winter run around scooby

totally standard subaru impreza turbo except for-

prodrive exhaust
braided brake lines
detachable towbar

not sure weather to uprate or not

i love these with a passion, not as much as my fiats, but almost lol

i love the sound and the way they handle, if you think your going into a corner too fast just nail it lol it will grip and go lol and mods for them are so easy to come by lol

if you do keep it and upgrade it mate start with an FMIC as you will gain about 25bhp of that alone lol then speak to jay (as he is the one that told me) but there is something about the exhaust mani that saps power too which is what gives it the subaru barble again 30bhp tied up in that lol then go to town on it lol i love them

thats exactly right about the handling, totally opposite to the 200, it's taken a while to work it out, but it's eye opener i was'nt a fan of them but i'm now converted, lol

i had a 2.0 N/A one a few yeahs back that was played with and that was running around 200bhp and it was soooo much fun lol i just love the hole "s**t i'm not going to make this corner, oh well lets go faster so it sticks" your right though after RWD it takes loads to get used too, its like driving a slot car lol

so do you think its staying????

the thing is the bottom end is knocking very slighty, which means a total rebuild, which costs to much(£1200 minimum). so i'd have to buy, for about £650, a low milage sti engine

ouch mate that sucks lol i must have been lucky with mine as the engine was the sweet bit it was the rear diff was on its way out on mine (scoobs dont like doing dohnuts lol)

surely if you pull the block apart before it gets any worse you can just replace what needs replacing or is it the taking apart of the block that means you need to rebuild everything??? do you not fancy doing it yourself??

aahh been looking forward to these pics nice looking scooby mate!, after market full exhausts on these are a great way to give a big bump in power and torque, once saw one tested and it gained 21bhp and 41lb/sf of torque with a full decat turbo back! and ofcourse a fmic is a great idea
so its knocking and your still going on the rollers!? lol, nice little ticking time bomb there haha. nice car mate like it
cant you just drop the sump and fit some new shells?? if its not smoking or tapping up top etc then the rings and other bits may be okay for a few years rather than spend a fortune? maybe then you could consider an STI lump at a later date?

Jason

i like how what you call a run around is something i couldnt probably afford to run even if i tried haha, nice one bud

if it was a normal engine i could replace the bearings and regrind the crank no problem. but its a flat four the block splits in half to get the crank out or to replace the bearings, much easier to swop the engine over, a simple job because the engine is so short.

once the engine is warm it's only a very very slight knock (i'm very picky with engine noise's), and apparently they can run for 1000's of miles like it.

and believe me i hammer the s**t out of it, wheelspin starts and drifting, so the rollers should be ok

88rsr wrote:i like how what you call a run around is something i couldnt probably afford to run even if i tried haha, nice one bud

£1500 it cost me, i bet yours cost alot more then that. just £100 petrol every week stupid petrol consumption

Nice run around wish i could afford one shame about bottom end though good luck with getin the price down.

£100 quid a week!! i no how you feel as at one time i was feeding the Cinq a hundred quid's worth of super unleaded very week

Jason

wow £100 a week lol you either do a s**t load of miles or its doing really really lol mpg

yeah it was a bit more but mine would probably only fetch 1k standard now, nobody wants motors that drink too much