ivans imports

if the coil pack is dirty will arc to the holdown bolts on coil [once it makes a track it will always follow the path of least resistance] take off the coilpack clean it and check for tracks from posts on it look like white or grey lines inside coil boots

emitions tests ????? what is that no smog control here howbout a canaidain cars ecu that does not have an egr or a plate like the ea81 uses between the header and the head with a port bung on it

just installing a 96 2.2 into a 96 outback 2.5 seems to fitt better than the original moter very few differances in the manifoilds and wire harness plugs right in bitt of diff no egr on 2.2 will sort that out i dont find mutch power differance and the reliability is way better a used 2.2 goes for 800$ and a headgasket job on a 2.5 go's for 2000$ + it just makes sense to put the 2.2 in theese cars should have came with it in first place have put 2.2 s from 89-97 into theese outbacks some things are different on eraly engines but the interchangeabily is very good have no unhappy customers with thiss convertion even the 2.2 with the twin cam heads works good gets rid of that weak 2.5 small rod journal engine witch has realy weak rod berrings that are phisicaly to small for applacation

if you can axses directly above the head of bolt inside the car and use a small hole saw make a hole above the bolt and come down from above with a good socket to hold the top side or cut them off and put a new bolt with a nut the welded nuts shoudent be to hard to break loose

the long bolts of the xmembers of a newer legacy are good make shure the end of bolts are marked grade 9 or higher belive they are 11.125 or 12.125 thread pitch

thoose blocks are very hard to find up here i get a 1000$ just for a short block i bet it could be bored but whould be a waste of a rare block i only have one and is mint we whant realy low budget moters the bored 2.2 to 2.5 engine cost under a 100 $ to biuld for me right down to its reused mains and head gaskets remember short life race moter if we get a week its doing realy good most are just in race buggys for are ice race track

thiss one is just for experament porposess i like the long stroke engine for mud dragster i biuld the engines for my group of subaru buddys to wail on best wat to test them out i have biult my own subaru engine machine shop here and do all my own borring and planing in house i have probly ten or 15 ej 2.2 and 2.5 cores to play with whanted to know who else plays around with the enternals of theese engines

at the subaru dealer you can buy just the gears separatly if you whant make shure you change the shaft seal

the preshure regulators like to get rusted up internaly and dont work that well also sounds like mabee one tooth off on disstibutor or vacume leak might be different mas airflow sensor turbo to non also check the wire conector on water temp sensor is bad for geting damaged and cotrols most of your cold warmup make sure that the two diagnostic conectors are disconected unless seting timing theese conectors when conected will keep the engine at 0 timing when pluged in

we are running a ej2.5 turbo on propane simpifyed the wire harnes down to crank sensor cam senser ig mod and knock senser thats it it runs a mixer of a chevy v8 work very good no problems and seems to make more power have run a deul feul setup on a ez3.0 turbo six cly worked good but had to use a very large mixer of 440 dodge to get enuff feul that moter had no rpm limit reved to 8500 rpms was crazy powerfull and flick aswitch and propane is off and runs on gas the only differance was the propane had no rev limit and i think it supplyed more feul than gas could but was very reliabble and resanabley safe mind you we brke two pistons but they are very week pistons in that engine

i change the water pump timimg belt and coged idler all as a set evry time i do anything with timing belt the coged idler do'es real time and sees way more miles than any others and fails evry day have had two engines just thiss week bent 16 valves because of this idler no ej moter is amune to thiss even if you just change it and nothing else have had them failed under 100000kms had a 07 with 78000kms bad coged idler this part is an engine killer the other pullys are smooth so the belt could slip across if seized and whould give warning the coged one seizes and rips the teeth of the belt

axle nut go's very tight 200+ ft lbs make shure the berring retainer nut is tight the big round one in back with 4 dogs on it look at the splines on stub and drum and cone washer check all that stuff for where if the cone washer is worn down the nut will bottom before drum titens up

91 fun justy turbo 1.2 2 dr oversise 14 alumminim wheels and lightend up gets about 40 mpg and fiugre abou 1200 lbs about 110hp passes evrything my ecvtamatic one gets just a bitt better probly 45 + mpg bone stock and yes the ectv still works and i cant kill it

have had ishues with aftermarket axle nuts having to big of outside diamiter and not tightening up proper theese nuts are about 5\16 bigger and look like some kind of mazda or honda junk they fit but do not titen up properly on hub after about 2000kms the axle works loose and damages the inside of the hub as it gets loose in berring [warnig do not install theese nuts if its not the same as what came off dont use it will save some big problems] have had 4 or more thiss year mostly rebiuld axles

all twin cam but most jdm used hydrolic lifters but still interferance the 96 2.5 used the same valve train if heads are wreaked hydroic to hydrolic solid to solid you can tell if it has a valve addjustment spec on under hood sticker or not

check out put of alt should be 14.20 no less than 13 ever and be carfull dont fry your ecu alternator is computer contored and dose not like voltage spikes like taking batt cable off when running not good idea

i did it and looks good a bitt thin around the barrel but will work for race engine now we plane the bugger down a bitt and get a short stroke 2.3 out of it or phase two rods and make a stroker 2.5 out of it i will biuld it and run it very hard c if it fails

one more note the valves on the engine i just did where very tight had to open up the clearance a bitt seem to like the exhaust a bitt loose 0.25 mm exhaust and 0.15 mm intakes but all valves had to be reset its nice to be able to take heads off plane them and reinstall with no down time will try and get vidio of head planer in action for thiss thread its interesting to c how bad some heads are and blocks i c more warp and low spots on blocks than heads last block took 3 thow to clean up and barrels where definaty lower than rest of block by about 1-2 thow

race buggy got 14 kms on five gallons at 6500 rpms 2.5 single cam turbo atoumatic with two gears 1rst and 2nd couldent get over a 100 and keep it under control

check the fuel fillter out if it gets pluged a bitt it make the pump run at higher presshure and it will get bad milage idling around because it runs to high of preshure low rpms and not enuff on high rpms makes the milage suck

dont worry today is headgasket job # 5 thiss week all day evry day doing a 04 with 120000km when i planed the head could see the low spot on the # 4 and #3 holes on bottom corers i took pics of evry pass with planer you can realy see the problem spots on the first 3 passes total of about 2 thow to clean up whould have never worked unless planed and yes if its not a brown seal pitch it in the dirt and i use avinic form a gasket coating on evry head gasket

check that the pan is not bashed there is very little clerance between the oil pickup and the pan it gets pushed up and starves for oil but gets just enuff to stay alive

have found that the piston slap is created when the drilled oil holes in the piston plug up there are 4 small holes behind the oil ring if they plug the piston gets no cooling oil and wheres down the side

i put toyata pu front brakes on rear have big rotors and 4 piston calipers works good put them on my subaru mud dragster works so well was able to ditch the front brakes

one two three at a time dam subarus cheapy china head gaskets 160 km 150 km 180 km all same oil leak on drivers side