Turning a Barn Find Subaru Brumby into the Ultimate Daily Ute
Summary
TLDR在这段视频中,我们跟随主持人深入澳大利亚蓝山边缘的Bilpin乡村,探索了一辆被遗忘多年的Subaru Brumby汽车的修复过程。Bilpin以苹果种植和果园闻名,而这辆老式Brumby在这里的一个谷仓中尘封了数十载。车主Bill带我们参观了他的果园,并介绍了两辆Brumby,一辆状况较好,另一辆则用作零件车。在决定修复较好的那辆后,团队开始了艰巨的修复工作,包括更换发动机、变速箱、内饰以及进行全面的车身修复和喷漆。修复过程中,他们还特别定制了零件,如五轮转换套件和提升套件,以提升车辆性能并保持其经典外观。最终,这辆经典的Brumby焕然一新,不仅在农场上表现出色,还在越野道路上展现了其卓越的性能。这段视频记录了整个修复旅程,展示了对经典车型的热爱和对细节的执着追求。
Takeaways
- 🚗 视频中展示了对一辆停放在悉尼蓝山边缘的Bilpin地区果园中的老旧Subaru Brumby进行修复的过程。
- 🍎 Bilpin地区以苹果种植闻名,视频中的果园也种植了12种不同的苹果。
- 🌧️ 尽管当天有些小雨,但修复团队认为这是寻找和修复汽车的完美天气。
- 🏡 果园主Bill拥有两辆Brumby,一辆状况较好,另一辆用作备件车。
- 🔧 修复团队计划将状况较好的Brumby进行彻底修复,而将另一辆用作零件来源。
- 🌟 Brumby在澳大利亚非常受欢迎,因为它的多功能性和四轮驱动系统,适合农场使用。
- ⚙️ 修复过程中,团队发现Brumby的发动机和机械部件状态良好,尽管车辆已有10年未运行。
- 🎨 团队决定改变Brumby的颜色,选择了一种现代的绿色金属漆,以赋予它新的面貌。
- 🔩 修复工作包括了对车辆进行全面的拆解,检查和更换必要的零件,如发动机、内饰、驱动线等。
- 🍏 果园还提供了苹果采摘体验,游客可以在享受田园风光的同时品尝新鲜的苹果。
- 🏁 修复完成的Brumby将会参加澳大利亚道路安全基金会的筹款抽奖活动,并且所得将用于慈善。
Q & A
视频中提到的Bilpin是位于哪个山脉的边缘?
-Bilpin是位于澳大利亚蓝山山脉的边缘。
在视频中,他们计划寻找哪种类型的车辆?
-他们计划寻找的是停在谷仓中多年的经典汽车。
Bill拥有的农场主要种植什么?
-Bill的农场主要种植苹果,有12个品种。
视频中提到的Subaru Brumbies在澳大利亚为何受欢迎?
-Subaru Brumbies在澳大利亚受欢迎,因为它们是多功能的小型皮卡车,具有可选的四轮驱动系统,适合农场使用,也适合在海滩上行驶。
视频中提到的Julie Apple是哪种苹果?
-Julie Apple是Bill和他的妻子在Bilpin发现并命名的一种苹果品种。
他们计划如何使用找到的两辆Subaru Brumbies?
-他们计划将其中一辆用作零件车,另一辆车则进行彻底的修复和翻新。
视频中提到的Subaru Australia支持的非营利组织是什么?
-Subaru Australia支持的非营利组织是澳大利亚道路安全基金会。
在视频中,他们为什么选择将Subaru Forester作为捐赠车辆?
-他们选择Subaru Forester作为捐赠车辆,因为Forester提供了所需的零件,特别是EJ20发动机和相关的驱动线和电气部件,这些部件适合用于升级和改造Brumby。
视频中提到的EJ发动机是什么类型的发动机?
-EJ发动机是Subaru生产的一系列水平对置四缸发动机,具有很好的平衡性、重量轻和高转速的特点。
他们为什么要对Brumby进行五螺钉转换?
-进行五螺钉转换可以让他们使用更常见的5x100轮圈图案的轮子,这大大增加了可用轮子的选择范围,并允许使用盘式刹车进行刹车转换。
在视频中,他们提到了哪种提升套件?
-他们提到了一种2英寸的身体提升套件,这种套件通过提升车身来增加车辆的接近角和离去角,同时允许使用更大的轮子。
Outlines
🚗 探索蓝山边缘的Bilpin汽车猎奇之旅
视频开头,主持人向大家问好,并介绍了他们所在的Bilpin地区,这里位于蓝山边缘,以苹果种植闻名。尽管当天有些小雨,但主持人认为这是寻找老汽车的完美日子。他们提到之前有过寻找老汽车的经验,比如之前的240Z项目,并透露今天将要探索的是一辆据说非常特别的车,这辆车已经在一个谷仓里存放多年。
🍎 Bill的果园和特别的Subaru Brumby
主持人访问了Bill的果园,了解到果园提供12种苹果品种,并允许客人亲自采摘。Bill提到了他们发现的两辆汽车,一辆状况较好,另一辆则需要作为备件使用。主持人对这两辆Subaru Brumby表现出极大兴趣,它们在澳大利亚非常受欢迎,尤其是在农场中,因为它们的四轮驱动系统和耐用性。他们计划将其中一辆恢复并改进,同时保留另一辆作为备件。
🛠️ 修复和改装Subaru Brumby的计划
主持人详细介绍了他们购买的两辆Subaru Brumby的情况,包括它们的价格和状况。他们讨论了修复和改装的计划,包括车身工作、防锈处理和可能的机械问题。主持人强调了修复老车的价值,并提到Subaru Australia将支持这个项目,提供零件并资助车辆恢复行驶,最终将收益捐赠给澳大利亚道路安全基金会。
🧼 清洁和准备Brumby进行喷漆
在决定改变Brumby的颜色后,主持人开始清理车辆,准备将其拆解至仅剩面板。他们强调了清洁对于良好喷漆工作的重要性,并展示了如何使用脱脂剂和压力清洗机来去除污垢和灰尘。此外,他们还讨论了如何选择最终的颜色,并与VIP Smash Repairs合作,准备将Brumby从一辆农场卡车转变为一辆展示车辆。
🎨 为Brumby选择新颜色并开始喷漆
主持人与VIP Smash Repairs的团队合作,为Brumby选择了一个现代的绿色金属漆,这个颜色在光线下会呈现出不同的绿色调。他们对车辆进行了详细的拆解,以便开始喷漆工作。在喷漆前,他们对车辆进行了彻底的清洁,并确保所有部件都被拆除,以便能够均匀地涂上油漆。
🔧 从零开始重建Brumby
在深入进行项目后,主持人开始看到这些车辆对车主的特别之处。他们收到了来自车主的许多信息,这些车主对这次Brumby的修复非常兴奋。在视频中,主持人展示了他们如何一步步地重建Brumby,包括更换仪表板、安装新的传动轴、以及将Forester的差速器安装到Brumby的外壳中。他们还讨论了如何将Brumby的前驱系统转换为全驱系统,并使用了来自Forester的零件。
🛠️ Brumby的最终组装和测试
在完成了所有的零件清洁、重建和喷漆后,主持人开始将Brumby重新组装起来。他们安装了新的散热器、完成了排气系统的安装,并开始着手内饰的工作。在等待发动机到达的同时,他们继续进行内饰的清理和修复工作。一旦发动机到达,他们将开始组装发动机和变速箱,并将它们安装到车辆中。
🌟 Brumby的首次亮相和试驾
经过六个月的努力,Brumby终于完成了它的转变。主持人对车辆的新外观和性能感到非常满意。他们首次驾驶了这辆经过全面翻新的Brumby,并将其开回了它原来的家,与车主Bill重聚。这次旅行不仅是对车辆的一次测试,也是对整个修复项目的一次庆祝。
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Keywords
💡Bilpin
💡Subaru Brumby
💡Restoration
💡All-Wheel Drive
💡EJ20 Engine
💡Customization
💡Automotive History
💡Engineering Certificate
💡Drivetrain Conversion
💡Rust Restoration
💡Vehicle Registration
Highlights
在澳大利亚蓝山边缘的Bilpin发现了一辆被遗忘多年的汽车,这是一个以苹果种植和果园闻名的地区。
介绍了两辆Subaru Brumbies,这些车辆在澳大利亚农场中非常受欢迎,以其耐用性和四轮驱动系统而闻名。
计划对其中一辆Brumby进行彻底修复,同时将其作为零件车使用,以恢复到接近工厂出厂状态。
讨论了Brumby的实用性,包括其在海滩和农场中的使用,以及它们在澳大利亚的普及。
提到了Subaru Australia对修复工作的支持,以及修复后的车辆将如何用于慈善抽奖活动。
展示了Brumby的原始用途,包括运输山羊和作为农场车辆的功能。
详细介绍了Brumby的机械升级,包括将EJ发动机和Forester的驱动系统安装到Brumby中。
讨论了对Brumby进行现代化改造的挑战,包括改变传动系统和提升乘坐质量。
展示了如何将一辆在农场中发现的旧车变成一个完全功能且外观出色的经典车型。
强调了团队合作的重要性,多位专家和朋友的帮助对于完成这一庞大的修复项目至关重要。
介绍了如何使用3D打印技术来适配现代车载娱乐系统到经典的Brumby车型中。
展示了Brumby在越野环境下的性能,证明了其作为实用农场车辆的原始设计目的。
讨论了车辆的注册和工程认证过程,以及这些步骤对于合法上路的重要性。
描述了将Brumby带回其原始主人手中的情感旅程,以及这个项目对所有参与者的意义。
强调了修复经典车辆的价值,不仅仅是作为交通工具,而是作为传承和情感的载体。
展示了完成的Brumby在各种地形上的表现,包括公路和越野环境。
最后,讨论了将修复完成的Brumby归还给其原始主人的情感意义,以及车辆的新生活。
Transcripts
how you doing everybody we are up in
bilpin which is on the edge of the Blue
Mountains this is Apple growing country
absolutely yep Orchards and raspberries
and all sorts of stuff it's like a food
bowl it's green today it's a bit rainy
but it's a beautiful day and the perfect
day to go hunting for cars now we have
done a couple of barn finds before but
today is something special the last one
we did of course was the 240Z today and
I can see it poking out right now um
we've been told about something very
special that's been sitting up in this
shed for years and years and years and
today we are we're about to go pick it
up and you are coming with us just don't
trip over a chicken what a mad posty
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B bilpin is a little over an hour
Northwest of Sydney in the mountain
region and this area is famous for its
apples when you head further out from
the city like this there are heaps of
farms and that means heaps of Barns and
heaps of shed heads rare things are by
their very nature hard to find but once
you head further out from the city you
might just stumble over some gold and
there's something truly special about
finding a piece of Automotive History
that's been parked up for years and
preserved like a Dusty Time Capsule but
what is Automotive gold well that's an
elusive question that depends on your
taste of cars but for us this car that
we've discovered is very exciting and
we're about to meet the current owner
Bill who owns this Farm hey Bill how you
how doing mate good good good to see you
everybody this is Bill from Shields
Orchard we're up here in bilpin of
course you grow apples correct we grow
12 varieties of apples our business is
about pick your own so people come here
and pick their apples and what we're
finding is people want to come here to
escape Sydney as well yeah I can
understand why so we have 12 varieties
that stretch from February through to
the end of May and they're not all ripe
at once fortunately and uh We've also
got the Julie Apple which is an apple
which we disc C discovered here which I
named after my wife awesome she must be
stoked with that yeah you can't name it
after a bag and you and kab bar brand
you know you can try but Barry's not a
great name for an apple is it Barry
Apple now mate we're actually here to
pick up there's two of these cars I can
see this is the first time seeing them
one of them looks better than I thought
one of them looks worse how long have
they been here why are they here and
just tell me everything well well the
two that are here uh one of them was
registered and we were using and then
someone gave me another one which was
registered so and it was a bit rougher
so I used it and I was going to turn the
the the other one into a rooftop camper
but um it sat there and sat there and I
got the shirt of aluminum which didn't
require a lot of welding but too busy
yeah okay do you use the cars around
here is that the idea no I never used
them really in the orchard they were
just basically you know a road vehicles
the second one um I bought for spare
parts so they've been sitting here I
don't know the the good ones been
sitting here for 8 or 10 years years and
the other one the other one I've never
run uh U but it's complete great awesome
all right well let's have a look so it's
they've been here for 10 years um at
least at least one of them hasn't run
it's time for for you to see here it is
everybody we're picking up two Subaru
brumbies hey now Mar's a big Subaru fan
of course so Martin tell us everything
um know these things brumbies in America
they are known as and they were super
popular everywhere they were known for
having like a jumper seat on the back
which was a big deal cuz you could sit
on the back of your Ute which never
happened here um they're a bit quirky
like all Subarus of the era they're
actually sort of front-wheel drive but
then they had a a lever You Pull and
then it goes full drive so not the the
typical all drive that we know so well
with wxs and stuff um and just wildly
popular because they were Ute and in
Australia they're really popular when
your other option was like a a HQ or
maybe a Commodore Ute maybe but this
kind of did a bit more you could do four
driving you could go on the beach you
use it around your farm and there's
heaps of these squirreled away in farms
all around Australia just like here so
in a bar yep and it smells exactly as it
should for its age So the plan is to
take both of them and basically use one
of them for a parts car exactly Bill's
original plan uh and then completely and
thoroughly restore this one here this is
the good one
right and do it as good as new like as
close as we can get it to how to roll
off the uh the factory floor Martin this
is mighty con it'll be better than you
when it's done so I think there's two
things that we've got to do we've got to
get the good one on the trailer y uh
we'll come back to get the other one
afterwards and then also we'd love to
try an apple can we try an Apple so I
reckon is a let's get it on the trailer
let's have a look around the car and
then let's eat an apple sounds good
sounds great thanks for having us happy
mate pleasure pleasure yeah yeah very ke
so do you know what this was originally
used for Bill well yeah it was my my
sister inlaws and she actually had
goats and um so she had a cage that
fitted over the top I love goats I I
grew up on a goat St goat goats to carry
the goats around as well as that she had
a cover to go over the top of that so
the goats didn't get too windy why did
the goats need an Anderson plug
your charge their phones obviously
that's right um this is pretty straight
bill this is like got you know a couple
little dents in it but it's survived
pretty well so because it's undercover I
guess right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we
got the call about these cars through
someone that works at Subaru Australia
who happened to spot them while they
were picking some apples an idea was
baked up to restore and modify one of
these iconic hes why well Subaru
Australia helps support a not for-profit
called the Australian Road Safety
Foundation by supplying cars for their
fundraising Raffles so if everything
works out like we hope this car will be
a candidate for that too while there's a
pretty good example here it also hasn't
moved in a decade so first up we need to
get it on a trailer and get it back to
our shed so we can check it out properly
so bu's can cost quite a bit of money
depending on what condition they're in
uh two cars that haven't been running
for like a decade um it is questionable
and there's probably not a whole lot of
interest so we actually bought this one
for $3,000 and it came with that one for
free as a parts car it might seem like
cheap for a Subaru while you're looking
at it but also running a farm you need
space you need brain space to actually
do other stuff so it's a win-win for
every and it's also um condition-wise
whether it's running or not um you know
flat tires uh well destroyed tire on the
back so we're taking a bit of a gamble
in terms of this but like most this kind
of car if you do want to restore
something all a lot of the time and
effort usually goes into the body workor
like straightening things out and and
dealing with rust but I can't really see
like you know there's going to be a
little bit of typical Subaru in the wind
screen um which is my favorite but
nothing that can't be fixed I the kind
of stuff you see people pull out of
swamps it can all be fixed but it's how
much time and money you want to put into
it it's dirty and it's stinks like
really really badly mold but all of that
stuff inside is going in the bin anyway
um and when you just look here where all
the seals are and probably cuz it has
been under here yeah it's not Rusty it's
not dirty doesn't have rats or pigs ears
in it couple spiders um but the inside
looks great like all the door cards look
really nice even the headlining looks
good dude it's like a like it's amazing
anyway let's load it up yeah let's
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go
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highly recommend purchasing from an
orchard if you have an orchard near you
and they got cars in them you won't
leave hungry this is delicious than
goodness oh you can come here and do
like picking you can book it yeah
Shields Orchard you book it right yeah
just give us a ring or a text or just
look on our website and come and hang
out have a picnic pick some apples and
you can take them with you yeah even
though these brumbies look like
something out of the 70s or the'80s they
were still being sold right up until the
first WRX came out in the early 1990s
they were popular with Farmers because
the selectable four-wheel drive system
locked the drive line together to get
you out of any muddy bog holes in your
Paddock but they were also reliable and
not too heavy on fuel in the USA these
were called AB brat Subaru loved their
acronyms and so the by Drive
recreational allterrain transporter was
born it was demand from Subaru's
International markets for small youut
and pickup trucks that spurred this one
into reality however it was never
actually sold in Japan it's also
Subaru's 50th anniversary in Australia
so what better way to celebrate than
restore a mad old bromie and just make
it like you would want to drive it off
the showroom floor today so a massive
thank you to Subaru Australia who are
going to be sponsoring this build and
actually funding getting this thing back
on the road again and then all those
proceeds going to a worthy cause this is
awesome all right let's hit the road
mate putting in my order for Subaru
genuine parts right now coming at you
boys
we did one of the most Australian things
ever and put a ute onto a trailer behind
another Ute and then started the drive
