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I'm amazed no one has snapped this up as a fun toy given the price 😮

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its pure pot luck tbh, some take a beating and keep on ticking, some get babied and fail if you look at them wrong, Does mean you can pick them up cheap with a failed engine and then have engine built to your spec so no issues later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Forester got a list of engines on thats, only seems to be the 2.5NA thats chain driven in the forester, (FB engine)

Sell it and buy a manual, prob be cheaper and easier in the long run

i had kyb agx and eibach lowering springs on my old classic, wasa great combo

looks great, cant beat a bit of shiney shiney

road and track are very very different chap, after being around people and cars up at clinic that do track days and full blown races, road stuff just isn't up to it. takes a very small time to over heat road level brakes for example.

Yeah it is unfortunately 😞 2.5 especialy isnt great, suffers failures just from road use and struggles with heat on standard form. Shame your not nearer the midlands or I could show you round some if the track and race cars they run up at scoobyclinic, give you some idea of the issues.

If your running it in track then I wouldn't even contemplate just doing pads and disks, full AP6 pot setup is a much better option even given the cost. Also I would look at a few upgrades like oil cooler kit, baffled sump and fuel system upgrade to prevent fuel surge. Additional given the well known flaws of the 2.5 I would expect it to not last that long before it needs a full rebuild.

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they always do haha tbh i would be highly skeptical of sti having anything to do with it. Vin is a UK car and STI is soley based in japan, so i can;t seem them shipping a uk car over to japan, then back again. On a side note, sack off that blotz boost control and get the ecu mapped properly.

can you take a picture of the chassis plate showing the vin (can hide the last 5 or 6 digits of the actual if your worried about it). If its a 16 digit code (letters and numbers) its a uk car and highly unlikey to be anything to do with sti, if its a jap code (9 numbers iirc) then its an import. looking at the pics its a uk car. can you get an engine bay pic as well.

So my mind is turning to what to get next, wont be for a few years, but will take me that long to decide. That said last time this happened i had an m3 in about 6 months haha. Current list 2012-2014 Mercedes C63 F10 BMW M5 (decat and map = 700bhp :0 ) RS5 Jag XFR-S E93 BMW M3 Lexus ISF

any pics of the car?

i've got tein flex z on my saloon. very impressed with them

welcome, get some pics up 🙂

First off, the 2.5 is just as bad from hawk onto even the final edition, doesn't matter if its wrx or sti, they all suffer from ringland and headgasket issues. Subaru stopped doing a proper forged engine in 2001 (well before the 2.5 came in ironicly) Modified and standard doesn't make any difference up to a certain power, over 350bhp and your on borrowed time on a stock 2.5. Well looked after or not (although poor maintenance will always result in a less reliable car) they still fail. I hear a figure of about failure rate of around 35%. which is pretty astronomical in car terms but in truth it's a educated guess. Really its pure luck if you get a good or bad one. I know of at least one car that had 3 engines within 10k miles from new 😮 That's the bad, the good is built right the 2.5 is an epic road engine, plenty of low down grunt. Well looked after and tuned right they are proper weapons on the road. Proper forged rebuild will prob start around 7k ish for a proper decent basic forged build (assuming you don't do it yourself) with an upper limit really depending on how far you wanna go as far as power goes.

It used to be sports cat, panel filter and a flash map, not 100% sure if its the same on the 2011 though

they got shunted of the m69 into the central reservation by a driver who decided to not brake for the slowing traffic in front. XV was written off, front and rear end damage, but they walked away uninjured luckily.

Welcome dont be fooled, a recall isn't a warrenty issue. They legally have to do it and if they dont can get into serious hot water. It's basically sorting out a ***** up by subaru in the design of the vehicle or a manufacturing issue. XV's are pretty good though, dads had two and been pretty good, they crash well as well lol

not sure on exact price, i seem to remember a cobra one being about £600 for just one sports cat :0

Sports cats are alot of money, if you cant find a friendly mot place then i'd just look for someone selling a standard exhaust, be alot cheaper than a sports cat even second hand.

Scoobyclinic are based down at chesterfield and can advise best route to go for what you want to achieve.