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A friend has asked about this, he said his 96 outback has SOHC, I have not seen the car yet.
Are they all DOHC?.
He is thinking about buying it cheap with a dead motor, then asking me to change it for him.
He is looking at possible motors he can get.
Just trying to help, what are friends for?

Does anybody know if there are differences between early Outback (96) and Gen3 Outback EJ25 motors, are they interchangeable?

Hy Chill is legal (buy over the counter from Bursons/Repco) and for older (r12) systems it seems to be the simple way to get a good system working as efficiently as possible.

Have a look at "HyChill". I have done many Subarus with this stuff, its cheap and works very well. Much cooler and more efficeint, less wear, than tying to change an r12 systen to 134a. By a small can $30, replace the orings $20, change the oil ( remove compressor & rec/dry and invert)$25 Idealy put...

I've seen motors with similar wear, checked the wear on your valve guides?

Went very well @17lbs boost. Lucky it was constant 4wd.

Some notes about EA82 boost pressures When I did my first EA82 turbo conversion (jap import 1/2 cut), as soon as I replaced the cat, the boost changed. Intially it would pull about 8 pounds boost all through the boosted rev range, with the cat. Without the cat it was very different, up to 4000 rpm, ...

Gen 3 outback, 143000 km Neat and clean, rear & front LHS damage, centre road wreckers, be quick its going fast. Only missing motor, dash & wheels.

No, sorry it was a late Friday night, "make it up as you go along" job.
The brain was too busy working out how to quickly put this jigsaw together, didn"t think about photos.
I had a week of evenings and weekend to get it all done, hence the used what was available strategy.

Sorry photo time has finished, the car is at the farm I am back in town. The lift blocks, like everything else, what I had at the time, an offcut of 30mm nylon sheet. 2 squares and two rectangles were cut out and drilled = lift blocks. Early ej22 manifolds do not fit 2000 ej25 single cam and vise ve...

Like I said, these were budget basic mods. Bumper off, a lot of engineering calculations to work out the correct towball height after lifting it, appoach and departure angles were then added to these calculations, to get the ultimate setup. Ok I lied, the first pieces of steel near the top of the of...

Ok Taza, more photos:
It was clean and shiny when it arrived
Rear shot
Sump guard

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The budget outback paddock bomb has been tested and works well. Summary: 60mm strut top lifts front and rear 30mm rear trailing arm spacers ej20 forester bx fitted (for low range) ej25 out, ej22 in (for reliability) Custom aly sumpguard (made from offcut balistic aly) Custom rear towbar/bumper (made...

Just put a 1998 Forester box in my 2000 outback.
Diff ratios are the same, gears are shorter, better for big wheels.

Opps forgot, I will do some photos of the stripped lifted, budget Outback, when its finished.

30mm spacers under the rear arms brought the wheels back into alignment. Put an ej20 forester box in it to get better low range. Decided to take the EJ25 out and sell it, as it is to good for the farm. Got a good used EJ22 to go into it. Started playing with that tonight, theres a few differences, a...

I am stripping a 2000 gen3 outback for farm use all the plastics and lights are coming off.
Let me know if you need any (nonvital for farm use) bits.
Greg

I was quoted $650ish cash to machine 2 housings, let me know if you are interested.
I may have found a way to get an Vicroads modification for your car with an ej22 if you are interested, around $400.

Hi Bennie Thanks to the help of this site I have managed to get a good centre diff, another worn one first, then a good one. Been running it for a week, then i pulled the box out, again, last weekend and put in a higher gear set, to better suit the EJ22. Happy with set up now. Working on Vicroads co...

Put some 60mm blocks on top of the rear struts. Lifted it a lot, but now have heaps of tow out even with the adjusters set to max. I will now put some 25mm spacers under the front of the trailing arms to bring it all back. Hopefully 25mm will be enough, otherwise things start coming down lower than ...