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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 :)

cool :D enjoy :)

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:o not sure what to say lol

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indeed peasant,,,,,,,, hahaha, only joking :D

emails are now sent i believe, im just preloading now, although doesnt unlock for a couple of days haha

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.

emails with codes havn't gone out yet, but if you log into ubisoft website you can tell if you do or not by if you have access to the beta forums and such, does actualy tell you congratulations on the beta section on there as well to be fair.

Looks like have got beta access to ghost recon wildlands on PC :D Anyone else been following it?

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that a good or bad thing? lmao

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Welcome, sorry to hear your having issues :(

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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.