matt167 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Well, I knew my Forester EJ251 was dying a not so slow death. Backfiring was getting worse and worse, lots of fuel in the oil ect... Downshifted to a big kaboom sounding backfire. Bad enough it shook the car and blew the flex pipe cat pipe I had off. Right after that, it started missing consistently. I stuck the exhaust back together and limped it to the shop.. Pretty sure the backfire damaged a valve or a spark plug. Either way, it's just coming out. I've been waiting to justify the EJ205 swap and now it's time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stelcom66 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Not that I need one, but for the heck of it I searched for EJ22 engines online. Several offers were actually a 2.0L. Don't know if they could be installed in place of yours, from what I saw so far looked like only 1999 models. I wonder if they'd be compliant in the U.S.? I believe the 2.0 was/is standard equipment in some foreign markets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt167 Posted April 16, 2017 Author Share Posted April 16, 2017 Yea a jdm ej201 2.0l sohc is a direct swap and ej202 and 203 can also work.. I have a jdm ej205 turbo with trans to go in thought. Little more work and cost but, still will be cheaper than buying a forester xt or wrx that's not beat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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