$200 Subaru Tranny Swap guy

>>17267387
The only reason people shit on Subaru is because of vapelords, great car, keep us posted faggot.

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>>17267387
>mystery tranny

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>>17267417
LOL @ $600 Canadian Peso's to Re-Re a tranny on these cars...

I'm $210 into this tranny swap, and my neighbour gave me some GL-5 oil for free from when he owned a Subaru. The savings keep on coming.

These trannys are awesomely simple inside.

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>>17267435
Has 212 written on it and some other numbers/letters from an auto recycler... dude who owned it before me put 80k KM on it.

Otherwise it works perfect.

>>17267387
>boxer engines
not even once

>>17267523
280k KM, original head gaskets.

>>17267538
>Unnecessarily Xbox hueg 4 cylinder engine

no thanks I'll stick with Hondas

>>17267627
Remind me which sedan Honda makes with AWD?

Also, why does engine size even matter?

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>>17267627
Sit a online 4 next to a boxer 4 and they are about the same. The online seems awkwardly huge when not in a car.

>>17267747
God damn spell check. Inline 4*

>>17267387
>Subaru
>Good
>Cheap
Pick two

>>17267627
>dat high center of gravity
no thanks I'll stick with subies

>>17267387
whats the best way to test for bad headgaskets or "early start". I hear you can get a combustion test kit of some sort to test the coolant, would a pressure test show all same?

>>17268219
Block tester with test fluid would find HC's or Hydrocarbon in your coolant. Also can literally see the head gasket leaking coolant on the sides of the block.

>>17268234
thanks, i'll buy one of those kits

>>17268200
>centre of gravity
You should look a little further into that. You'd probably end up quite disappointed with the boxer.

>>17267387
Make sure the final drive in the new tranny is the same as the old one. Won't be a very happy car if it has a different final drive in the front vs the rear.

>>17267387
Do subarus have glass trans or do people who buy them not know how to drive?

>>17268284
This, unless they did dry sump and didn't have to put headers on.

The problem I have with boxer engines is the pattern the vibration creates. I4s cancel each piston movement out fairly well, leading only to vertical vibration. The way boxers work, they vibrate in a circular motion, making them way harder to stabilize properly.

This is why you can rev I4s to the moon with fairly simple, if expensive mounts, yet boxers rarely go past 8k (for four cylinder versions, obvious F6s can go higher)

It's just not a good design for 4 cylinders, it's inherently imbalanced.

>>17268468
I always heard the boxer was smooth, but its a rattlebox especially at idle.

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>>17268431
>powerful 4wd car
>vape bros launch them off traffic lights all day erry day

Well somethings got to give.

I don't know about the more current models, but the 5 speed in the the 1st gen Impreza GT and 2nd gen WRX isn't too happy if you go above 250-270hp
It's fine on stock power or an NA model though

>>17268480
Porsche gets it to work both because they use F6s, and kraut space magic. Other than that, boxers are shit. Porsche gets to make RR cars with boxer engines because they're fucking lunatics, everyone else should stick to the real world of FR and I4 V6-12

>>17268468
The Boxers I witnessed so far were very smooth

My Impreza was a bit noisy under acceleration, but once you're at constant speed and not under load anymore it was much smoother than an I4. You basically couldn't hear/feel the engine anymore while going down the autobahn at 140-150 kph. And that was in a shitbox from the 90s

>>17268431

Yes and no.

The trans used in the early '00 non-STi turbo cars was a poor choice, basically the same as the non-turbo cars trans, and kinda pushed to its limits at stock power. When people started adding more power and treating them poorly they end up shitting the bed pretty quick.

>>17267476
Who us grill? Hook up with tiddies

>>17268497
My Subaru has an F6 and it goes like a raped ape

>>17267387
I'm that anon that asked about how hard rebuilding a tranny would be on a scale of oil change to engine rebuild.
Sure enough, like clockwork, my tranny killed itself a few days ago. Not sure if it's completely dead, or if it's just multiple gears engaged at once somehow. All I know is, it won't fucking move an inch without pushing in the clutch.

>>17268792
Don't rebuild it, but another one.

Once you break gears in a Subaru tranny your cost goes up significantly... especially if you broke the 3/4 spool gear... which I hear is about $350 CAD.

>>17268431
280k KM on a "weak" tranny seems pretty good to me.

We drive like grandma's in the car.. because it usually has children in the back.

Also... it's an EJ25... no turbo.. 160hp...

>>17268342
Well duh... both are 3.90 gears.

The diff that guy sold me with the tranny is pretty rusty... might clean it up and sell it.

>>17268431
the older 5 speeds are made of glass yes, they were absolutely fine in the NA version but the wrx's rip through them like nothing.

>>17268431
They are good. My dad had a 1997 legacy with 370 000km on it and still the original automashit transmission