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piston slap isnt needed to be cured, it's just a natural result of putting forged pistons in it, If your worried about it get it checked out by a specialist.

are you sure its not piston slap your hearing?

after having subaru road cars with and without, i would have for sure, standard brakes are pish by comparison

idealy you wanna fit it and do as little milage as possible, but leave the actuator disconnected and keep the revs below 3k and should be ok.

just get a set of ap 6 pots wuth ap dishs and decent pads, not cheap but as good as you'll ever need

Is it the right thickeness headgasket? has it stuffed up the comrpession? can you get it on a dyno and diagnose whats going on?

sounds like the offset on the wheels is wrong and its catching the arch on lock

haha yeah 😄

i got flack for saying mishicrapo stuff last week haha

yeah hybrids can be a total unknown second hand. sounds like it worked in your favour though haha

type r has dccd, two doors as you say, shorter ratio gearbox. type r also has no abs. Higher rev limit. basicly its alot more raw than even the sti. of the two, i'd get a type r every time, which i did haha

looks good mate, must be pretty much nearly there now?

sorry didnt realise you were still looking or i would have said lol

not so in practise, the change to roller bearings mroe than makes up for it, my 34 considerably outspooled 35's on other cars with same spec. Although with the caviat different cars react differently and i never tried a 35 on mine. For the price of a new 34 your nocking on the door of an sc36 which will outspool and outpeak both, really depends on how much you want to spend. on a stock wrx motor i'd say stick with a 35 as the price is alot cheaper and isn't gonna push it beyond the limit of the box and engine.

that things is about 10k over priced, its just a bodykitted 2001 wrx 😮

i couldn't resist 😄 hahahaha

depends if hes managed to clear all the brown stuff out of his suit fromt he other year or not,,,, hahahaha

problem is btcc is indy and nothign to do with subaru uk. the ones you mention at the bottom are the US bunch 😞

Season 7 is live, well worth a watch sad thing is subaru is on the rise in the US since they embraced ralying and world rally cross, shame subaru UK are to dumb to realise it 😞

evo's prob dropped its diff all over the road,,,,,,,,, pmsl sorry couldn't resist haha

Its the control panel for the sigma alarm. If you don't know the code for it, don't touch it unless your very sure you know what your doing.

if you go new age then sti will have 6 speed, so will save 2-3k in buying one. 2001 sti's engines are mega strong even in factory form, last of the proper forged engines. really depends what model you want

nope, theres myths out there about the ecu learning, but thats very minor. If your going down the route of rebuild base model of the engine doesnt really matter unless your going big power like 600 then you want to look at a closed deck. personaly i;d go 2.5 and get it converted to closed deck, good for 500 and loads of low down grunt.

not much you can do engine/power wise without mapping im afraid.

i'd guess they were damaged but bumper was ok