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sure theres was a thread on SN a while back, general conesus seemed to be ok quality wise but mega hard ride

On the standard td04 turbo don't bother. will be laggy. anything over 300 will see improvements by going front mount, There's a bit of a misconception that you can run x power on x intercooler (tmic, fmic etc), its mroe a case of use. Andy forrest ran mid 8's on a top mount which is prob 800bhp, but no way a car doing more than 1/4 mile would do it on a tmic and that power.

welcome

welcome. get some pics up :)

welcome

Full service history is a must, thicker the receipts file the better. Watch out for blue smoke on start up. have you got a link to it for sale?

just have to see how it goes mate

cant help with that for def, but i would expect it to be different, more weight on the back end of a forrester

engine is the same in the impreza and forrester sti mate. I asked those in the know the very questions because i was pondering on one for the daily. decided against it because of the usual issues.

As above, shouldn't do

Problem may well be the map is wrong, a fault like that would have been present way before it was mapped. Mapper should have spotted it straight away and stopped mapping it.

Welcome and grats on the purchase. stop slacking and get em posted up :D lol

As said above, damage looks pretty bad on that and i'd be surprised if its salvageable without relining, which is doable but expensive. you may find it's cheaper to get a new block anyway. (by new i mean new to you so second hand).

clarkys will be dung khan and wouldn't trust him to map me toaster. not sure who zen use for mapping now, it's not paul any more.

been very impressed with them everytime i've used them. Order some oil from them but they didnt have enough in stock, replaced it with a higher price branded one at no extra cost. can;t fault them

gates are good so be fine with that.

wow, rare you get a thread where all agree on where to go hahahahaha

belt yes, tensioner does eventually leak so a good idea. pulleys only really if the bearings in them are going water pump no need avoid cheap copys, if one of them fails highly probable that's your engine gone with it will need mapping for those mods

Second above, ET is def the place to go down that way

If it arraives and its not as described you can just claim your money back anyway so worth a punt.

tbh the impreza brakes aren't that good either.

:(, t minus 3 weeks and counting,,,,,

Looking at it its going to need some work, looks like both rear arches are going, when rust is visible means the inner wing will be a right mess so that will need doing as well. Prob looking at £300 ish per side. need to find out about the service history and what is ment by 'full'.

Get it to a specialist and let them have a look, could carry on chasing it round the engine bay and still not find it.

Wait till next april and the tax drops to £140 a year ;)