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There is a place in Virginia that is good and a few in Ontario Canada as well. I can't recall the names right now. Both sell on ebay. I can change a rack in about an hour. I refuse to install the aftermarket rebuilt racks anymore. Way too many problems. Sometimes they leak right out of the box. Somtimes they last a week or a month. One car I put 2 in before the owner gave up and got a factory reman. You are much better off getting a low mileage used rack than a cheap rebuild.

Older legacy and impreza use the same rack. Contact one of the jdm engine importers. They will practically give the rhd racks away since most people don't use them when they swap in a jdm wrx engine and a turbo crossmember. Since you are in texas try J-hot, they are on ebay and in texas, should save on shipping.

I'd be more concerned about the condition of the rest of the car. If you can get a rust free one that's more important than mileage. A used early EJ22 is cheap and easy to replace. A couple hundred dollars and a few hours and you could put a used engine in if you had to.

I'm not really a fan of the new ones. I like Impreza up to 07, Legacy only up to 99, Forester to 08. Don't really like the Tribeca at all. That's my opinion.

You won't cut the framerails with a hand saw without your arm falling off. You really want to cut the rail since the support is spot welded to the end of it. Around here you can pull all the sheetmetal off, get everything flammable out of the way and they will torch it off in front of the shock towers for $10-20. I used to pay to have that done before I invested in an 18 cordless sawzall.

I usually cut the whole thing off with a battery powered sawzall and drill the spotwelds at home. See if the yard will torch it off for you in front of the shock towers for extra money. Some of the ones here will.

No EJ205 heads. You need wrx intake manifold, wiring and ecu. It's a nice combination. The postal legacy has the same 2.2 as any other legacy or impreza.

The EJ22E engine itself will hold up fine. I've run 20+ psi of boost on them and 300 whp. No breakage. I wouldn't push it much harder than that though. After my success a few other guys on nasioc copied me and have run the same setup. EJ22E shortblock with EJ205 heads. You can't run a stock N/A ecu. You will blow it up. The key to making it work is either a factory turbo ecu, standalone or piggyback and a proper fuel system including pump and injectors.

ACT makes one that fits, but it's a lightweight and $300.

Strip all the loom off the harness. Leave everything that goes from the ecu to the engine alone. Then label everything that comes out of the ecu and goes back into the dash harness. Cut all those and merge them into the car.

You can get whatever you need to keep a 360 on the road. They don't really get 66 mpg. More like 40 something is realistic. That's what mine gets. I've got 30-31 mpg in a 02 wrx on long trips driving like a grandmother.

Unplug the bag, the airbag ecu and take the bulb out of the cluster. That's how I do it for people that ask me to. 93 only had the one airbag. You can also unbolt the explosive charge from the back of the bag and then put the bag back on the wheel. I hate the things, I've blown them off and I sure as hell don't want one going off in my face. Nothing will convince me otherwise. On my 95 Impreza I went one step further. I put in a 93 Impreza dash with no bag and a 90 Legacy steering wheel with no bag. So it looks like it never came with them. This is the same wheel that the Canadian and JDM Imprezas had with no airbag.

I hate to state the obvious, but pull the bulb. It won't take more than 15 mins.

I have the tool. I wasn't sure the OP wanted to buy it just to use once.

Yes, there is a clip behind the handle you have to release and the handle slides off. There is a special tool for it, but you really don't need it, you can just get in there with a long thin flathead screwdriver and pop the clip.

Did you ever get your engine situation sorted out. Somebody posted this on the 360 club website. Brand new ff1 engine for $400. http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/pts/1965650401.html

I start with a flat putty knife, hammer that in, then progress to a flathead screwdriver, then a prybar. I can separate even the tough ones in a minute with this method.

The phase 1 EJ25 has longer rods. So you couldn't put 99 dohc pistons in the 99 sohc block. The pistons would hang out the top of the block. 99 Legacy EJ25 was an oddball. It had 8 bolts engine to trans but was still a phase 1 with #3 thrust bearing, the longer rods and smaller rod bearings.

The rod length is different. It won't work. I can't see any reason you couldn't use a 99 2.5 sohc block with dohc heads except the compression ratio difference. You'd have to calculate it out and see how bad it is. If it's less than a point it should run ok.

Lets just hope this thing isn't a huge POS like the EA82 was. I really like the '11 sti sedan. I hated the 08-10 sti hatch.

Legacy 00-05 Forester 99-05 Impreza 02-05 Also it can replace the phase 2 EJ22 in 99-01 impreza. All of this assumes you will swap intake manifolds, water pumps, cam + crank gears etc. as needed from the old engine.

See if your current transmission has a spin on external oil filter. If it doesn't, the one you bought should work.

No, no replaced injectors. The reason for failure was obvious. They had no valve clearance at all and the valve was hung open. I've seen this on EJ205 wrx, EJ25D outback and EJ22. Always #4. I don't keep track of repaired cars. Only way I would know of a repeat failure is if it broke again and the owners contacted me. None have about burned valve repeat failure.

I've had a few burned valves. It's always been that the valve wears into the seat and the clearance gets too tight, hanging it open and burning it. I've always been able to just lap in a new valve, reshim and it's good to go. For whatever reason it always does seem to be #4

The abs on these cars is horrible, it's nothing but trouble. I can't imagine spending any money to repair the abs on a 15 year old car. At the first sign of abs trouble I just unplug everything, take the bulb out and am done with it.