back to our own shed all right everybody
we are back at sub garage and it's time
to have a look at exactly what it is
that we've purchased now I've just
punched the plate number in to check its
rejo status it's a 1992 white Subaru
1800 series utility and it was last
registered uh 8th of July 200 11 so it
probably is correct that it hasn't been
started for 10 years we're going to try
and start it today with you first of all
Let's see we got M spiders we got
spiders and bugs a lot of spiders I just
flicked a little spider off and then a
even bigger spider came out and chased
after it so I assuming mommy spot I
wasn't happy with that there's a lot of
these around at least these were really
popular in Australia I know they're
quite popular in the US as well why
lightweight all wheeel Drive selective
all wheeel Drive four-wheel drive um a
lot of space in the back actually for
what it is and quite a useful little car
they also weren't that expensive and if
you think about what your other options
were when these were coming out it was
like a early Commodore Ute maybe or I
guess a hux or something but again not
as many options they were just for
whatever reason they TI the box at the
time and they're really really popular
so there are out there and parts aren't
too much of a problem but you can modify
them to make them even better using an
assortment of Subaru parts bin bits well
that's what we're going to do Mar now
the last service I've just had a look
the last service was carried out on the
21st of September 19 99 at 120,000 K how
many KS is it done now so uh and it does
look like for a period of time certainly
it was being looked after fairly
regularly twice that it's twice that
it's done 240,000 okay great a lot so it
may not have had a service for a little
while but everything in here is looking
excellent Martin look at this go Fuji
heavy Industries Tokyo Japan there you
go the Subaru what does MV mean is that
what they called them the Subaru
probably multi-purpose vehicle or
something or maybe motor vehicle even um
all right man did we even look under the
Bonnet you know what's weird you could
buy I realized you could buy these new
the same time you could buy an RS
Liberty turbo which you've seen on
Mighty Car Mods we we've done them back
in the day they're one of my favorite
Cars one of my first cars you could buy
this or an ARS Liberty wagon this feels
so much more old school doesn't it like
or both mutton that's that's the trick
all right let's um see if you can crack
it um did we even look I don't know
which does it go that way or that way oh
I assumed it it's normal just like a
normal normal Bonnet o it's missing a
spare tire here we go the spare tire is
that where the spare tire is meant to go
spare tire lives up the top here and
these are old school carbies things
these also have like a different sort of
flat motor they're still flat they still
have like a very similar construction to
Liberties and rexes of the time but just
a little bit different and a lot more
old school how many cars have you seen
that have got a jack under the hood yeah
that's what are there any others that
you can think of is that like a Brumby
thing this also is like a selective full
drive where it normally runs in front
wheel drive and then when you pull the
lever it engages the back which is
completely different to what they were
doing at the same time with Liberties
turbo Liberties and then impresses which
if that's 1993 I think that's when we
got our first impre so it's like it's a
different generation of cars but they
must have been so good and so popular in
selling so well they just kept doing
them so for bet that there's an air
filter in there Martin what do you think
yeah it'll have one for sure man country
car looked after loved there we go there
we go look at that oily very o but it's
in there there this is the kind of thing
where you're going to probably going to
be spraying a bit of stuff down there
and seeing if it'll go I doubt that
it'll have any fuel in it and any fuel
that was will be well and truly gone by
now should we just try and turn it over
though like let's just get some power on
it where's the battery meant to be but I
think I got a spare battery right all
right I reckon do you want to try and
start this thing with us we do too y
with the collective power of the
internet
Spirit um we're going to try and start
it let's do it pretty sure this is a
battery out of the K truck or similar so
this might do what we need it to do it's
a right size terminals that the old
school like jaap style small
terminals there's a lot of extra stuff
hanging off these isn't there yeah
lights probably foggies and stuff that's
positive is it yep that's negative let's
give that a
shot nothing exploded try the horn first
let's just make sure we got some horn no
but what we can do is put a jumper pack
on it now as well cuz that that battery
could also be completely flat but at
least it'll it should run we grabbed a
jumper pack and it's time to see if we
can actually get this thing started yep
the clock's working the clock's working
and we've got
Reds oh horn works I've never seen
this before the little passenger handle
comes out and down like that so you can
just hold on to it and then when you're
not using it up it goes again that's red
all right see if it's got any oil in it
and it does it's pretty black but it's
up to the F line Little Dot there and
now we see if it starts it's been a long
time so no fuel though right no fuel I
mean we can spray a bit of spray down
there and see if it goes but just kick
it man make sure it's a neutral and give
it a kick I'm excited dude yeah I'm be
very interested to
see that was spray that was with some
spray ready it might go okay here we go
three two
yeah yeah
dude that's RS that's awesome I mean it
means the engine's not sick but I still
reckon we pull it out anyway oh the
engine's going in the bin for sure
absolutely going in the bin except of
course we just want to make sure that
actually run M we've now got some
planning to do we do and we got to work
out whether we
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um yep and
then 100 yeah yeah oh I got plans I got
plans but the plans with this probably
have to wait because there's bigger
problems to do with this rust spots and
some pretty sad paint I understand some
people run cars like this and go it's
got patina but I want to make this like
going be great now it does look a little
bit cleaner than when you saw it last
time because it was absolutely filthy
after sitting for over a decade and so
we took it outside and gave it a bit of
a clean I was actually pretty surprised
just how clean this car is underneath
all that mud usually when you see all
that you think oh no it's going to be
rusted out shell actually it's in really
good condition and we got really lucky
the car was stored in a barn which made
a huge difference so a lot of that mud
just fell off and today hopefully we
won't be covered in all of it as we
begin to strip the car so what are we
doing today well the first step is we're
going to completely blow this car apart
so the engine's coming out that's going
in the bin the interior is coming out we
want to see what's going on underneath
everything anything that's hidden from
view we are going to completely strip
this thing the drive Line's coming out
anything that's attached to the
outside's cominging out and the interior
is also being removed because we are
going to take this right Back to Basics
and paint it this build will be one of
the biggest projects that we've ever
attempted in the history of making
Mighty Car Mods and it's going to take
our abilities and patience to the Limit
not only are there technical limitations
and mechanical hurdles in the way the
car will also need to be signed off by a
qualified engineer to make it able to be
driven legally on Australian roads when
it eventually Finds Its way into one
lucky viewer's garage our first step is
to get rid of everything that we no
longer need and in our case that means
pretty much everything as we're going to
be replacing most components with new
and custom parts from the wheels and
brakes through to the drive line engine
and even the interior it's a massive job
and we're going to be working solidly on
it for at least a few months that in
itself may seem like it's a long time
but a restoration of this detail and
scope is something that's usually only
attempted once in a lifetime so we're
definitely going to need to call in
reinforcements when the going gets tough
it is an absolute mess in here and by
absolute mess uh we've got all sorts of
wiring out the woo uh and we also have a
um a dead creature got a better bone
isn't it and some meaty looking stuff oh
a bit of fur a bit of bone some kind of
creature that's been living up here
surrounded by turd as well uh this here
though this side and the front is
appears to be all clear now there's a
weird Rod here that goes straight down
the middle that we don't know what that
does but I'm going to take that off in a
second how's your side looking mate
somehow related to the clutch um my
side's looking all right I took off like
a million Fuel and vacuum hoses worth
remembering this this was done in like
the emissions times you know when it's
like Oh how we make our old Carby things
still P the the emissions and not use
much fuel that was one reason these cars
were popular they didn't use that much
fuel compared to like a giant V8 Ute
that you might buy for your farm and
also it was full drive so one of the
reasons it's popular but also complex
like look at all this so later model
stuff will not be as complex which is
hopefully what we'll be able to put in
this yeah so look there's just a couple
of other things that have got to come
off and then uh we can get this out
Martin y the idea is the idea is to get
the drive line out the engine out
gearbox out clear up the engine bay
start to pull off any sort of trims get
it ready for
paint
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we think we've undone everything we
think this will be our first attempt at
trying to put this back where it belongs
in a museum y a Subaru
Museum it's coming M starting to slip on
need to go up forklift time still
something down there drop the sway bar
we'll make it easier for ourselves all
right that might buy us a bit more space
second attempt with the sway bar
gone go
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up that's is momento people there it is
people as you can see behind me the
heart the now non-beating heart of the
Brumby it's time for it to go to a
better place what's going to go in its
place you may be
asking we're going to show you soon
there's a decent amount of space in the
engine bay which opens up some exciting
opportunities when it comes to power
plants and later in this video I'll show
you what I've bought to transplant into
the bay that'll upgrade power modern Iz
features and also maintain the purity of
this Brumby the next job now is to pull
out everything in the engine bay that's
in the way of paint because we are
changing the color of the car we want to
change the color of the engine bay
anything you can see here needs to be
removed so some of this stuff will go
back in like maybe air con for example
or a charcoal canister or a radiator
overflow bottle but all this old junk is
going straight in the bin going to do a
similar thing with the interior although
not the whole interior because some of
it won't change like the headlining is
pretty good so that could stay but other
bits and pieces like the seats and that
will come out when you're excited about
working on your project car it's easy to
underestimate how long or how hard a job
is going to be stripping a car entirely
back to its panels is a huge undertaking
cuz every last bit of wiring rubber
glass and the mechanical Parts need to
come out and if they're going back in
again they need to be cataloged and put
safely aside although I was trying to
get the wind screen out complete I broke
it so a new one will need to go back in
when we're done a panel shop can do this
part of the job for you but but by doing
all the stripping yourself you can save
some budget for mods leaving them to do
what they are best at which is paint and
maybe next time they can pull the wind
screen out too along with the engine bay
Parts I'm going to strip the seats the
plastic interior the dash the steering
wheel and everything in and around the
tray in the back any of the hanging
panels like the guards I'm also going to
pull off so I can clean underneath them
and get rid of all the country Bush dust
the paint shop asked that I Supply the
car as clean as possible so I hit it
with some Degreaser and then the
beefiest electric pressure washer I
could find dirt and dust is the enemy of
a good paint job so the effort I put in
here will pay dividends later
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on all right the Brumby is clean as I'm
going to be able to get it next upop VIP
smash repairs to see some friends of
mine to get this thing painted Brothers
Joey and Alex started VIP smash repairs
together not too long ago but have been
watching Mighty K mods since they were
in high school and they've agreed to
help us turn this Brumby from farm truck
to showstopper I've given them a pretty
tight timeline but to my surprise within
a week they called me to say the car is
blown apart and prep is underway so come
down and check it out the car has been
laid out like an Ikea flat pack and why
is that exciting because today it's all
going to start to get stripped all the
old paint's going to come off the guys
have already removed the panels and done
that sort of stuff the car is looking
really really good um and I've made it
easier for him cuz I haven't brought
them something that is completely rusted
and rubbish so uh now just the hard work
Begins the guys just going to get into
