When has modifying any car made financial sense? LOL

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No shit, but there is carefully researching options and then there is pissing money away.

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hello my name is tommy
i don't have a Subaru

I agree with the need to lock in the liners to avoid movement. There have been built engines that still fail.

American Dave. Would love to watch your build. Hopefully it will be a while before I need to follow in your footsteps.

That's overpriced for what it is. Can get a higher spec built locally for just as much, or less.

360hp is no big stretch. Good dose of quality supporting mods and tune should see that out of a standard block.

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500+hp and helis on tap, eta - June 2025.

How does a completely stock 257 go anyway? I mean yeah sure if you upped the boost and changed a few things fair enough but at only 67k kms...

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just power out of it!

Like others stated i think it's just a matter of the 2008 STi coming out from factory with these issues, reading through a few other threads quite a few 08's have experienced the same failure.

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Cars booked in at ASG next month for some cosworth love.

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S206's 2lt has forged pistons too according to Kris from Rising Sun.

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Are you able to tell what Cosworth goodies you are having installed? I assume rods and pistons as a minimum. Are you bolting on the Cossie heads too?

What did they suggest regarding reinforcing the location of the liners?

Best of luck and hope that the new engine is significantly more exciting than the old engine to help ease the pain of the cash handover.

Good to hear man, will be more than enough to get that 360whp you are chasing.
You have to wait till mine is off that hoist tho, I give you till October.