All single overhead cam EJ25 engines for Subaru Forester we sell are re-manufactured. Subaru EJ25 engines have serious head gasket overheating issues, for this reason sell rebuilt engines for Subaru Forester. We use multi-layered head gasket for EJ25 engines. JDM Subaru engines for Forester are 2.0 ltr and they don''t have EGR for this reason we sell rebuilt version at our machine shop. All EJ25 engines are built from scratch at our machine shop. Cylinder block is honed, bored & pressure tested, cylinder head is resurfaced and once assembled the engine is dyno tested.