it I'm going to work experience kit a
little bit and then hopefully the end of
today we're also going to sprout out our
color and we're going to see the color
for the first time on a sample card you
can take it away and so it looks like in
the light then we can tweak it if we
need to and then once the car's high
fied we'll be back hitting it with color
I think a big reason why I get so
excited about a build like this is the
feeling that you're repairing something
rather than just sticking it in the bin
while I'm known for that comment and its
application to dirty Hondas I actually
think there's a real joy to be found in
bringing something back to life making
it as good or better than when it rolled
off the showroom floor it takes a huge
amount of time thought skill effort and
of course manual labor but the results
are truly worth it and I cannot wait to
see how this thing turns
out
we have our spray out cards so this is
Autumn green metallic now it does look
kind of brown uh and then sort of flips
to a greeny color when you see it on an
entire car it does sort of glow a little
bit more green this is a color you see
on Outback and a couple of like really
modern Subarus when this is combined
with like black powdercoated satin black
bullar and all the trims and everything
I think it's going to look amazing so
I'm very keen and uh very excited to see
a modern color on an old car but still
pays homage to the sort of oldness of it
like it's I don't think it would be
right to put WRC bright blue on it it
would just look a bit weird where I
think this is going to look understated
and also awesome so uh a little bit more
work for the boys to do with high Fu
we're going to come back when it's time
to stick on the final color and then
we're going to see the Brumby completely
painted I've been completely blown away
by how efficiently the guys at VIP smash
have brought this together and I cannot
wait to see the car in its final color
this project is coming together crazy
fast while all the drive line and
mechanical stuff is happening Joey Alec
and the boys at VIP smash have also been
very very busy getting it finished off
since you last saw it some high feels
gone on and they' blocked it back to
make it nice and smooth the car is in
the booth about to get the color which
means we're going to see it right
now
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the this has turned out even better than
I could have imagined it's a huge deal
picking your final color and a huge
amount of work if you want to change it
again luckily for us the modern Green
Works brilliantly on the lines of the
old Brumby and while it spends some more
time in the booth hardening I'm heading
back to Super Garage as my good friend
has just made another purchase we have
come to an exciting part of this build
my good friend has been out searching
Caril searching gum trees searching
Marketplace trying to find us a donor
vehicle to get all the parts we need to
make this Brumby just biso he has found
something he's just got back I can hear
it here it is
people oh God this is the sweetest
smelling Forester I've ever experienced
when you're buying a car for like under
$5,000 normally you're getting absolute
rubbish this is amazing we just picked
this up 10 minutes ago from mville he
asked $45,000 we never pay asking price
$44,000 manual smells great really heavy
duty clutch that might need to man it's
like popping my hip out I'm going to say
what everyone's thinking this is too
clean yeah so we're going to find out
that it's stolen no no it's legit it's
just it's just there's hardly any around
we've been looking for a very very long
time for this weirdly you can still get
Turbo ones of this kind of era but not
naturally aspirated ones uh I've never
seen it before uh never seen it before
today the Subaru Forester has been made
in Japan since 1997 originally built on
the same platform as the Impreza this is
the first generation the SF that was
built as a station wagon but with more
clearance like an SUV and people loved
them so much that they were sold all
over the world in Australia these are a
fairly common car due to being all-wheel
drive small enough for City driving but
large enough to be capable on the back
roads and Snow Country so there you have
it Subaru Foresters these ones usually
end up doing a lap of Australia with a
couple of stinky Backpackers in them
that haven't had a shower for way too
long and up being sold for scrap this
one smells good is in good condition and
will be perfect for our car which I
think will become a
classic hand me your telephone M
why why and face ID it yep done you done
it all right you know how on your phones
if you press the little star button it
says favorite Mar's favorite list 1 two
3 4 5 6 7 8 nine of these people own
Subarus so I'm just going to hit one one
by random and go what are you doing
tonight this Forester is going to supply
a lot of the parts that we need for our
Brumby but it's going to be a big messy
job so we've invited a bunch of mates
over to Super Garage who are going to
help us pull it
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apart you may have worked out by now
that we're going to be EJ swapping our
Brumby the ea81 engines that come in the
originally a 1.8 L kby and getting hard
to find parts for this upgrade will give
us a bump in power good fuel economy and
heaps more access to parts that are
still available while still keeping the
Purity alive we're going to be using as
much of the Forester Drive Line and
electrical parts as we possibly can so
we'll be stripping this Forester right
back down to Basics we've chosen a 2 L
ej20 out of this specific Forester as
they have a good balance of weight power
and willingness to rev which in a Brumby
will be great fun you also don't need to
cut up your classic car to make it fit
and importantly it's possible to
engineer the modified car in our state
for Road use thanks to some help from
our awesome group of mates we've got the
drive line out in just one evening's
work there's still heaps more to do but
we are making great progress a massive
thank you to everybody that came down to
help us Strip This Forester this
Forester is actually in incredible
condition for its age and I'm very happy
that the sacrifice that it's made is
going to live on in our mad Brumby
that's right it's not going to get
scrapped either so we're just actually
going to get rid of it basically give it
away as a good rolling shell maybe
someone will Turbo convert it or do
something cool with it um but it has
given all its best bits over to our
Brumby and I'm glad we get managed to
get one that's in really good condition
cuz that will actually save us a whole
bunch of time the Brumby is painted and
looks freaking amazing now we have over
there a whole pile of Forester stuff and
we've got a painted buum and now the job
of course is to put them together and
today we're going to be doing that with
a little bit of help from an expert Dave
from suberino is here what's suberino
well they're actually based in Perth and
he's come all the way to Sydney which is
which is like flying from New York to LA
just saying it's a freaking long way to
help us Dave thanks for coming man
thanks for having now you're no stranger
to brumes so can you tell me what we're
looking at like what kind of Brumby is
this tell me everything so this would be
a early '90s late ' 80s Brumby correct
yep 92 yep um commonly used for a sort
of a farm vehicle originally in
Australia and um yeah it's got a few
things missing be good to be good to put
uh this Brumby back to work so Dave what
got you into the whole Brumby thing like
how did you become a fan of them and
how'd you end up here I was a big fan of
them in the sort of late '90s when I
first got my driver's license I liked
the wagons back then the brumbies were a
bit Out Of Reach financially for a young
bloke on his P plates um just love the
shape and as time's gone on the wagons
are nearly extinct but the BR IES live
on for Farms all sorts of uh people
lowering them lifting them all sorts of
things why do you think they're so why
do you reckon they're so popular what is
it about him I think it's the shape I
honestly think it's the shape it's that
um El Camino sort of look yeah like a
Mino yeah like a mini El Camino um look
they're they're really popular worldwide
um the brat in America and the Brumby
here in Australia we are going for a
sort of onroad vehicle more so which is
why we chosen to go for the Drive
gearbox out of the Forester yes also
dual range now I understand that that
makes things a little bit more difficult
when it comes to like custom shafts and
tail shafts and things like that we've
also got um some conversion gear that
you have brought with you yes so maybe
we'll have a bit of a look at that and
then we've basically got to shoehorn our
Forester Drive Line in is that sort of
how it works that's exactly right that's
exactly right a bit of customization of
tail shafts um the gear linkages and a
gearbox crossmember sweet so this should
drive like a much more modern Subaru
ideally but still look cool like this
absolutely abolutely well let's have a
look at some of the gear that you
brought with you and then we'll get into
it no worries M over the years Dave has
turned his passion for brumbies and
early Subarus into a small manufacturing
operation and is's the guy on the West
Coast of Australia to see when your
Brumby needs some love he's developed a
bunch of parts to both repair and modify
these cars to help keep them on the road
for years to come and I can't wait to
get them into our car so at the stage
now where it's uh painted but basically
nothing else is done underneath it's
completely stock rumy but
Dave has designed a bunch of parts that
makes these things extra cool
specifically a lift kit and also a five
stud conversion so Dave tell me tell me
a bit about this because maybe we'll
start with your fivestar conversion cuz
it's in front of us so what is involved
in this kit so basically we've got some
customade hubs here they're going to go
on the rear so we're going to be
adapting the rear drums that are on the
Brumby from Factory we're putting the
Forester disc brakes onto it Brak
conversion as well
absolutely um what's also involved is
the forest has a rear handbrake yeah
whereas the Brumby has front handbrakes
s yank the handbrake and then the car
like absolutely um so these are custom
made handbrake cables that will adapt it
so we've got the handbrake cable on the
back so what I think is a bit clever
about this so that goes onto the
basically like diff like rear diff
that's it housing whatever and that
allows us to bolt in the Forester hubs
yes we'll be up well the Forester
backing plate backing for the caliper
and then the Hub this will slide
straight onto the Brumby spline there
slide straight on using the Brumby wheel
bearings and we'll be able to put the EJ
rotor straight onto that oh the The Brak
roor fits that break actually fits that
so why is that so exciting well the
Brumby comes with a 4X what is it
4x8 4 4X 140 on the Brumby 140 yes yeah
so is very un super unusual so you can
get wheels from but your wheel choice is
a bit Limited so why would you do this
well the answer is 5x1 100 Wheels
they're just everywhere for Subarus
Forester Wheels Liberty impre volag
Volkswagen all the aftermarket stuff uh
it opens up a whole lot of wheel options
you're also getting Disc break
conversion and for the front what do we
do for the front for the front we do a
modification to the control arm and that
allows us to fit the entire Forester
front knuckle brake assembly and
everything to that and so the shock
absorber as long as we adapt the top to
go to the Brumby two rather than the
three that you get on the forest that's
exactly right so we're can um modify the
uh strut it'll be the EJ strut which
will also give us camber adjustment
which any Brumby owner will know we
can't adjust our camber and it's hored
from Factory so for our car we'll
probably go like a custom built coilover
so we have even more adjustment and we
can tweak everything but um this also
brings me to the lift kit so we're going
to do a fivestar conversion a disc brake
conversion we're going to move the
handbrake from the front to the back but
we're also going to do a lift yes so
this is your lift kit can you tell me a
bit about how this works so that's a 2in
uh body lift kit yep and what's a body
lift compared to eight lift so a body
lift kit effectively lifts the body off
the running gear yes so we do that
because of our CV joints on the front
and back if you don't do that the angle
of the CVS is too much we just chew
through joints we already chew through
joints as it is if we don't do that but
body lift allows you usually to run
bigger Wheels which also then sort of
gives you a bit more clearance which and
increases our approach and departure
anger if you're build building an
off-roader um it's a great upgrade for a
lot of people and so we does this so
this means basically we got to lift the
subframes and the body away from each
other is is that what the blocks to do
cuz that's actually looks a lot like if
you guys remember but when we did our
Outback and outfap and a few other cars
Factory they look like this yes yeah
fact yeah Factory that looks like those
um yeah so basically we're run we're
putting blocks between the running gear
uh spaces between the suspension front
and back and extended bolts and Hardware
that's required we've got a heap of
awesome Brumby parts now it's time to
put them in exciting package has just
arrived so Chris from shockworks who are
down in Melbourne has very last minute
for me created some custom coilovers for
us for our brumi and this is super cool
because on the bottom you have Forester
spec which fits our hubs and on the top
you've got Bry but he's also created a
stock like an inverted monot tube thing
