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Thanks guys. Those couldn't have been any better answers than I was looking for. I think I got overly excited when I saw awd turbo. But at 115 horse can't be to excited. I appreciate the input, looks like I may just clean her up and let it go..

Not sure about fifth gear but we definitely drove up a lot of hills at the off road park in fourth in low range. Definitely a huge improvement in capability, time will tell how many people buy them. We had the only car to finish the Vegas to Reno last year. The only other car entered was a relatively stock beetle that didn't finish. In the past beetles have finished but most people aren't crazy enough to try. 1600 buggies (stockish VW drivetrain and suspension) are even rarely entered, maybe one or two on average. The organizers are also pretty sure we have the only station wagon to ever finish and I'm guessing we have the only unibody car or Japanese car to ever finish.

About 99% of the parts will bolt right in either way. You will not believe how nice it is to work on a Colorado car. I can go to the yard and pull just about anything with very little problems.

The USA '02 GT was NOT turbocharged. If you're intending to do a 'swap', there is a lot more to the process than just putting in a different engine. The wiring harness, exhaust, transmsisison, etc. all require major changes, too. There are other Subaru forums that discuss the process. Search on NASIOC, etc. But, yeah, DO NOT BUY a Used Subaru turbo engine.

Slammo's front strut bodies. Got these welded along with a pair for my Impreza. Dropped them off at ID grind today. Front and back of the shirts we had made.

Finally turned over 300,000 miles in the 99 Outback. As B pointed out, it's really the 120,000 miles that we've put on it that are impressive. Took the low range out to inspect it recently. Considering it had a year of abuse on it, it wasn't in too bad shape. Definitely have some ideas for how to improve them in the future. Pile of parts for the other three we're trying to finish. We were able to get the low range installed back in the transmission without removing it. Not easy but good to know that's possible.