It is in the brochure and also in longs book. The brace is for stiffening purposes. That's what they do Oskar.

 

It also mentions in Chris Rees book of imprezas that the RB5 was considerably stiffer than other imprezas with it's bespoke shell with rigid rear bulk head.

 

That brace wont stiffen up anything, if you think that you must be stupid.

 

I forgot that you have already proved that you are indeed very, very stupid.

 

Guess im stupid then Oskar. We were having an adult depate about a certain model of car and you post comments like ' retard ' and ' superretard'.

Your a proper clever **** then aren't you. *****.........

 

And the "rigid rear bulkhead" is the brace that we have already established is screwd in the threads that are present on all 93-00 Imprezas, even the non turbos!

And i dont care what is writen in a book, i have many magazines with complete rubbish written in them. You must understand that it is impossible for a RB5, witch is a regular Turbo2000, to have any special shell and only produced in limited numbers, it would cost massive amount of money to develop and produce a special shell for a car that is not special in any way other than some stickers and some other extras...

And im sorry that i called you retarded, stupid is a better word. But i still stand by that F1_fan is super retarded after his post on page one.

 

Very close, 218 Bhp and 237 Bhp for the PPP.

This is the best photo of my old RB5 boot area



There is some profit to be made from an RB5 with 12 months MOT!

 

An RB5 for £2k?!

Bargain - buy it!

 

You're an arrogant c*nt Oskar i'll give you that!

 

Thank you very much Daz.

If you read the posts from f1_fan and mattb1983 you may understand why i started to use harder language.

 

The RB5 was the same as any other UK Turbo with 215 bhp.
The PS was 218

 

So let me get this straight.....the brace behind the rear seat is to stiffen the chassis and the RB5 body shell is a super dooper special one off 24ct gold limited edition jobby?

eeerrrrrrr...yeh right..

 

Correct!!!!111111

 

I see you're right. I just had a look through the original brochure to see if it mentions the bodyshell, but its not mentioned.

 

 

He'll fit right in in NSR then Dazza

RB5 for £2k? supposing it isn't riddled with faults and insubmountable issues - I'd go for it.

 

If I'm wrong then I'm wrong and I'll take it on the chin. But just answer a couple of questions to clear things up -

When the RB5 was released in Jan 99 was it the only Impreza available ( at that time ) to benefit from a ridgid rear bulkhead, meaning non folding rear seats and the brace. As standard out of the factory. If not, which other models had this ( as standard ).

You said that the brace was not for stiffening purposes and actually there to support the rear seats. Please could you tell me why the rear seats would need supporting when other models didn't.

 

because the rear seats are just Foam, they do not have any backing what so ever,
They do have a inner metal frame work, but no backing.. Hence the rear brace.

 

oskar,

I can dole it out, but I can also take it Whilst far from a retard (certainly further than you anyway just joking ) I will admit I am wrong. However in my defence I can only say that my information was garnered from the dealer's sales information (from Subaru) at the time (as I nearly bought one new) and subsequent information form reliable sources all claiming (as in the text reproduced above) that the RB5 used a stiffer shell with a solid rear bulkhead.

To find it it doesn't is actually quite disappointing as it means even back the Subaru were selling us short.

What I will agree is that the poxy brace in the pictures will add no measurable stiffening whatsoveer.

Anyway my apologies to you and I hope you take the olive branch of apology being offered in good spirits: D

 

My V3 Type R has a brace and non folding rear seats.

 

The rear bar is just to reinforce the rear soft foam seat as SiV6Si has said, anyone who thinks it is some sort of chassis brace is fricking deluded!!.........its not even connected to two solid mounts like other bracing so will not stiffen feckall!

 

Im sorry for calling you two guys retards, i must admit, from time to time im retarded aswell!

No hard feeling right?

 

Of course not, water off a duck's back mate. Been called worse in NSR

 

Hi Bud,its provisionally sold

It was her brothers car, Ewan Mcgregor LOL,not the actor tho

 

Could you find out what Number it was ?

 

si there is a rb5 in gloucester was talk him in shell garage couple weeks ago same colour as yours

 

Reg Plate R8 FVE ?


Cause that's had a engine fire about 3 weeks ago.. an its the only one in Glos... Saying that i did see the other RB5 in Cheltenham yesterday.. Didn't see the Reg plate thou.

 

i dont no what reg was bloke say late 30 40 has a kid

 

To have that sort of infomation to hand, it leads me to believe that Gloucester is about the size of a football field??

 

I wasn't stating it wasn't there it's just that most of the RB5's if not all are registered on the RB5OC. An I hadn't seen another registered in Gloucester. Gloucestershire YES just not Gloucester.