shes back today, and i feel like a 10 year old!!!!

[vr6newcomer 1]

hi guys % gals, im picking up my car today thats been off the road since the rolling road day on nov 25th, with the following now been done:

head needed welding, then new valve guides, and valves.

gas flowed by racepower motorsport, ported and polished inlet & outlet.and flowed throttle body.

new chains, tensioners,guides,gaskets, e.t.c

mk4 steel head gasket

silver syntha in the lump, with lucas treatment

fully synthetic in the gearbox, again with lucas treatment.

total is coming upto about 2k!! now im starting to understand all u guys that have said this cars ended up costing tooo much money, but hey, what the hell. i jost hope its all running sweet now, will report back tonight!!

[Kaz 0]

Cool, let us know how you get on mate.

[VR6Pete 1,455]

Was that the poorly dragan green VR at the rolling road day?

I was that hungover and out of it, i cant hardly remember!

Pete

[matth76 1]

What was initially wrong with your car? Was it making really lower power - how did you find out you needed your head welding!!? Sounds nasty. Def let us know how it drives now? Should be a lot smoother hopefully. What kind of power increase are you expecting with a gas flowed head? Sounds good mate.

I know how you feel about spending a lot of money on your vr ... I had to spend out loads rectifying a problem caused by choosing the wrong garage!

Good luck mate.

[Mr_GTI 0]

If it makes you feel better I spent nearly double that putting my impreza's engine back together, and had no additional mods done, just returned to working standard!

[matth76 1]

What caused your impreza engine to blow up? They get one of the highest reliability ratings (even above Mercs etc) - was the boost setting or fuelling wrong causing detting?

[petervr6 0]

alot of people i know that have had impreza the engines have blown or the bottom end has gone.

[matth76 1]

I've heard that too which is what made the reliability reviews quite a surprise. Although on speaking to specialists as to why the engine failures happen is because they often end up in the hands of inexperienced people who wind up the boost thinking they get more power - they certainly do but with very low reliability and an engine failure. Or people have not had their Jap import properly mapped correctly or even mapped at all!! I know of quite a few people who have imported a WRX not realising they are set to run on Jap high octane fuel or think it just ok to use a bit of octane booster. To run safely they need a full remap (new ECU is normally required) to prevent the detonation that often happens with our UK lower rated octane fuel. Just running on UK fuel with octane booster is only safe for the short term and not good enough.

If left unmodified (or only modified properly by experts) they should be very reliable. I went out in a WRX import (classic shape) and the speed is phenominal.. (0-60 in a shade over 4 and a half secs) being a passenger I was genuinely scared! I would love to get a Jap import Type R one day (its the one with 2 doors and the equivalent of the UK P1). Just wish I had a spare £8-9k! They are such a focused car.

[vr6newcomer 1]

yeah hi guys, 1 of the chains blew on my way back from the rolling road on nov 25th, no compression in top fo engine obviously, head came off, 5 bent valves, top of haed needed welding, so i decided to have the head gas flowed and port polished, as well as the intake/outlet and throttle body flowed.

i have to say, i havent driven it much yet, but it seems like its definately a lot better, and mine was the black highline, not the green one.

[Mr_GTI 0]

What caused your impreza engine to blow up? They get one of the highest reliability ratings (even above Mercs etc) - was the boost setting or fuelling wrong causing detting?

It was standard, a WRX RA with a re chipped ecu, always run on optimax, Had been rolling roaded and showed good power and no faults, 2 weeks after the RR day I was racing a TVR and took it flat out in 5th which I later found out was a big NO NO, Piston 4 ( I think - passenger side rear ) got really hot - its the futhest away from cold air and the furthest from the oil pump? so it got really hot and started melting, it took out the big ends the con rod, piston, 4 valves and the crank.

After the re build I never ran it flat out again!! but other than that it was reliable just really expensive for parts and constant servicing.

I modded it after the re build with another ecu remap more boost (1.1 bar) and de cat and full exhaust, I also had monitors for knock and air fuel ratio installed to keep and eye on things. Sold it to a lad in brum who put it into a roundabout sideways at 80mph so destroyed the wheels, supension and some body work so I would think its been written off?

[vr6newcomer 1]

this doesnt seem to be going well dude, im planning on getting a late wrx sti classic for track days soon!!!

[mike 6]

2grand christ! wouldnt it have been cheaper sourcing a 2nd hand engine and swaping that over?

niec to hea your got it back mate

[VR40 0]

Sold it to a lad in brum who put it into a roundabout sideways at 80mph so destroyed the wheels' date=' supension and some body work so I would think its been written off?

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....ouch.

My friend had a scooby with 330bhp. it was insane! he blew his engine up, 3rd cylinder. apparently its quite common due to oil starvation, i guess its all the hammering it around corners and drifting it got!!

[Russ_vr6 12]

i had a prodrive fettled uk scooby and i loved it! was running approx 248bhp so wasnt super quick but got up to 162mph without any problem at all,still 2000 miles later it ate a head gasket that got done though a mate for £1100

[vr6newcomer 1]

yeah, i cld have got another engine, but by defenition its a second hand lump, so what gautantee would i have had that the timing chain on that wasnt gonno go, in the end the company i used did all the extra head work at a fairly reasonable price.