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Swapping in a Forester tranny, and the location for the spedo cable is further back on the tranny compared to the stock 4EAT. Question is if I run to a junk yard, find a longer spedo cable from a Subaru, will it hook up fine to both the tranny and cluster?

My thoughts are, yes, its a Subaru. Lol.

Thoughts appreciated.

Also can't figure out where the from stay bushings for the shifter mount onto. I thought they went directly to the tranny, but I dont see a bracket for it, and I doubt it just is a single bolt that holds it on (Based on pictures I found on google images)

Manual tranny cars have a short speedo cable extension on the tranny. I am not sure if the main cable is the same as an automatic however.

There is a stamped steel bracket that has the shifter stay stud on it. It bolts over the small rear cover on the tranny. It uses 4 of the original 6 bolts. (or 3 of 5)

I reused my AT trans speedo cable with my 5mt swap, and it's been working fine.

Well I was curious on how these legacies have a manual odometer and the forester has a digital odometer. Not sure how that works.

The digital odometer & micro computer in the gauge cluster is tied to the ECU I believe to keep track of mileage.

^does that mean the ecu pin is going to be the same as the manual odometer ones?

looking to swap a 98SF5 2.5motor/5 speed swap into my 2.2 4eat 95BK6 but im confused on this issue

Are you talking about whether the speedometer input pin is going to be the same between the 98 & 95?

i pulled the fsm, pinouts are reversed for second gen legacy and 1st gen forester so nevermind... i'll have to find a 5mt ecu from an outback or something..

You could try and just repin the ECU.

Yeah I put a 98 Forester engine into my 96 Legacy, and used a 97 Outback ECU. Worked perfectly. I just had to plug one vacuum port on the intake manifold so I could use the Legacy's cruise control.