LEGACY ALL THE WAY!
1990-up
go with an allwheeldrive
no need for the 6-cyl the ej22 has plenty of juice.
look at camberg engineering .com they are THE offrado fab shop and they could leghten the control arms and set it up with coilovers all around....then a full cage.....etc etc....I have been thinking about the same project for a year....DO IT!....GO!