be as simple as changing the extension over with its different guts .

Interesting times , cheers A .

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:56 pm

discopotato03 wrote:The go would be to get pics of the linkage side of the complete gearbox , that way you could see if it was a "long" EJ type box with the diff locks fork linkage . The EA type AWD rear extension is different/shorter because the center diff is behind the transfer gears not in front of like in an EJ's gearbox .
BTW by "transfer gears" mean the pair that take the drive back up to the rear output shaft not the hi/low transfer gears .

The right pics should give the game away .

Some people in Victoria (Gareth) found a way to do a locking center diff conversion to an EJ AWD type box but it still had teething problems last time I asked him about it .

Assuming the Kiwi box is a real one you should be able to build a reasonably strong box around it , it may be as simple as changing the extension over with its different guts .

Interesting times , cheers A .

If there is locking centre diff in EJ box, then i would be interested.
I'll ask kiwishooter again if he could provide photos.
Cheers
AP

discopotato03 · Post by **discopotato03** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:31 pm

Well Kiwishooter went on to say they are an EJ gearbox and knows of them still bolted into Legy's .

Save your money up , cheers A .

Actually you may want to ask him if there is a factory WSM available with all the ratio etc specs , maybe the VIN number of one could help out .
One of his pics shows the ID sticker on a gearbox so could search that as well .