I'm in the middle of Subaru HELL. I've got 5 soobs and only 1 on the road.

I bought a 1997 non egr ej22, engine didn't know it was non egr when I bought it over the web. I need to know if putting on a egr head is all I need to do, along with the intake of course. I've got a egr head I can use if its good. Before I send it to the machine shop for inspection and resurfacing I want to know it'll be worth it. So who can help me?

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yes - just bolt up the drivers side head with the EGR port onto the non EGR engine.

 

you could probably plumb your own line into the exhaust manifold as well and avoid the head work.

 

i guess you have emissions so you can't but i remove them, why install something that makes the car less reliable?

Thanks GrossGary. Yeah we have emissions here in the biggest little state in the union or as I like to say the littlest Big Brother in the union. I've got to make this swap as good has possible so they don't have any obvious reason to start poking around. A machine shop here that does soobs says he can drill and tap the head for under $100.0 nothing is cheap. I think I could do it myself but the way things have been going the C note seems like cheap insurance.

yep - too bad we can't swap heads! i'm over here making plugs/caps for them and you're trying to drill holes in them!!!!!!!! HAAA!!!!

 

good luck - you won't have any problems getting this to work.

 

$100 sounds about right for a machine shop. i have this local one that is really super cheap but west virginia is much cheaper, Maryland was always very expensive. and i go there because it's the place the Subaru dealer uses.

heads milled - $12.xx AFTER tax!?! and if i only take one head they only charge that 12 dollars and change, that's insane cheap? in maryland it was always a one hour minimum shop fee for anything.