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Has anyone any knowledge , or a thread they can show me , re the ease or otherwise of replacing a standard MY auto with an EJ auto box - almost certainly with a single cam 20ej engine attached ? I'm looking at getting a donor unit of a damaged 2000yr forester auto with a ej20 in it.

I know the single cam ej20 engine will (generally) fit between the chasis rails but what about the auto box ?

I have a adaptor support for fitting an ej manual box into a brumby/my, but I'm thinking of just keeping the silver wagon as an auto rather than doing a manual conversion.

thanks,

I tried putting an EJ auto in a FWD auto MY sedan and it wasnt even close to fitting. Tunnel mods would be needed.

Gannon wrote:I tried putting an EJ auto in a FWD auto MY sedan and it wasnt even close to fitting. Tunnel mods would be needed.

Thanks for that reply Gannon - even if it was not what I was hoping for

Ok , so that was a FWD , I wonder if anyone knows if the 4WD auto Trany is larger and thus has a larger tunnel in the 4WD brumby/wagons ?

Rumor has it that the 4wd versions had a bigger tunnel and Im sure somebody in the past has EJ auto'd their MY, but that may have been with a lift which lowers the tranny in the tunnel

Gannon wrote:Rumor has it that the 4wd versions had a bigger tunnel and Im sure somebody in the past has EJ auto'd their MY, but that may have been with a lift which lowers the tranny in the tunnel

OK, a 2" lift is quite addable to my job list - hopefully some-one who has EJ auto'ed their MY will post up to let me know its doable with or without a 2" lift.