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Blown mottor, 99 forester
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So my buddy just payed 4 grand for a 99 forester, 2 weeks later blows the motor. I know there is a lot of suby guys on here and I need some info to get my research started as far as what engines will be a direct or as close as possible swap.
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go on nasioc, much help there
but how much money is your buddy working with? you can get a forester engine easy, but while you have the engine out might as well upgrade, look around for wrx motors, adds a lot of HP, I would say STI engine but those cost way to much, and you can build a wrx motor easily.
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Obvious troll thread, Subarus dont die.
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lol @ your friend who cant drive.
subaruforester.org too.
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if it's over 100k miles and still on the stock timing belt... yeah. if not then check those other forums.
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Time for a STI/6 speed swap!
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Once again. You're asking for car advice on a skiing forum that's mostly populated by children under the age of 16.
Go to a car forum. Nasioc. Subaruforester. Anything.
Asking for car advice on newschoolers is like asking what skis ou should get on NASIOC.
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thanks for the advice. I already stumbled across subaruforester.org and found some info. NASIOC looks like it will have plenty of info. And im not too sure as far as his budget goes, he said "my parents are paying for the engine"
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How has no one pointed out that motor is spelt with one t?
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yeah someone did a few posts up. don't know how i managed that one
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dont know much bout subs but if u are swappen an sti motor doesnt that mean u have to do full drivetrain as well to support all the gained torque deffs wouldnt be worth it at all
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99 forester? it's not worth it if it needs a new engine
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not positive but I don't think so, my friend has a wrx swapped forester and all he had to do was swap the tranny.
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I read of one guy that did a 06 wrx swap, bolted right up to the Forester trany. kept all the pulleys and ECU from the 06 wrx, only had to modify the intake
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explain? I don't see why you would spend all that time and money on an old subaru forester. I'm assuming it has around 200k on it if the engine has gone.
I had a 99 forester. I replaced just about every part on that thing, but never would have done a full engine swap...
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ohh hm that's interesting, is he running an auto trany?
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the guy who did the swap? not sure, my buddys DOES have an auto trans, apparently the ECU knows what trany its matted too (verification anyone?)
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