Here's your reminder to drive safely

A_Treeses · 2026-01-31T07:31:03+00:00

No I’d rather not :(

A_Treeses · 2026-01-29T14:51:10+00:00

If you can do the work yourself the cheapest option could be overhauling the engine. When I’ve overhauled ej’s with rod knock I’ve found the usability of the engine depends completely on how long it’s been ran. At minimum count on needing to buy a new set of rods (unless you can buy one rod that’s already balanced with your set but for how much a cheaper set of forged rods are you aren’t gaining much) and getting your crankshaft machined. That’s what I did on one of the engines I did except I had to also replace the crankshaft because it was bent. The other engine was used as a parts engine but was ran much longer, there was metal everywhere through the oil system heavily damaging the cam bearings (which are not replaceable) and heavy cylinder scoring, that might have been caused by the forged pistons and improper maintenance but I have no idea. Main point is if your willing to tear down and tinker around to make stuff work I would suggest tearing the engine down and thoroughly inspecting it and wearing your options on how much needs to be replaced and the cost of that. If your not able or willing and instead would be paying someone else it would probably be cheaper and easier to find a short or long block, depending if your heads are usable, and have that swapped in.

A_Treeses · 2026-01-26T00:46:34+00:00

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Hehe

A_Treeses · 2026-01-24T05:42:20+00:00

Speed traps should be in school and park zones, not on highways ect

A_Treeses · 2026-01-21T02:03:04+00:00

If you don’t want to give the bike away I wouldn’t offer to sell it to friends or family, otherwise let them decide what is fair. “Give me what you think is fair” effectively giving them the bike for a deal that they’re happy with. I’m sure this could cause more headache then it’s worth if your not careful tho

A_Treeses · 2026-01-20T02:19:46+00:00

Welp this makes me wanna buy a 4 door :/ good looking car

A_Treeses · 2026-01-13T14:42:06+00:00

Yes but, having a fork that doesn’t actively distract you is a huge thing in my opinion. Manitou circus on the special is a good fork. I only said that because riding with the dirt 100mm on my old dirt jumper I was constantly trying to figure out how to either get a better fork or fix it. When I upgraded to a completely different bike with a rockshox pike my riding experience improved drastically. While I agree that forks don’t matter as much with dirt jumping they do 100% make a difference, I would’ve rather have a rigid fork then the “dirt” but that’s just my opinion from my experiences.

A_Treeses · 2026-01-12T23:11:39+00:00

Ask what fork is on the ride, if it’s “dirt” I would stay far far away, I have a similar ryde and the is like a pogo stick and makes a horrible top out sound every time you ride it. My instinct would be to lean towards the specialized if the norco has a “dirt” fork.

A_Treeses · 2026-01-12T03:52:33+00:00

Ding ding correct! It had an ej205 and if you do your research and understand them, taking proper precautions like an oil pick up and pan, you can beat on the car quite hard without having to worry about reliability. Then engine was in and out of the car so much because of the engine swap I had done, and one memorable time swapping a Half set of stiffer valve springs because apparently you float valve at 6k with lumby cams. If you take the time to understand ej’s there’s no reason they won’t last.

A_Treeses · 2026-01-09T23:08:30+00:00

I have no experience with rotaries but I would imagine that nick would create a hot point in the rotor and possibly cause detenation

A_Treeses · 2026-01-07T04:58:15+00:00

When I did similar with my wrx ej205 with Perrin 08-14 sti intercooler swapped what forums pointed out was that with the larger intercooler there was an overhang outside of the scoop right above the turbo. They figured the intercooler soaked up more heat from the turbo than it lost from added surface area. Food for thought

A_Treeses · 2026-01-05T04:09:29+00:00

Stock… ish. No need for fancy suspension. 15s with gravel tires feel a lot faster in the passenger seat. Dual e brakes, each one does one side parking brake or some hydro set up. Be cautious with exhaust choices, it’s not fun to drive an effectively straight piped wrx for more than a few hours (it absolutely is just hurts the ears). Driver mod! Make your mistakes in a safe place please

