Early vs Late Exhaust Differences?

[RojoRocket]

I had occasion to be under both my '93 wreck, and my recently purchased '97, looking to correct an exhaust leak, and found curious differences in the exhaust(s). I've done a brief search on the subject with negligible results, so thought to ask.
It appears my '93 has the spring bolts at the front and rear of the 2-1 cat, using doughnut style gasketry, verified by my FSM, where my '97 has 4 nut/bolts at the front, using a metal/fiber gasket, and spring-bolts at the rear, using doughnut style. My question follows:

Looking at subaruparts.com diagram it appears there are also doughnut style seals (44184 No 1) fitted with the flat gasket (44184A No 2) , centering the two tubes exiting the flange at the front on the pass-throughs on the metal/fiber flat gasket . Is this correct? If so I guess I can see where my ultimate fix is, as they are missing on the '97.


Any help??

Glenn

[Suby Fan]

your going to need to order new bolts and gaskets any way just see what the parts store hands you

[RojoRocket]

Originally Posted by Suby Fan

your going to need to order new bolts and gaskets any way just see what the parts store hands you

Tried that at the dealer, and was finally assured my vin# required the spring-bolts,gasket and nothing else. Ended up at an exhaust shop, finding a torn hanger weld about 10" in front of the cat. Replaced piping and welded directly to the cat for the fix.

Glenn