05 Baja engine interchange options

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At just shy of 150k miles on the car my 2005 Baja has developed a rod knock

In the interest of being able to minimize down time I'm looking for a junk yard motor to drop in while I take my time to do a rebuild on the motor that is currently in the car. I know that some Outbacks and maybe Legacys had the same engine but I'm having trouble finding a good interchange list.

Mine is a 05, manual transmission, normally aspirated.

[anarchy1024]

I think practically any Legacy/Outback engine of the same year/type would fit in the Baja, since they're all based on the same platform... but I'm not sure. A few mechanics said an 04-06 STI engine would even fit in my 2003, with little-to-no modification to the engine mounting points (although there will need to be extensive modification to everything else).

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3.0 H6 LLBEAN

Lots of writeups on this swap on legacy forums..

If you swap the auto trans, too.. it's plug and play.

If you use a manual trans there's some electrical trickery for the computer and trouble codes.

Really nice power, and torque with the 3.0 H6.

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