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Originally Posted by icingdeath88
Not really. You might lose a tiny bit of high speed (I'd guess like 80+ mph) gas mileage, but many people have reported that they gained city mpg enough to make up for it. The better reliability would make any slight disadvantage meaningless by comparison anyway.
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Exactly. 55-70 the fuel mileage should stay about the same, above 70 is when it starts dropping off a bit. But yes, reliability is the big factor here. I've seen local shop rebuilds of transmissions typically fail after just 30-50k miles while the Subaru remans typically last longer than the first. With a 4.44 swap, even a 100k mile transmission ends up lasting 50k+ miles in an SVX or more.