Dear Turbo owners

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inski

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I'm getting a ton of blown up engines in the shop. If you blow up your engine make sure it DOES NOT come to me with modifications on it. Your life will be a lot better. If you blow up your engine expect to be without a car for a looooonnnnnnnnnggggggggg time.

-short blocks do not grow on trees

-tune your car if you make modifications, avoid blowing up engine.

-Subaru engines blow up easy, unless you take the precautions.

-Sometimes people don't get free engines. Its approaching $5000 with labor.

-if you have very low miles you can bet it will raise some eyebrows with the Subaru people higher ups

-Theres a fine line between enthusiast and zoomtard.

-Your car is way better than a rental Aveo.

 
can you set aside a blowed up EJ205 for me?
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Has anyone else here encountered these people who seem to think that since there is more torque in the top end, they should always run thier car near the top end and only shift when it hits redline? There is a WRB 2003 WRX Sedan in F-Town across from the police station at the Garage there. Its been sitting there 90% of the time since I have owned my 2009. My understanding is, the owner is one of those people. How do you blow an engine while cruising at highway speed on the interstate, honestly?!?! I think most blown engines are caused by a serious lack of understanding of how a car engine works, and a lack of common sense.

 
It is absolutely astonishing to me the amount of blown engines Subaru has seen within the past 3 years or so. It just seems too common these days. I'm not saying that it is totally Subaru's fault (definitely a fair share of zoomtards out there lol), but there has been plenty of blown STOCK engines, which is just ridiculous IMO. I never hear of this with other companies. Subaru needs to address this problem like STAT.

USDM WRX/STI's should be standard with forged internals. JDM models do it, why not us? Yeah it may cost Subaru a bit more in the beginning, but I'm sure it would pay off in the end and with less headaches.

Just my 2c.

 
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Suby engines can handle revs just fine...it's WHEN you give em the revs that's the issue

#1 reason for blown Subie turbomotors is...too much b00st when cold. running motor into boost zone before it warms up properly ages the internals before their time

#2 reason: lack of timely oil changes. these are highly stressed engines and like their oil fresh n clean

#3 reason: zoomtard driving, esp when coupled with repeated hot shutdown plus #s 1-2-3 above

#4 reason: continued driving while there is some small cooling/oiling/electrix problem...which soon leads to Big Problem$$$.

 
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I have kept my 2009 engine stock except for the K&N air filter. I also don't accelerate as fast as possible unless absolutely necessary. I never push the car when its cold and I also drive easier for the last 2 or 3 miles for cool down purposes. Never leaked a drop of anything and the most oil ever burned was 1/2 a quart of Mobil 1 in 3000 miles. Always changed the oil between 2800 and 3300 miles. So far no engine problems, not even a lifter tap or a piston slap. I have heard some motors with similar mileage that don't sound so hot.

 
Iboc_C64 said:
I have kept my 2009 engine stock except for the K&N air filter. I also don't accelerate as fast as possible unless absolutely necessary. I never push the car when its cold and I also drive easier for the last 2 or 3 miles for cool down purposes. Never leaked a drop of anything and the most oil ever burned was 1/2 a quart of Mobil 1 in 3000 miles. Always changed the oil between 2800 and 3300 miles. So far no engine problems, not even a lifter tap or a piston slap. I have heard some motors with similar mileage that don't sound so hot.
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lemme know when you're ready to sell the car then! You sound like the ideal anti-zoomtard.
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Well, the Idea when I bought the car was to get a reliable car that had all the performance I really wanted without needing to upgrade or mod anything and void warranties. The engine stays stock, that doesn't mean things elsewhere don't see thier share of a beating. Right now I have 51,500 miles and I believe I have a bearing in the front passenger side that is starting to go and a strut on the rear passenger side. I have never raced or autocrossed this car, it drives 53 miles every weekday and about 80 to 100 miles almost every weekend. The paint could use some love. The roads I drive on are back roads about 1/2 the way because it cuts about 9 minutes off my commute in each direction to avoid the state roads. Those roads may as well be gravel in the winter and spring. My last car I use to mod all the "bolt on" stuff. I blew an engine, 2 transmissions, 2 suspensions, 4 power steering pumps and at least one of everything else except for the stock dual exhaust and the brake master cylinder, that was over the course of 8 years. I want this one to go 200,000 miles before needing an engine or transmission.

 
a friend of mine bought a 2004 Baja Turbo 5sp. last year... its got about 80k on it... and it blew the turbo about a week ago.... the garage he took it to not only wants to replace the turbo but the engine as well...

