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Thank you for all of the suggestions, and we will definately try them. My husband works out of town, so we will have to wait until tomorrow evening, but any and all suggestions are appreciated. I have not actually pulled the codes yet... but did see that there is a way to do it with the green and black plugs under the driver dash, so I was going to try to do that myself this evening to see what codes it is throwing. We do not have an OBD reader. The cam sensor had already been switched and we switched out the crank sensor last night, and it did help some, with cylinder 1, which started firing part of the time, but not consistent at all. Cylinder 2 was not affected at all by this switch. We also checked compression which was great, so we know that it has plenty of compression to fire. We already put in a new timing belt and water pump with the engine, but thank you for the suggestion. Last night he did say that he was going to try the crank and cam sprockets so that will be the first thing we do tomorrow. What about the O2 sensor? I guess I'll know when I pull the codes... Thanks so much for the ideas!

Dave, The coil pack and connectors were switched from the original engine. When we take the cover off of the 1 and 2 cylinder, you can see that it is getting spark, but not firing the cylinder. (if that is how you would word it ) My husband did switch the wires on the 1 cylinder and it did not make any difference so he did not go any further with that. The only thing we used from the JDM was the block and heads, we put everything else on it from the old one except the EGR pipe since there is not an EGR port. We just plugged it temporarily until we knew that the engine would run correctly. Thanks for your help! Michele

How many miles are on your 2.5L? We may be interested... Just started the engine again with the USDM intake manifold and it is still not firing on the 1 and 2 cylinder..... any takers? Michele

I hope that I am in the right place... I am new here and having problems with a swap on a 2.5l engine. It is on a Legacy Outback Wago and was hoping someone may have some suggestions. The head gaskets blew on the original 2.5L and caused quite a bit of damage, so we decided to swap the engine instead of fixing the original 2.5. We got a 2.5L JDM with 40k miles. We realized upon installation that the new engine did not have an EGR port on the head, so we used the jdm intake manifold.... now we know that we can not do that. So, we are in the process of changing everything back to the usdm manifold and undoing the changes made to the wiring harness so that we can put the usdm manifold in the car. My questions are.... 1. Do we have to drill and tap an EGR port or is there another way? I know that some forums say that you will have a CEL and that it will not pass emmissions just by plugging the end of the pipe. 2. When we started the car with the jdm intake manifold on the car, it was not firing on the 1st and 2nd cylinder... is this because it needs the usdm manifold or is there something else it could be? We already checked the plugs and wires, all is well there.... but have not yet checked the compression. 3. Also, when we started it with the jdm intake manifold it was making a ticking noise. It was not obnoxiously loud or anything, but it was very noticeable and also not something the engine should be doing... is that also related to the manifold or something else? Thanks so much for any help anyone can offer... just very frustrated at this point. (if any of this does not make sense, please forgive me... I am a woman so I do not have the technical knowledge or verbage to explain most of these problems... : confused: Thanks again for the help!!! Michele