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Re: Local Subie Owners!!Lets see your cars
Good luck finding one. I blew my engine in Nov and spent the last 3 months looking for a used anything. I was just going to get a new short block from Perry ($1800), but then my prayers were answered and I found an '08 WRX engine on ebay with 20k on it that had been wrecked in the drivers side rear.
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Re: Local Subie Owners!!Lets see your cars
Dont put a frggin used motor in your car.
There are plenty of companies that sell both short blocks and complete long blocks for great prices. Gruppe-S and Raw Perfomance are just 2 examples. |
Re: Local Subie Owners!!Lets see your cars
I'm completely fine with putting a used one in there. I don't have the money to be putting a brand new long block from gruppe-s in sorry....plus I am not going to the WRX style turbo....I already have a perfectly fine VF52 that I would like to keep.
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Re: Local Subie Owners!!Lets see your cars
Nothing against you personally...I just think putting a used motor in a car is stupid. You dont KNOW how it was treated (biggest concern), you dont KNOW how many miles are actually on it, ect.
You can get a complete JDM FXT motor (almost identical to the USDM STI motor except for the Intake manifold {which flows VERY well}, turbo, and cam profile) for ~3000. Thats an extremely good price. You can sell everything off of it you dont need (making it even cheaper) and swap over your stuff. Thats just ONE example of a route he could go. OR...if his heads are fine...he could buy a CP piston bottom end from RAW and do a hybrid swap. Cheap. Again. This isnt a personal attack..theres just better routes to go (IMO). |
Re: Local Subie Owners!!Lets see your cars
if something happens and my motor in my wagon ever blows its comin back an STI swap lol
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Re: Local Subie Owners!!Lets see your cars
Originally Posted by Muncher
(Post 6122670)
Nothing against you personally...I just think putting a used motor in a car is stupid. You dont KNOW how it was treated (biggest concern), you dont KNOW how many miles are actually on it, ect.
You can get a complete JDM FXT motor (almost identical to the USDM STI motor except for the Intake manifold {which flows VERY well}, turbo, and cam profile) for ~3000. Thats an extremely good price. You can sell everything off of it you dont need (making it even cheaper) and swap over your stuff. Thats just ONE example of a route he could go. OR...if his heads are fine...he could buy a CP piston bottom end from RAW and do a hybrid swap. Cheap. Again. This isnt a personal attack..theres just better routes to go (IMO). No I can't.....that was why I said I didn't want to go that route because of the WRX fitment. There is absolutely nothing on a Legacy motor that will fit on an '07 or older STI or WRX. I would be starting over from scratch with a stock motor. Also with the miles I really don't care how many miles are on it honestly because it is an '08 and it can't be more than my 80k motor. |
Re: Local Subie Owners!!Lets see your cars
I was talking about his WRX. Not your legacy. If I had your legacy...Id sell everything you had dealing with the motor....buy the FXT motor, throw an 18g-20g on it and make more power than your making now (~400).
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Re: Local Subie Owners!!Lets see your cars
An 18G on that motor won't really make that much more. The turbo I have now with the right tune and a good fuel system is capable of 320.....right around that of an 18G....I know a few with 18Gs and they are not as impressive as I thought....but then again I could always steal my husbands 30R when he is sleeping...lol
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Re: Local Subie Owners!!Lets see your cars
Well as soon as Coreys car is sorted out we'll see what that size turbo will do on a FXT motor. His is in between an 18 and 20g (I forget what its called).
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Re: Local Subie Owners!!Lets see your cars
Originally Posted by SubieChik
(Post 6032635)
whatever loser :cool:
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Yup.....of course. You didn't seem to bothered by it this morning :cool:
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Re: Local Subie Owners!!Lets see your cars
Some Subie meet was obviously happening around Rockville Town Center in MD on Sunday afternoon (2-3pm). Lots of nice cars, wish I'd had a camera.
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