Anyone ever hook up an ea82 D/R tranny to an outback wagon? I mean by using the adapter plate from AA?? Im thinking of trying this and wondering how it worked ot and how hard it was to complete.

Theres a guy here that did a forester with an EA82DR. Don't remember his name, but have seen him in new gen. Might try searching there.

 

Should be the same process for the outback

awesome

forester_ranger I think was his name

that is his name...but the best part of it is that he has a LSD in the front diff of the EA82 D/R tranny.

 

 

 

~Josh~

John Bloom did that swap into forrester ranger's ride.. don't really know John's status on this board anymore, but this is the only ea d/r into an ej car that I know of. The only real trick is the front stubb shafts, there are a few way around this.

front axles are easy, FWD impreza's use a 23-spline inner DOJ cup, just like EA82 N/As. and the axles are the same as the legacy ones (or at least Gen 1 legacies....I can't say about later ones).

 

the trick is driveshaft, as the EJ one won't go into the back of the tranny...and the EA one uses a different center carrier bracket. a custom shaft will probably need to be used.

 

and then there's the crossmember....and linkage. I haven't looked at that yet....