Tidgy
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just a slight note, i saw gearbox reinforcement plates mentioned, dont bother with them, waste of money
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personaly i;d never buy a second hand engine, unless the person selling has done every single mile on the engine and you trust them completly, you have no idea what condition its actualy in. If your planning to keep the car then i'd look at getting the existing engine stripped and assessed and go from there.
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Ej255 engine rebuild query?
Tidgy replied to Deanas1994's topic in Subaru Engines, Exhausts and modifications
i would never not do the bottom end on a 2.5 once the headgasket fails, risk of bearing damage is too high -
dont bother with the 20g, will be laggy as. sedcond hand vf35 will do the job and wont break the bank, anything beyond that will push beyond the limit
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welcome 🙂
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im still amazed how much emphasis people put on dealer service history, i've found most decent independent specialists know considerably more than the dealers.
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aye 🙂
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no no i know you weren't dude 🙂 just from experiance i know how it adds up when you chuick in labour, and then vat is a killer as well, it's so easy to underestimate the costs, always worth shoipping round, but ive seen plenty of prices for 500 builds from different tuners and they all end up there or there abouts.
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yeh, not that hard mail order
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Going from stock to 500, 20k isn't far off when you brake down the costs. Bear in mind your not doing it in your garage, so you have to take into account labour and such. Engine build, clutch, turbo, ecu, front mount, exhaust, headers, intake, injectors, fuel pump etc etc plus a hole load of supporting mods you;d wanna run like oil cooler etc
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thats the US and they are well known for pushing them to destruction and just replacing the engine as they are cheap as chips. Also WHP is calculated differently and is roughly BHP flywheel figure, so 500 at the wheels is around 625 ish at the fly, not a hope in hell of a stock 2.5 doing that, maybe for a couple of dyno pulls, but thats it. Be very very wary of any information you get on Facebook as its a well known for dodgy info and cowboy tuners/mappers
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at 500bhp your looking at rebuild so will be pricey.
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yep, very much so
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cs400 was a forged engine from factory
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Welcome, 400bhp without a rebuild? good luck that it manages to survive to that and i would expect a rebuild in less than 5k miles
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In that case i'd wait and bide your time, instead of dumping a load of wasted money save it and buy a decent wrx in a couple of years,
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welcome
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you do realise the insurance will prob cost less on a wrx than modding it and then insuring it?
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Don't bother, by the time you've done what you need to do to do it properly it will cost more than selling it and buying a wrx that has alot more upgrades like brakes, suspension etc etc
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pop back to the dealer and get them to sort it as car will still be under warranty
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Welcome, not that many NI owners on here i think so if its from over your way prob unlikley to find them. Other thing is you can go to th4e mot history check and find out where the mot's were carried out, see where the owner was based, may hep find them if possible.
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budget a minimum of £500 a side for a proper job, they go from the inside out so if its visible the inner arch is going to be a mess. Cambelt and water pump change (why change the water pump?) will be same as any spec impreza as they are the same setup, have to confess im not up to date on what going rate for these as last two i had were part of engines builds (on different cars i should add lol)
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Need to find where the oil is coming from rather than covering it up.
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I've got tein Flex z coilovers on always been really impressed, nice balance of firm but not hash ride. Coilovers are one of those things that can come in alot of different varieties that give massively varying rides in terms of how harsh. best advice i can give is see if you can find a local owners club and maybe see if you can get a few rides in cars with different setups to get an idea what they are like
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It will need mapping for the new turbo.
