Nutty Subie Owners

#31

Porgy, that's the best description of ricer squids I've ever read. "Better
off racing their stereos."

#32

Porgy Tirebiter wrote:

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If you want to laugh your ass off, go to one of the "Run what you brung"
nights at a local drag strip.

I actually live near a famous road course that does the same.

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The plethora of
5.0/302Ci Mustangs
and other real cars are blowing them away.

Laugh our asses off we do, when it starts to mist and all the "real"
cars bounce off the first turn fence. As they spin, the driver's
mullets are blown into their faces.

Some racing doesn't pack it in when the weather changes. <G>

The right tool for the task at hand...

#33

Rick Courtright wrote:

Quote:

news wrote:

but for an OEM gearbox to fail like that hooked up to a stock
engine...

Hi,

This whole situation was best described by a mechanic I worked with in
high school/college days: "There ARE people who could screw up an anvil
with a rubber mallet."

'Nuff said?

Rick

And I married her.

#34

Mark T.B. Carroll wrote:

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Still, it's true that, at least in the US, there are many stick drivers
who clearly don't know what they're doing - you don't even have to be in
the same car with them to see that, and are probably happier not being -

They will learn eventually, though I've been on a stick for 7 years now
and still don't think I'm as smooth as a cvt. I *could* get the car
moving smoothly, but it's always work and slow engine spool up does not
help either. I kind of am sympathetic to the owners of automatics.
Not to the point where I would want one myself, but to the point where
I see some merit
in DSG and possibly CVTs. I found some automatics to be as jerky as I'm
in a sloppy mood though!

#35

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occasionally you might see a Ford F150 Lightning with dealer plates
vomit huge quantities of both coolant AND transmission fluid all over
the start line.

I'm sure the 070s on STI can handle that mix :-D

I've been contemplating dot legal slicks for everyday driving
and wonder how long they would last. Any thoughts?

#36

That has nothing to do with the quality of the components or not. Say you
are driving at 100km/h (5th gear) and you switch to 2nd gear for a manual.
Or backing up at high speed and switch to drive. When I was a kid, one of
my friends used to do that on a rental car. He even drove the car on big
bumps intentionally. You think the high quality shocks gonna last forever.

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:35:54 -0500, Body Roll <aglyport (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

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Oscar_Lives wrote:
bigjim (AT) backpacker (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:1166439806.718145.248540 (AT) 79g2000cws (DOT) googlegroups.com...
The sti is marketed as a high performance "race" type car. For the
price the components should be of high quality.

OP said WRX. Nowhere he mentioned sti.
It's also strange that there is not much damage to the 1st and 2nd
where
you'd expect most of the beating by a new stickie to take place,
don't you think? I find the 1st gears (on any 5sp, not just a Subaru)
to be the most difficult to live with followed by the second. Still,
odd that
he could ruin a tranny in just 4 month.
I needed over 3 years to accomplish that on my first car with a stick.
Apparently Mitsubishi is having a similar problem with, er, problematic
users, and is looking real hard into copycating a DSG off VW.

#37

In my younger days, under the influence of testosterone poisoning, I found I
could lay better black stripes on the road with my 2.4L '76 Skyline than my
mates with worked V8s. Trick was to select reverse at highway speed & floor
it! I managed to hit redline a few times at around 140KMph. Working out
the ratios, this turns out to be about 110K backwards. With an open diff,
usually one wheel broke traction first & did all the spinning. Do some
math, and it turns out the relative speed of the spinning wheel to the road
was around 500Kmph!

Who says you can't abuse an auto?

<bigjim (AT) backpacker (DOT) com> wrote

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That's why autos are better - warranty covers most anything. Dealer
cant use the "bad shifting" excuse.

Jim Stewart wrote:
BobN wrote:
Was at a Subie dealer buying a new cat-back exhaust to replace the
original
on my 98 Outback. Lying on the parts counter were parts of a WRX
transmission including the layshaft, idler gear and 3rd and 4th gears.
They
were stripped almost smooth through nearly 180 degrees, obviously the
result
of violently incompetent shifting by a wannabe boy racer.

Story: the car is only four months old, and the kid wants a warrantee
repair
of the tranny. We had a nice laugh over it.

The problem isn't limited to Subaru
owners... How many 5.0 liter Mustang
transmissions do you suppose have been
reduced to a box of rattling parts?

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