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haha, was a link to someone looking at buying on SN

Ah thought it said forged pistons, but that was another one i was looking at hahaha

oo ooo what do i win?

2.0's do fail but i agree substantially less than 2.5. As far as engine costs its not far off for a proper rebuild, assuming it has actually had the forged pistons put in, full bottom end and head rebuild. just depends on what exactly was done. It's very easy to rack up big costs if lots of parts are junk, been there done that lol

Yep, UK/euro hawks wrx and sti are 2.5. the one linked will have had ringland failure, mentions overbore which will be because of liner damage when the ringland failed. As said, 2.5 out the box is a big of a dog, can be nice and sweet all its ife or one day just jumps up and bites you. Headgaskets and ring lands are the biggest problems. That said built it right and its a cracking engine for road use. Standard block will do 450bhp without loosing reliability, closed deck convert it and your up to a reliable 550bhp. but by the time you get that far your talking mega bucks to build and in supporting mods. When the 2.0 wore out in my type R i;ve had a closed deck 2.5 put in it and boy does it go well :D

hahah yeah, although to be fair they can fail at any milage even well looked after, tis only as strong as it's weakest part ;)

Yeah its a bodge job 2 door. Daft thing is for the money he spent having it converted he could have bought a proper type R. To be fair i've seen worse hatchet jobs, although what its like up close you'll only find out when you see it.

top mount looks different to KW and isnt HKS coilover gold? HDS is green. D2 maybe?

depends how far you wanna go, top mount will be at its limit if you do much more so your looking at front mount, then maf becomes an issue so wanna look at going aftermarket ecu (syvecs is by far the best but not cheap), then you have injectors, fuel pump etc etc SC36 or SC38 will be a good step up, or an sc42 if you wanna break the 400 mark, bearing in mind above.

The look, the sound, how it drives, the power (bear in mind i'm not running standard power anymore haha)

Welcome, i wouldn't bother trying to improve performance. Subarus derive their power from turbo chargers so will never be that quick. Will handle well and stick to the road well, just enjoy then in a few yeas upgrade to an sti :)

As above, sounds more like a pipe failure somewhere than a blown turbo. Tend to get oil pass through when they go so would be pumping out smoke from the exhaust.

Be aware headgasket failure on a 2.5 is a full rebuild job including bottom end. When the headgasket fails has a nasty habbit of pinching the crank bearings and damaging them meaning they fail very very soon after if not replaced.

5-10 miles, takes a long time for the oil to get up to temp

looking good

you'll find they all use the same insurers, either be marker study or highway (if i have the names right)

Bonhams currently have a 22b going up for auction with 51, yes thats not a typo, 51 miles on it. One of the 3 numbered 000 as well

You want to speak to Gary moulson at keith micheals, he specialises with scoobs and evo's, and just ask him any questiosn you have. They also cover mods like for like if you want. Been with them for donkeys years, there is an option for claims when you ring the main office number. He can be hard to get hold of cos hes mega busy with folks ringing him.

Clinic did a shell 10 years ago, owner ran out of money so its sat up there under a sheet as just a painted shell, they moved the pillars, full 22b wide arch kit from the moulds, full welded in cage etc etc I'll try and gets some pics next time i'm up.

you planning on moving the pillars?

how many miles has it done in that time?

Can only reiterate my quote above, JCT are building a decent reputation. Member on here picked his up yesterday, straight over to a specialist for a once over and it was given a clean bill of health inc dyno run.

Judging by the graph they ran it in Australian mode,,, haha Glad it's all good.

schweet. let us know how it drives :)