Hi,

The engine installed in my car is equipped with 2 EGRs but I can't find one and Subaru is not permitting to use an engine wirh a single EGR (according to my garage). Any ideas how to handle this? (I'm located in Israel, and I was unable to find a used engine with 2 EGRs).

Thank you in advance,

Meir

Meir,

What are you trying to do?  Are you changing engines or repairing something? What’s wrong with the engine? Is it diesel or gas?

You have a a lot of options for replacing the engine, all of these are done on gas engines in the US:

1.  replace the short block only and bolt your original heads and intake to it. This is the best option.  

In the US we can buy just the short block from Subaru. They’re not much more than used engines and have a 36,000 mile 3 year warranty.

2.  get a single EGR engine and bolt ONE head from your old engine on it (the one with the second EGR)  and reuse your original intake

3.  get another engine and drill and tap the head to accept the second EGR valve. Bolt your original EGR valve to it and use the original intake manifold.

Also In the US we install non EGR engines into EGR Subaru’s and they run just fine.  Yours should run fine with one EGR. 

This results in a check engine light - but that’s easy to work around too.  If you need no check engine lights, reroute the EGR vacuum line to make the ECU happy. 

That’s at least 4 different options, your mechanic should be able to figure it out if and untrained person like me can do it.