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Looks great. I might need to do this to my Baja. Thanks for the info and the nice videos.

So the answers i have found. 1. About the drive shaft. It seems i got an Impreza auto drive shaft. I’m getting a Legacy outback BE,BH,BT auto driveshaft from the junk yard tomorrow. The distance from the front to the bearing mount should be 2 inches ish shorter and past that the same. Fingers crossed. 2. the trans mount. I figured its an Sti trans so I should use the Sti bracket. Wrong. The Sti bracket sits way higher on the passenger side than the stock Baja one. So i swapped the stock bracket with the stock rubber and it all bolted up happy and dropped the tail perfect. But i also found that using the stock linkage for the Sti works great but that i used the Sti mounting bracket. (That 2 bolt thing that bolts to the body to hold the tail) sits like an inch higher than the stock Baja one so i stuffed the stock mount on there and its great. In side the metal bracket that holds down the rubber boot just touches the shifter going into 1st second area so i just took a 1/4 inch off with a file. 3. Stock Baja clutch slave... perfect. Ill do a write up on the Baja turbo 6spd swap after i get it all done. Thanks for the help.

Yeah the stock rubber bolts right up.

Awesome! That’s a great help. I have 3rd gen Do you think the auto BH is the same lengths as the auto BT? I’m gonna hit the junk yard for a 3rd gen auto outback drive shaft now. I must have been given and auto Impreza driveshaft. I’m happy I don’t need to swap out the slave cylinder. As for the tranny bracket and rubber mount. I have the STI bracket with the BAJA mount. But it’s holding the tail of the tranny up way to high. The Baja vs Sti bracket looked damn near exact. I guess I’ll just pull it out and swap it and see if that cures my issue. Thanks again. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My 05 turbo Baja 5mt ADF 2” lifted with 300whp 15” gold black rhino boxer wheels with BFG KO2s is in the process of getting a 04 Sti 6speed. So i have a few questions for anyone with answers. This may have been covered in the 164 pages of this thread (i am currently reading) so I’m sorry if I’m asking again. So here is where i am now. In the rear. Installed... Baja/STi hybrid rear axles with suberdaves races. 04 r180 rear diff Not sure if the (tail shaft?) has been changed yet. Gotta look later. 04 Sti 6 speed is in and bolted up (I think 03)wrx front axles Are in. So here are my questions. 1. So my stock 5mt driveshaft wont fit. And i knew that but it is pretty close compared to the auto trans driveshaft i got. It is way short. The stock driveshaft is just a little to long and the carrier bearing mounts are about an inch or 2 to far back from the stock holes. The short drive shaft i have i just way to short. Like 5 inches or something. I didn’t get the drive shaft myself so i am currently checking what it came out of. So it needs to be an auto driveshaft sure but out of what? legacy,gt,coupe,outback,wagon, Impreza, Baja. I have no idea. 2. For the trans mount i used the Sti bracket with the Baja rubber bushing thing. It’s in..... but it ain’t right. the bracket holds the trans way to high in the back. So the engine is even tipped forward a little. Also the shifter linkage is hitting the trans tunnel. I saw other people ordering different linkage but the stock Sti stuff might work? If the trans was in the right spot. I’d much rather not get linkage if I don’t really need to. So what am i doing wrong? Should i just make spacers and lower the whole bracket? 3. I keep reading i need a Sti clutch slave. I have one but i have the stock Baja turbo one in and i looks good. I haven’t tried to push the clutch in yet. Why would this matter? Well that’s what i got for now any and all help would be greatly appreciated.