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It's a very small, but deep oil pan.

Here's mine after sitting for 4-5 days and a 10 degree lean to the driver side. First pull: Clean: Recheck: Oil's so clean you can hardly see it, but there was oil up to the thin braided portion.

Looks dark, but normal.

Forester's got that same silly "Outback" cladding like the Legacy Outbacks did? Gross. Are you needing to cut the core support to fit the radiator? Is there a build thread I can check out, I'm really interested! And I doubt a V8 is going to fit in the engine bay of a Pathfinder without MAJOR work. The V6 is already shoehorned in the bay!

I image the turbos need a little bit more oil, because the turbo is oil fed. Is there some sort of oil cooler as well? If you buy the 10 liter jugs, every 7th change you have a "free" one. I buy the five quarts jugs here, and every fourth change I already have the oil and just need the filter.

Holy moly that's a lot of oil for such a little engine! a 4x4 VG30 equipped pathfinder only takes 3 5/8 quarts WITH filter change. I usually just dump the entire four quarts in it though.

I once put a 3.3L in place of my factory 3.0. No replacement for displacement

Possibly, but I don't think it's been done or there just isn't any benefit from hunting one down. Whereas with the automatics, they made them strong so they live longer.

Here you seem to express some sort of dislike for Subaru's, I can't quite pin point it, but it might be where you attempted to conjoin the words 'stupid' and 'subaru'. From that it could be under safe assumption that you've had a bad experience with them and might be butt hurt over the mention of them. K.

should be more gold than orange,but yes. the factory tint is in the middle of the glass instead of on either side you touch. You could put in the extra effort and find an XE in the junkyard and take all the glass from it.

The H to L points on the dip stick is 1 quart. Sounds like you're checking your oil wrong. You want to do it on a cold engine, or one that has been turned off for 10-15 minutes. Pull dipstick out, wipe clean, put dip stick back in and make sure it seats all the way down, pull it out and check the level.

Pretty sure this thread is about engine swaps where you take the OEM motor and replace with another that adds two cylinders. At least "stupidurus" can do such a swap. I'd love to see a V8 in a Pathfinder that didn't require ANY fabrication. If you want things to stay on topic B, you should first make sure we ever left the topic. OH WAIT THIS THREAD IS IN OFF-TOPIC, lulz.

It's normal if your truck leaks or burns oil. Change it, and check it. See where it's at on the stick.

Oh my bad, I just assumed it was an EZ30 since it was in a late 90's Legacy. That's what I'm thinking about putting in my car.

Because for about 20 years there was only one that was used in everything. The EJ (4 cylinder) series which came anywhere between 1.5 and 2.5L. And the other "specialty" six cylinder engines are the EG and the EZ series and these generally only came in one specific model, SVX and "H6" badged Legacy's respectively. The EZ, shown above, is a direct bolt in to anything that has an EJ from the factory as it was designed to fit in the same engine bay as an EJ.

Either double post or I was a bit too up in the clouds last night, cause I swear I responded to this. The voltage regulator inside of the alternator is defective and the entire unit needs to be replaced, hopefully it came with some kind of warranty.

I was thinking about doing the very same swap. But in my Impreza.

Sounds like the voltage regulator inside of the alternator. Hopefully the place you got the alternator from has a warranty since the whole unit needs to be replaced.

More please!!

you should let me know about this next year. sounds like it could be fun!

take the line off at the pump and see if the pressure is still weak.

Could be a tired pump.

I can't imagine a WD21 seat being much better, but they do bolt in. The SE trim seats are far better than the XE trim seats, but they're both a plenty in the junkyard.

If you had a loose hose, you probably lost fluid, better check and make sure. Automatic's are finicky creatures and if the level isn't just right, well... they complain about it.

According to the State of Washington, nothing is wrong with it