A guy at work claims that Porsche uses the Subaru Boxer engine as a replacement engine on the Boxster.
Is there any truth to that ?
I find it hard to believe and could not verify it using Google.
Porsche and Subaru
Mar 09, 2006
7 Replies
No. Many people make the boxer-boxster confusion mistake, but there is no connection between Porsche and Subaru beyond the fact that they use a similar horizontally-opposed, or "boxer" engine layout.
No one would complain about slow subarus if they had porsche engines. The boxster is a poor mans porsche though like the 924 was.
many people do Subaru engine conversions(old VW bugs and vans for instance) - but that one I have not heard of. Certainly a Porsche DEALER would not do that. Doesn't mean some shade-tree modders haven't done it once or twice SOMEWHERE.
Carl
An STi engine in a Boxter?" Hmmmmmmmmm..
Well, I've seen a few write-ups of EJ engines in various Porsches (seems like primarily 914.)
Here's a cool unique Porsche (or Porsche replica) to see a Subaru engine swapped into it.
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Thanks..
The engines are similar in design, but that's as far as it goes. I'd love to drop the boxer engine in my 911 into my Outback, then do a V8 conversion in the 911. :-)
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