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Thanks guys, I'll go reset it when I get back from school. Also, the IAC was cleaned a few months ago. And I never took the heads apart, just replaced the valve cover gaskets, and any other mis gaskets.

Car: 98 Impreza Outback Sport 2.2 Hey guys, I recently had the timing belt tensioner pull out, threads and all, dropping the timing belt, causing the valves to smash into the pistons. So, I pulled the car apart, went to the local pick and pull, found a 93 legacy with a 2.2 gen 1 with dual port heads. Said screw it, grabbed them, and the header, slapped it all together with all new gaskets etc... Now the problem I am having is, when the car is warm, not only when hot, just even luke warm or having been started a few hours ago, enough to not cause the idle to raise due to it being cold outside, right after initial start, it will die. If I rev it up a little (1-2 seconds) after starting, it'll come back down to proper idle, as it should. I am also noticing the idle being a LITTLE low normally. So, as long as I just give it a little rev after starting, it'll idle fine (smooth) for however long the car is running for, stop lights, whatever, no problem. It didn't do this whatsoever before swapping heads, so maybe one of you guys could throw me a bone here as to what it could be. I have NO vacuum leaks, new PCV hoses, and a new air filter. The only think I can think is, it's mad at me for going from single port heads to dual port heads?? I have no idea. Other then the start up idle issue, the car runs GREAT! Thanks guys, Robert Oh, just for fun, I should add that the car has 248k on it, and when I had the heads off, I examined the cylinder walls, and the top of the pistons. The cylinder walls were IMMACULATE, no scoring, beautiful crosshatching, and the top of the pistons had a LOT of carbon build up, which I cleaned up a little.

Hey guys, I have a 98 Impreza Outback Sport with a second gen 2.2, the timing belt tensioner ripped the threads out, thus the belt fell off. It needs new heads to say the least. Anyway, I managed to find a set of 93 legacy 2.2 heads for super cheap, but I wanted to make sure they would fit. I have a headgasket kit for a 96 Impreza 2.2 laying around which I'm planning to use. I know the exhaust ports are different, dual port for the 93, and single for the 98, but are there any other differences? Will this HG kit fit, and will everything work together except for the headers? Thanks guys! Robert

See, I thought the same thing, but there's no codes present, and the plugs and wires are ~3 weeks old.

Hey there everyone, I have a 98 outback sport 2.2 with 228,000 miles on it, 5 speed manual. I was on a long drive headed to up north Michigan to watch the Sno*Drift rally this past weekend and it was snowing pretty good on my way up. Now, the car, if it is not snowing, or having ANY snow kicked up in front of it, drives perfectly smooth, no problems whatsoever. As soon as it starts to snow, or the car in front of me kicked up powder or something, it would do what i cant describe any better than to be a hiccup. It feels like the engine just shuts off for about a half a second, and then comes back like nothing ever happened. It happens ONLY when theres snow flying around. The more snow flying around, the more it does it, but it happens on average about one time every minute. If theres a lot of snow flying around, then it'll happen 2-3 times a minute. I also have an 07 wrx which does the same exact thing, it kind of just went away on the WRX, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere on this car. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated!

So I just picked up an 84 BRAT, It runs great when it's cold/warming up. When it reaches operating temp, the idle goes down from 1300 to 500-700, and whenever I push the gas anywhere between full throttle and idle, it sputters like the choke is engaged. It will not drive unless I am flooring it, only when it's at operating temp. The guy I bought it from claims to have rebuilt the carb last year, but I'm starting to think he did something wrong. Anybody know carbs? I'm learning, but this is my first car with a carb. Thanks!