impreza 2.5 conversion

[robnurberg]

has anyone got an opinion on this, why arnt there many about and can anyone advise me on what the pit falls moght be?????

[Jonesy CRX_Turbo]

My mates just blown the engine on his STI type R and is having the engine replaced with a 2.5. Apparantly they make more torque but the 2.0litre closed deck engine is much better for power and reliability.

He gets it back next week so i'll post details on how its running, power increase etc

[Vixpy1]

They are great

I would have a word with scoobyclinic about them

[neilrallying]

Yep, I would say these are a good way to go, particularly for a road car.

We have a 2.5 conversion in our demo car which was built by enginetuner.co.uk and it is brilliant.

Standard heads, cams etc from a 96 WRX, new 2.5 bottom end and a Simtek ECU. Shed loads of torque and still strong up at the top end (recent rolling road session saw 329bhp and 340lb ft of torque at just 0.9 bar!).

Combined with an all up weight of 900kgs for the demo car it makes for interesting performance!!

Neil.

[trickywoo]

You will find loads of information on www.scoobynet.com

I think getting insured can be a bit difficult if you declare all the mods

[stevieb]

trickywoo said:

You will find loads of information on www.scoobynet.com

I think getting insured can be a bit difficult if you declare all the mods

Should be ok if you go with a decent broker!