Greatwhitekiwi

My local Subaru dealer diagnosed it, through elimination. Yeah JCE that's what i planed on doing cause I don't know if the timing belt had been done at 100,000, minus the head gaskets though, the engine is pretty low on km's so I'm not to worried about it. thanks for all your advice on this guys much appreciated.

I see where you are coming from its just I'm the type of guy if I do something I do it all, So if i were to do the head gaskets While I'm there i would redo all the o rings, gaskets, water pump etc etc any thing that I could easily get my hands on and replace. I also prefer to get heads machined if i take them off just a personal thing. But yeah I understand that I could do this for cheap by just doing the head gasket and valve cover. But the engine I'm picking up has half the kms and runs like a dream it was only 300$ CAD.

Is it really that bad of a idea to swap them? I've never done a subaru swap before but to my understanding i would have to pull my engine to do the head gaskets so my thinking is that since its out why make more work and money of it and just swap in the good engine. But i'm no expert so any advice is welcome.

The only reason I want to do the swap is that the engine I'm getting off my mate is cheaper then buying parts for a head gasket/ water pump, I plan on doing the water pump and timing belt on the 95's ej22 The ej22 is just to get me through the winter after that I'm hoping to do a v4 sti swap. as for the manifold thing thank you for the heads up i'll make sure to grab it. thanks a bunch guys.

Hi there guys, Pretty new to Subaru's and recently had a head gasket go on my ej22 in my 97 impreza OBS, priced parts and was about to order them when I found a guy in my town selling a ej22 for cheap and it runs minty, my only concern is that it's out of a 95 legacy and I know that the 95 ej22 and the 97 ej22 have slightly different internals and the compression is higher. So my question is would the ej22 out of the legacy swap right into my impreza or would i need to play with the harnesses or swap any parts over? Cheers guys and gals. Also not sure if this is the right board to post this if not could someone please direct me to the correct one, Thanks