Subie advice needed please, to buy or not to buy Options

[Gigamight]

I have a guy that is selling a 96 Legacy L. It has a bad diff and bad tires, so he is selling it cheap or it goes for scrap. Would this be a consideration for an engine swap? My research tells me the engine is an EJ25D, which makes around 150 hp, does that sound right?

[charliew]

Not sure what the L means but it's too old for me to go to that much work over. It is phase 1 which means it has a different ecu and different mounting of the cam sensor and crank sensor and the intake bolt pattern is different so the intake stuff can't be swapped with the ph 2 stuff. Outfront might have conversion stuff to use it though but that makes it cost as much as a newer ph 2 ecu motor. If the motor and tranny are real cheap they could be used for mock up. Get everything though if you do get it if it's low mileage and you can figgure out how to use it cheaply.

I bought a jdm 96 tt legacy outback complete with everything including tranny and axles and all the turbo and harness and all from jhots. It's low mileage. I still don't know what I will use it on because of the differences in the sensors and ecu. My later plans may be to convert it to obd2 later electrics but it's not easy. The cam pulleys mounting are even different and thats where the sensor goes. Also the crank sensor is different, this doesn't sound too big of a deal but it is once you get started on it but it is doable but a lot of time and trouble. Being a jdm it also has higher compression but the motor you are looking at won't have this problem.