building a sport forester lookin for ideas

[scrapdaddytatum]

so i have a 98 forester that needs a motor, it has 170k on the chassis, so it needs some general suspension work, and since the cats are pluged, it will also need exhuast work, now all this might seem duanting, but i used to run a shop, still have a shop in my garage, and really know my subaru's. you new guys might not know me, but i been doing subarus for 20 years.

and i have been on the USMB for 15 years and many a site change. now back to the car,

 

i want to lower it(kyb agx and some whiteline springs and swaybars)

i dont know if i can use imprezza struts all round, any one know???

 

i want to build a boosted 2.5 DOHC motor for it(using cooked old motor)

my heads are rebuildable(plan n some serious porting) but i wonder if i can bolt the ej25 heads onto a boosted block, or rebuild my block with some lower compresion pistons, any ideas????

 

do seats swap between impreza and forester? any other crazy ideas for a forester???

 

i have lots of experience building/racing early impreza sti(93-01) and have built several GT-B legacy's(enough to know twin turbo's are a ***************)

but have never messed with the forester(except the usual engine and trans and maintence work)

 

the car is rust and wreck free, loaded with all options, nice alloys, and never riced,

 

i see some (very few) sf5 jdm forester stuff on ebay, dont see anybody selling anything here

 

let me here your ideas....

[wtdash]

Seats and struts should swap.

 

Check out rs25.com for turbo'ing the DOHC.

 

Check out http://www.subaruforester.org/ for related info, too.

 

Have fun.

[subaru360]

I would do a complete wrx swap. Engine/trans/wiring seats suspension etc.

 

I've seen a few older foresters like that and they are neat.