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Well after searching for what seemed like forever on a 2 dr 95-01 impreza manual and finding nothing. I decided to search for a 95+ legacy manual sedan. After finding nothing again. I finally bit the bullet and said. Okay I will drive an automatic. Of course I couldn't even find a legacy that wasn't a wagon. But today I found, test drove, and made an offer on a 97 Legacy 2.5 GT. The only downer is that it is an automatic. But it's still a damn cool car and still under warranty. I'll be picking it up in a couple of days. Here's a pic. http://www.geocities.com/infinatezero415/newride.jpg

Just curious what everyone's mileage is. I actually ran across a 95 impreza coupe today with 280,000 miles on the odometer. Not sure if that is on the original engine. But still impressive.

ah I could've helped...but I didn't read this messege till today...the 3rd. Sorry.

he he he back to the whole bmw thing... a completely stock 95 325is has 189bhp. plugs intake and what not...probably 193bhp...no kidding. If he was running 85 octane I wouldn't expect too much from it. The bmw's really need minimum 90 octane or better to perform half way decent. Another reason why subarus are excellent cars. I swear these suckers strive on 85 octane. But also you need to figure in the weight differences of these cars too. What exactly are we doing here? Just comparing the reliability of an engine. Or the performance of a car with an engine...like legacy to impreza? Basically for every 11lbs you remove from your car it's almost equivalent to a 1hp gain. I dunno it's 4am and I am rambling on now.

Excellent guys. Thanks for your input. The Paul Eklund site has a few items I am looking for an will make this project a little easier. I will definatly check out AZ considering that frankly I can go pretty much anywhere in the us since I don't have any engagements tieing me down right now. But I am off now to check out a legacy down the road that is for sale for only 1,000 bux!

Well damn been what now...um 5-6 years since I've been here regularly so I don't recognize a lot of the people in here anymore. But here's the deal. As of thursday I left my job with bmw..gag. I'm stuck driving a blasted expensive BMW. I put it up for sale on thursday and may have it sold already. Long story short I am buying a subaru of course, and there's no way in hell I am going to buy anything else, I've driven just about everything now and still haven't found much to surpass the all around awesome-ness of a subaru. I was looking at the imprezas, and the legacy's. Problem is I can find billions of WRX style bumpers for the imprezas but none for the legacy's. I would rather pick up a legacy and put a wrx style bumper and spoiler on. Would save bundles on insurance driving a legacy instead of a impreza. Does anyone know of any companies that sell bumpers or body kits for legacy's older then the 2000 models? Oh yeah and if anyone knows of a legacy or impreza in the colorado area for sale (around 7,000 and under) that is an AWD 5spd let me know about that too. I don't have too many options since I refuse to drive an automatic and thats mainly what is available for sale right now. But I am mainly just looking for any kind of exterior aftermarket products for the legacy's. I really am not in the mood to spend 8-12 months laying fiberglass if there is a market.