What to do with blown Subie?
 

I have a blown up Subie Forester XT. It has a downpipe and exhaust and a wideband. The motor is toast.

The question is:

Should I spend $6000 and build the motor for 350awhp?

Or say fuck you Forester, sell it for $6000, and do something else with my money.

Here's the build list:

$1000 turbo
$4000 motor
$500 injectors
$500 ????

I already have my broken miata, a working stockish miata, and a lexus IS-F. All cars are fully paid for.

If I sell the forester I will probably get some other fast/fun AWD/4wd vehicle I can carry stuff around in. No clue what that would be.

Put in another stock 2.5t engine, re-tune to not fael, profit?

$2300 is cheapest I see for 80k motor on car-part.com :(

sell it to me lolz

uhg thats the cheapest you can find a motor? What about just a bottom end.

My GF has a 95k mile 07 Legacy GT. I hope I never have to replace the motor now!

Take that engine to a machine shop.

I have a spare EJ255 long block sittin here waiting for you baby

:fael:

Subie motors are expensive. Did your tune just suck and you blew it up? How much WHP were you pushing? How many miles on it? Stock block should safely do 300whp with no issues. Out of all my buddies with subarus, none have blown up with proper tunes even with tons of abuse and over 100k miles.

We're replacing my brother's toasted exhaust valve on his LGT at the moment, same valve & cylinder that mine went a year or so ago. Full suck sodium valves.

And there are places around that have cheaper long blocks than what you posted.

Send me the blown up motor with heads so I can build a header for my wrx please, and thank you!

What was failure mode?

You guys are making me worried about my FXT.

And Fae, didn't you make fun of 18psi and his subaru tuning? I hope it wasn't a tune issue.

The motor died because it was burning oil. Like 1Q a gas tank. I knew this when I bought it. But. Of course. I forgot to check the damn oil. I installed some spiffy new coilvers and was doing 4 wheel drifts. All was awesome. Then on one hard turn I started to hear TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP.

The end.

Turbo then blew. I drained the oil and it was all golden and coppery.

I was very sad.


So I never really wanted to do a big build with this car.

You really think I should just get a new bottom end?

I think anything less then 800hp in it is a waste. that should be your goal.

cut the body off with a sawzall and graft it onto your is-f.

I now remember why I like this forum.


There was no problem with the tune. It was very happy. 11-10.5 AFR. Timing was nothing outrageous and there was no knock.

That forrester was/is a freaking besat too. blast to drive. although a bit too loud for my tastes.

That is not an acceptable answer to my post. The only acceptable answer is challenge accepted.

I really just want to see how fast you can go bankrupt modding cars.

I'll trade you my miata for your blown forester. Then you can have 3 miatas.

Stage 2 subie power. downpipe exhaust wideband that's it


Vlad, Tim, how much do you think I can find a bottom end for?

Factory shortblock should retail for ~$1800-1900 from your local subaru dealer. (1725 rimjobbbbber)

Your aftermarket engine rebuilders should be less than that but we didn't find anyone with any in-stock (~3 weeks turnaround), but my bro didn't end up needing a shortblock.

EDIT AGAIN: but if you fucked up your cam towers/caps or got bad stuff inside your VVT gizmo, you may need more than a shortblock.

1. Spend $6k on Cosworth built engine
2. Install
3. Never worry about reliability of engine again.
4. ????
5. Profit

Unless he gets his sawzaw involved. :fael:

fit a 6cylinder normally aspirated h6 motor out of the legacy or tribeca - it bolts straight to gearbox and engine mounts are same
put megasquirt on it
custom radiator and fans
custom exhaust with long long primaries

if you really want shits an giggles fit rear mount turbo with biggest hotside you can and run .5bar booost on std internals

+1

1. Think of how much driving enjoyment you have received from your teal Miata.

2. Think of how much driving enjoyment you have received from your IS-F.

3. Note the level of modifications between the two.

4. Set up the Forester accordingly.

well played.

1. Sell Forester
2. Fix teal miata
3. Dyno tune teal miata
4. ???
5. Profit

I can sell you a complete EJ255 for $1400. Everything. But you have to figure out how to ship it. I aint shippin that shit.

