joel1847

Okay, looking at the posts, and what's readily available in my area, the EJ22 seems to be the most logical choice. To make up for the slight decrease in power, I think I'll run twin engines. That will get my total power up, total torque available up and I won't have to run the engines as hard. I could run the engines at half throttle and still have plenty of power in reserve if need be. Doing twin longtails isn't that much more complicated than one. Just add one linkage bar between the two. Make a rear deck to cover the engines and it keeps everyone safe and you still keep deck space. I think I can make that work easy enough and if you lose one engine, you can still limp home. Thanks for the help. Joel norcal

I missed on one ER27, but I'm going to call on a couple more tomorrow. Rockauto has most of the parts for the XT, so that's a good thing. If that doesn't work out, I'll start digging on what I can do with an EJ22 or EJ25. Thanks for the info. Might be a year before I get it all together and working, but I'll take pics and vids along the way and once it's running. I'm used to working on engines that weigh 500 to 1200 pounds so working on something that I can move around without a chainfall or lift will be a new experience for me. :-) Joel norcal

I'm new to Subarus but not new to wrenching on engines and my newest project is building a boat. I was going to use a VW engine and found out that they have all but evaporated. I then thought about a Mercedes diesel for the torque curve and availability, but the weight and size put the skids on that. So I got to looking at Subarus and they seem to meet all requirements except one. Which engine? The boat is 18.5 feet long, roughly 8 feet wide at the top rails, and can displace up to 4000 pounds. The hull will weigh right around 1000 pounds by the time I'm done and according to the designer, the hull can support 450 pounds for an inboard. I'm hoping for 160hp and max torque being as low RPM wise as I can get. Being a boat engine, I can strip the smog stuff off and reroute the intake and exhaust to gain some HP. I would like to keep the engine as simple as possible being a boat motor and all. I'm thinking 160hp to start with and then if I need more power I can add some goodies to it and hopefully won't sacrifice longevity too much so that needs to be considered. I like the EA82 for simplicity but I'm not sure if I can get enough power out of it. The EJ20 and EJ22 look to be about right, but looking at the EJ wiki page, there's a lot of variations and the power ratings seem to be all over the place. Just looking for some pointers so I can start some educated research. Here's a link to the boat and the basic Idea of what I want to do with the outboard setup. http://www.blizzarddesigns.com/mudboat/mudboat.html http://www.spirainternational.com/hp_galv.php Thanks Joel norcal