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Old 03-17-2009, 10:59 PM   #1
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2.5L's are junk. proof inside

This is the 2nd motor build this week. This car came to us with the thought that a rod bearing went. We immediately thought "oil pickup".


guess what..... #4 completely ate itself. there are no pieces of the piston anywhere... all that is floating around is pieces of the rings. The entire engine is whooped, the oil pan looked like someone filled it with anti-seeze. This car had very very minor mods, TBE and AP. Thats it! And only 30k on it. I'll stick with my 2L ;)

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Old 03-17-2009, 11:12 PM   #2
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That's horrible looking, I'm quite suprised to see that. Was this because of bad A/Fs or just a crappy short block.... It doesn't look like it was running that lean.
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Old 03-18-2009, 01:34 AM   #3
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crappy piston design with poor fuel system design. This thing was modded ever so gently and it still went.
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Old 03-18-2009, 05:41 AM   #4
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oh my goodness! what are you rebuilding with?
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Old 03-18-2009, 06:47 AM   #5
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2.5's out of what? lol
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Old 03-18-2009, 07:20 AM   #6
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2.5's out of what? lol
STI's!
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Old 03-18-2009, 07:26 AM   #7
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haha rrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiight.


prime example of why they arent junk.... chris's forester. hardest driven suby i know of.
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Old 03-18-2009, 07:53 AM   #8
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Thats ugly, was it a 257 or 255?
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Old 03-18-2009, 09:57 AM   #9
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ryan was this on the off the shelve stage 2 map? or protuned ?
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Old 03-18-2009, 11:59 AM   #10
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Old 03-18-2009, 01:31 PM   #11
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Chaos- Chris' fozzy is a freak of nature.. and so is he :P


Ray- 257. From what Im told it was a very conservative protune. if you want more info pm me.

Same thing with another customers 257 that blew #4. was tuned well and #4 let go.

We are unsure what route we are going with this one, waiting on the customer
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Old 03-18-2009, 01:34 PM   #12
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2.0 w00t w00t

subaru's 2.5 was a crap engine ever since the N/A version.
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lol except for the fact that with 2 mods it makes around 300 whp and over 300 ft lbs on the turbo version... yea thats real crap.
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lol except for the fact that with 2 mods it makes around 300 whp and over 300 ft lbs on the turbo version... yea thats real crap.
Who gives a **** when it gives up the ghost 30k miles later...
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Old 03-18-2009, 01:52 PM   #15
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Old 03-18-2009, 01:55 PM   #16
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Who gives a **** when it gives up the ghost 30k miles later...
lol any engine will do that when you drive it like a retard. except for chris's forester.


im just saying, you get out of it what you put into it... treat it nice and it will pay you back.
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Old 03-18-2009, 02:09 PM   #17
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So Subaru's quality has really gone down recently? I heard that somewhere
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lol any engine will do that when you drive it like a retard. except for chris's forester.

im just saying, you get out of it what you put into it... treat it nice and it will pay you back.

who said the two STi's that are here were driven like retards? Its a typical #4 failure. Just more and more are showing their ugly little heads.
The pistons are brittle little pieces of cast ****. Simple as that. they are junk
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dont get your panties in a bunch.
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Old 03-18-2009, 02:26 PM   #20
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The suby 2.0 has so much development behind it and is so damn smooth. Yeah, it lacks torque, but there is a reason why the STis in japan don't need a 2.5 to keep up with evos...
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