stuartie

Yeah i seen the pic of you're new set of wheels looks good, will this be money pit number 2

Welcome, just do it, do it now 😂 in all honesty we will all be a bit biased here

Thanks savage 👍, i must admit it has been a real pleasure so far apart from the broken banjo and watching as the blacksmith at work set about getting it out i had to turn away at one point as he was welding a nut on to get it out thought i was going to turn around and the head was just going to be a melted alloy blob on the bench 😂, i have also broken off the little vacuum pipe to the fpr but not to worried about that as have piping at the workshop which will fit, i will keep updating when the heads return and i begin to rebuild 😉👍

Nice write up there matt, i have been looking at a few of these, going to be replacing my daily mondildo tdci estate soonish as the kids are getting a bit older and no need for an estate anymore and my annual mileage has reduced quite alot, the only other thing that has been putting me off abit is the 2.5 engine worrys 👍

Me likes savage, looks tasty 😉👍

Welcome to the club nice motor you have there 😉👍

Dropped the heads off at the engineers today for skimming, decoke and valve grinding/reseating also managed to get the broken banjo out with a little heat and weld which was a relief, should get the heads back next week then its time for the rebuild 😁👍

Yeah glass is pretty expensive, can you not get it replaced through you're insurance i'm not sure but i don't think it affect no claims

Got the heads off today straight after work, getting them skimmed and the valves ground and re-seated hopefully this weekend Couldn't really see any fault with the gaskets however all the coolant channels are full of rusty gunk so will get its all washed out and sparkly clean so that can only be a good thing, i have ran in to a slight problem though the banjo bolt which holds on the coolant pipe at the rear of the right hand head just above the oil return from the turbo is rotten and has broken off in to the head see pic Does anyone have any ideas of how to remove it, steel bolts in to alloy seem to have a tendency to be pretty tight, i was either going to put it in the parts washer at work and hope the heat will expand the alloy or give it to the blacksmiths and see if they can do anything with it, any other suggestions would be gratefully received 😉👍

Welcome to the club 👍

www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/2018-subaru-brz-ts-a-sharper-sports-coupe-reserved-for-500-people/ This looks pretty tasty shame its only limited to 500 and not released in the uk

Welcome to the club 😉👍

Welcome to s.o.c bud thats a bit of a beast you have there 👍

I just double checked and the plugs look slightly different fitment but the wires are the same colour and in the same order so fingers crossed 🤞, if it doesn't fit its only a tenner i suppose 😉

I checked the pics i have from when i removed the engine and the plugs are a different colour, the sensor off the bay has a black plug and the one on my car is grey, hopefully it'l just plug in they both seem to have 3pins, if not i'm sure there will be a diagram somewhere showing me how to wire it up

Cool thanks savage, it does say in the description that its ideal as an upgrade for running higher boost and its came off a 99 sti, was a bit worried that i would have to wire in a new plug to fit it but if it just plugs straight on thats grand matey, i think I'll just bite the bullet and get it, they only wanting a tenner for it 😉👍

Is this the correct uprated map sensor to go on to my v1 wrx, i know it says so in the description but just want to make sure as will get it on while putting the engine back in, m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Subaru-Impreza-Turbo-2000-WRX-Sti-99-01-MAP-Sensor/222813262206?hash=item33e0b4917e:g:fwEAAOSw9p9aY2xR

Started srtipping the engine to do the head gaskets

Welcome to the club 👍

Started to pull the engine to bits today, began with removing the headers Then moved on to removing the crank pulley and taking off the cambelt cover, lined up the oe timing marks then removed the cambelt and when i did the cams moved round but not to worry as have to take off cam sprockets and remove cam shafts to gain access to the head bolts Now i took the rocker covers and the rear sections of the cambelt covers, then the half moons that hold the cams in however watch for the location of each half moon they are stamped to indicate which cylinder they relate to with an arrow pointing to the front of the engine and this is as far as i got today just the inlet manifold to remove now before taking the heads off, this is the first time i've worked on one of these engines so its a bit of a learning curve as i go along but its also been a pleasure so far 😉😉👍👍

@Phillip1993 have you got anywhere with this?

Possibly a sensor plug came off something like cam or crank sensor, really not sure if everything is lined up, sorry can't be of any more help

Absolute f***ing c**ts mate scumbags like that deserved to be hung drawn and quartered, at least they never got away in it and they left the scoob alone

If you don't know when it was last changed it would definitely be worth doing, i think most folk including myself carry out service's every 5-6k miles and if you're planning on running higher than stock boost upgrade the spark plugs to heat range 7s ( i think they are ngk pfrb7) as they run a bit cooler and have a stronger spark which won't get blown out with the extra boost 👍👍

Aye mr forrest certainly knows his stuff from what i'v heard from a couple of guys at work who prepare rally cars and from on this forum, i spoke to him not long after getting the car and he seems like a right nice bloke and going by his time attack/superlap car he can set them up pretty well