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Originally posted by double0bondo
another question, you guys are saying "early" legacy, which years are they, and are they wagons, and are they turbo or non turbo to look for??
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Any Legacy 90- up should work, the Turbos and later models have a hydraulic activated clutch, where the earlier Legacy's have a cable activated clutch, so if you don't have a preference on which style clutch activation, either will do.
All years Manual tranny is basically the same, though the Turbo’s tranny is most likely to have been abused.
The Turbo Legacy’s also have a slightly higher gear ratio 3:90’s opposed to the standard Legacy’s 4:11 or on rare occasion 4:44’s. the bigger the number, the better the take offs, but the lower the top end.
The SVX has a very high 3:54 gear ratio, so any of the above will net you lower gears.
As for how do they take off with a five speed…. I’m still running the cheap clutch, but believe it will still take off faster than it did with the auto and the higher gears, but it will smoke the cheap clutch under a hard launch.
But the cheap clutch works fine under normal driving conditions.
I think everyone else learned from my mistake, to put a good quality clutch and pressure plate in their conversion that will take the torque of the 3.3.