Ugh. Good fuckig point.

1. In the past year, zero enjoyment.
2. I am driving it as i write this -_-
3. Ugh
4. Ok i will give it a stock block.

VVT solenoids aren't too expensive. I had to replace one on my GF's car. She still has both of the filters in the banjo bolts. In the spring I want to replace the one feeding her turbo and check shaft play on the stock turbo.

Cam caps on the other hand... no bueno.

If you just do a shortblock BE SURE to replace both of the banjo bolts that have filters in them.

Yah. I am worried about all the bearing material gettig everywhere in the motor.

I'm just terrified that faeflora and I have almost identical garages.

edit: except all my shit actually works

Grr whats in your garage.

You are not alone.

Same on all counts.

For quite some time now.

Good taste runs rampant around here

In for Turbo Subaru Wagon + Turbo Miata jerk party

Now that Brain has joined the klan...

OH HAI DER!

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1355957943

/\ That car runs. It doesn't belong in this thread

Making me miss mine :vash:



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Congratumalatiins scott

Do u get discount for averge yearly milage of 3000? Insurance

Miss mine too.


https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1355968320


And an 02 bugeye that I can't find a pic of.


Buy 18's motor and keep it. Especially if the cars in good shape. Of all the cars I've bought and sold (a lot) I miss my turbo subies the most.

Oh God Why.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1355968396

My GF's current 07 LGT next to her previous 02 bugeye WRX
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Love the " Hey I own a subaru too and here is a pic" threadjack

insurance only went up 200 a year. This will probably get 6k on it by end of 2013.

Any of you 08+ wrx guys on wrxforums.com (Formerly 3Gwrx.com) ??? Ive been over there pretty much since it started amd im a mod/vendor.. 08subiewrx

I can be. I've been a nasioc member since 2009; I dont think I've ever posted. And now I need to post a WTB and still need 3 posts in orderto do it. Time to spam!

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1342983185
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Hahahaha luckily 18psi isn't over there...

wrxforums is a really good forum for the 2008 and up Wrx/STi's ... Lots of specific information pertaining to those years. They recently changed the name to something more generic to open it up to the newer generations to come in the future. Personally I think it was a bad move because it's TOO generic.... but oh well too late now

cool, I need an ambient temp sensor. Apparently the PO removed it for some odd reason. so now I dont get to see how cold it is outsie.

Haha thats weird that they removed that... dont see why there would be any need to?!?!

What year is yours? My brother just picked up a 2010 silver hatch and he's loving it! I always said if I got another it would be a hatch next time. Love how much room there is back there!

**Edit** - Maybe with all the Subaru interest we should have an Official Subaru Chat thread? hahaha we completely derailed this one

It's in the way when you do a front mount. I had to move mine but most find it far easier to just remove it.

Your shit was abused.

interesting. It looks like it had those dual read horns at one point, i see the old mounting bracket for them, but I didnt notice any evidence of a FMIC. The PO didnt seem to know much when I asked, only that he did the bad tint job on the taillights. But it could have been done before him, he just bought it at a local dealer last year.

But what you say, I could buy. that's the trouble with buying these things, hard to get one unmodded. And with buying used in general, never know what youre really getting.

For example, I've kept my orginial door/shelf speakers and radio in my altima for the day I finally sold it. When I opened the box I've kept them in, I only found 3 speakers. Suffice to say, the car now only has 3 speakers installed.

Uh ohhhh.. The front bumper comes off really easily maybe rip that off and check for other obvious signs from a FMIC. Check the turbo bolts and see if it was swapped. I wouldn't be worried unless it had a turbo swap. FMIC is pretty harmless.

whoa whoa whoa, thats not how these things work around here. I hijack threads and we talk about me.

I've been on nazicock, i-crub, iwsti, and all the major tuning forums since before you swam in your dads balls. Blow me.

turbo looks untouched, although I havent removed the heatshield. Vlad suggested the turbine shield gets cut/modded to fit a larger turbo.

Ohhhh he probably had Hella Supertones

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1356010630

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