what engine has the STI V5/6 got open or closed deck block

 

Open

 

Wasnt it just the v1 and v2 sti and wrx engine's that were CDB??

 

Rule of thumb - V1 & V2 STI's, 92-95 WRX RA's (pre-facelift) and some lucky pre-facelift WRX's. There do seem to be some exceptions to this though so always best to check.

Early single turbo Leggy's also got the CDB.

All other classics from 97-2000 were open deck block no matter if they were STI's, WRX's, RA's or Turbo 2000.

 

Rule of thumb is anything pre 95, so 93-94 cars are cdb (jdm only), some 95 RA's, version 2 sti's are open deck as they are 96 MY cars.

Tony

 

Tony, I have known a few early (93/94) WRX's that haven't had a CDB. Whether it is because these are now old cars and aren't on their original engine I couldn't tell you. It is always worth checking early WRX's.

Are there any MY96 cars? I was under the impression that there was no MY96. I thought any car registered in 1996 was either a late MY95 that had been hanging around or early MY97 models? Or are STI's different (were they still being hand-made at this point ie pulling cars off the production line and giving them the STI treatment)?

 

They produced a model every year since MY93's came out
Version 2 STI's are MY96 cars, v3's MY97 etc, though you probably found a couple of wrx's with replacement engines as everyone thinks that cdb's are much stronger (internally) than other engines

Tony

 

cheers for the info guys tony to the rescue again lol

 

Only reason I asked was that my mate has a 96 registered WRX which had the same model letter in the applied code as my old MY95 WRX (the letter C).

I understood that A=MY93, B=MY94, C=MY95, then D=MY97, 1996 was missed out, maybe I am wrong, I'm always happy to learn

CDB are only as strong as the internals that are in them. Rods will still punch a big window in the side when they let go!!