Miggs

Mines a daily, I take the kids to school in it every morning and went to Sheffield to take a mate to buy a new car, I have the wife's performance diesel car if I can't afford juice at anytime but I try and drive the subie as much as possible

I've never tested the car for power but the guy I got it from said about 300 but personally I think it's more like 250 ish, there's not enough mods to warrant 300 in my opinion

R.I.P. Always a shame to loose a motorsport star

Welcome aboard pal, they are supposed to be serviced every 5k or 6moths,most service parts are a doddle to do, plugs are a pain but you get used to it

There are some websites that have a scale of loudness for different models, there are louder ones than mine but believe me mines surprisingly loud, it may have something to do with 1.4 bar of boost I have going through the system lol, the 007p is the only unit I know of that can be used on a vag engine without throwing up error codes

I know all the classics do but wasn't 100% on newer ones so didn't want to make him look like a tit when he goes to the mapper lol

Congratulations guys, nothing in life will touch your heart like the birth of your child, if ever your missus or you are worried feel free to message me, I'll pm you my number, the wife's a nurse and a midwife and we have 2 kids as well, more than happy to help if i/we can

There's a few mappers based all over the place, Andrew Carr from team Carr is a popular one round here, there's also Andrew Forrest and Jolly Green Monster, the best map for a scoob is a live map, the go out with you on a drive and map to your driving style, I know classics need a piggy back ecu or standalone system but I think later ones can have the standard unit mapped, don't quote me on that though

Dump valves don't do anything for performance they just stop the turbo from stalling so it saves the life of the bearings a few years longer, exhaust wise the equal length will lose the trademark burble but gain you a bit of power, unequal obviously the opposite, if your tracking it go for equal, just road use then unequal, my system only has a back box with nothing at all after the turbo, VERY loud but gets people looking lol, as for forge, mines a forge dump valve and it's a very very loud whoosh from it, the forge ones can be adjusted with different springs so if you change the boost pressure you can adjust the valve to suit

Welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy here as much as you enjoy the car, now you have one you won't find anything as much fun

If your gasket goes and you know as soon as it's gone I'd say drive it home and fix it with just a new gasket and bolts, if you don't know when it went I would get the head skimmed as the more you drive it the hotter it will get regardless of water temp or level, the heat will then warp the head or even worse cracking the head, if you've been driving it since it went I'd get it cracking tested and skimmed when it's off

Baileys valves are the cheapest new valves I've seen and can be problematic with some cars, the black bottle is a charcoal canister for keeping emissions down, should be replaced every 40k but rarely are, just gives a touch better economy when clean, I just pull them out and join the pipes together in most cars, and as for the crystal side lights, the late face lift as you have has the crystal headlights and fog lights as standard from the factory but the crystal sidelights are aftermarket only

I was going to suggest using a jack to lift it, the plug could be for a diff temp reader, Dogmas forester had one, not seen one on an impreza but it's possible

lol i was gonna do that

welcome to the S.O.C. pal, good to have you here, not so good though are the circumstances you find yourself with, i too think that's a bit of a high price, seems a typical dealer response though, charge the earth for not a lot of money in parts, it's probably all labour costs as the entire engine needs to be stripped down to fix it, a normal inline 4 pot can have the bearings done from below by just removing the sump, as long as theres a garage with experience of taking a subaru engine apart the quote should come back a hellova lot cheaper than main stealer prices

i'd happily take care of it for you and take it to good garages for work to be done for you, the japenese imports are popular over here due to even standard they run more power but most good imports have mods too so lots of money already spent and you get it cheap france is the same, if you put an air filter on the standard car your breaking the law, an air filter, that's bizarre

welcome aboard, a mate of mine had a golf running LPG, he bought it already fitted and said he could smell an eggy smell when he was using it, he tried to use the petrol side of the conversion as much as possible and ended up getting rid within a year, i don't know if that's common or just his bad experience, he also said it was half the price to fill up with gas than petrol but it used twice as much when running it so worked out a marginal difference

i know these look small but if you click on them, then go to the bottom right and click the magnifying glass, you should get a message saying "view original" hit that and you will get them full size

i think the thirsty nature of the turbo means some people are getting rid as they can't justify the fuel, the guy that runs the scooby garage near me is always selling classic turbos, he gets shut of at 2 cars every week and a half, he gets the odd sport in but always scraps them after getting the panels off them or just selling for px prices, the reason theres not many sports about is the boy racers can't afford the turbo but they can have turbo looks for less insurance, they will keep them until they kill them or they can afford the turbo, that's my thoguths Dogma had a sport and was well chuffed with it, if the gearbox hadn't gone he would have kept it quite a lot longer, he got the awd of the turbo, the noise of the scoob and fuel economy to die for, i think most sport owners will be the same, also you'll get more turbos for sale that have engine issues and the owners is trying to sell without anybody realising and it doesn't cost him the earth

i do use them every now and again and have made the same suggestion on other forums but never been used as it's not overly popular with many people here you go, took 2 mins to create and save

it doesn't say where i got it from, best bet would be look at the engine in a classic and compare to the pic, if the indicated parts aren't where the pic shows then not for the classic, i'll try and get a look under my bonnet today

i just thought the explanation of how to read and then the decipher of what your reading were better in the same section so people aren't hunting all over the place for em

bit of a difficult one from my point of view, i don't want to encourage you to go for it and it turn out to be a bad idea, i'll feel guilty for telling you to do it, then again i don't want to see you paying twice as much when you could well have got the same job for less

lovely car, i like the dash and the REAL carbon not vinyl, makes a great difference, what's the law on a car bought already tuned from another country and imported to Italy? just thinking you could get a car from Japan or even here in the UK modified and imported to you

black smoke is usually an indication of burning oil in the system, as Gambit said it depends when and how much, little puff on start or constant or when you floor it on boost?