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Interesting. Could you snap a couple pics of the engine/harness/ecu? Here's a couple photos. I'm an engine noob so will need to Google where the harness/ecu are. These photos are probably pretty useless really, but might show the macro picture. :| Ran great up the mountain this morning to the ski r...

kimokalihi wrote:Interesting. Could you snap a couple pics of the engine/harness/ecu?

Sure. I'll try to get some uploaded tomorrow. Would be curious myself to see what the heck is going on with my Franken2.5.

Piston slap? That's where the piston slaps the cylinder walls. Sounds like he's talking about piston to valve contact or something. 04 heads won't work unless they are running an OBD2 ECU. I think your mechanic doesn't know subarus. Probably my poor terminology. When the Denver mechanic did the hea...

The problem with the phase II engines are that the cam timing marks are radically different from the phase I's. Any phase I DOHC ej25 can be controlled by a phase I ECU due to compatible cam gear timing marks. Not saying the problem is insurmountable, but this isn't a 1:1 swap. Mechanic just called...

BTW, a SOHC 2.5 longblock (heads and intake manifold) would be the '99+ phase 2 and its wiring harness isn't compatible...and your 2.2 Phase 1 intake wiring harness won't work on it (easily). Yeah, but I think they've already accounted for that with the previous swap as the 2.5 already in it ran gr...

Hi. Long time Subaru owner. New here. Searching around and seeing a lot of helicoil stuff for plugs, but I'm wondering how wise a helicoil would be for a stripped head bolt? Quick(ish) backstory. Searched high and low for a nice first gen Legacy (hard to find where I live in Montana these days) and ...