I ended up finding a decent(hopefully) short block for my 99 Forester, from a donor that suffered from a broken timing belt.  It has a cute little oil cooler that the oil filter screws in to, so apparantly it's from an automatic trans. car.  Do I have to take it off to put this engine in my manual trans. car?

 

Thanks.

avg_joe

Yep, it'll be fine. If you're replacing the water pump with the new timing belt, make sure you get one that has two ports on it, one for the heater core, one for the oil cooler.

The water pump isn't different for the na oil cooler equipped cars. It's the thermostat housing/neck that has the extra port on it. I would recommend changing out the o-ring between the cooler and the block as well as the coolant hoses while you've got pretty easy access to them.

O.K.  I will check into the O-ring.  And coolant hoses were gonna get replaced anyway, for the reason you stated.

 

I'm wondering why the automatics got an oil cooler, while the manuals didn't.