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Timing is wrong. It's firing on an open intake valve. GD

Buy an 05-07 Outback XT. Turbo swap is way too much work on a 2000 model. You will be looking at spending $10k easily. GD

Huge amount of work, and will cost a small fortune. But all doable. Mechanically, pretty straightforward. All bolt-in with the right combination of parts. You'll be tearing the car down basically to a shell, but with some organization and patience, just a matter of bolting the new parts in place. Obviously the engine and transmission have to come out, but the entire dash, as well. It will be a big paperweight for months, possibly years. EJ207 is a turbo engine, considered one of, if not the, stoutest (Vermont Sportscar uses only EJ207s in the Subaru Rally Team USA cars). The smaller displacement means they rely more on the turbo for power, which means less power in the lower rpms. But a tune and turbo sizing will help get the results you want. It was never available in the USA, we got the larger EJ257 here. The 207 was made for ~20 years (I think it was exactly 1999-2019), so even with that specific engine code, there are a myriad of details that surround the swap. The easiest and cheapest way for a novice to do this job, is to get a complete donor (half cut from Japan), so you have all the parts that you know all work together. Sometime around 2005, these cars would have gotten an immobilizer, which will make it considerably more difficult to get the stock ECU to run it (assuming you use the stock ECU, a standalone would yield some better results, but bigger hurtles to get there). EJ207s were only in Imprezas, which never got the rear suspension that's in your Outback, brakes will bolt right up to the Outback suspension, axles get a little ugly if you want to use an r180 rear diff instead of the standard r160, but still doable. The vast majority of EJ207s will come with a 6-speed transmission, which is a much better transmission but will add several thousand dollars to the purchase price. I think all 207s were mated with the r180 rear diff. This is all assuming you stick with the EJ207. Almost any engine made by Subaru in the last 30 years can be used in there with the right combination of parts. Turbo 4 cylinders, as well as several 6-cylinders. These projects have been done hundreds of times in BE/BH Outbacks, and probably tens-of-thousands of times in other Subarus. Anything turbo will require a turbo engine crossmember. None of these options will effect your tie rod ends. If you need them, replace them. Depending on the condition of your CV axles and timeline for this project, I might not wait on those. The manual swap isn't too bad, but if you're serious about the engine swap, you'll save yourself a lot of headache to swap the manual pedal box in when the dash is out.

Clutch will fit any NA Subaru EJ equipped vehicle. In my L series I’m running a Gen1 EJ22 with Gen1 flywheel, excedy clutch kit running a slightly modified phase two forester gearbox. My sister’s Gen3 RX Liberty with EJ251 is running a Gen2 EJ22 solid flywheel with the stock Gen3 clutch setup. It’s all lego! Cheers Bennie

Yup , they got me. I just opened this and have asked the seller for a full refund and their RMA #. Its Chinese garbage in total copy “Subaru” script. Had they shown the label and it’s “Genuine Rarts” I think I would have caught that. Yes , Genuine Rarts

I never had any problems with the Cardone brand, reman or new. They list different pumps for the 2.5 and 3.0. For our 97 RHD Legacy I bought seals for the rack and pump. I was adding a lot of fluid every two days. Sometimes it was below the strainer. I missed checking it once and it got low and ruined the pump. I got one from a local yard that worked good. I think it was 25 bucks. I think it was lmdew mentioned TransX so I tried it. Now I only add about half an inch every week for the leak in the rack. That's around 600 miles. Take your pick for the FSM. http://jdmfsm.info/Auto/Japan/Subaru/ https://sl-i.net/FORUM/showthread.php?18087-Subaru-Factory-Service-Manuals-

I would get a used one from a pull and pay yard if you have one close to you. Aftermarket rebuilt units seem to be of dubious quality based on others comments in previous posts. At some point Subaru stopped selling rebuild kits but I don't recall which years are affected.

I've been a member on the forums for around a year now and this is going to be my first non question post. I figured it's time to start giving back now that it's been around a year. I will continue to post a few entries until we are up to date with my mods.. This is my 84 4x4 GL I received from my grandfather as a gift. When I received it a year ago its clutch was warn to the rivets and basically everything was moldy. These were the only KNOWN issues lol. As you can see she looks like she was in a lake. But she cleaned up nice. Next step was towing her to my place and learning how to work on my first subie. (Photos as of Feb/Mar '19)

Update: Distributor was 180 off. I had a cam and spun it as I watched the valves to see what order stuff was happening in. I had swapped it before, but this may have been too much and I couldn't find my chalk line on the timing mark. Changed it to fire right and the Brat tried to start when I cranked it over to check the mark again. Thank you GeneralDisorder.