 
Ryan B,

I know what you're saying. WAAAYY to many of our Scoobies under the short block knife these days. Joel and I were wondering when Subaru is going to pull the plug on WRXs in the US. It just seems to be too many blowed up Rexes these days. Is there money to be made by the manufacturer if they are warrantying engines on 10%, 20%, of them? I'd really like the stock WRX and STI and LGT to have forged internals. It would raise the price a few hundred bucks above current sticker but it would so much better for everyone in the log run. Sooo much better for the original owner, the dealers, the manufacturer, and the 2nd and 3rd owners. Like the 2.0Ls. Hearty little dudes.

 
My thoughts exactly... how does SOA not see it compared to the JDM models? I just don't get it. There is a reason why the JDM models come with forged internals.. why does SOA think it's not necessary over here and use craptastic cast pistons (I'm gonna guess emissions)? You can probably make a safe bet that over in Japan, Subaru probably rarely sees STOCK motors come into the shops with blown motors.

It is almost beyond ridiculous at this point. Something has got to give. Hell, I'd rather have an engine with stock forged internals than half of the other useless crap they are loading into these WRX/STI's these days...

 
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I really think the quality of materials going into the newer engines is lacking. guys are making 400whp on stock 05 sti blocks, but other guys are blowing up 08-09 2.5's with a stock turbo on cobb stg2....

my 2.2T block in my legacy has over 150k mi on it, many, many of you can attest to how I drive it, esp in the snow. sees redline every day, and spends all winter ripping around on rev limit. I change the oil regularly with quality oil. stock that block made 160CHP, its now at 300whp with no issues. I think the parts quality is sub par on newer motors...

My .02

 
inski said:
Ryan B,

I know what you're saying. WAAAYY to many of our Scoobies under the short block knife these days. Joel and I were wondering when Subaru is going to pull the plug on WRXs in the US. It just seems to be too many blowed up Rexes these days. Is there money to be made by the manufacturer if they are warrantying engines on 10%, 20%, of them? I'd really like the stock WRX and STI and LGT to have forged internals. It would raise the price a few hundred bucks above current sticker but it would so much better for everyone in the log run. Sooo much better for the original owner, the dealers, the manufacturer, and the 2nd and 3rd owners. Like the 2.0Ls. Hearty little dudes.
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I can say for a fact that subaru is not the only car company with "engine problems". At work I am seeing germans fair share of untimely major engine breakages.
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Got my 06 rex with just under 30k miles NO problems as of yet....I drive her hard but not like a tool...We keep up on ALL maINTENANCE[mobile 1 syn]and all modifications [brake,suspension,exhaust engine management systems etc,have been done by evergreen[thanx inski]....When I started moding I was very aware that subies are touchy if moded past the pouint of no return[simple stage 2]And I was on my own if anything happened...Cant expect to drive your car like a tool and expect soa to pick up the tab.....

That being said my view is this..A lot of younger people are getting into subarus..The used market prices are coming down to where the younger crew can get a hold of one..Only problem is lack of understanding of the maintenance/skill required to own/operate a turbo charged car..If you plan on owning a suby do your research and learn about your car before you just start adding stuff and driving like your mario...my humble 2c wzrd/out
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wzrd said:
That being said my view is this..A lot of younger people are getting into subarus..The used market prices are coming down to where the younger crew can get a hold of one..Only problem is lack of understanding of the maintenance/skill required to own/operate a turbo charged car..If you plan on owning a suby do your research and learn about your car before you just start adding stuff and driving like your mario...my humble 2c wzrd/out
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Definitely this. WRX's are the new Civics and DSMs.....

 
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