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Just picked up yesterday evening, unfortunately it has a CEL I have to sort out and she's a little rusty underneath but otherwise she seems fine.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

EJ20X is a cheap JDM import engine that are dropped into turbo models that have been abused and blown up hard. EJ255/257's are hard to come by now so when people need to get something off the lot they get an open deck 20X and ship it. It's basically a car flipper engine. They can be equivalent in power to the 255, but CEL is probably because they didn't retune the ECU for it or left a sensor off and you're in for a doozy of a real repair to make it run "right" again. Gooooooood luck. You're going to need it. I personally would not have bought someone elses no-paperwork mystery swap with an active CEL.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom 1 points 3 months ago

The CEL is for a secondary air valve.

[–] swag_money 1 points 2 months ago

nice Forester! the last gen with the good scoop hey?