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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.

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

So still up on the bay, but price is down to 4750. Advert is the same with the 'economical' truth on how bad the damage is.

welcome

You'll get away with a small turbo upgrade, but sc42 will be too much for the stock engine. much more than a 36 an your gonna need to have the engine rebuilt. How far you go really depends on budget, my goal is a reliable 500bhp so i've got a closed deck converted 2.5, forged pistons, uprated rods, acl bearings, arp headstuds and supertech valve kit in refurbed v5 heads along witha boat load of supporting mods like FMIC, syvecs etc

Dad didn't notice any difference between his 2015 and 2017, although that's petrol

welcome, which dealer did you buy it from?

will be main engine build i expect.

i've run oil coolers on my past few cars, just make sure its thermostatically controlled

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sweet, glad it was an easy fix

are you sure its andy forrest your talking about, hes 400+ miles north of you in scotland.

wont be andy forrest, he doesn't travel for mapping any more. Scoobyclinic do all my work, ;)

ah fair enough, i know they cut back on what they did when they sold their dyno.

I use clinic all the time, wouldn't go anywhere else. Do scoobyworld still do anything bar mail order any more?

Whats the condition of your radiator? when did it last have a coolant change? are the fans kicking in when it gets hot? If the water temps are getting that hot i dread to think whats going on with your oil temps, might be worth looking at an oil cooler kit, should help keep the general temps down as well.

lol, good good, last thing i wanna see is a post saying engine gone bang and asking why.

Don't boost it till its remapped, you wont know what the AFR's are doing and could melt the engine before you know it.

Don't bother with the boost controller, just control it with the ecu.