like a good one that incorporates the
lift so we don't have to use the plates
which is kind of cool just as in terms
of like making it really nice and neat
and that will go into the front of our
Brumby and hopefully be the perfect I
always like to try and install new
suspension in cars that are this old and
with this many kilometers on them the
difference a new set of shocks makes is
just massive it rides better handles
better it's safer and in this case we
can tweak the height of the suspension
to get it sitting just right Bry is is
in the air we're going to start with the
rear end we're basically going to pull
all the old Brumby stuff apart work out
how much Forester stuff we can jam in
there and then we will have an excellent
five stud converted
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Dave this is freaking awesome man yeah
cheers it's a good bit of Kit I feel
like there's a lot of time that goes
into this and we often talk about this
that someone else's time is what you pay
for with the R&D cuz if I was going to
try and do this myself 3 months later I
might have a a thing but you've you've
done it y yep it's had to be very
particular about spacing everywhere to
make this hubcentric for the rotor um
and hubcentric for the rim when the rim
goes on as well so the benefit of this
obviously is that we can use a forestar
disc we can use a Forester caliper we
can use all Forester stuff and Subaru
stuff which means when you want to buy
brakes you can just go and buy for
exactly right a lot more available yep
and um and get obviously better braking
as well so this is our fstar conversion
done on the back um a few more bits and
pieces to do on here with the brake line
which also is part of Dave's kit and
then we're going to move on to the front
once our mockup with the old Parts is
complete we're going to be fully
reconditioning our Forester parts and
using all new rotors and pads our five
star conversion in the rear is done
we're actually going to do the rear lift
kit first uh that's the body lift so the
way that works is we unbolt a bunch of
these brackets those brackets brackets
there brackets there brackets there and
then we put the spaces in that Dave's
made so we're going to whiz them off and
install the whole thing all the original
bolts have been in there for over 30
years so a bit of WD40 helps loosen
things up the kit comes with all new
bolts and when you're doing a lift it's
important to check the grade of the
bolts to make sure they're equal to or
better than what you're taking out this
lift kit mirrors the way Subaru lifted
the Outback version of their Liberty
wagon using one piece blocks and
extended bolts to suit we then also need
to extend or replace the rear shocks to
make sure all the suspension works
correctly so thanks to Dave's expertise
the lift kit which is freaking awesome
is in and we now got a 2-in lift in the
back so tomorrow morning first thing
we're going to do our 2-in lift in the
front then we got another special guest
coming to help us get the engine and box
and everything in our recondition
gearbox is going to be back tomorrow
morning as well so we have heaps still
to do I'm getting very very excited
about this Brumby Adventure AES all
coming together it's a brand new day
it's a whole new world do you sing no
okay good I shouldn't either um what are
we doing Aaron what's happening in here
there's nothing in there and we got to
get something in there tell me what's
going to go down so I think the plan for
today is get the engine transmission
into this thing which should be fun I
haven't actually worked on one of these
before so it's going to be interesting
uh the gearbox is not actually here yet
but it will be here later today let's
put a forest engine in a bumes stop the
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so first Subaru genuine part is going
into the Brumby I've got ball joints
that are from the Forester use the
forest of vins get yourself the right
parts um some stuff you can't get
genuine anymore because this stuff is so
old so they don't keep it in stock um
but where possibly are going to use
genuine stuff particularly when we're
rebuilding the engine the gearbox has
been real built with genuine parts as
well and so anything like this that we
can put in we're going to use brand new
stuff
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this is the moment of Truth just like
the factory it's loaded in from
underneath although they never loaded
this motor in so we've updated so we're
going to lift the Hoist
up and the engine's coming with it and
the box is coming with it nothing's
falling out it's a good day that's
awesome EJ powered Brumby look at that
it's
in now I got to make a gearbox
crossmember and heaps of other stuff
from scratch but we couldn't do that
until it was mounted so now it's mounted
so thanks to Dave's awesome lift kit
that he's put deeps of time and effort
into designing for the Brumby the engine
fits perfectly just buys us a bit more
space at the back though we do have to
make a crossmember and adapt the
original Mount to fit onto the Brumby
cross bember there's a few different
ways to do this but the easiest way is
just to make a plate and reinforce it in
through there there's actually not a lot
of weight on this like I can lift it by
hand um the engine mounts plus this
Mount sort of take the majority of the
weight it's actually quite a light
engine as well being a single overhead
can so make this up weld it to the
Brumby thing clean and paint all that up
and it should look excellent
these old cars like the Forester or the
Brumby itself can just end up in the bin
but it doesn't need to Collective Spirit
can bring projects like this back to
life and it's going to need a community
of car enthusiasts from across the
country to help heal the wounds of This
Old Car we're going to have to make a
lot of stuff from scratch but using some
basic tools we should be able to make it
work this project is going to take
months there are some extraordinary
talented people out there who can knock
this sort of thing out in days or weeks
but it's also not uncommon for for a
project to also take years to get
drivable the reality is you can get
caught out with broken parts run out of
funds life gets in the way or you just
lose motivation getting some mates
involved helps keep you motivated to get
to those special moments that make it
worth it like tightening the final bult
the first start or the first
drive the front end of our five star
conversion is now pretty much done so we
don't have drive shafts but we do have
is a deconstructed one that Aaron pulled
apart just so we can bolt it in the idea
is to get the wheels on check our
Heights make sure our coilovers are all
good make sure everything's sitting in
the right place and make it look like a
finished car cuz it's easy enough to get
some drive shafts spun up so this is
going to go in the back of the Hub um
we're waiting on our wheels so we got
some tires some bef goodrick tires and
now waiting on our Wheels waiting for
them to get fitted as soon as they
arrive I'm going to SLU the wheels on
and see what it looks
like
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all right so our BF good Rick ko2s have
arrived we have no idea these are
actually going to fit this is full
guessing game we have completely changed
our Drive Line changed our stud pattern
changed everything they might be too big
I'm just going to say that right now but
either way we're putting them on and
getting a photo of it cuz I think it's
going to look amazing we have to go over
to road tires no big deal we'll grab
some good ones here we go heavy
boy that looks tough it's going to
disappoint a lot of people potentially
the two guys have been helping all day
but these look so sick but I think
they're going to be too big I still want
to see them on there cuz I want to see
this thing like full lift Speck and you
could still drive it like that if you
really wanted to as long as you never
turn the steering wheel but the back's
going to be all
right is he hting the guards no oh I
look so tough look at the height of it
full jacked up needs more height in the
front it's ridiculous we're probably
going to have to go like basically 1 in
smaller and they might not be as chunky
but we wanted to see with chunky tires
which we have it looks amazing if you've
ever wondered how to lower your brumber
you just need a Dave you get him from
Perth it's on the other side of
Australia for who's wondering a 19 mil
ratchet and then watch
this torsion bars people one bolt to
adjust it and bang you lower your Brumby
Isn't that cool so unfortunately the
muddies don't fit they do look hectic
but being such a classic car I think we
just need a mad classic Road tire
something with a little bit of Chunk
something with some sidewall that is
something that we we're going to have to
work out it's a whole new day here in
Sydney it's raining and it's cold and
the Brumby experts are multiplying hey
Scott how you doing good night Scott has
driven up from Victoria west of Ballarat
in his absolute nugget of a Brumby to
notable points about this car so far
number one it's got a chop sticker on it
which is freaking awesome it looks like
that's seen some bug uh and taret top
can you tell me a little bit about your
car um yeah it's a factory Target top
990 model um
it these things can pop out so sometimes
you Cruis around with them pop it open
or with a little bit of work they can
come out completely for summer drives
are these leaky I get the sense that
like just tarer and water is not a great
mix uh sometimes they leak through these
Y and mine has a random one it happens
sometimes and other days it doesn't
happen at all y nothing made it just a
drop or two worst I've had is one seat
was partly wet yeah was a passenger seat
so I didn't care um too much why do you
love
brumbies uh they're just a little iconic
you I love the look of them um the
shape's unreal they're like every other
subu like Lego so I've got Parts out of
a touring Wagon in this uh I've got a
coupe dashboard in it touring W and
console and yeah just just put it all
together plug it in and awesome man well
do you want to come and have a look at
ours so I know you've only just arrived
this is where we're up to so far so
Forest is placed in there um Marty got
these uh wheels and tires that are too
big so those are not going on we're
trying to find some solutions to that at
the moment but um what do you think of
the color it's growing on me yeah I I
initially from photos that I saw earlier
from Dave I was like uh but in the flesh
yeah looks awesome it looks goody I
think it's going to be better once all
the trims are on it and it's yeah it's
cars always look a bit weird and nude
when they don't have all of their bits
on them and once it's together I think
it's going to look great so our job
today we're going to be on the inside so
whole dash is coming out I'm going to be
your Apprentice I got lots of little
baggies uh I mean not the Sydney baggies
the sandwich baggies uh and so I'll try
and Mark everything where everything
goes so that when it goes back in cuz I
gather you'll be long gone into the
sunset in your bumby uh and then I'll
try and put it back together is there
anything that I need to know or that is
important about getting this Dash in and
out that's specific to bromie uh no it's
kind of like any other subu dashboard
the bolt locations are roughly the same
um the only thing is on this one it's
easy to do with the wind screen out okay
cuz the the bolts along the wind screen
are vertical whereas every other Subaru
from then on they're angled back at you
so you can just get in really easy so
we're going have to be careful on that
cuz you can chip the wind screen from
the inside right so that's going to be a
big trick and when you put it back in
that's what you have to be really
careful of cool well yeah it is a new
wind screen as well so yes absolutely
cool all right thanks for coming up busy
let's get to it as we get deeper into
this build we're start starting to see
just how special these cars are to the
people that own them as our inbox and
comment section is filling up with
people going crazy for this brby heaps
of them were sold in Australia over a
long period of time and while plenty of
No Doubt disappeared into the sands of
time there's still heaps of them that
are being daily driven lots that are
being used on working farms and some
that are being restored in sheds the
owners that we've met are super
passionate about their quirky little
pickup truck and the guys that are
helping us are no exception and with
their help nearly every single nut and
bolt on this car is going to be worked
on repaired or replaced so in the little
ashtro here I found yet another Subaru
key like there's just the things there's
so many keys in there it's not funny but
look how used that key is so this is
kind of what an old but not too used key
looks like compared to that it's had
some life man driving goats around the
Brumby and the Forester have a few
similarities even though they are a
decade apart in age and one of those is
the diff lots of Subarus use an r160 and
luckily for us we're going to be able to
use the guts of the Forester diff in the
Brumby housing which will give us the
correct diff ratio and allow our
all-wheel drive system to function
correctly if you don't do this the front
and rear wheels will spin at different
speeds which turns your gearbox and your
Center diff into a yard
sale yes so we have just measured up for
our custom tail shaft which matches the
Forester gearbox into this diff it's the
right length now we're going to pull the
Brumby diff out and we're going to do
some swap skis between the Forester and
the Brumby so we can keep our Brumby
rear end more or less the same also
ordered some new drive shafts cuz the
boots are really old and crusty on this
