Swapped the engine in my 2005 Forester 2.5 W/EGR with a 2.5 non EGR engine. Now I get a CEL and it disables my cruise function. The problem is the exhaust port is not tapped out on the head to thread the egr tube. Can I delete the EGR in the ECM? any Ideas?

Do a search here and on legacygt.com, there is a workaround for this.

The system is only looking for flow,. In effect a tee is taken from an intake line and fed to the egr solenoid..

 

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Edited November 6, 201510 yr by ocei77

I did THIS on the older models. Will it work on yours? Let us know.

 

You'd need to swap back your EGR-equipped manifold.

 

To disable the code (maybe):

-  Go look on RomRaider to see if they have info on modifying your ECU. You'd also need a Tactrix cable (or equivalent). Might look around your area for a Tuner that does tunes on the turbocharged Subies...they might help.

 

GL,

TD

Edited November 6, 201510 yr by wtdash

I have drilled and tapped the EGR hole on these newer heads. Not terribly difficult but the tap was pretty spendy.

I have drilled and tapped the EGR hole on these newer heads. Not terribly difficult but the tap was pretty spendy.

That is the route I would rather go but you have to pull the engine to tap it right?

Probably be the easiest way to do it. If you've done it before, it should go a lot quicker. I would also try and save the coolant if it's still new using a clean drain pan and a bucket.

Can you ignore it?  It's benign to run it like that indefinitely, it doesn't matter - the first one I ever did years and 100,000+ miles ago is still motoring along just fine

 

If i couldn't ignore it - I'd look into the work around that works on older swaps.

I've drilled and tapped the front of the engine with a right angle drill or drill attachment and a drill bit sheared off to a very short length - seems like there might be room for that here?