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Welcome

low blow :( but true

Scoobyclinic are up at chesterfield and do all my work

yeah, mrs car has one, but you'd see a mark where it had been if it was missing hence saying its not that. the hole it uses is just filled with a plug when there isnt one

take it back, just checked my hawk, its a little plastic round screw cover thingy,,, hows about that for a description haha

alarm sensors iirc

ah right, must be alot who took them out then lol

really? not seen many of them with them in :S

haha, i think someone paid extra for that :o

Spec D difference was pretty much spoiler, front fogs and leather. beyond that they are the same car and as said WRX SL had the leather and sunroof

twighlight zone i think hahaha

haha a tad different, xv's are great cars though

Cool glad its sorted. such ashame subaru made such a monkeys job of the engine in the first place

not this one is it? https://www.gumtree.com/p/subaru/subaru-impreza-2.5-wrx-sti-spec.d-hawk-eye-2.5-black/1161232216

STI has hyperetic (or how ever its spelt) wrx had cast pistons. Both types are a back of crap though to be fair. Hyper is just a heat treated piston effectively. 2.5 short block hasn't changed much since it was first released, its now on revision 4 iirc but the changes were very minor and more to do with casting and additional fixings for things but they are mainly the same engine. Although as mentioned further up there is an open deck and semi open deck version.

Ah fair enough, think a couple of guys on here use martin.

welcome back, if you buy an xv expecting a performance cross over your in for a nasty surprise, but as far as spec and comparing it with other similar cars they are great, me and my dad looked at about 10 different cars when he was looking for a new car (quashqi, juke, kugar etc etc) and none of them were as well equiped or as roomy at the XV. He liked it so much that when he had his rammed off the road (he and mum were fine, pics in a thread in the XV section under possibly DOA XV) he replaced it with another new one.

Purely out of noseyness what garage is it at? As far as forged piston i would say its a must, headgaskets and ringlands are a big failure point on a 2.5 so you don't want to have it rebuilt and find it breaks again and your back to square 1 needing another build. Subaru changed the pistons from proper forged to heat treated cast and there pretty crap by comparison.

As above, if the headgasket on a 2.5 goes you want to be doing the bottom end 100%. Friend of mine went to a well known tuner who disagreed with that and less than 1000 miles after it dropped the bottom end. Personally i'd look at getting it closed decked while its out (i had the 2.5 in mine closed decked), its around £500 (speak to Alyn at AS Performance) so not bank breaking in the grand scheme of an engine but well worth doing. Also means 500bhp is a realistic reliable target if you ever want to got hat far.

wrx and sti's both suffer, neither is any worse than the other. It's pure pot luck whether it goes or not, i know cars that have had 3 engines in less than 10k miles and i know some that have been thrashed yet never failed.

lmao :D

whats the fuel pressure doing when it comes on boost?

swap the pump out as a starter, just because its new doesn't mean its not faulty.

Be very very wary of piggy back stuff, while i don;t know the fcon itself if its like typical bolt on stuff more then likely blow up your engine. 2001 will be ecutek mappable

take it elsewhere, sounds like he doesnt have a clue