04/12/24: Coolant plumbing kits 800-00012 (38mm) and 800-00044 (32mm) now include parts to support the large hose where it passes below the starter motor and over the RH drive shaft. Same prices as previously.
29/11/2024: Miscellaneous For Sale / Wanted page added – random stuff we have for sale not directly related to our regular products.
16/10/2024: All bell housing kits now include a pilot bearing retainer. This component should not ever be necessary. The pilot bearing a press fit into standard Subaru flywheels, and there is nothing wrong with this design. However, as we have now seen aftermarket flywheels from 3 different manufacturers with the same design or quality control error resulting in the bearing sometimes not being a tight enough fit, including a bearing retainer in the bell housing kits , Using the retainer is never necessary with genuine Subaru flywheels, but doing so doesn’t do any harm either. They should always be fitted with aftermarket flywheels, as the manufacturers of some of them clearly don’t understand how to get the fit correct. The bearing retainer suits all flywheel s where the flywheel bolt heads are not recessed into counterbores in the flywheel.
16/10/2024: Bell housing kit range rationalised so half the number of kits now cover the same range of applications. Each kit now covers both long and short VW gearbox input shafts. Previously there was a separate kit for each, as this enabled the long shaft kits to be priced slightly lower, due to the much higher price of the (uncommon size) pilot bearing in the short shaft kits. However, these bearing s are now available in bulk for a much more reasonable price, negating the previous advantage having a different bearing in each kit.
30/09/2024: New range of induction systems for Subaru powered T25 / T3 / Vanagons introduced.
06/12/2023: Oil seal scrolls in our bell housing kits discontinued. Replaced by a seal backing ring (a design already proven in other RJES products, and used in various VAG, Subaru and Porsche gearboxes). The new design is backwards compatible, so can be retro-fitted into any older bell housing kits.
Not sure why we’ve never thought to have ‘news’ page before. So here is one. It’ll be updated whenever we have new products, or news about existing products.