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It's not in my checking account... It's in a high yield savings account :d err:

What’s that…lol?

A savings account where you get 0.02% interest instead of 0.01%

So what’s the goal of this vehicle? Weekend fun? Daily gas saver? Place to vape?


Coop

Honestly not sure. I had originally planned on dropping a JDM EJ205 in it and farting around for a bit and then selling it for a bit of profit. However, the JDM route isn't as clean as easy as my initial research lead me to believe. Now I'm doing an OE short block and head work. Spending 2-3x what I had originally planned.

A Subaru Engine in it's natural habitat


PXL_20220326_232650011 by christobal65, on Flickr

[quote=""Chris GTO TT""]A Subaru Engine in it's natural habitat

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Lies.


It's not dripping oil

I can hear the unequal exhaust from here.

[quote=""vr4""]Lies.


It's not dripping oil[/quote]
I put the tray under it just in case
[quote=""ChargerX3""]I can hear the unequal exhaust from here.[/quote]

The sound of inefficiency

Subaru sure knows how to make an engine as ugly as possible.

Do subi people do strokers or bigger oddly snapped engine swaps?


Coop

[quote=""DCIV""]Do subi people do strokers or bigger oddly snapped engine swaps?


Coop[/quote]

There are a few 2.7 or so 'stroker' blocks from companies like Cosworth, but they are expensive for what you get. There's some LS swapped ones running around but they lose AWD. Some people swap in the 3.0 HEY Subaru engine and then Turbo that.

So just for comparison, there are a good number of 400awhp 3/s, plenty of 500….then you see the 600-800 every so often and just a few 1000….what’s that compared to subi? Or don’t they care?



Coop

[quote=""DCIV""]So just for comparison, there are a good number of 400awhp 3/s, plenty of 500….then you see the 600-800 every so often and just a few 1000….what’s that compared to subi? Or don’t they care?



Coop[/quote]

It's much harder to make good power in them. They're so fragile.

Can it be done? Yes. If you got the money.

Gotcha. Sometime I will take a deep dive and learn a bunch about subi’s but I will prob wait till I buy one and then think, oh shit I should have read about these first.


Coop

400whp is fairly attainable, but much beyond that and you need deep pockets for continuing rebuilds. The biggest thing to remember is even the last STi (2015-2021, VA chassis) is still 350+ lbs lighter than a typical 3S. Also the cars original purpose is massively different. The 3S is a grand touring car, and the WRX is a homologated WRC car, WRX literally stands for World Rally eXperimental. If high speed and TX2K is your jam you'll never understand most turbo Subarus.

[quote=""vr4""]It's much harder to make good power in them. They're so fragile.

Can it be done? Yes. If you got the money.[/quote]

This. I have a buddy locally who opened up a shop. 80% of his business is Subarau's. Why? Because they break all the time, especially once you start to mod them.

Parts from Subaru showed up


PXL_20220408_173648800 by christobal65, on Flickr

Most owners suck. That’s the main issue with Subarus.

Look at that cute little truck. Perfect for small pallets.

Let the fun begin!