been sitting around for a long time so
do our diff swap we'll be in business
the diff comes out by removing the pins
that go through the axles then removing
the mounts and lowering it down I'm
going to crack the fill and drain plugs
while it's still in the car so I have
more leverage the Forester ones were a
bit seized and required fire and
penetrant to get out once it's out out
I'm then going to set it up next to the
Foresta div on a clean bench space so I
can start swapping the internal bits
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over what we're trying to do here is a
bit of diff trickery what we need is we
need these stubs on our forest diff
because the forest diff ratio matches
the gearbox and on Subaru that's really
important so what we've done is pulled
the center out of the Forester one we're
also going to replace while we're here
these some new Subaru genuine seals and
also the O the O-ring that goes across
there and all we got to do is basically
install these stubs into that Center
looks easy very messy and very gross the
Brumby diff has stubs that the CV shaft
slide onto which we need to Ain when we
swap in the forest aparts they have
sneaky E10 bolts that hold them in place
and if you snap one of them you're in
huge trouble the aim here is to remove
the crown wheel and swap it as it
determines the overall ratio of the
diff
so that part is what we're trying to
rescue out of the diff so we can
screw those funny looking E10 Torx
things that we found in the back of it
which are here somewhere to then hold
the stubs
I'm learning about diffs here we go so
to hold them in with that bolt that's
the other other end of it and that goes
sort of in the spider gears and then we
can put all that in the
Forester don't try this home I mean do
try it home if you
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want the diff is back together and ready
to go into the car next I'm going to
head out to visit a friend to get custom
drive shafts made up that is going to
make this whole thing work making CV
shafts from scratch requires some
specialized equipment and it can be hard
to find people with the necessary skills
in our case we have to make custom axles
to suit the track width of the bromby
which is narrower than the Forester that
the rest of the drive line came from
this is my mate Lawrence you might
remember him from our BMW E30 LS3
conversion which had a fully custom rear
end out of an S15 wasn't it it was yeah
S15 diff so to make that work we needed
custom axles now just so happens with
our Brumby we also need custom axles why
because the Brumby axles do not fit all
the Forester parts and the Forester
axles are too long so what do you do
Lawrence what do you do we're at your
mate's machine shop engineering shop and
he happens to be a bit of a boss with
this sort of stuff but you have done a
lot of this yeah so the axles that we're
making obviously to handle V8s in
smaller cars and and adapt a good diff
Center into a BMW that they don't
normally have more ratio options and all
those sorts of things the other thing is
is we can make a length of axle we want
we can put a spline at each end of
whatever we want and in your case I
think all you're trying to achieve is a
different axle length you're not going
for strength or brute power in this but
you're always getting better material
and heat treading process anyway so this
is the axle I believe that you want to
be able to fit into the vehicle yeah
because my understanding is the Brumby
has a slightly smaller track width so
our forest is a bit wider so therefore
the CVS are longer or the axles are
longer right uh and so we essentially
need to shorten it but I don't think
it's just a matter of Cho these up
because these are Harden is that right
yeah they are hardened steel from
Factory of some sort and cutting them
and joining them just doesn't work yeah
um it might work on the farm for a
little buggy or something but for a road
car it's just not going to work so the
simple answer is we disassemble the CVS
at each end of this and you've started
to do this one here so these will slide
apart um and then we clean all this up
and what we're essentially trying to do
is just replicate this axle replicate
these splines but make it shorter to the
length you want awesome so I've measured
I'm took a measurement on the Brumby
itself with the suspension droop and
with it at sort of neutral and I also
brought a Brumby shaft cuz I think that
hopefully is enough data to at least get
a good idea of what we're trying to do
yeah so we're just comparing the the
overall length installed on the the
setup that you want to be able to put in
and we'll apply that shortening amount
to here um so we'll finish pulling these
apart and cleaning them up and we'll
measure circlip to circlip which will be
like on this axle we'll be making
something like this once we have that
measurement worked out we hand that over
to our mate here and he'll make
something for you awesome so the way
that we measure it is this is the wheel
side so we put that into the into the
wheel hub and just install it as it
would be which is now Forest The Hub
used to be a Brumby one yep so once this
is disassembled we get this cup and we
install that back onto the diff yep
inside here we'll have a little CV
knuckle that slides in and out so we'd
sit that roughly where we want it this
is sitting roughly in the middle of its
float in and out Y and then we measure
from the backside of that spline to the
back side of the spline of this piece in
here and that's how axle length C clip
to circlip so that's what we we have to
try and guesstimate cuz obviously once
we make them and cut the splines we have
to try it and if it's wrong then Happ
was of
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time so this was a meme it would have
all the mats like sprinkling down behind
my head while we do all the science uh
it's a little bit crude how we're
measuring it just because the car is in
one place we don't actually have a shaft
to check it off we've only got all this
sort of stuff but by pulling it apart we
have worked out that we've got to reduce
this by roughly 85 to 95 mil it's not a
lot actually it's only like a reasonably
small amount but that should get us set
up for the correct track it's worth
mentioning that I think there are people
out there that have done this before but
because of using different combinations
of gearboxes and different combinations
of Parts it's not always the same so it
does pay for us to to measure but I have
heard the number is 85 so that tells me
I think we're in the right Ballpark and
we'll be able to make one and test it
and if it's wrong I just pay again once
we're happy with our measurements it's
time for the blank to be set up in the
machine and the spline cut it's a slow
and careful process that slowly rotates
the axle while the cutting D cuts the
appropriate number of splines to match
the rest of our CV Hardware while
they're being finished and heat treated
for strength Aron is coming back to lend
us some more of his Subaru wisdom
getting our engine stripped right down
ready for reconditioning
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a lot of people often talk about ejs
being fragile but in my experience
that's people who've gone got a stock
ej20 turbo that's 25 years old and then
double the Boost and wonder why let's go
in my experience that's when people say
they're unreliable so I have in my
personal experience with the two ler
ones they seem to go forever so this has
only got well not even 200,000 k on it
but you've done ones with double that
right yeah I've done plenty with double
that my personal car it's got 450,000 K
on the original engine so I mean as long
as they're serviced regularly yeah yeah
you'll have them forever so we're going
to strip this down I mean even like
heads off right yeah heads off heads off
so we'll be able to inspect everything
um so aon's going to work his magic I'm
going to apprentice and we're just going
to strip this down completely to its
unies the engine from our Forester was
in great condition and it could probably
have just gone straight into the Brumby
and lived on for many years but while we
have it out we're going to give it a
once over with a head Service Plus we'll
replace every gasket and seal we can get
to the cylinder head reconditioning
process involves removing the cams
rockers valves and anything not made of
metal so that they can be chemically
cleaned the valves are then cleaned
stripped and ground the heads are also
cleaned up then set up to be machined
skimming a small layer of material off
them so that they sit perfectly flat on
the head gasket when they're made it
back to the engine
block
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while the heads are being finished off
I'm going to head out and get a
customade tail shaft made to join our
Forester gearbox to our Brumby diff when
you're changing Drive Lines like we are
you can sometimes get lucky and mix and
match Factory components so you won't
have to go custom but if you can't get
those bits or you're changing widths or
lengths you might have to get one made
tail shafts do wear out they can get
damaged or overpowered and twisted or SN
snapped the guys at propeller shaft
Services have been making replacement
and upgrade ones for
decades so we about Midway through the
process of our awesome new tail shaft so
Justin what happens after this this is a
Unis going in is that correct that's
correct we're fitting the Unis setting
all the preloads uh double cheing the
lengths and everything are okay Y and
then we'll head to the welder so these
Unis look a bit different to the ones on
our Factory shaft they can be replaced y
completely serviceable completely
replaceable um it's an standard
universal joint as well so even in the
future if you decide to change your diff
or gearbox most parts are available in
this Universal size oh cool so you can
just uncp them and just go again
basically if you say in the future you
decide to put a C4 in it it comes in
that universal joint yeah pull the old
Old Slip Yu off and put the new one on
put an EZ 30 in anyway don't worry about
it so the process after this uh what
happens next next from here we'll double
check the length uh double check all the
preloads go on the welder straighten it
weld it then the last process balance
and paint done that's it awesome man the
size and materials that the shaft is
made out of is worked out once we
calculate the maximum rpm that will be
spinning the engine high RPM is more
likely to break a drive shaft than
torque alone the universal joints and
metal pipe will be welded together and
that's the easier part of the job as
it's the balancing that is crucial to a
longlasting and vibration free tail
shaft the shaft is set up for welding an
initial check of the roundness completed
and then the uni joints can be welded on
and once that's done it's time for
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balancing
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[Applause]
so Justin balancing this is sort of like
the art in what we're doing today so
what do we do now in this part of the
process um now the Sha's bolted up um
ready secure we know it's all good to go
we'll run a dial indicator on the tube
make sure it's all nice and straight um
if it's not we'll heat shrink it get it
all good and then the last step is
adding and removing weight and you don't
mean heat shrink like rubber heat shrink
you mean actually shrink with heat right
use um oxyacetylene heat up the high
spot and cool it down with a bit of
water awesome and so why is this so
important
um if it's not straight if you first of
all you it'll vibrate yeah um if you
don't feel the vibration you'll wear out
the bushes the seals much faster you'll
wear out the diff seals much quicker um
it's not always that you don't feel it
but if it's not running true or it's
vibrating it will cause longevity is the
biggest thing when I called you we spoke
a lot about RPM what why is that um in
this day and age all the components and
everything that's available now is more
than capable of handling the yeah it's
more than strong enough there Chromeo
components now it can handle all the
power purely nowadays it's RPM the
gearboxes the motor they're all revving
8 9,000 RPM and where do they break dead
in the center it shears like a biscuit
really just turns to wet spaghetti
really so that's so the RPM question
determines what you make it of how thick
it is yep so RPM if you're doing if it's
very long like X y's and you're doing
High revs will break it up into two
sections put a center bearing if it's
within the Rev range and we'll make it
at a 3 and 1/2 in tube got it that's
what determines if we go two piece or
stick to single so we spin this up
balance it make sure it's happy you
change it if you need to yep and then
we're paint it you're ready to stick in
the G let's go all right to make sure
the shaft is perfectly straight and
balanced a dial gauge is used to check
for any high or low spots Justin heats
up and then quickly cools the metal to
change its shape it's a process he
repeats over and over and then uses the
balancing machine to indicate where any
issues might be once he's got it in the
ballpark he'll then remove Material off
the end of the shaft to remove weight or
add weights which he'll then weld on
it's a process that fine-tunes the
balance of the shaft to make sure when
our ej20 is spinning it it's straight
and
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true it then gets a quick hit with some
sandpaper to clean off any scale and
dirt then it's into the paint booth and
we're all
done
absolutely massive this is like I said
at the very start one of the biggest
projects that we've ever attempted and
it would not be possible without all of
these friends and experts helping us so
thank you very much exactly and such a
