OK guys, I may be looking at going Jap for a bit, just to see how they are.

Obviously, there is a lot of hype about subarus being unreliable and that, but as I am sure you lot will agree, a car is only as unreliable as the tuner.

Now, I want a Mk1 type subaru, like this:



However, I aint too sure what types are what. WRX, STI, RA etc etc. Can someone give me some info please. What power outputs, what differences etc

Cheers guys

 

my friend has a 1996 N reg WRX.....supposed to be approx 265bhp

goes well.....been very reliable, although parts can get expensive!

cheap as chips now, he's looking to sell his soon and reckons he'll only get 3k for it....which IMO is a bargain!

 

I know there fucking ugly!

 

That one there is an early wrx and it looks like the 240ps one, that was produced from 1993-1995 and had the red tiger stripe seats. After that the impreza wrx had 260ps and they had the black/grey interior with alcantara inserts in the seats. The extra power was produced by a different ecu (Z4) but the ecu's are easy to swap on the early imprezas.

The sti's of that shape were built in limited numbers of 100 of each of the sti 1 & the sti 2. The sti had 276bhp as standard and a numbered build tag stating it's an sti on the nearside inner wing. Alot of people think that all sti engines have the red inlet manifold but on the sti 1 & 2 that isn't the case. The sti also came with a different interior with sti branded seats to beware of wrx's badged or advertised as sti's. Most classic impreza wrx's are advertised as being sti's.

The wrx RA didn't have a roof vent but the sti RA did. The only real other differences between the 2 RA's other than that are are the engines (power output)

Hopefully that covers what you need to know for now.

 

they loose money quicker than a prozzy on smack m8 stick to the blue oval

 

I agree the newer ones do, same as evos, but the early ones now dont go down much as they've now reached the couple of grand mark for a shitter, so decent early models will be worth a grand or so more, at least in the next few years anyway.

 

why a scoob mate? every pole or road test thats ever done puts the evo miles ahead of just about everything and better reliability

andy

 

duuno if i agree with that

but a 1996 car, your looking at quite a price gap between a scoob and an evo

 

Yeah i reckon if you only have £3-£4k to spend, you'll get a better scooby than an evo imo. Plus im not a great fan of the older evo's in the looks department personally.

 

last pole by pf

Which Jap car

Evo 4/5/6
75% [ 69 ]

Scooby
9% [ 9 ]

Pulsar
14% [ 13 ]

Total Votes : 91

spend a bit more money and buy a evo 5

andy

 

I know they have choclate pistons and a bubblegum crank

 

Polls are always subjective.

I own an Impreza (admittedly a newage) and its as reliable as any other car as long as its looked after. It can do 90% of what an equivalent Evo can, but its easier to drive on the road and cheaper to run. Sod having 4.5K service intervals.

Chocolate pistons and bubblegum crank.....yawn

 

How realiable is a standard one then??????

Like anything...once you start tuning them they become less reliable.

 

Mate of mine has a black sport turbo wagon thing- looks nice for what it is on gold rims.. he wants £2500 ish for it.

He does a bit of trading and it certainly isn't a shitter... obv for the money it aint great... but he doesn't seem able to shift it and normally with that sort of thing at that money he gets rid quite quick.

 

what any of the best motoring jap dvds and they dont agree.
and some of the test they do they put up the best spec evo there is ie rs or mr against a normal sti and not a spec c or type ra etc.
and there still usually aint much in it.
and a poll on pf may aswell have done the poll on scoobyslayers.com

 

Tiff if you're looking I can see what Pauls is actually like- the lad with the pick up truck

I imagine it will be ok for what it is....

 

Does he...................................... will ring you in a bit

 

Is this the poll i started a few months back ? Im still wondering which to have a scooby or a cossie

 

Jake......

If you could mate, may be interested in a little something

 

I've called him and got the low down..

Sounds alright to be fair- ring me!

 

you ring me

 

TWAT

 

You fucking ring me then hang up 10 seconds later

WHOS THE TWAT NOW

 

PintoPhil
[/quote]Does anyone know about Subarus??



ERRR....YES, this is passionford remember!...... Probably 99% of people on Passionford know about em, so thats more than any dedicated subaru forum

just joking before the subaru forum boys come to kill me

let me just clarify im part of the 1% so cant help

 

ive got a nice one in for sale.come and have a look if you want and have a drive.

they are great cars

 

TBH i have never really liked the impeza.....

BUT

They seems to be quite a good car now for cheap money

I like the styling on the mk1 classic

Just worried about how realiable they are

 

Mines reliable, but only has 29,000 mls on the clock, might part for the right amount of cash.
But i have the ugly bug eye one.

 

those can be made to look nice if the full on sti versions. never thought it could happen but my mates got one and it looks mean as fook

 

how much $$ you got to spend?

There's so many variations you need to start somewhere, and budget is a good place. Also is insurance a problem? as import STI will be a lot more than UK turbo etc.

 

End of the day they are more reliable than a fookin cossie lets be honest here

 

Well its either mod it or flog it and at the moment im after a BMW diesel (hint hint Tiff)

If that fails it will be a Mod it next.

 

Id be interested to know how reliable they are too. I mean a standard UK model.

 

Dont the uk models run 215 bhp and have standard pistons compared to the imports

 

whats the best scooby for say around 6k??

 

sti 3 or 4 I'd say. I think that's the last of the sti's that you'll get for that money because the later classic sti's hold their money reasonably well.

 

Ive just got an Sti V2 Type RA, Its simply the best car ive ever owned,and I mean that,Fuckin love it

 

If its not been thrashed from cold and run on decent fuel with out being DIY modded it should be quite good for reliability.

Problems usually come from bad diy tuning,neglect on servicing,bad mapping,sometimes crap fuel.

The newage Scoobs are a bit more hardier than some of the older ones, things like MAF's are a bit better as some of the older models MAF's were "fragile" when they stop working it caused running problems which can lead to det, thus turning your engine in to a pile of poo.

 

If you have £7500 speak to me.