My subaru subaru'd where too now...

[tebbyj]

Well after doing some mods on the old GGA WRX hatchy she decided to give up the ghost, in the rather un-subaru, different form of a broken/blown piston ring (or so im pretty sure) What I Think Happened:

New Free flowing exhaust caused a boost spike blowing an already worn piston ring causing oil burning and combustion pressure out of the oil cap.

Anyway, the question is where to from here??

I only have 2-3k to spend tops, can happily rip engine out myself but if it came to a full engine recon id leave it to a reconditioning professional. So what do people think? by a second hand long block and whack that in, pull the old one out and get it re-conned or... a full STI conversion...

Opinions?

[Guest]

Talk your options thro with Brendan F.F.S. Ltd hes local with you.

[Kiwi_Fozze]

Could get a v7 sti short block for that kinda $$$, chuck your heads on and a remap and you\'ll be home and hosed

[Pappu1]

 kwi_fozze said:

Could get a v7 sti short block for that kinda $$$, chuck your heads on and a remap and you\'ll be home and hosed

This !

[loner]

But he\'ll still have to buy head gaskets and bolts, and pay someone to put them together... and buy a boost controller by the sound of it.

[Kiwi_Fozze]

Stock ecu has got pretty good control over boost, or put a 3 port into it for even better again. Still on stock control.

V7 blocks can be had for about 2k or there abouts, that leaves some good wiggle room for extra bits

[Guest]

Have you stripped the old block to know for sure whats exactly wrong? A free flowing exhaust shouldnt cause mega spike causing it to drop its nuts.

[tebbyj]

 evowrx']

Talk your options thro with Brendan F.F.S. Ltd hes local with you.

Good plan. Have got in touch, hes given me some good options to think about, including using a V8 STI block and putting my heads on it.

[quote name='evowrx said:

Have you stripped the old block to know for sure whats exactly wrong? A free flowing exhaust shouldnt cause mega spike causing it to drop its nuts.

No not yet, have just managed to get it home, symptoms are: -excessive blue smoke from exhaust especially under vacuum (ie downhill coasting), running on 3 and a half-ish cylinders, excessive pressure from oil cap. I intend to do a compression test in the near future just to confirm.

I can get a full 2nd hand engine for less than 2k so am leaning towards this, but a rebuild with STI set up also sounds appealing just have to worry about the dosh.

[Fastfour]

Could be a blown turbo and burning oil?

[tebbyj]

 Fastfour said:

Could be a blown turbo and burning oil?

I did think of this but that wouldn\'t make it run on 3 cylinders off boost would it??

[2000 legacy b4]

 tebbyj']

[quote name='Fastfour said:

Could be a blown turbo and burning oil?

/quote]

I did think of this but that wouldn\'t make it run on 3 cylinders off boost would it??

No it wouldn\'t