Impreza hard off road

Imprezzive!
 
It was nice to hear the actual Subaru engine noises halfway through the video.

By “old” Impreza, does this imply it’s no longer around?

Cheers

Bennie
 
Cool. How they get that lada niva? You can buy those there? Or import?
 
scalman said:
Cool. How they get that lada niva? You can buy those there? Or import?
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France has imported a lot of Lada Niva because they had a good relationship with the USSR and very little import tax on them. In France, Japanese cars at that time were severly taxed though. Switzerland also imported a few Lada Niva but because of their reliability, most people here traded them for Subarus as all makes here have the same import tax.
 
jf1sf5 said:
"had" because they all failed or rusted out ?!
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You can still see them on the road but it’s pretty rare. I know of one laid up in my old home town.

Cheers

Bennie
 
We had so many them back in years whe we where part of USSR and now its like almost none here on roads.
Some local forester club guys even had them in past doing hardcore off road and later they went to foresters and never looked back at them. I wouold be curious still to try work on one. But the ones are sold not cheap here or in too bad shape.
As for old imprezas lifted i allways liked how they look better then foresters for my taste. Just put forester suspension on it couple other mods and its good to go, just not much space inside . But here theres a lot of them with dual range gearboxes for sale and smaller engines like 1.6.
 
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The 1.6 engine in the GC Impreza is mated to a 1,59:1 EJ gearbox stock. If I knew that when I did my L-series 1,59:1 swap....
 
jf1sf5 said:
The 1.6 engine in the GC Impreza is mated to a 1,59:1 EJ gearbox stock. If I knew that when I did my L-series 1,59:1 swap....
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That would depend on what input shaft bearing housing that Impreza setup has. I found an early Gen1 AWD box that has the same L series three bolt housing, it was a direct swap.

If your gearbox in your foz has a four bolt bearing housing, you would still need to do the same amount of work to make it fit.

But if that gearbox is easier to come by compared to the L series gearbox, I can see your frustration.

So that Impreza is a 2wd part time 4wd factory EJ box? I’d be keen to grab its VIN to look at how it’s parts are different to the AWD setup.

Cheers

Bennie
 
El_Freddo said:
So that Impreza is a 2wd part time 4wd factory EJ box? I’d be keen to grab its VIN to look at how it’s parts are different to the AWD setup.

Cheers

Bennie
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No, Subforest72's Impreza is a 1.8 4eat model, not a 1.6 1,59:1 dual range mt.
 
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