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I dont know about that, lots of the trannie failures are partialy or complety caused by the extra stress of the AWD. So maybe the FWD trannie may be pretty strong. The weakest point in the FWD trannie would seem to be the front diff, did subaru upgarde the front diff from the AWD trannie?

Yeah i mean cable operated trannie.

Had it checked it was a bad alternator.

Did you aculy take the Outbacks off road or just down a dirt road? Also how much lighter are then legacys. I dont know about the new 5spd auto, hopefullly its beefy, sence i guess it one of the lightest ones out there even tho it has the extra stuff for the AWD.

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I never heard of easy street before do they have a website?

I say you wait and look at the new 05 legacys there spose to be really nice, great build quality, lighter than the old ones and more powerfull. Here is a review on it. http://www.newcartestdrive.com/printversion-review.cfm?Vehicle=2005_Subaru_Legacy&ReviewID=1564

It looks prety nice. What so bad about it.

I would suggest using Synthetic it may leak a little more but it last longer and has higher resistance to heat. You have to rember the K&n dont seem to fitler that well. You could just put in a STi one there about $70 but i would trust it alot more than i would a K&n probley filters better and flows around the same amount of air. http://www.subaruparts.com/catalog/?section=405

I forgot to add i just got a rebuild of the alternator, i will have it tested tomaro probley.

Sence i did the cable 5spd conversion on my SVX i wanted a harder trannie mount, because i would have to match the reves or else the trannie would go into a horrible opssilation if the rev diffrence was great enough. So i went to go get a STi mount but found out that the newer style crossmember has a diffrent bolt pattern than the one i have (90 legacy) and the STi trannie mount would not work with out a new crossmeber. The person there sugested i have the mount filled, she did the same thing for here 93 impreza rally car becasue the STi mount wouldent fit becasue of the crossmemeber, and had good results. I called a couple places, and really couldent find any place that would be willing to do it. So i gave up for about a week, then i remebered that in Sport Compact Car there project rally Sentra SER had a filled engine mount to stiffen it up. So i digged trough the magaziones to try to find that article and finaly did. It turns out that they found out that 3M makes a silicone that is pretty close to the make up of the that engine mount. They did it and said it worked pretty good, harder, but not as hard a polyurathane mount. The stuff is called 3M window weld fast curing urethane (part# 051135-08609). So i went and bouight one tube of this stuff from a auto paint store and it was about $15 U.S.. Then i took off my trannie mount and filled it up. I let the trannie mount sit for 2 days with this stuff in it to let it fully dry. Now the trannie mount is extremly stiff. Before i could twist the mount easyily with one hand now it takes 2 hands and i can barley notice it move. It seems alot stiffer. This has helped alot with the trannie and has made a very noticable diffrence in the positive direction. Its amazing how much of a diffrence this mount has made to make the car easier to drive.

This is the theird, or forth battery my SVX has gone through in about 2 months. I have a 5spd SVX, and it seems like my alternator is not getting a charge to the battery. When ever i put a new battery in, or charge one up it only last about 2- 3 days before its complety dead, one time the battery was so dead that i had to drive home by pooping the clutch to get it to start. I drove for probley 10-15 mins on a complety dead battery so i know that the alternator works. I upgarged the grounging for 8 gauge to 2 gauge and i thought that fixed it, but no it jsut killed abnother battery. When ever my battery is about dead all the idiot lights come up very dimmley and fade away every so often. Any ideas what would casue this?

I dont know about needing a closed deck to have a good turbo charged engine, the new ej20t in the WRX is open while the ej25t is semi closed and the the ej25t seems farily robust. I think it would just be easier to trade cars, strobnger engine internals, stronger trannie and i think a diffrent suspension and brakes.

Well, Outbacks are Legacys with a lift basicly, and a Forester is a Impreza with a lift and diffrent body. I would stay away from the 2.5 liter unless brand new (and it still seems to have questionable relibility), and go for a 2.2 liter. That means basicly your down to a Impreza or a Legacy which are both great cars. Unless your mom realy needs the extra inch of ground clearnce i would go with a Legacy or Impraza with a 2.2 liter sence the Outback (ecept the first year for the real Outback was offrered with the 2.2 liter and the 5spd, extremly rare) and Forester only came with the 2.5 liter in them. Both trannies that were used were pretty good, if taken care of. The first gen leagcys 90-94 were great cars, my dad put around 350,000 miles on one before it died. They are strong relible and are great in snow, like any subaru with AWD, 4wd.

No i kind of want to make a complet car, make my own chassi.

Yeah thats pretty much it, i would probley use a eg33 to power it. Does any one who strong the FWD trannie is???

Genrally the hydralicly opertated trannie that subaru made are stronger than the cable operated ones. I want to know how much power the trannie can hold before it would grenade. Or how much power would it relibley hold. I know flex in the trannie case is a problem, subaru rienforced the new 5spd case pretty much throught out there line up.

Subaru pretty univesal on trannie mating with engines. I would think the engine moutns would be the same sence its basicly almost the same engine. Just bored and stroked or what ever.

Yeah I meant is it cable operated, or hydraclily operated. Does any one know how power it can hold, the only thing iam kind of weary about is the front diff sence all the power is going to be going through it instaed of of half. Then again i never heard of a front diff breaking on a 5spd before. So hopefully its strong.

How strong are the subaru 5spd FWD trannies? I am thinking of doing a project and i would want to use a FWD 5spd trannie, so i was wondering what is there torq limit. Also is there a hydralicly operated FWD trannie or are all of them cable operated?

It really sounds like the syncros were either bad, or were not installed right. I know this is a common problem for the WRX, but thats usally becasue of people abusing it. If you dont abuse the trannie then i wouldent worry about it.

On nasioc some one posted that subaru syas it runs 0-60 in 5.8 secs(GT version) which is faster than what subaru posted for the WRX origanliy (6.2 secs). Maybe this thing will be in the high 13s for the quarter.

Yeah thats a big disatvangae i never thought of for fly by wire. The throtle response is considerabley slower, and weighs more with all the wires athat are needed, and the motor that physicly opens the throtle body. I dont know about subaru, but other companies like nissian wont let you over lap the throttle with the brakes it takes away all the fun .

Change your trannie fluid in another couple thousand miles to see if there are any more metal shavings, it may just be from break in although it seems like a lot to me.

Ive had good luck with th bosch +4s i just chaged them at around 80,000 miles and they dident show any real signs of wear, and the news i put in were barley noticable.