Tidgy

Welcome. Not too far from me :) Not a million miles from scoobyclinic up at chesterfield, sure they could help out. They deal with an indy recovery driver so can get it picked up if needs be as well.

You can do some machining, not sure how much you can get away with

are the castings ok? can they be machined?

could be shift light? ask your mapper

typicly have to do some cutting, i wouldn't worry too much about it

I;ve never been very keen with the wheels on my type R, i have an old set in the garage that need a refurb. can someone photoshop them onto it? then a few different colour options? thinking maybe either black, gunmetal or maybe bronze? Wheels, Kei Force 8 if someone can find a better picture and the type R

my old one went from this, to this, to this finaly to this,

Onto of the engine is a bad place to have something trying to cool air. once driving airflow is limited by the size of the scoop so not ideal then. Simply put front mount is better for performance.

04 sti im assuming

schweet. got any mods planned?

welcome. get some pics up :)

Yep, also way beyond the capability of most drivers. it's very easy to say i want X power, but its a very different thing to have it and pay for it. your talking £1500 for the turbo, £2000 for the ecu and thats only two things, full engine rebuild for it will mean rods, pistons, head studs, crank bearings, fuel system upgrade, etc etc etc

find a decent tuner, give them your keys and your wallet and leave it with em,,,,, lol 500bhp is alot of power so will need to have a very good spec to get it there. Full custom engine build etc, prob nocking on 20k+

TD05 is pretty old tech, be better chucking an sc42 at it or something similar.

yeah sorry :( if your gonna be going that far then worth looking at uprated pistons, rods, headgasket and headstuds. will stop the same thign happening again and if you do it right will run 450bhp no problems

Basically when the head gasket goes water gets into the cylinder. Cos it wont compress the bearings get pinched and damaged. They then have a nasty habbit of failing after 1000 miles. Which would mean another fulls trip down and rebuild doubling the cost. Given your 70% of the way there it would be daft not to. Mate found that out the hardway ;)

I'd be amazed if it was still for sale chap, first post is dated october 2015

Had same thing with mine, thought the mechanism was broken till kev walked out the workshop with a bottle of wd40 and a screw driver haha. Best way way kinda like above. Need's two of you though. Soak the mechanism in WD40. Second person pull the cable inside so it pops up (may need to wiggle it a bit with the screw driver to free the mechanism). Give it more wd40 and push the latch down with a screw driver. pull the cable to release again Give it more WD40 and push the lactch down with screw driver do it a load of times and should give it a nice good clean out.

Do what you like, not what others say ;)

It's like anti lag, people want it until they realise how much damage it does lol

Will highly likley be bottom end damage as well, so make sure to replace the crank bearings as well

welcome. sorry to hear your problems. and time for the bad news. budget minimum 3k for the rebuild. will need a full strip down and crank bearing replacement plus what ever else has been damaged. You need to get it to a specialist who can sort it properly. If it's not done right it will fail again and again and again. If the garage you bought it from wont agree to pay the full cos of the engine build including crank bearings (based on being several thousand) then reject the car can get your money back, don't risk it cos you'll end out of pocket with a knackered car.

really sorry to hear all the issues your having. :(

More than welcome chap. Glad they were able to sort you out.

if there cheap enough might be a winner then. Think im gonna go tiens on mine when i eventualy change them with the electronic controller just for !Removed! and giggles