This has probably been covered but I couldn't find anything when I did a search. I have a '97 Outback with a dead engine and have a lead on a 2000 EJ22 for a great price. Is it a straight plug and play or are there other issues to deal with?

Ugly,

 

This WAS asked very recently. A newer SOHC 2.5 into a late 90's Legacy IIR.

 

Grossgary and I both responded in that thread IIR.

 

It may have been about a Forester as donor or to be fixed.

 

But - it'd be ugly.

 

Common recepient of a swap - do some searching here about 2.2 swap.

 

2.5's will work but if you're gonna buy a used engine 2.2 is the way to go.

 

Wireing is different for one thing.

 

You could probably make it work. But it would be an unpleasant experience just to say you did it.

 

YMMV

Definitely not plug and play.

 

The only thing I can suggest is that you'd have to swap the EJ25 wiring onto the EJ22 intake manifold. And then you might have to swap cam gears...after that it *should* work if that all shakes out. But there might be some other quirks along the way.

 

Not a good swap if you're looking for easy. This hasn't been covered much, there's hardly a need to since pre 1999 EJ22's are usually really cheap. If those aren't cheap then the later ones certainly shouldn't be cheap since they're much harder to find.

Alrighty then, thanks for the help. I'm definately looking for an easy swap not a Frankenstein experiment.

Maybe I'll go to plan B. Buy a second SVX I've had my eye on which has a blown front diff and swap in the 4.44 tranny and rear diff from the Outback. I know that can be done.