ethanohagan

My current daily, dad's extra '98 2.5GT

Number of years ago my dad had a local Indy shop working on his '98 2.5GT forever. It ended up passing smog eventually and when it came out we all noticed the transmission being geared much shorter... I'm talking 4,300 RPM on the freeway at 80mph, obnoxiously short. Is this an anomaly or something common? I've always suspected they wanted to get rid of him and swapped transmissions, possibly a Forester trans or rear diff.. is this something I can remedy cheaply now that it's my daily?