This is really going to fuck up my Craigslist and marketplace searches for K5

Very cool. You are a car guy of the highest order and its great to see that you actually build and race your cars. So many other concepts like these are vaporware, its refreshing to see real execution.

Everything I need to know about sportster’s engineering I learned when I saw that a cam kit includes 4 cams. Each with one lobe. Seriously, an individual cam for every valve. And each one driven by straight cut gears. No wonder people like the exhaust so loud on these, otherwise it would sound like an industrial paper…

Mitsubishi reliability and Dodge name cachet? How can I lose?

While this is a well optioned and nicely kept car, for this money you can grab a nice condition, decade newer, and arguably superior, e39. Of course, on the e39 you can’t get the limited slip.

I’ve found it actually pairs well with a stick shift. The rentals I’ve had in Germany will stay running if you leave it in gear with the clutch depressed, but if you put it in neutral and let the clutch out, it will turn off. Then when you hit the clutch to put it back in gear the engine restarts. I didn’t mind it at…

Finally a return of the granny gear!

Steering box and trans mount on the 72 cj5.

NP if it has the locking diffs
CP if it doesnt

While I’m partial to the jeep FC,  all of these are glorious though.

I didn’t realize that this was the oddball M56 motor. It seems like parts are available, but not exactly cheap or easy to come by.   Most of the parts interchange, but fuel, emissions and cooling components are unique.   There is also some evidence of people converting the fuel tank to the M54 equivalent.

I was wondering about that funky valve cover.   Very interesting. 

NP definitely.

I’m very sad to hear that. I always wanted to do this, and in another 2 years I would have been in the position to pull it off. I’ve even been to the Munich center where they have the deliveries.

At least I can console myself with an automatic only, 4 cylinder, front wheel drive based crossover with a completely…

wait until you find out about the Impreza 2.5RS sold in the US...

I’ll admit that I’m not as well versed in history of the legacy/outback, but I was sure that this generation was not available with a turbo in the US.  

No turbo. Just a fake hood scoop. Turbo wasn’t available on the Legacy/OB in the US until the next generation.

Not a truck per se, but the jeep cj5 was available with a F-head 4, an odd-fire V6, and inline 6 with 2 different displacements, a Iron duke OHV 4, a perkins 4 cylinder diesel, and an AMC V8.
If you expand that into the CJ/wrangler lineage as a whole you also add: a flathead 4, a 3.0L inline 6 diesel in NA and turbo, a …

Came here to make the derivative joke, was beaten by you. Have a star, since I too know the struggle of engineering courses.

More likely scenario: too little too expensive.