Yes, Had damage to 1 piston and spun a big end.

Gotta love the Aussie Tune.. i call it "ping spec"

fatcat....... did you blow the 2.5L ????

It does so appear that the AUDM TT's seem to be suffering some long term ill effects of the horrid stock tune.


Yet the JDM don't.

SOO081 wrote:

It does so appear that the AUDM TT's seem to be suffering some long term ill effects of the horrid stock tune.


Yet the JDM don't.

MY02 (late 01 build i think). 75000 kms (the last 25000 of them by me and if it can handle that, it can handle anything!!) and good as gold.

Just waiting for it to go pop before I count my pennies and try for a 3.0 turbo conversion.

Personally and this is my opinion...i think subarus make rather great engines...every engine will fail if its neglected or un taken care off...i know a guy has a gen III outback 01 model same as mine and its hit 350 thousand kms...serviced every 10thousand and the thing is still going strong...

befour wrote:

So far 7 People have had to rebuild and 9 haven't.
7/16, this is disgusting odds for a major manufacturer with a reputation as being "reliable".

id say tune is the real issue...but so far so good i havent had my car ping...if it ever s**ts its self and touch wood it dosent..i have a spare jdm engine froma revision A that i will doa  fix up between the two

No rebuild that i now of with mine, only had it 8 months though so who nows before that, 130000km on it. Mind you i reckon i could pop it if i wanted to, pings like a bitch on a hot day with a bit of heatsoak, well it would if i didn't turn the ebc off (so it can only hit 6-7psi) and take it real easy. I'll keep taken it easy, changing the oil regularly and enjoy it on the cool days :victory: but i agree it is a bit of a disgrace for subaru.

just after i got my car it blew a head gasket, and when i had it out i put in new bearings and rings and put in forged rods because a bearing was about to go and it had stretched rod bolts, i havent had any trouble since, except cometic headgaskets are useless. and i found that out the hard way.

then i pulled it out to use those rods in a 2.2 im building and chucked in an unknown secondhand V3 sti engine with my GTB heads. and ive just put fresh bearings and given it a freshen up after some rattling it was making.

b4bullet wrote:

I ask the question as my car has just had it's 100,000km service and i'm going to start putting some mods into it. Mods such as Tek2, CBE,CAI TMIC or FMIC. Would it be worth it with so many km's. When doing the service my mechanic said that every thing he replaced was in very good condition, worn but very clean as if the engine had been taken care of.

I've had a retune and no pinging even on a 40deg day. The previous owner had it for abt 3 years and prob serviced regularly. Stock tune was bad but a retune fixes that all up until you starting talking abt VOD n all that. This poll is meaningless since its only a sample of the entire population. I would be interested to know the car's service history, where the owners lived and how they drove the car before the engine went pop.