engine swap

[kingmario]

is it possible to fit a 2.5L turbo engine into a 1996 impreza which is a front wheel drive 1.6L if so what is involved thanks.

[Chris_Rogers]

yep with a lot of effort. how deep are you pockets?

[AndrewT]

You'd really need the 2.5litre turbo to come in a frontcut complete with a matching rear diff.
Hm heres a few things off the top of my head

- If the 2.5turbo frontcut is also an Impreza (wrx sti i guess) then you'd want to use the entire dashboard and wiring loom from the frontcut.
- Strip everything out of the engine bay of your impreza and also all it's dashboard.
- Transfer everything from the frontcut's engine bay and dashboard, everything should pretty much bolt straight into your impreza
- You may need to custom mount the centre bearing of the tailshaft to the body of the car
- You will need to source a rear-end from a 4wd impreza...you will need the rear driveshafts and hubs and the rear diff that you got with the frontcut
- Upgrade the fuel pump

[kingmario]

thanks for that any ideas for a quick and easy power upgrade then cause i like th frount wheel drive

[Suba]

If you are going to retain fwd and just want a bit of an upgrade in power , your best bet would be an ej 20 or an ej 22 non turbo , if you ran an ej25 turbo with just fwd you could be asking for trouble.

Mike.

[Suby Wan Kenobi]

No reason you cant put the 2.5 Turbo in and have it FWD. once again the easiest way is to replace the front loom section with a turbo one. Get one from a 96 to 99 on as the plugs will match up with the rear and the rest of the stuff. adapt the early engine loom to the 2.5 and get a decent clutch. dont know much about the 1.6 gearboxes but they should mate up with enough room.

Its all doable as BYB01 had a TT FWD for ages and never broke the gearbox