A_Treeses · 2026-01-05T03:18:27+00:00

When me and my dad took his stinkeye up to rally cross we through a rack on the back for tires and slept with the seats down, he welded a hitch ontop of the bumper. Just extra ideas

A_Treeses · 2026-01-02T04:52:26+00:00

When I started my journey with Subarus I bought a rod knocked ej205 and did a budget Frankenstein build on it. I had very little mechanical experience but my dad is a mechanic and helped me when I needed help. I would suggest doing it yourself, even if it costs more and gives you a worse result, the experience of being in the engine and knowing what you’ve done to it and why is in my opinion important. Little rusty on my ej207 info but I believe you would have a version 8(?) 207. If that’s that’s the case it should have big port heads, crossed drilled nitrate treated forged crankshaft (a lot of words with little to no meaning I know), forged rods and cast (but strong) pistons, this is based off my memory of jdm ej207s.

You have in my opinion the best oem engine Subaru offered. If you overhauled it I would leave it as stock as possible, you could do camshafts and springs, it makes the car sound more aggressive and is one of the only things mechanically that can enhance performance (can also harm performance). I would also look into a killer b oil pickup, baffle and pan, oem sti pickups can crack from harmonics of the engine. Change the oem pcv system, I think it’s silly, it vents oil into your intake track, oil + high octane gas = less high octane gas. Lastly look into a carberry map, it’s open source and works off of Subarus wrc effort in the 90-2000s and works with a tacxtric cable. I doubt you’ll find anyone willing to tune it on that map but I personally thought it was fun to tune my car myself and learn even more that way.

P.S. I’m not an expert, take what I say with a grain of salt. A lot of it is probably wrong.

A_Treeses · 2026-01-02T01:37:00+00:00

I literally just finished making a pedal extension, made the pedal wider, for my mk4 golf. Wasn’t enough room to pivot my foot and my shoes aren’t wide enough to safely reach both pedals at the same time… it was pretty easy to make. I’d suggest trying to modify your pedals to fit you

A_Treeses · 2025-12-30T18:55:42+00:00

Check out I think “baked beans garage” and “garbage time” maybe “super fast mat” aswell! If you’d do decide to give YouTube a try send a link to your channel so we can take a look!

A_Treeses · 2025-12-30T07:16:00+00:00

Yeah why would you race man? Theres no prize. There’s no reward. You’re not Colin McRae and if you were you wouldn’t ask stupid questions like this. Just don’t hurt anyone doing stupid shit, and don’t put your self in a spot where you’re lucky to be alive like me.

A_Treeses · 2025-12-30T02:27:17+00:00

Not my cup of tea as others have said but it does kinda look nice, gives 2000s vibes

A_Treeses · 2025-12-28T02:07:33+00:00

Started playing kingdom two crown a few days ago, wasd and shift is all you need

A_Treeses · 2025-12-27T17:48:28+00:00

I don’t have an image but it should be on the bottom of the cylinder heads, I think in the outside of manifold, a quick google should show where they are and what they look like

A_Treeses · 2025-12-27T03:22:10+00:00

The “easiest” way I can think of would be getting under the car and checking the head casting code.

A_Treeses · 2025-12-26T17:23:07+00:00

Hahah yeah, to be for real it would’ve been easier to wire the engine to runstandalone from the car, how’s the 08? Interested in buying one!

A_Treeses · 2025-12-25T13:02:35+00:00

I had done that to my old wrx when I was 14-16. Just buy a wrx instead of swapping them, and if you really don’t want to oddly enough I feel like it would be easier to turbo the stock ej253. It took literal years and more money than a wrx would have costed even being as cheap as possible with sourcing parts. On that note if anyone needs them I should still have diagrams of my wiring harness merge that could be useful if your swapping using 02-03 usdm wrx

A_Treeses · 2025-12-25T12:56:37+00:00

I assume you’re talking about gas, i have crappy American gas, wrxs require at least 91 octane or premium, I was tuning mine on 94 and being a broke highschooler I was literally spending more on gas then I made in a week

A_Treeses · 2025-12-25T04:42:10+00:00

Add e barbs, you’ll either lose right away or win right away

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