different spread of skills there you got
engine Machining you got making drive
shafts from scratch making tail shafts
from scratch so many different skills
set coming into it and I really
appreciate everyone that helped us out
uh and also it's just all those little
things are going to make this Brumby
extra extra special welcome to another
episode of this epic Subaru Brumby build
it's a restoration we found it in a barn
it's full of rats and now we've exploded
the whole car out onto these tables and
we're going to show you we're going to
walk through what we've got here I don't
know what half of it is to be honest
yeah but Martin does well I hope I hope
I can work it out but a lot of our stuff
has been painted which is cool so these
are all the trims that we've got painted
so that's actually the same color as the
Subaru laog which is an awesome little
uh shout out to the laog and then
everything else is in a satin so our two
our little theme there is the obviously
the awesome green and then we've got a
satin black and then anything that used
to be Chrome is now La black which I
think is going to look just exent you
can see the difference here highlighted
which is awesome so you get a little a
little shiny a little gloss and then a
little satin there which is awesome
that's the that's the the fun stuff
sticking that on is really exciting and
sort of easy bit this is where it gets a
bit more complicated cuz we've got make
our interior work we also have to make
it work with the Forester gearbox so
that's all different as well then we've
got a custom made drive shaft which you
guys would have seen by now as well
where we've got all that balanced up
that needs to go in our gearbox needs to
go in and we've got our interior to do
like seat rails we've got to get our
clutch and brakes working and on the
floor is everything else which is
actually the details um and as you can
see you discovered some uh issues with
our insides now when I was pulling the
dash out I actually like maybe this
seems a bit pedantic but I'm not super
familiar with these cars so I actually
wrote on all these things this Dash
screen vent left hand side that way goes
up so actually know if you are a Subaru
Brumby Legend uh you would just be able
to look at all this stuff and know what
it is but Marty was saying before you
know his kind of experience with Subaru
is a generation newer than this and my
experience with Subaru is like one the
next one after that again so that's all
of that stuff moving on over here we've
got look at this look at these interior
pieces M absolutely beautiful mate
absolutely look that brand new so our
friend Carlos trimmed these for us um
which just looked absolutely epic and he
actually matched what our seats are
going to look like so we gave him a
sample of the seats uh which are also
over there on a pallet which is very
cool they've been sent up they brand new
BRZ seats uh the other things that we
have here which you probably notice is a
whole lot of Subaru genuine parts now
being that this is a Subaru Brumby and
Subaru is involved I said hey I would
love to get all the parts in genuine
Subaru they said great and they sent
them there's everything here we're
talking brake pads head gaskets a clutch
a brand new clutch um and every other
part we could think of that we might
need so thermostat housing which is good
cuz I actually Ed our old one on another
car that's a whole another story um yeah
boots even even down to little details
like brake and clutch pedals so thanks
to Hing us up with that that's very very
exciting I've also got some bits to do
our fuel system so there's a heap to do
um any restoration of this level is
going to be kind of this much work and
people take years to do this we've only
got a couple of weeks to get this done
in its entirety so we're going to have a
good day to crack at it try and get as
much of this into the car as we can and
special guests special guests who are
just over here who are going to be
helping us out um this engine that we've
taken out of the Forester is getting a
full birthday so um I'm going to be
working with Aaron from Subaru we're
going to be putting that back together
meanwhile look at look at the boys
they're just ready to go look at them
they're just so stoked to be here they
they've come from all over Australia 2
minutes away and and Melbourne this is
SC Scot you might have seen him in
previous episode he was helping out Dave
our other friend from Perth um he also
knows where stuff he's the kind of
person where I go hey Scott where does
this go on a Brumby and he goes lower
left hand passenger and his name's Scott
but we call him Benny try and work that
out I don't know anyway um let's just
let's begin although we have tried our
hands at bringing some old cars back to
life again this is a whole other level
we've cleaned Subaru out of as many new
parts as we could mostly Forester bits
but they also managed to find a few
Brumby Parts in the warehouse too
anything we can't get new will be
refurbishing quite a bit of this stuff
has actually survived pretty well
considering its age that's the uh diff
Mount as well but there's some service
rust and corrosion on there it's an easy
one just to blast and clean up we can
even put a new bush in it if it needs it
so I'm going to throw it in the sand
blaster I'm going to give everything a
bit of a hit including our bash plate
and we'll get it either painted or
powder coated restoration by definition
means returning something to its earlier
good condition and there's some areas
where we'll apply even more durable
finishes than what the car came with
from the factory like powder coating the
bull bar or brake calipers but our main
aim is to Reco the parts to prevent rust
so some blasting cleaning priming and
painting will get the job done there's
still some Farm dirt on the underside of
the Chazzy which will remove once the
car's mobile again we've made a list of
jobs to complete that just seems to keep
growing but now that the dash is out I'm
going to give the interior a proper once
over which includes removing another
Rat's Nest that was hiding inside the
heater box while we sort that out Marty
and our two first named friends Scott
Benny is going to figure out how to make
the gearbox work with the Brumby clutch
pedal all right so Scott has a couple of
brumbies and by a couple I mean is it
seven yeah it's multiple U but the good
thing is he knows where everything goes
on these car I can go what's this bolt
for he goes oh that's the back tailgate
right driver's side whatever which is
freaking amazing what he's also done is
he's got a recipe to make it so we can
use a cable clutch which is the Brumby
yep on a gearbox that used to be
hydraulic yep but to save having to weld
in everything into the inside of the car
to convert it to hydraulic we can
actually use cable correct so what's the
recipe so this is a Brumby brake pedal
and clutch pedal assembly with the EA
clutch cable and by EA that's a ea
811 Y which is the old schol old school
engine uh and this is a liberty clutch
cable from a gen one gen two and it
should just slot straight on so and
slightly slightly slightly longer in the
it's almost it's almost exactly the same
isn't it so but we also have a bracket
that we have to put on the gearbox and a
different and we have to have the
matching cable clutch uh clutch Fork the
fork okay cool um that's that's all you
need so cable clutch conversion a lot of
people go Hydro we're going cable but it
means we don't have to hack up our
Brumby I think there might be some way
you can weld in pedal box if you I've
we've seen it done and it's not pretty
so this is a much cleaner and neater way
to do the same thing this is a much
better way so all we need is an engine
to put in so we can put the gearbox in
so we can put our clutch cable in so
we're waiting for an engine arrive so we
can mock it up the Brumby was still
selling so well into the '90s that
Subaru kept producing them while they'
moved on to RS turbos and the first wxs
that crossover is actually helping us as
there are some parts like this clutch
cable available that save us having to
re-engineer a whole system so the clutch
cable that Scott managed to get to work
in this car is a genuine Subaru part
also so are these screw grommets look at
this 30 years
old brand new love it love new parts on
a color like this had good it you can
still get these which is pretty wild and
then we've got our trims that we've been
painted up we sent it off to the paint
shop and they've come back so we can
actually start to put these trims back
onto the Brumby and it's going to look
freaking excellent we're waiting for our
engine which should be here any minute
so we can mock up we need to put the
gearbox in so we can do our shifter so
once we do the shif we can do the
console once we the console we can do
the dash then we can do the wiring it's
all has to happen in a certain order but
we are making really good
progress
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another day of Brumby people the rear is
pretty much done and he's starting to
look like a car I'm loving the theme of
our satin our Subaru logg black and all
this different sort of trim we got going
on here we're going to move on to the
front we had some holdups with engine
parts because there was just stuff
missing and our heads took longer than
we thought so we have to hit pausing the
engine so what we're going to do is move
our Focus to the outside of the car
again and also the interior going to do
wiring as much inside as we can and the
front end once we get the front of the
car looking good again we're going to
install the original bullar which we've
had powdercoated satin black once it's
on we can move on to fitting app power
steering rack that we got from an my
wagon and that we've had reconditioned
while we get that sorted Aaron is is
going to do the final assembly of the
reconditioned engine parts and get it
back into the
caret
St I was lonely it Wasing I was lost and
I was
underprepared and how are we supposed to
find find the right way home how when
you run when you run at of
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time
everything that we could see is finally
found
so no need to worry where to hide on
down so it seem don't be afraid of free
and broken I can't fix you so it
seems
son she was a calling she was talking in
sleep last
night and the Stars they couldn't sleep
and the moon woke
up everyone knew the sun came up with a
plan doesn't matter when you are the sun
deserves
somay and
everyone believe
there when they looked outside saw a
million stars lighting up the morning
sky
everything that we could be is
fining so it there's no need to wor
where to
hide so it seem don't be afraid of being
broken I can't fix you so it
seems I woke up
after so
my
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eyes
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in everything that we could be is
finally B
or so it seems there's
to to high Don't Look
Down
seem
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afen so we had another light one Aaron
stayed back and helped us get the engine
together it looks so freaking good
there's nothing like a fresh EJ uh to go
into our brby so next up we have to
connect this up to our gearbox we've got
a few more parts to put on we're going
to do rear main sealing if few this
small bit bits and pieces and then it
will be going into the Brumby for the
last time you may be asking why didn't
we just stuff the most enormously
powerful engine Subaru make into the
nose of this Brumby well there's a few
reasons massive amounts of power doesn't
always equate to a better car the shazzy
and drive line also has to be able to
use it secondly the single overhead cam
Subaru engines just fit better in the
Brumby Chazzy it means you can use
Factory mounts which means smoother
operation less noise and harshness it
also makes it much easier to get through
inspections if you've only increased
your engine capacity a small amount the
ej20 is also a pretty straightforward
power bump from the old ea81 which is
hard to get parts for these days the
factory fuel injection setup means good
fuel economy and smooth power you can
turbo these cars and many people have
but those setups don't drop directly in
as easily as this and even this is a lot
of
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work I call your name not
listen
City
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going
there the aim of the game now is to get
our freshened up engine made to our
gearbox a brand new clutch installed and
then get the engine and gearbox sitting
in the car so we can begin the slow
process of wiring it and plumbing it
along with a hundred other jobs that
we've only got a few short weeks to
complete the next morning the Brumby is
off to Castle Hill exhaust to get Chris
to make us a nice new stainless steel
exhaust from the headers back and it's
always so amazing when we see our
stickers on other mad cars out in the
wild so much of a car's character and
soul comes from the exhaust system and
how it sounds something that many modern
cars fail to realize it's most
definitely a part of any build process
that shouldn't be rushed or skimped on
and a custom system like this is the
ultimate in personifying your build come
down to Castle Hill exhaust Chris is
here we've got our headers these are the
Forester headers we're going to use as
much of the Forester exhaust as we can
that's for emissions it's for
engineering um and we're going to we're
also going to use it cuz it's it's here
and it's going to work just perfectly so
the cat as it is won't fit so we might
have to mess with that but now we're
just going to put that on the car and
see if that fits and then from there
build out the rest of the exhaust one of
my favorite things about working on cars
is getting to meet people who have spent
