glad someone knows nickwrx have you ever driven the synchro vr6? can be entertaining shame only left hand drive

 

7 or so years ago,I was faced with the same decision

At that time I had G60 Corrado and test drove a VR6 Golf before opting for a 96 UK Impreza,which to be honest wasn't all that much quicker or fun to drive.

If it were me I'd try and find a decent VR6 Corrado,if theres any left?

 

Riiiiiiggght. Do tell us about these 'bolt on mods' that must take you from 215 bhp up to 350/400bhp+ which you'd need to get under 10secs to 100.

The Corrado 0-100 is 15.9, not 18.09. 60 in 6.2 check evo. The Corrado only has minimal drivetrain losses whereas the turbo has 4wd losses.

 

had a vr6 golf and a corrado(16v 2.0) many years ago,not to metion a rather nice 16v golf but i can say none come close speed wise to a scoob.now....if i had around 5 g's to spend you could'nt go far wrong with a vr6 corrado,if you could find a good one.yes, not as fast as a scoob but it will never lose money(One thing an impreza's very good at)turn heads and still go fairly quick also should be just as reliable as a 5 grand subaru

 

I started with 208bhp as it's an early car This has the TD05 turbo as standard so is quite capable of running some respectable figures without too much bother. Mods include decat downpipe and system, Walbro pump, fse reg (slightly raised pressure), FMIC, Apexi induction kit, Apexi PFC mapped by Andy F and running 1.4bar. FYI, you'd only need approx 335BHP to crack 100 in under 10secs in a classic scoob.

We could argue figures all day long depending on where we get them from. I had a Corrado VR6 and the best 0-100 I could manage was 18secs dead (timed with AP22 performance meter). There is no way you can shave 2 secs off that without gaining 25bhp or so. That 15.9 sec you quote is about right for the qtr mile though (at approx 92mph iirc)!

 

No, I haven't driven one before! I can just remember reading about a supercharged synchro in a magazine a few years ago!