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  1. XHighOctanex
    Nonono I don't generally listen to advice from others even if it's a good idea. This cat isn't leaving me until it's done and dead and been on many more adventures
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    1st Gen legacys are great cars, I still want one alongside my ea. Personally I think the lifted and dual range swapped ea is cooler and more fun as a project. Why not transfer what's good on the gl to the loyale and then get a legacy with it? You'll still have 2 subarus and you'll have the best of both worlds
  3. XHighOctanex
    Lol I'm trying I love my car and don't wanna get too angry at it, just want it fixed.
  4. XHighOctanex
    Last night I washed the grease off under the hood and after that I left the hood up and revved the engine and it did not look like too much play, it did lift away from the passenger side but not bad
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    So basically these cars are crap for a base to build and everyone who wants to have decent power and offroad with true 4wd dual ranges needs to scrap the subaru plan and head to trucks
  6. XHighOctanex
    If this is the case why does everyone switch to an ej in these old cars and love them? They can't sell be stocking up on transmissions and just swapping them regularly. From what I've seen on here and anywhere reading about these cars you always ej swap and never look back, I haven't once read about someone destroying their drivetrain driving normally.
  7. XHighOctanex
    I'm mainly interested in the shifter mods you had to do, I haven't read much about those for just the 2 inch drop.
  8. XHighOctanex
    I have the same motor as my dad's gutless na 03 outback and that thing is almost as bad on on ramps as my car. I'm more worried about the life of my axles than my trans. I'm sure once in a while I'll romp it onto the freeway or whatever, but this car already gets driven as close to a granny mobile as I can get. I don't see 160hp shredding a trans, short of dumping the clutch in 4lo on pavement. At that point it's a paper weight not a transmissions. Now if that trans gives out under light driving and like I said the occasional on ramp or rock climb or hill climb. Then I'll let you know.
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    I don't worry about too much power, I'm only doing a stock 2.5 sohc, I know the car wasn't built for power but I don't see 160hp killing the trans, especially when I doubt I'll ever beat on that car more than the occasional brap to get up a hill or over a small rock
  10. XHighOctanex
    You think you can get some pictures?
  11. XHighOctanex
    I bet it would, comfort maybe, my car is pretty comfortable but I do come from owning trucks that were very uncomfortable off road before this, so that could just be preference. As of now driving my dad's outback and driving my ea I don't really feel much of a difference on the road, I've never wheeled his car. As to the locking the 4EAT in 4wd I'm sure it would, but that leaves more electronics into the equation, more things to go wrong and more to break. Not to mention when I finish the 2.5 swap unless the forester is an xt he doesn't have a power advantage, and then you've got 2 cars with equal horsepower but one doesn't have electronics controlling the 4wd and it has a Lorange. I stick by an ej backed by a dual range as the best setup OUTSIDE of going to tcases and building a crawler
  12. XHighOctanex
    I do plan on dropping back down the subframe but do I have to do 2 inches or can I do 1? And I do plan on getting new struts and springs all the way around eventually.
  13. XHighOctanex
    That's where I have to disagree, I have never had an issue with gearing and my 27s. I've never fallen behind an auto ej car or any car because of my trans, not having the power in the ea yes, but trans, no. Also I've seen crosstreks and outbacks blow axles and be stuck, whereas when I blow an axle I just go into 4hi and drive home or to the nearest parking lot to fix it. True 4wd will always be superior to awd, whether it's cvt, auto, stick, or whatever. But the ea does lack the power to do some stuff that the lorange makes you want to do I'll give you that. But even then this car takes hills offroad in 1st/lo like they're butter.
  14. XHighOctanex
    Yea I have a dog bone lol, and yea it's splitting perpendicular to the ribs in the boot (|||<->)|) the best picture I can do on my phone.
  15. XHighOctanex
    How low did you drop yours? That sounds like a lot more work than what I have seen for the 1 or so inch. What about the steering piece from the legacy? And I have a full shop available and then all my stuff at home so I got pretty much anything I'll need lol
  16. XHighOctanex
    Where would it be? The center trans mount that looks like a v or a w?
  17. XHighOctanex
    I like true dual range 4wd ????
  18. XHighOctanex
    Did you make your own drop or buy one?
  19. XHighOctanex
    Yea lol I did my passenger rear axle for the first time today (already did the drivers a few months ago and just had to do the passenger for the first time and pretty sure it's stock) anyways I literally went to the front just for giggles and got 2 handfuls of grease out from on the crossmember
  20. XHighOctanex
    So new development, I always noticed but it never clicked because I must he that slow or soemthing. Anyways when I drive my transfer case shifter moves down/back a good bit or so like an inch almost if not a full inch. So since not only the tranny mounts are new but the way it moves, it says to me this is motor mounts right? Like the front of the tranny is lifting up with the engine. Gonna have to check those mounts. Still it's odd to me that it goes straight back not back and left or right, and yet it still only has been affecting my right axle. BUT it's something I'm going to check
  21. XHighOctanex
    I do not believe there is a shield OFF the cat between it and the axle but there is the stock shield on the cat I believe. Hard to tell its all covered in an inch or 2 of grease
  22. XHighOctanex
    I love this, honestly the perfect subaru imho would be a hybrid. The feeling and ease of owning the ea but with mainly just the power of the ej series engines, but being able to get everything to rebuild an entire motor would be nice too. And better axles lol
  23. XHighOctanex
    Im gonna look them up tonight and I'll post a pic if them before I order anything to make sure they the right ones lol, you just take them off and put them on new axles when yours blow?
  24. XHighOctanex
    How do they fit? Do you know the part number that fits our axles?
  25. XHighOctanex
    I've actually never burped one. Normally I just squish the boot to feel for grease and the last axle is the one I regreased and moved the boot but never burped it. So it is very possible
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