Subaru guys? Options

[r_towle]

What motors are you using?

[a914622]

Dbcooper
Actually Yes the numbering is off but the jap engine starts the numbering on the oppeset side. So if you draw 2 flat 6 engines and number them you will see the cylinders fire in the exact same order as a 911.

The cable shift trannys started late 09 with the spec B. In late 12 I think all went to them.

Decoding the engine with out the plack on the drivers side strut can get tricky. But about the only one I would stay away from is the 96 doc engines, easy to spot by the square hole around the spark plug at the valve cover.

Jcl

[DBCooper]

Actually Yes the numbering is off but the jap engine starts the numbering on the oppeset side. So if you draw 2 flat 6 engines and number them you will see the cylinders fire in the exact same order as a 911.

Well I'll be go to hell, that's right. I never really thought about different layout, just saw the numbers were a different order. Cool, learn something new every day... thanks.

The cable shift trannys started late 09 with the spec B. In late 12 I think all went to them.

The interest here in the six speed is really the STi "truck" transmission because it's stronger than the 5MT (though no one's found a way to make the bigger/longer STi six speed fit into our cars). The newer cable-shift six speed is just a 5MT with an extra gear, no stronger, so the only advantage is that extra gear. Maybe also because we're converting the 5MT's to cable shift and that later transmission is already a cable. I don't know, never saw that myself because that transmission came out after my car was done, but could be interesting for anyone thinking of converting today. As long as it can be converted to the older female style inner CV's, anyway.

If you do run across an index that uses the engine serial numbers to identify configuration please let us know... would be very handy.