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I was going to enter the mid-year Rally Sprint. This will now not happen. I will look after the car for a while longer... long enough to organise a company car, or a salary sacrifice. The GC8 Will be used on Weekends until the motor dies - in which case it will be put into storage until such a time as I have the spare cash to do a proper rebuild into a 207. The decision for me now, is will I pickup a 2012 WRX on Salary Sac, or will I just get a run-around like a Focus/Lancer/3/i25/Impreza RS. I would like a 2012 WRX dont get me wrong, but the idea of a new cheap daily that costs nothing to service, and a monster built GC8 down the road is delicious indeed. |
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I think you need to crunch the numbers as a whole.
But each to their own.
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Why will your engine all of a sudden just pack up and die? Have they said why? How many kms on it?
Fixed your shit house fuel consumption yet?
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wrx as a daily, 2nd wrx as a weekender makes no sense.
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Why is the motor suddenly going to grenade because you are making 240hp?
Tbh, that's stuff all. So long as the tune (boost/timing etc) is not too agressive, there isn't anything that will just make the motor pop so quick. I happilly ran mega boost and produced 280hp - 300hp on my old EJ205 (albeit MY05 so AVCS will help get some higher power figures). I also beat the crap out of it on a regular occasion. So I'm curious why you have been told this short life expectancy.
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Golf 118TSI DSG for a daily.. WRX for your weekend.
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^^ Some good advice Cam.
With salary sacrificing you want to make sure that you know and understand how it works and how it might/will affect you financially. No point buying a newer, nicer wrx for a daily driver, but if you were to get another car to preserve the current one, then get something that is safe, comfortable and reasonably good on fuel. Running costs and insurance should be less and you should also attract less attention from other drivers while you are going about your own duties.
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Understand where you are coming from Kato, but with 220,000km on the motor and engine not allowing more timing, we owe Cameron a duty of care to advise him accordingly.
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TJ you have a good point why own 2 WRX's. Which is why im looking to those other cheap/econo cars also. |
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Will it go, yes. In a matter of months? That's what I found hard to swallow.
My GC8 is still a EJ205 and when it is together it gets the piss beaten out of it. It will eventually die, but I can't put a timeframe on when. For what it is worth, I'd drive it till it dies, slap 207 in and repeat.
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