BruceyWV

I'm leaning to an H6.

Heh, I think I'm going to start putting a snorkel on all my cars, including the RWD V8 ones, counting Lesbaru, I'm on my second car with water in the engine.

When you going to waterproof the rest of it?

I'm leaning towards the engine swap.

Actually, I went through the puddle two months ago. Heres the video of when we got it running again: http://lesbaru.com/stuff/lololol.wmv I did full tune up when I got back, but I'm still clueless as to the exact cause.

no actually, it was "Its not that deep man, I dont want to get out, just go on through" it ran on steam for a while.

air intake. A puddle got deep real fast.

75K At around 70K I drove it through some deep water and water got in the engine, I changed all the fluids and plugs/wires to be safe. Didnt seemed to have helped.

LOL No seriously, I've been worried about my EJ25's headgaskets forever, and today the engine block CRACKED. On the four lane...where theres no emergency lane... Blew it all to hell, its not getting fixed. Pricing my options, I'm staying away the EJ25's that are older than the 05's Great car though, I'm sticking with them, I am thinking that massive water pit I drove through a while back might be the cause. Not sure.

Looks good to me man, it looks an awful lot like a siren so people might think you're Volunteer Fire Department or something. (and presume you're an @sshole) Another super cheap mod is cracking your front bumper, and then reasoning you didnt need it anyway and amputating the airfoil out. Approach angle for me is something like 35+ with the SSR's on. Picture of mine. I'm sure you've seen it at SoB though.

My camry had a full size spare come to think of it, although it was on a steel wheel. instead of matched alloy.

my 2000 has a full size unidirectional spare. matching wheel too. Got rid of the goofy donut. I had to take the tray out and lower the pressure to 20 psi in order for it to fit, its probably a bit out of round after setting there under inflated and jammed in for so long, but I dont care, I have a full size spare.

Two others at SOB.org are having the exact same problem: http://www.subaruoutback.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5737 One is from an 04 and the dealer is repainting it.

Given a hard enough shock at fast enough speeds they can always go bad it seems. I've seen a couple on SOB.org go premature for that year, maybe a design flaw?

I was about to suggest bearings, if the noise is only at certain speeds or certain turns, thats whats its been everytime for me.

Manarius: Our cars arent exactly the same, I'm driving the heaviest Subaru available that year, at 3500 lb curb weight. It also has the worse power to weight ratio of any Subaru that year. With a full load of tools and equipment in the trunk, and usually have a passenger or two with me. Easily 4100 lbs counting tools plus 450 lbs for the both of us. A lot of work for that little 2.5 liter engine to do. Besides the terrain difference, I'm not sure thats a fair comparison

Oh, also. I dont act like I'm driving a manual, but my entire city is all on a hill side and most of the speed limits are 25~35 miles an hour. If I keep it in D it drops to 4th not soon after 25 miles an hour, and as soon as I start to ascend a hill, it will slowly lurch until it drops back to 3rd again,(These are West Virginia hills, no way I'm going up it in 4th at 30 miles an hour) I actually would think in these situations keeping it in 3rd would be better, because its shifting a lot less. There is also no noticeable gas mileage difference doing this. My tranny's got 75K and its fine. My 0.02

I've done that before on my old camry, at low speeds, on gravel. It just killed the engine. Put it back in drive and it was fine.

Installing a transmission cooler was no harder than changing the engine oil on my 2000. The hardest part was putting the oil lines through gaps in the radiator. Overall 3/10 on difficulty, just for the lines. I installed mine after the factory cooler lines.

I disagree Unless we're talkign some revving to infinity honda engine, or those 3 liter V8's that rev to 15,000 RPM. My first 4.6 V8 had the same redline as my 2.5 boxer: 6000 RPM. The problem with the 00-04 is simply weight. They are the heaviest vehicles Subaru made those years, and have the worse power to weight ratios. The SVX weighed about the same, but it had an 3.3 liter engine backing it up. (It was still slow) I've driven an RS and an 05 Outback (both also use the EJ25) and they are a lot faster. It could be due to gearing, but I thought the automatics had 4.11 gears, with the 4.44 for the manual? (maybe I have that reversed?)

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Eagles are great vehicles, the ugly as sin part just adds to their character. I've never ridden in one of the coupes, just the larger wagon types.

ONE little dremel disc went through that entire bumper like it was nothing. I really expected to cut a few, but cheap plastic junk on the outside, with some styrophoam underneath, and finally the actual bumper. There was a line already on the bumper (just sort of accents, or styling of some sort) and I just cut on it all the way, since I figured it would be hard to get it straight otherwise. I'll be spraypainting the styrophoam now. I will have a new pic when I get it all fixed up.

Looking at it some more, I think it would look better if I spray painted the entire styrophoam backing piece and cut at that line. Thanks!

I might, it wont take but five seconds, but the thing is is I cut straight across the entire bumper, theres a removable plate ont he other side that has been long since missing. That side droops down further it seems. Although thanks for pointing it out, I probably will make it flush with the rest whenever I get it hooked up to the skid plate. Maybe I oculd just weld another piece of metal and 'extend' the skid plate? hmmm