their life perfecting their skills
myself as a back Y at heart with no
formal training my eyes and ears are
always open when I'm in these
environments to pick up tips and tricks
to make my own work better whether it's
a setting on a welder a particular
material bolt or tool if you pay
attention you can learn plenty on this
particular exhaust we're using the
factory headers to keep the ECU happy
installing a new cataly converter of the
same specification as the original one
which after 20 years of use will have
probably worn out then we're using
stainless steel exhaust and mufflers
from the front to the
back
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like Chris from Castle Hill exhaust has
worked his magic we've got our original
headers which clear everything then
we've gone off here with a 90 into our
cat converter he's also put the uh O2
sensor in there so the ECU will be happy
and we come off into a flex which is
super important so as everything moves
the body and the engine move around on
mounts it's all going to take up the
slack then we've got a resonator to keep
some of the noise down it would probably
drone a bit without that then a straight
shot which is nice and neat onto here
another Mount then we've got this little
tricky bit of piping up here and into
our rear Muffler with a nice little tip
on the end I think it looks absolutely
excellent we' done full stainless and
then TIG welded through all those joins
and we mged on here I think it's looking
absolutely perfect the engine is in and
now the exhaust is on as well it looks
absolutely incredible uh we can't shift
gears yet but that is something that is
upcoming exactly so we got to make the
shif to work cuz the brbe is a different
length to the Forester what else are we
doing we're draining the old fuel out
because next we have to do a fuel system
we also paint it's super old that'll be
10y old fuel right that's crazy do you
actually do this for a job or have you
restored a car in your garage before it
is a massive massive job this is not
like throwing a pod filter on and doing
a flash tune it is absolutely huge so if
you actually do this or your business
does this first of all respect uh today
we got a couple of experts coming down
we got the Brumby boys uh coming in from
Western Australia and Victoria as well
they're going to be helping us out uh it
will be finished today uh we we're out
of time so uh we got to turn the key we
got to start first job Marty is going to
be making the shift
of fuel to a CO system and then I'm
going to be put the interor which is
going azzle in itself all the rats nests
are out now so I reckon Martin we just
kick right in we're just going to go
into it let's go Dave and Scott had such
a good time when we last had them over
that they jumped at the chance to come
back and help us finish this mad rumy it
looks like Marty though has had a bit of
a battle on his hands making the shifter
work the gearbox tail shaft shifter and
exhaust are all fighting over a very
small amount amount of real estate so
even though it currently does change
gears it looks like we'll have to start
that area completely from scratch next
up we have to make the fuel system work
originally the Brumby was a kby car and
it had a pretty basic low press pump to
send fuel up to the engine to make
mysterious old school atomization magic
happen we're going to be utilizing the
hard lines on the car but upgrading to a
high press EFI pump this is the CV shaft
out of the Subaru Forester we need to
use it in our Brumby now you might have
seen when engineering shop and got some
made that is too long for the Brumby why
cuz the forest has got a wider track
than a Brumby so what we've got made is
this awesome looking thing which is the
shaft that goes between the two so you
can see from there it's just a little
bit shorter in our case about 85 mm
shorter that is the secret source to
make a Forester gearbox fit of Brumby
but you also need to use the Forester
hubs if you're going to use Brumby hubs
this end has to be different or one of
the ends has to be different but in our
case we're just essentially shortening a
Forester shaft so what I'm going to do
is use all the hardware from the
Forester shaft I've also got new brand
new genuine Subaru boots for both ends
and then new circlips to go on this goes
on there and we rebuild it and then we
have a brand new Brumby
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shaft
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so time to pack this CV joint make sure
you get grease that is for CV joints
it'll usually s in the back it's one of
those things where there's like 16
different versions of Grease you end up
having to read each and every one but
there are different sort of compounds
and stuff in there sometimes it's a
Molly grease sometimes it's a rubber
grease you don't want to get it wrong
but if it says CV for something like
this you're all good so you need a big
scoop of
it luckily it matches the paint on the
outside and
that that's how you do it you have to
make the noise if you don't make the
noise you're not doing it
right
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once it's all greased up the metal bands
can go
on okay moment of truth I really hope
this
fits happily for us the drive shafts
slot straight into place and now that
they're in the gearbox we can reinstall
our front hubs which means we can fit
our freshly reconditioned brakes we've
had the calipers cleaned and powder
coated new seals put in and thanks to
our glorious pile of Subaru genuine
parts we have new clips pads and rotors
to go on as
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well
things are progressing well a little
update for you we got our power steering
in Dave's now working on getting the
power steering lines to work he's
actually used a hybrid of the Forester
ones and then adapted it into the my
wagon rack which fits a Brumby sub
things people it even blows my mind and
I've been doing this for a while we also
got a little under jacking plate there
as well which means we can also fit our
bash plate uh the next big job for me
now is to get the cooling system working
so Dave is working on wiring Scott's
working on finishing off Drive Line
things putting drive shafts in stuff
like that and I'm going to try get
cooling working and then assuming that
it does plug in and everything fires up
we'll have a running Brumby Let's cross
our fingers what's exciting about a
build like this is how many talented
experienced people all play together
like an automotive Orchestra to help
make this Brumby sing trying to do a job
like this by yourself while it would be
possible would be an absolutely huge
undertaking that you could very easily
spend a lifetime achieving Meanwhile
we're trying to do the bulk of this
conversion in just a couple of short
weeks and the whole restoration being
completed in less than 6 months and this
is alongside creating all of the unique
regular videos that come out every week
on Mighty Car Mods it simply would not
be possible without our friends and
experts coming along for the ride and we
are so stoked that they were so excited
to be part of this build the next step
is to fill the car up with castol Edge
and then we'll be moving on to getting
the radiator system set up in the
car
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while Dave works his magic installing
his custommade wiring loom I'm going to
try and get a radiator into this thing
there's a little bit less room in the
nose of a Brumby when you swap an ej20
into it I've chosen to use an
aftermarket alloy radiator as it gives
me flexibility to cut off and Rew the
inlet and Outlet pipes it's a tricky job
that I've been putting off as it pushes
my welding skills out of my comfort zone
I'm going to have to cut off and cover
up the original lower pipe I'm going to
use leftover bits that I cut off as it's
more likely to weld back to itself then
I'll grab a new Bend and place it in the
right position to get the radiator hose
onto it I'll do a similar thing at the
top but once that's all done I just have
to cross my fingers that it doesn't leak
to check I'm going to fill it with water
water first run it and then change to
coolant once I know it's watertight now
the radiator's in we can finish off the
front
end made some excellent progress the
radiator is mounted uh the worlds I did
in there seem to have held up which is
pretty exciting on Ali Dave is making
our wiring look beautiful putting uh
positive and negative terminals in there
ready for the battery and we're getting
really close to starting it actually so
next up we're going to put some fuel in
it uh Dave's going to make sure he's
happy with all the wiring stuff and we
are going to try and see if it
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runs
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all right the bromie is full of nice
fresh 98 Petrol in this case so next we
are going to flush the fuel line so to
do that we're going to Prime uh Prime
the fuel pump so turn the key uh as long
as all days wiring works properly we
should see fuel spit out up the front
we're going to flush the lines we'
replaced pretty much all the fuel lines
anyway but just to be sure there's
nothing in them we're going to flush
them both the feed and the return and
then we're going to try and start
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it
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so our fuel system is looking good A bit
of dirty crap came out so glad that we
cleared that out we've now checked for
leaks no leaks now we're going to crank
it but because the engine has been
rebuilt we don't want to actually run
yet so we're going to disconnect the ECU
so there's no fuel and no spark and now
we're going to crank it listen to Bad
noises and stuff falling out of
it
like an unhappy starter
motor is terrible cooked starter motor a
is what that is that sounds like it
extreme which way is cooked starter
motor cool time for first start
everything's done fuel system's flushed
everything's powered up I think it's
time it looks amazing it looks like the
whole car was look it looks like it
should start that always helps all right
let do it you ready Dave do it
man I hear fuel
pump well done like a stock one well
done boys that's freaking awesome well
done BR everybody EJ 20 power bromy
listen to it give it a little rev
day that's not real so good now let's
finish everything
else there's so much still there's so
much to do so much still to go let's go
let's go feeling Keen kill
it yeah maybe a kebab then we'll hook
into it this is a huge milestone it's
been hundreds of hours of work so far
and while it still has a bit of Orchard
dirt in places and it's not yet perfect
it feels like we've come a long way this
means installing our freshly recovered
Dash which we've had to send inter state
to be restored to as new and then fit
all the interior pipes hoses and cables
that make the fan and heater work
correctly the last 10% of finishing a
project car like this has a habit of
sucking in just as much time as the big
jobs like getting an engine in and we
want it to look as good as possible m
still got a few parts to clean up and
reinstall and our diff is getting some
fresh fluid so it's ready to drive we've
asked our friend miles from flux 3D for
some help making a custom center console
Hey miles how you doing good man welcome
to the internet oh thank you
not really welcome you've probably seen
Miles over many many years helping us
with all sorts of all sorts of amazing
things he's a very very clever fellow if
he's in the room he's the smartest guy
in the room it's true what have you got
for us we have some dashboard pieces for
you all right let's go have a look so as
well as of course updating the engine
interior of the car we also want to
update the entertainment so inside this
box oh there fancy things miles is going
to get some of those things out what
we're actually trying to do is replace
the factory Entertainment System look at
this a Clarion cassette player with some
of the modern kind of conveniences and
entertainment that you get with a modern
Subaru uh so we're putting in this which
is a doubled in unit here which will run
carplay as well obviously the car is not
designed to accommodate that insert
miles uh what have we made what have we
got so tell us everything everything all
right so we have this is the stock piece
of Brumby dashboard that is now two bits
of stock Brumby dashboard um so that
normally sits like that you've got your
Clarion deck in there so I cut that out
uh then we 3D scanned what was what was
left over yep uh and then that with one
of those little handguns things cool
can't they cost like millions of dollars
sometimes they do but they don't all
right good there's a scale uh and then
we I designed this in Fusion 360 that's
solid and printed it out of resen now
don't tell me don't even start to tell
me that this that's going to adapt This
Modern head unit fits into this well
that's because where the whole internet
is about to go wild if that's the case
don't do the insertion shot don't even
do it don't do it don't ah stop
it that is
unreal dude that is so cool so there you
go that's converting Brumby stuff to
Modern
stuff you're very clever m
thank you mate well done and there's a
little pocket here too so you can put
your change or your whatever you're
going to put in there oh that goes in
there that goes in there like that
should we see if it actually fits in the
car or is there some other stuff that
needs to go in there first before we can
attach this we should probably attach
this to this first and then try put it
in the car and then probably put the
interior of the car in first nice so we
can get our center console sitting just
right we're going to install some new
molded carpet to replace the rat
infested vinyl that came out of the
