Vatosbart

Hey guys,

Its me again!

After alot of thinking in think ik gonna pass on the 98 type - r RHD.

I went to see a 2005 2.5 WRX instead and it is just gorgeous.

The car looks great, runs good, idles good. No rust, the paint has been taken care of really well and its just clean as F!

Though it does not have a full service history as the guy let most of the work took care of some friends who works in a garage working on mostly cosworth engines.

Though with that being said it looks and runs great, also drives superb.

The timing belt has been changed at around 80k km's and he changes the oil around every 5-10 km's

(10w50 or 5w50 i think)

My biggest concern is that it has a TD-05 on mostly stock internals except for bigger injectors, filter, 3 inch invidea exhaust system and a ecu tune.

Im planning to drive it daily, as did he and never had problems with it though.

He says the output is somewhere st the 310-330 hp range.

The car has driven 120.000 kms so around 80.000 miles?

What do you guys think?

It looks good, runs good and it seems to me he has taken good care of it and never put any cheap stuff in it.

Here is the link of the car.

He is selling it because he is moving to a different house and will get a car from his job.

Hope you guys can help me!

http://www.autoscout24.nl/Details.aspx?id=273900290

Vatosbart

OR my second choice was this one.

A 2003 2.0 wrx with GTT bottom block, stronger headbolts, new timing belt.

Sti intercooler

Walbro pump

Td05 turbo.

(hope i translate it well rofl)


Putting out 370 hp.

(Not a clue if thats even safe on a setup like this though)

http://www.autoscout24.nl/Details.aspx?id=270211711

ditchmyster

iTrader: (7)

Personally I'd avoid both of those, 1st one because it's a 2.5L and having been modified is probably close to sh1tting it's ring lands out through the exhaust. 2nd because it's been modified to 370bhp the gearbox is going to be close to spitting it's teeth out all over the road.

If your going Newage then you really want to be looking at a very "lightly" modded or PPP car especially as you're going to be needing it to be reliable as your daily.

Vatosbart

Thanks for the quick response bro,

Forgot to say the 2.5 also has prodrive, walbro fuell pump and is mappe by a well known scooby tuner here.

Vatosbart

This being said, you are right about the 370hp , the gearbox will eventually go down, wich isnt that great especially not when im looking for a daily driver ^_^.

Altough i just cant seem to help the fact i fell in love with the first car (2.5)

And somehow have a good feeling bout the car

But thats just emotions, no facts haha

ditchmyster

iTrader: (7)

Read the 2.5L thread at the top of the General section, if you have a spare £3k lying around to fix it, then go for it.

Vatosbart

They do concern the 2008-2010 models, or are the problems identic to the 2005 model?

I might want to build the engine to be safe for that output and failures. Going forged or something. Just have no ideaa about the costs were talking..

2, 3, 4, 5 k??

Tidgy

2.5 wrx, expect a rebuild fairly soon, and the other one 8k is strong money for a wrx, would expect a STI for that sort of cost.

Vatosbart

Thanks mate,

Though the 2005 wrx is even more expensive. He is asking like 10k pounds for it. (15000 euro)

But not willing to give more then 8k pounds.

Anyway,

If a rebuild should be done fairly soon.
howmuch money are we talking? Could you give me a price range what it costs where you live?

Thanks!

Tidgy

It very much depends on what route you go and how bad the damage is. My hawk suffered ring land failure before i bought it and it took out everthing bar one head. Block, rods, pistons, one head, turbo etc etc were all scrap.

Option could be to sort it before it fails, do the bottom end, headgasket and studs so you don't have to worry. Price wise you'll need to get some quotes, but your well into £3k+ for forged pistons, uprate rods etc

Hawk heads are Single avcs and won't be an issue as far as limiting power. block will be ok up to about 450, but beyond that they suffer from failure.

2.5 built right is a cracking road engine, just a shame subaru cocked it up.

this was on low boost, forged 2.5, wrx heads, full decat, standard up pipe, standard exhaust manifold and sc46+.

Tidgy

Uk £5-6k max for a hawk wrx

Vatosbart

Hmmm sounds better then here man.

Have seen some really nice ones on pistonheads.

To bad it will cost alot to import it to my country plus the downside for me that its a RHD again .

though i have seen some good wrx's
For cheaper but the ones iv seen just werent my style and this one totally is.

Vatosbart

Thats wicked mate!

Did you also use it as a daily?

Nice output there, although 3k pounds is a big downside ofcourse for the pretty much vital rebuild.

Thanks dude

Tidgy

yeah, that build would be more than 3k i should add, but yeah daily drive

Vatosbart

Nice one! Howmany miles does it have? And any big problems so far?

Howmuch did your built cost minus the turbo?

I think the td05 will do just fine for around 300-350hp mark ^_^ so wont be needed to fit a pricy sc46 in there.


Just interrested in the cost of the build.

Tidgy

sold it about 12 months ago, had it for about 18 months, odd issue that comes with having bigger power but nothing major. Ecu struggled a bit with moentum of the bigger turbo when coming to a stop so could have done with running syvecs etc, but other than that was fine.

New owner managed to blow it up within 3 months, but thats due to how it got treated rather than tech issues.

not really sure what the build cost would be tbh, i bought it with the engine speced to how i wanted it so all in price

Vatosbart

Ahhh, thats sad to hear.

But just for my own information, is it still rather easy to blow up a build engine like that? Or di the guy just REALLY go mental on it like red lining it every chance he had?

Thanka again Tidgy