DiosEddy

Hello Max Capacity, thank you so much for your reply, I really appreciate it a lot, I truly thought no one will reply at this point. First of all, no, is not a need to repair the car, but I do not want it to die just like that, honestly I won't know what to do with it if I do not repair it, like, throw it to the junk? is kind of hurtful, plus here in México is not that easy to throw away a car and get another one just like that, you know because of the economy and so. I rather repair and "rescue" that car than just throw it away and get another one which will be with high probability a worse one for the same price that could cost the repair. As I said, I'm do not have much technical cars knowledge (nor English terminology), but the mechanic told me that because it lose some compression and according to how was the failure introduced, it might be valves so he suggest to rectify the cylinder heads and he thought that might be the solution, which I haven’t tried yet, although it might be the fastest, easiest, and cheapest possible solution, as I mentioned before, that engine have been already restored and repair like twice before, so, in my ignorance I was thinking on trying to find another legacy in the auction completely totaled, that might be cheap enough with a decent engine to swap it. I was thinking on a 2012 Legacy GT so it could be a newer and more optimized engine, because as far as I know this EJ255 Gen (2005 - 2006) have a notorious head gasket flaw. Starting from that thought line, that's what I suggest, to swap to another EJ255 but newer Gen, nevertheless I don't know how possible is to do that because of any kind of adaptability. I also thought on a STI engine (which I think it is indeed the EJ257 that you mentioned) just because of the power, but that would be a whim from me to do it, and probably completely unnecessary. I rant a lot, I know haha, once again, I truly appreciate your time and your opinion, and ask once again, what could you think is the best idea? I don't know the difference about a long block and a short block either tbh, I need to do my own research in those subjects. Do you think is a best idea trying on to rectify the heads, or is it a good idea trying on to find a totaled (with a really good engine) car in the auction? or, as you suggest, to buy just the engine? I hope you have enough patience with me. Have a great day. Best regards.

Hello everybody, first, I want to introduce myself and tell a little bit of me in sake of context. So, hi, I'm from México, I do not have a lot of car knowledge to be honest with you guys, just the basics, and since English is obviously not my mother tongue, well, my English is kind of bad... so with that being said please have patience with me if I do not understand some car terms or concepts in English, or even in general since my car knowledge is pretty much limited. Now with the main topic. I own a 2006 Legacy GT since 2015, I bought it in the US and legally imported to México, the car had at that time around 180k miles and well, my father and I enjoy it for about 2 or 3 years, making all of the services correct and so on, but I had to move to another city and wasn't able to take the car with me, and my father could not keep using it, so the car was stopped and "abandoned" for quite some time, around 4 years. Later on when I was able to use it again the engine was damaged, had some oil leaks and another issues that I never been able to acknowledge, long story short, we took the car to a specialist mechanic and revive it with OEM parts and so on, but the engine was never at its 100%, it still had some little issues with the TPS and the throttle body and other things... one day, one tragic day a heavy rain stormed my city and I got into a flooded pothole (a extremely large pothole, pretty common here in México tbh), I was able to get out of it but just run about 1/4 mile more and engine shut down dead, I tried to start it up a few times without achieving it, it cranked, but just didn't start. The rest of the story is a little bit long, just tons of frustration dealing with the insurance company and so, but long story short, the car now starts but poorly, it shakes a damn lot, and it stalls every time you shift neutral. Anyways, the car is now stopped since April, and I haven't been able to repair it. So, I'm asking for your help, what would be the best possible solution? I'm honestly thinking on swapping the whole engine to another one that is in mint conditions, but I don't know if it needs to be an exact same engine from the exact same year, or if there’s a possibility to swap it for a newer version to get some sort of improvement because of better optimized engine, or to swap it for another model? I don't know which could be the best option, or even which are the options that I have. What can you guys recommend me? Sorry beforehand if it is poorly written, as I mentioned before, obviously English isn't my mother tongue and I'm writing this myself originally in English, I hope it is decently understandable.