Looked at a real nice 2001 Legacy Outback with the H6-3.0 engine. Its black granite exterior, black leather, dual sunroofs, winter package, lots of bells and whistles and 92K miles. For maintenance I need to do most of it myself and am very capable, but is the 6cyl hard to access or otherwise service? More than the 4cyl? Couldn't even see the spark plugs. What sort of problems has this engine history have? Once the plastic top cover comes off is access decent?

Is about $13000 at a Subaru dealer.

Please advise!

Peter S

Nobody has the H6-3.0 engine?

Peter S

 

 

 

 

Looked at a real nice 2001 Legacy Outback with the H6-3.0 engine. Its black granite exterior, black leather, dual sunroofs, winter package, lots of bells and whistles and 92K miles. For maintenance I need to do most of it myself and am very capable, but is the 6cyl hard to access or otherwise service? More than the 4cyl? Couldn't even see the spark plugs. What sort of problems has this engine history have? Once the plastic top cover comes off is access decent?

Is about $13000 at a Subaru dealer.

Please advise!

Peter S

isnt it coil on plug?

They must be reliable,although I have no personal experience,because

theres a bunch of them out there being used in aircraft by the big money boys.However ,working on a heavily modded engine on a plane ,with full access is a whole different ballgame than the skinned knuckles brigade.Moosans told me he had one at some stage ,maybe he would have some input.

Jude

The bottom line is there isn't anywhere near the real-world data on the EZ-30 as there is on the 4-bangers. Essentially less numbers of that engine having been around for less total time.

 

I haven't heard any horror stories about it, so I'd venture that it's probably about as good as any other current Sube motor.

 

It DOES appear to fill out the underhood area in a way that will make it more difficult to service.

Looked at a real nice 2001 Legacy Outback with the H6-3.0 engine. Its black granite exterior, black leather, dual sunroofs, winter package, lots of bells and whistles and 92K miles. For maintenance I need to do most of it myself and am very capable, but is the 6cyl hard to access or otherwise service? More than the 4cyl? Couldn't even see the spark plugs. What sort of problems has this engine history have? Once the plastic top cover comes off is access decent?

Is about $13000 at a Subaru dealer.

Please advise!

Peter S

 

 

GET IT! Subie flat 6s are the bomb. They should do away with the turbo 4 idea all together and build 6s. The sound sooo much better and heck put a turbo on 'em. Having an XT6 and a couple SVXs (which are probably 2 of the harder subies to work on for space) you just wanna make sure you get a FSM to tell ya how to do stuff as you don't have the room for error. As for the 3.0, from everything I understand it has the same with as the 2.5 just a little longer but only like a inch or so. You won't regret it when you're accelerating to pass WRXs at highway speed. To each his own though like I said I'm a little biased. I like that torque to be there all the time not just when the rpms are above where any sane person would drive a chevy 350.