Brumby we're using the old stuff as a
template and cutting the car it to fit
this always requires a bit of fiddling
to get it just right but once it's in
it'll look great and as a bonus it'll
keep the cabin a bit quieter too here's
an update people Aaron's dropped in
getting carpet in it's a bit of a tricky
job not an easy one at all um I messed
around with the shifter for hours and
hours and hours and hours and it's
coming good miles we're about to get on
some speakers um because we can't hear
our mad system without speakers in the
door starting to put some sound ding in
there to make it sound nice done a heap
of painting all our interior bits have
been painted up now it's time for
speakers and wiring and trims and just
little bits and pieces that sort of make
it come together but starting look like
a car in there now really really cool a
few more mates dropped in grabbed some
tools and helped us out I'm constantly
amazed at how motivating kebabs can
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be the final 5% this is where you got to
stay strong hold your resolve Hold the
Line be determined be courageous
and insert the indicators well yeah and
put on trims and stuff that has been
sitting there being painted and being
fixed and then trying to find those
parts that went missing and uh and also
fixing stuff that's broken so far I've
been really lucky not much stuff has
actually broken or gone wrong and here
I'm waving this right now getting me
it's kind of like that let's take a step
forward Y and so um so now it's a matter
of testing it uh the thing moves under
its own power which is great but I'm not
entirely happy with the shifter so it's
going to be back on the Hoist and make
sure that it shifts gears properly uh
cuz then things like wheel alignments
have to happen and of course
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engineering my I'll do you to
do I'm run chasing
head the road destroyed let's make some
noise
make the whole world here us
tonight and I need you
now it is looking absolutely incredible
but you can't see anymore yet you got to
wait you have to wait till the next
episode there's a couple of tiny oh
dude that seat looks fantastic doesn't
it it fits like brilliantly there's a
few finishing touches that we're just
going to we are going to make you wait
cuz we want to drive it we want to take
it somewhere epic want to do all the
little things and just show you what it
looks like a million
bucks no matter what you're into there
is a car for everybody and every car has
a story and over the last 50 years or so
a lot has changed over those decades
with the advancement of Technology the
ability of the cars to do all the things
you need to do in your daily life and of
course the styling but what is it that
makes a car a classic what is that Quint
poal piece of magic that makes a car's
Spirit live on for decades after it's
been released is it just pure numbers
and penetration and then just everywhere
or is it like Motorsport or rally
Heritage well we had the opportunity to
drag an old Subaru Brumby out of a barn
in the Blue Mountains just west of
Sydney and embark on the biggest
Automotive project in Mighty cod's
history we restored it right back to new
paint it's one of the biggest jobs we've
ever done it tested us late nights long
days but we got it done and we are so
happy with how it's turned out today
we're going to be driving it for the
very first time plus handing it over to
Subaru officially and seeing what they
think of the Mighty Car Mods Subaru
Brumby build it's hard to believe that
this is the same car that we dragged out
of an orchard shed 6 months ago this was
a way bigger project than we could have
anticipated but what an incredible
transformation it's gone
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through
these days it's easy to buy into the use
it and then Chuck it away mentality that
surrounds us consume it bin it and go
again cars aren't always like this
though it may have been purchased merely
as a tool to move people or materials
around or maybe someone saved for years
to buy their dream car or even their
first car we spend so much time in them
navigating our way through life that
some of them just seem to
stick that Journey can last for decades
and in the case of Al Bry like so many
others out there it did two decades
working on a farm the next decade was
spent waiting waiting in a barn for
someone to come along and then begin a
New Journey and that's where it found us
and with some time and effort we've got
it ready for its next decade we are in
the Brumby for the very first drive
we're up here at 70 north which is a
property that one of our mates owns and
he's let us use it for the day so we can
test out the car it's working it's
driving it's an EJ powered Brumby it's
got a Forester Drive Line an ej20 a
5-speed gearbox it's now all-wheel drive
instead of front wheeel drive and it
drives really really nicely it's
absolutely balisimo these seats as well
fantastic so comfortable so good I'm
really happy with how it turned out now
it's a way bigger job than I could have
anticipated until you do it you just you
don't know what what you're in for um
but it just it's all come together you
know like it looks it looks restored it
still has the old school flavor going on
but it does have some nice modern
touches like it shifts really nice the
clut feels really good it doesn't feel
old what do you reckon was the hardest
part of the build like the thing that
you kind of thought ended up being
harder than you expected I think making
the decision to go all-wheel drive
because brumbies are four-wheel drive
but they're selectable and most of the
time you drive them around in
front-wheel drive and then when you pull
that lever it goes full drive now grumby
purist will tell you that's great and it
locks and it is a good thing for
off-road but we're trying to make
something that's a bit more of a road
car and uh still capable but sort of a
really nice sort of street car something
you can actually use every single day
also it's really hard to get Brumby
parts now where as Forest the stuff you
still can so by going EJ we've now got
you know injection we've now got a high
pressure fuel system we've got all this
sort of nice modern computer controlled
stuff that makes it a bit nicer to drive
we've added power steering and we're
also really lucky that we ended up
getting that second bumby at the same
time because with a project of this
scope the cars just blown apart
everywhere and right near the end we're
like where are those trims where are
those bits and we're like we don't know
where they are so luckily we could
Salvage them from the second rmy that we
got and it donated a bunch of its parts
to this project as well so when you're
when you're color changing a car when
you're going to this level of
restoration like it's huge and it takes
a long time heaps of hours stuff you
can't anticipate but all the different
elements have come together really nice
it's not a show car um that wasn't
really the aim to build a show car it's
just to build something you can drive on
the road and enjoy makes good power
shifts nicely it's kind of a comfortable
and nice place to be so it feels great
on the road but these cars were made for
the grass they were made for the mud
they made for the farm so let's leave
the tarmac and see what we can find
we've just head off the tarmac we're
going to do a little bit of grass a
little bit of Trail man just see how it
goes nothing too hectic even though we
are the world's best four-wheel driving
Channel today we're the world's best
all-wheel driving
Channel all the Brumby purists are like
turn over going you select and they're
right that's true that's fine if you're
doing this all the time maybe if you end
up owning it you can swap back back a
Brumby transmission into it oh imagine
that doing it all again it's working
it's Offroad and we actually did it this
is exactly what the bromie was
originally developed for way back in
the' 70s a practical Ute that you can
drive to the shops drive around your
farm or drive across the country a few
bumps on the grass is one thing but we
want to see how it handles some off-road
trails without scratching it of course
great Crossing no
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way all right and we're about to cross a
creek
Martin just don't want to damage it n
it's loving it dude yep we're through
look at this hey let's go little Romy
how cool let's go let's go will we get
up the other side M
that's got no muddies man I haven't even
flick low range yet just to Pro justes
it to Pro absolutely loves it just to
prove a point no low range let's do it
all right now we got low range dude how
that look at RS along I'm glad I got to
use it
finally this is awesome
man Brumby in its natural habitat I mean
we don't have any goats in the back not
yet but never know we might pick up a
goat
somewhere time for me to wind out my
little handle there we
go
nice look at it go dude the thing I've
been most impressed actually with how
things have turned out has been the ride
quality yes like it's just it feels
really good and really new and you're in
nice new seats yeah new shocks up the
front lift kit ones in the back like
it's just that side of things just
worked so well haven't had to be fight
that at all lifting the suspension this
is a pretty rough track dude it is the
liftting the suspension have just been
excellent had to fight with other things
like getting it to shift and you know
fitting everything in has been
challenging y but this actual ride
quality brilliant taking my
time can't wait to head back up this
hill yeah
we're good we're good man the buum is
just eating it for breakfast and that's
being held just in first GE in low range
and it's just sort of rolling down a
little bit of breake here and there can
you hear that I can hear water what's
are we losing water oh no look look look
look this is the Brumby and it's natural
habitat and check out what we found a
waterfall this is
awesome look at
this I didn't think we're going to be
getting a four-wheel drive Adventure in
today as well look at that that's
spectacular wow yeah
rumie yeah Brumby let's have a look at
this when I was about 7 years old my
best mate in Primary School his dad
worked at the local Subaru dealership
he'd bring home L Series and brumbies
and early Subaru Liberties then he
brought home an RS turbo and some wxs
and I was completely hooked we had a few
subar in the family I Learned to Drive
in one and then I owned a Bunch over the
years you you guys have seen it on the
show uh but if you told 7-year-old me
that 30 something years in the future
you and your mates would be restoring
something like this and then it would go
back to Subaru Australia I would never
have believed you to try and get out of
this Trail let's try and get out of this
Trail if we can get out of
here today is a special day because the
Brumby is registered it's engineered and
we're taking it on a very special trip
to see a very special person getting the
Brumby engineered was a I'm going to be
honest was a painful experience a car
this old when you've changed so many
things everything has to be picked over
and checked with a fine tooth comb
because we used a lot of stuff from the
one car from the Forester it made it
easier than it could have been but still
everything has to be tested and Brake
tested and it had to happen a couple of
times to make sure it passed asked all
the relevant things and that had to
happen before it could be registered and
we couldn't take it on a proper drive
before it had number plates and was
registered so today's the day it's about
200 or 250 K round trip I'm going to go
see someone
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special good day Bill you're back
um there's something missing where's the
shed well we didn't we didn't have the
Subarus to store so you got rid of it so
the shed's been removed and a bigger
one's being built a bigger shed's being
built that's what I like to hear good to
see you man yeah same what do you think
I think it's I think it's great I think
it's great the work that you guys have
done but I think it's also great that
what's going to happen with it oh yeah
and I've been amazed at the sort of the
response that I've seen on you know from
people to it and just a reminder people
how did what how did you end up with
this car again this car was originally
my uh sister-in-law's she had goats and
they weren't toen BG goats she used to
show them and she had it with show goats
yeah she had a cover on the a canopy on
the back and then she got married and
had no further use for it we bought it
being a bit obsessed with Subaru I ended
up uh being given another one and then
buying another one for spare parts um it
once
the shed here had two of them in it it's
kind of good though I mean the fact it
ended up in the shed and out of the
weather you see so many cars even
driving up here today I saw so many cars
left outside and they just it just kills
them but you know being inside left
inside something like that and stored up
they survived because actually this had
almost no rust in it yeah almost none I
think we had a tiny bit along the tray
where they all rust yes but otherwise it
was perfect you know a bit of bit of
dirt on it that's kind of it though it's
worked out well it has worked out very
well thank you again making it little
possible pleasure I'm glad that we got
to show it to you again as well oh yeah
no that's that's really great it's good
that it's come back to uh come home its
original home yeah yeah it's going to a
new home there it is the Subaru Brumby
what an epic build that was ended up
right where we began a shelds Orchard
with Bill with a very very nice looking
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Brumby
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