96 wrx impreza engine swap to ej208 twin turbo ? Help needed

96 wrx impreza engine swap to ej208 twin turbo ? Help needed

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Wattsym12

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193 posts

128 months

Friday 27th June 2014
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Our tracktoy 96 wrx impreza has just had a head gasket go it's done nearly 200000 miles and instead of doing head for it to go again was looking at the ej208 engine from a legacy or forester not sure which just wondering will this engine go strait onto the exhaust and all other bits from our impreza ? Also our engine had 270 bhp the twin turbo has 276 are the two turbos smaller ? Do they spool up faster for less turbo lag ? Any help much appreciated

Wattsym12

Original Poster:

193 posts

128 months

Friday 27th June 2014
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Fair enough cheers for the replies don't suppose anyone knows of a decent jap import engine supplier then? Not 100% sold on buying one from eBay as they all seem to be low mileage abit suspicious also thinking of doing a conversion to rwd as been told it will be more lively on track anyone got any thoughts on that ? Cheers again for replies