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The pistons crest out of the block the same on all ej25d's . But the piston is different, you will have much higher compression with that bottom end than 97-99 blocks. With stock thickness gasket you will have 11.4:1 compression, you'll be safe as far as piston to valve contact. But you will have a high risk of detonation.

They did make manual obs's, some of my nephew's impreza manual swap parts came out of one.

I've done the auto to manual swap. For my market area the $400 bucks and 3 days I spent doing it was well worth it. I would do it again in a heartbeat. But that's mainly because manual 2nd gen legacys don't exist here without rust. My car has no rust at all, so it would have been plain stupid to sell it and buy a rusty quartered car for more money than I could get selling mine plus the cost of the swap. Since swapping my car I have gone from the average mpg of 25 town 27 highway to 30 town 33 highway. I am very meticulous about my oil changes and tune ups. I know what my car has been through, so why sell it and take a chance on someone else's second hand problems.

No they're a direct bolt in.

Delta Cams does regrinds for that engine. Their website www.deltacam.com appears to be down this morning. But if you are on Facebook they have a page there as well. Nobody else to my knowledge does cams for the ej22e. You can also use a thinner head gasket, such as a cometic .041" thickness to raise your compression ratio to make better use of the cams and headwork. This would put you at approximately 10.3:1cr.

The engine is different, the pistons and heads are different. And they used a smaller turbo, different ecu tune, different intake manifold and intercooler. The STi engine code is ej257 and the legacy gt is ej255,ypu can google search to find more details on the differences. But both are realistically just as capable of making good power.

That's a real crap picture, but I can't see anything that easily identifies it as either. But as it's been said before the motor doesn't car which computer type it's hooked up to as long as the sensors match the ecu.

Last post on this thread was eight and a half years ago.

1999 ej22 should be avoided, it's a phase 2 and will not be a direct replacement for your engine. Also the majority of 96 ej22s are single port, only the very early production models still had dual port.

No problem fitting them at all, I'm running them on my lowered 97 L. Came from 185/70r14 and my speedo is as accurate as stock according to gps. Most of your winter variety tires are made narrower than the advertised size anyway, even though they keep the height the same as standard seasonal tires. You'll definitely have better traction with dedicated winter tires on the car.

Yes, quads were standard in 83 on gl models. My brother had a 2wd 82 gl sedan back in the 90s that had quads as well.

Actually, 83 was the first year for the turbo brat. The 4 speed manual has 23 spline axles. Seeing that the original craigslist ad has been removed I also request pics .

I'm actually in Tazewell County lol, North Tazewell specifically is my home. There aren't any specialists for these cars around here, but honestly most of your problems don't seem to be anything out of the range of normal for a 12 year old car. Auto Zone has always been good about scanning for me in the past. But I've since purchased my own scanner and do my own diagnostic/repair work. To my knowledge none of the local junkyards have any of your era Subarus in them. I try to keep tabs on what they have as I myself have quite a few subarus I keep maintained for family and friends. Including my 97 Legacy, 98 Forester, nephew's 97 impreza, mom's 04 outback, and some others for friends. The compass reset doesn't sound too far out of the norm for in my experience with other manufacturers honestly. Mercer Mall parking lot would probably be sufficient for that exercise. To replace the mirror requires removing the triangular trim piece (probably a tweeter on your car) and the door panel to access 3 screws that hold it on. The visor will also interchange from a gt model. And the emergency brake probably just needs adjusted, which is done by disassembling the center console and tightening the equalizer assembly. John makes a good recommendation for the outback forum, another you may like is www.sl-i.net, I'm a member there under this same username.

Welcome aboard, what part of the boonies are you from? I'm in the boonies in VA right beside WV.

My buddy has been using one of the gmb kits for about 25k miles with no issues. My nephew has about 10k on one as well, the other 2 I have installed over the summer so they're still pretty low mileage but I don't forsee any issues. I'd pop for oem cam and crank seals, along with the oil pump o-ring. They really aren't that expensive considering how long they last compared to the cheap ones.

I have 4 of their kits in service right now. The only parts of their kit I'll advise again not using is the seals. 1k miles on the valve cover gaskets from one of them and they were leaking worse than before.

It's more in the tuning that anything else. On rs25.com there was an ej25d making 500+ at the wheels, granted it had sti internals. But one hell of a tune and 40psi.

Over on legacycentral there have been postings of running as much as 20 psi through them, with tuning of course. Don't remember off hand what power that was made.

Compression ratio also depends on what head casting the car in question has, there are 2 different castings for the 255, one is a b25 like the STi(55cc), and one d25 which has a smaller chamber volume (51cc). Early 255s should have the b25 heads.

Everything I'm seeing shows the 255 has the same coolant port design as 25d, 251, and 04-07 257. So the same cometic gasket used on your outback would work, don't recall what thickness you used for it, but I recommend the .040" for this application.

That part would already be there this time.

That hasn't stopped anybody from turboing them before. The pistons are the same material as any of the factory turbo engines. The difference between an na engine and a turbo engine is compression and management. You'll have the management already in the car, and the 255 heads will take care of dropping the compression to a very turbo friendly 8.5:1 with a set of .040" cometic gaskets. Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't you planning on turboing the 22e/25d hybrid in the outback?

Why? You'd be dropping the compression to within .2 of stock on the ej255. And it'd be a dirt cheap(compared to a replacement ej255) way to get the car drivable again.

I'll take a measurement of the ej25d plate I have in my building and get back to you in the morning.

You could always run an ej22e shortblock between the 255 heads.