BrownPantsRacing

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Both unrelated failures. Ringland can happen without head gasket and vice versa.

I would want forged pistons, decent head gasket & uprated bolts personally at the least.

LukeyB

iTrader: (1)

Cheers, that's a shame as I've always liked the hawkeye's but the failure potential has always put me off buying a second hand one and good 05 sti's seem to be selling for more than 06-07 ones at the moment.

BrownPantsRacing

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My hawkeye is at 60k now and fault free so far. Had it re-mapped a long time ago.

Talk to Alan Jeffery above about the cost of a basic forged 2.5 rebuild and factor that in to the buying price if you are worried. After that you will have a fantastic car!

smiffywhu

Am I right in thinking the 2.5 is ok if only running at 330BHP?I'm hoping to go for a stage 1 soon as thought the problems only arise at stage 2/3 and 400BHP mark?

Steve's Sti

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Nope can happen regardless of mods

urban

iTrader: (1)

My money is on option 3

urban

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Absolutely not.
Out of those two cars I mentioned on a previous engine related thread, one of those had the PPP fitted at 8K miles.
It "shat its bags" within 6 months, so make of that what you will

thenewgalaxy

They are known to blow up at the stock 276 and 296 from the Hawk and Hatch too!

smiffywhu

dear oh dear, and I thought last year I was purchasing one of the "top end" versions of the Impreza, sounds like I have the "runt" of the litter FFS!!..........I wonder if the guy who bought my Saxo VTR off me would sell it back to me??

jazzyjembreaze

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As I said in post 18
I pulled my engine at 10,000 Mls
Car was stock ,
22,000 trouble free miles now on built engine

BrownPantsRacing

iTrader: (6)

In theory even a standard 220bhp WRX can fail with either of these issues. However as a rule of thumb it is generally acknowledged that boost should be kept below 1.35 bar on a standard 2.5 engine.

WRX Blues

Interesting that the OP requests details of failures on 'standard' cars - the greatest thing about the 2 litre engine was the fact that it could be modded without leading to failure.