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  • Ah yea. I suppose you could get the rear diff and find a driveshaft shop to fab up one with the correct mounts so you don’t have to completely rebuild the rear end.

    A custom drive shaft might be a lot cheaper than going to the hubs. But whatever you do, at least there is a lot of previous work that you can read and learn from before you start.

    And I love the look and size of the bugeye. I wasn’t a big fan of how large the STIs got. After a while, the ones I saw felt disconnected from their rally cross origins.



  • Well shit. My trans needs a rebuild. The syncros are all very worn. I haven’t looked at what transmissions are easily swapped. But I suspect a good number would be. I’ve seen people swap out sti trans into them with the electronic limited slip. But that takes some additional wiring. It was fairly common to upgrade the 5 speed the WRX came with to the 6 speed STI transmission, if I remember correctly the 5 speed had a weak 3rd gear that would give out fairly frequently.

    I believe you could swap in the Hawkeye (or was it the blob eye) trans without a problem. You might just need to make sure the rear diff is correct. When I first replaced my rear diff with an LSD I accidentally got the wrong one and when I backed it out of the garage to test it made it 5 feet before I felt it start to bind. I immediately stopped and pulled the drive shaft to move it back into the garage while I waited for the correct one. Still have that cusco LSD sitting in a box, unused.

    The blocks for almost all the EJ engines are pretty mix and match with only a handful of parts that need to be updated along side them, like the oil pan and pickup. I went with the 2019 block since it was forged and could handle a lot more power that the STI made and I wouldn’t have to worry about the internals. I did swap out to STI injectors too, but I’m not sure that was necessary. I had originally wanted to get it tuned for e85 so it could run cooler.

    I still have the original block, which I originally swapped out when it had a slight tap after my headgasket blew around 200k miles for the first ej25 block I built. That lasted about 25k miles before I thought I heard a noise in the bearings. I still have that block too that I was planning to rebuild at some point and just have some spares. Both could probably go back in if I wanted to and they’d run fine. Then I have a 3rd spare block a friend gave me that I split with the intention of rebuilding but didn’t have the time to finish.

    The heads should have a little machining since the bore of the 2.5L block is ever so slightly larger and with the heads untouched, my tuner said they give a very, very small lip where predetonation can occur.

    I didn’t machine then, but I run a stock turbo and don’t particularly care about having high boost or hitting high horsepower.

    I do have a class 1 on mine. It hauls everything I need it to, but it definitely has limits. Even with the outback springs/struts I put on it, when I had to move a light tower around a work site I saw the suspension bottom out. Fortunately, I didn’t have to go on the streets so it wasn’t a problem.

    I can’t say my bugeye is in pristine condition, she’s been beat to hell, but I love her anyway. Always so much fun and she’ll take me almost anywhere I ask her.

    Besides the multiple exhausts I’ve put on (and smashed dropping the car onto some big rocks off-roading), she has a catless up pipe and I’ve swapped the steering rack for a 2007 STI for a tighter turning radius. One thing I really loved about that car is how much was interchangeable with the next several generations of WRC and STI.

    I can’t say she is the most reliable car anymore, but that’s 100% my fault. That’s the reason I got the MR2, so I would have something I could rely on when I needed it.




  • Don’t tell me parts for the WRX are drying up! I have a 2003 wrx that I lifted, installed a tow hitch on, and replaced the engine with the block out of a 2019 sti.

    It’s actually become my “I need to haul things” vehicle. The high compression of the 2.5l block and the 2.0l heads from the original motor has given it a healthy amount of torque. Plus I have the tiniest trailer that is exactly the size of a pallet and weighs next to nothing.

    I also have a 2001 MR2 spyder. That’s my fun, sporty one. Only mods I’ve done to that are the head unit and installing a LSD after a bearing grenaded in the transaxle and I had to rebuild it.

    Pretty much the only thing thing that’ll get me to replace either is if they get wrecked and it twists the frame.

    Though the car I WANT to be driving is a catterham.




  • Best? Maybe not.

    But until the underlying social issue gets resolved, it’s a solution to address it.

    It’s also one that could be utilized alongside other protections for women, or as a stop gap to get to a better solution.

    They still will need to work out other ways to empower women to terminate a ride (both as driver and passenger) without penalty AND to ensure the passenger is let out of the vehicle in a safe place. Along with better reporting, investigations, and consequences for those who do harass.






  • I have 25 and 23 year old cars. Pretty much the only thing that would cause me to get rid of them would be a crash or the frame rusting out.

    I’ve replaced motors and rebuilt trans on each of them respectively. And I’ll continue doing that. Parts are still easily accessible and when they aren’t anymore, pretty much everything is metal and a machine shop can fab something up.


  • Even giving the cops the benefit of the doubt, that they aren’t trying to quash free speech.

    Cops are bastards who have only one tool at their disposal to handle everything. Arrests.

    So they use it arbitrarily and frequently. They have no consequences for using it. Ever.

    Someone disagrees? Arrest. Someone doesn’t do what the cop tells them? Arrest.

    They’ll find a reason after the fact.

    Their “lawful” orders or demands are things they want, and the only law behind them, is their ability to arrest you and leave you fucked having to sort it out later in the courts. They claim they are giving lawful orders ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

    Cops need to be held accountable, personally, for every arrest that is thrown out. For every, single, time they THREATEN to arrest someone. Criminal penalties for arresting someone and THEN figuring out what to charge them with. If they don’t fucking know when they pull the cuffs out, they should face criminal and civil charges.

    And fuck every cop that backs up another with trying to trump up charges after they arrest someone, too.