Motor Mondays - show off your engine bay - 99 Subaru Legacy Brighton
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This is a 2.2L engine that does NOT feature the head gasket failure mode.
I will probably tidy up the bay when I swap the alt/ps belt in the near future.
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The Subaru ej22 is a popular engine for people to swap into vintage VWs as the the flat-four piston arrangement is similar to the air-cooled “pancake” engines that came in the VWs. If I can find a cheap enough donor car, I will be putting an ej22 in my VW bus
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They are hard to find because the people with problematic 2.5L engines swap the 2.2L in. Cheaper to swap then have the gaskets done at a shop.