Engine and Trans Options

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Any EJ motor will work including the NA ones. 02-04 made 165 hp, in '05 they got VVT which bumped them up to a pavement buckling 170 hp.

The transmission on the NA cars doesn't really mean much because the power and torque are so much lower you'll never really hurt one. The only real reason the 5MTs blow up is because kids with hoonigan stickers and monster hats soup up their WRX and beat the snot out of them.

One nice thing about the 818 is that because you don't have a rear differential to match you can pretty much run any 5MT you want so long as the half shafts match up (again, '02-'04 are interchangeable, '05-'07 are different.)

As far as hardware, somewhere on this forum is a thread that lists all the nuts and bolts you'd need to do all the suspension out of AN hardware. I think the total was less than $300. Just about everything else could be sourced from a local hardware store. Because it's a Subaru there's only a few different thread sizes (mostly M8 x 1.25).

Thanks, great information. Been reading posts on here for weeks and you condensed what I needed to know into just a few lines.
So 05 and up for the EJ engine and any 5MT, just have to make sure to match up the half shafts.