i have an 01 5mt forester with a blown out rear diff and reverse gear and about 280k on the motor and trans. so i was thinking about swapping to a 6mt with a 2.0 turbo but im not sure which years i have to work with. any help would be awesome.

Edited March 5, 20188 yr by mikeHONCHO

6 speed requires deep pockets. 5spd turbo requires less deep pockets. The easiest/ best way currently is to use a complete JDM V5/6 EJ205 ( plug wire engine ) setup, the 4.44 turbo 5spd runs around $500 and the engine at $1,100 complete or so. Complete units are good for $1400 or so from an importer.. Contrary to popular belief, you can install those engines without too much issue/ wiring. The crank trigger patterns are the same 6/7, the idle air control, and TPS are identical also. You can take your SOHC engine wiring harness and put it on the EJ205, plug it in and then use Project Lambda to tune it to run. There are slight issues like changing the MAP/ IAT unit to seperate units but it all works with project lambda.