I can get a low mileage around 100k on it transmission and rear diff out of a 94 svx for cheap. Guy wants $150 for them. I know the svx trannys have a problem going bad. What goes bad in them? Would it do better in the impreza bring as it's half horsepower of the svx?

The failure is due to the huge HP for a transmission that wasn't designed well enough for it.

So putting it in a lower HP engine would probably help.

 

Usually they have a hard time going into lock up. Or 3rd or 4th gear fail.

 

Unless that tyranny's been rebuilt recently, I wouldn't touch it. 100k is around the fail point for those transmissions unless equipped with an auxiliary cooler or flushed have been done every 30k.

 

Either way. With the gear ratios in the SVX in addition to the final drive ratio, a 2.2 engine would feel rather sluggish and be working really hard to move the car.

Even with a 2.5, the svx transmissions have a really tall gear ratios to allow the rpms to be lower and take advantage of the 235 HP of the 3.3.

I was wondering about the gear ratio if it would be too steep for the 2.2. Being as it's at the mileage for failure I'm going to stay away from it. Thanks for the info.

They don't have an average mileage of failure. Some don't fail and others were failing under warranty twenty years ago. It's the rate of failure that's scary not the mileage. Which is probably even more disconcerting than just mileage! I wouldn't want an unknown 20,000 mile svx transmission.

 

If the transmission is known good, no extant issues, from an honest seller, and the drain plug and filter look clean then it's likely to give more years of service with fresh fluid and low grade use behind a lower power engine like an EJ22. But riskier than a non-svx trans for sure.

 

I've gotten EJ transmissions for $150 before but it's been nearly 10 years ago now and I'm in the rust belt where cars head to scrap far quicker.

 

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I passed on the trans. He didn't know much about it he bought the car for parts. He had a electrical problem in his svx and only had driven the car about 40 miles. Said it shifted good though. I was just going to keep it as a spare in case mine went out.