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I live in the PNW and there is a strong subaru culture and I meet a guy with a OBS. He claimed to have swapped a 03 forester manual trans behind the 2.2. He said he just did not use all the holes on the forester trans. Is it possible to do the same conversion on a legacy. also I plan on putting a 2.5 in my car any way.



91 AWD 5speed sedan.

Yeah, I had an 8 bolt forester trans in my SS then in my RS. I have a different one in my 98 outback currently. Without swapping the speedo gear inside the tranny, your speedometer will be quite a bit off. Alternatively you could use a 97-99 Legacy GT or 98-01 Impreza RS (or later) manual and have virtually the same gear ratios and a speedo thats almost dead on.

do I need a forester rear end to match the gearing of the trans? will the rear diff bolt right into the legacy?

You will need to match the final drive. The non-turbo Forester had a 4.11 final drive, and according to this link (in the sticky at the top of this section):

http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=32148

your car already has a 4.11 final drive. If you did want to swap in a forester diff, you'd have to put your diff's flange on the new diff so you could reuse your driveshaft.

okay makes sense. thanks for the help.

I'm pretty sure the impreza outback is a 3.90 final drive just like the other ej22 cars of that era.

Download this and find your trans id code to verify.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzTxUg ... cslist_api