Exactly m8,hence why i said id have one next.

 

Yea, but then you started banging on about wanting a limited edition one like a P1... christ almighty Kevman, the P1 is a limited edition UK car with a straight 5-speed box instead of the JDM Type-R with the DCCD box!! Come back when you've got a Subaru WRC Jacket sunshine, ok?!

I take it you're ignoring the fact that Stuart Cosworth will mock you at every given opportunity if you buy a Subaru... trust me... I've been there and he NEVER stops.


Cheers,
Grant

 

wash your mouth out with soap! you will do no such thing!

 

True but didnt expect mongs not to understand me tho'. Imeant that if i had a poobaru it would have to be a ltd editon and not a run of the mill poverty spec one,sheeesh. As for big sausage fingers he was considering a bugeye a while back.

Hypothetical Rob honest lol.

 

minor there was holes in it man . the others had what id call rust but what happens when you rub the rust down on a panel you will fined it turns into holes a lot of the time .

 

mate has sti type r 3 door import, paid 17k for it some 10 years ago, 100k+ miles hasn't missed a beat!

running about 320/340bhp all work done by roger clarke motorsport, serviced and maintained by them even tho it's a 2 hour drive. lol

 

For looks wise my 22B imo was the best car i've owned, biught it from Ian Lichfield with only 13k miles on, wish i still had that car.....

 

I went out in a 500 hp GT35 P1 with 6 speed box when went with a mate to scooby shootout and it was stupid the way you could pitch it at a corner, it would stick, grip then boost - guy had 10 pot tarox brakes and remote res coilovers on it, serious dough but very fast.

 

Infact, Pete you might know the dude? Fella called Pop's from Cov, owned a taxi repair firm.

 

I can hear him now mate!!

"There's a big difference between considering and buying Kev, ken? Eh considered it, then realised they were pure pish min, ken?"


Cheers,
Grant

 

Rich,

Yes mate, know/knew that car, it had a fortune thrown into it, went like a MO-FO though, cracking bit of kit...

 

I also had that Hawkeye Spec-C if you can all remember, now that car out of the box is stupendous (spelling) i've NEVER felt handling like that car...

 

Totally PMSL@kodak

 

A mate had a 22B and it was an animal went like a fighter jet on red bull loved the look of it was a beauty!!

 

Didnt call him pete..From the manor did they??

 

No mate called Daz from killamarsh

 

3 of my mates have them two type r's and a p1 hes owned the p1 from new

 

Priceless Mat...

 

only driven standard classic and bug eye wrx's but tbh i loved both of them, as someone said above, the way they just grip into the tarmac and boost mid corner and still grip is just something else. - probably much the same as any performance 4wd, but i've only driven scoobys in the perforamance 4wd field.

That said, i know a few chaps who work/have worked at a subaru dealer, and tbh they don't have a single good word to say about them

 

Sorry don't understand??

 

Don't worry bud, just me old mate Mat having a blag at me that's all...

 

Pete mate would i.......

 

Likely crash damaged or something and badly repaired.

Ive yet to see an original Subaru bodywork rot to the extent there are holes in it.

As for the gearbox thing, DCCD isnt needed. And regardless of DCCD or non...if it's a 5 speed, it aint gona last long.

Only box to use is a 6 speed

 

pete's was a p1

 

http://bbs.scoobynet.com/members-gal...rae-001-a.html

Totally agree, the 6 speed boxes can handle big power and the Zen time attack car was using a 6 speed with an H shifter pattern!

 

Even my 19 year old Legacy turbo didnt rust as bad as that !!! and it did get plenty of abuse.

Someone has been butchering at it for it to get that bad.

 

right just got back from pub with him,its got a 6speed box aswell,a fooking huge intercooler,a 2.5 engine in it,said the bare block and work thats gone into it stood him at a few grand,massive brakes,antilag and its 470bhp with 525lb/ft torque,reckons its cost him 20grand to build it,ill try and get pics next time i see it.

 

My mates got a Zen built RA, really nice car, only has 400hp, runs a DCCD 6 speed, cucso diffs, 6 pots and Buddyclub coilovers.

It does owe him a fortune but then its a well sorted track weapon if he would stop buggering about with a drift car he has lol

 

Well i never thought id hear you say this about a scooby mate
Are you feeling allright man,Your ford through and through

I do like scoobs quick handle well pretty dam reliable,And you can thrash it and get back in it and do it all over again....

Cant do that in your saff can you

 

Awesome quote mate..

If i had to choose what car i'd want to pull out the garage on a sunny saturday it would be the cossy all day long

 

Im an ex cossie boy Ram...

Thing is, the car is so capable 400bhp feels tame next to a 350bhp saff. Hence im still wanting more power. Even 6 years later im still trying to fill the hole of excitement that the cossie used to give me.
Maybe im looking at it through rose tinted glasses as i was only 19 when i bought that car.
But hey, it will always be the car i loved the most by a country mile!

 

anyone??

 

If its a 5 speed dccd box they are weak, the car I posted the pic of broke one with not much over 300hp.

I believe the 6 speed is the only way to go with them if you want reliability.

 

Excuse me? reliable, practical and fast? id rather get ko'd by mike tyson and shit spread in my eyes than own any sort of impreza.

 

Stevieturbo & I both answered, any 5 speed box is weak and won't handle much more than 350 if used in anger and the 6 speed boxes are the stronger ones and they can handle 600+, the TY752 5 speeds are weaker than the TY754's.

 

it was immense though kid,fooking surprised me,nearly tore me head off from a standing start.

 

To fook

 

you have all just forgot one thing guys !! scoobys are well ugly...lol... just a poor mans evo.. if your gona go jap get the real thing boys .. 4g63t engine is so tunable unlike the boring flat 4 that sounds like its mis firing ..lol

andy

 

cheers guys

can you get 6speed with DCCD?

 

Post 2003/4 Sti should come with 6 speed and DCCD. DccD is a good but not essential.

My last couple of Imprezas were a Spec C, Type 25 and then an old S202 (early spec C with no dccd but it did have sti pillowball set up and lsd's) they ranged from 320 to 380 bhp.

Even with 320 bhp (genuine figures not pub talk figures) a Spec C will absolutely fly and the handling is superb, not to be confused with a regular Impreza wrx etc the special edition quick ones are terrific to drive, no understeer. With a genuine 400+ would be an absolute rocket ship on the road.

The 2.5's give more torque but dont have the same urgency as the 2.0 spec C unit, the 2.5 doesnt like to rev as freely (also they dont have the durability of the spec C 2.0 which seems bullet proof but the 2.5 even with upgraded pistons etc is not that strong).

It starts getting very expensive to get past around 380 bhp even using a spec C or Type 25 mk1 as a base, if I was buying another one I'd avoid the 2.5 unless its built with the very best of everything (ie a new block, best pistons available etc).