The KEP kit is of very impressive quality to look at, and I have little doubt that it will prove to perform as well as it looks. The kit took about 3 weeks to arrive from California and the costs were as follows: basic conversion kit (200mm flywheel): $440, Stage 2 Pressure plate & clutch kit (2200lbs): $120, Vanagon wiring instructions: $20 (I thought these would at least help me to start with), UPS shipping to UK: $230!! Import duty and tax: £100.

I've now fitted the kit, which went very easily, as shown in the sequence of photos:

The KEP pressure plate is suitable for both early and late style clutch release bearings, as I have the later style I removed the collar from the centre.

KEP flywheel is the key part to the conversion, it has a subaru centre pattern and VW outer ringear to allow the VW clutch and transmission to mate up to the engine. The VW starter motor is used, I plan to use the stock one which should be fine for the lower compression turbo engine.,

To fit the adapter plate, the subaru engine has to have the lower two studs removed, the plate is then bolted onto the engine block.

Here the subaru flywheel has been removed and I gave the block a quick clean while it was easy to get to.

The adapter plate simply bolts onto the block with 4 bolts. It did need some very slight clearancing by the turbo. Part of a bracket was flush with the edge of the block, nothing a hand file couldn't sort out though.

Next was the flywheel, the bolts were torqued up in the correct sequence with threadlock to 50ftlbs.

Finally the clutch went on, with the help of an alignment tool to keep the friction plate central, again everything was torqued up to spec in the correct sequence. The engine is now ready to bolt in!

A dig around at Halfords proved to be useful as I found the correct length belt to drive the alternator. The original ones were too long as I removed the power steering and air conditioning.