opinions on 2011 Subaru STI

Red__Zed

Let me rephrase-- there is no major ringland failure issue like there was in the past. I've seen a handful of isolated cases, all of which were heavily abused cars. One of them that I saw was the result of someone that attempted to crank up the boost and "street tune" his car.

I am not convinced the failures are due to an inherent engine issue. Unfortunately, the car is too new to rule for sure either way I guess.

cossie1600

Definitely not true. I saw one of the first few STI in North America to be lemon due to engine failures. My friend have had two engines replaced on his 2010. The motor on both of them were all stock. They did autox it (never track), so the run to the limiter might not have helped.

Whitemtl370

I say buy an evo. I had an x, and drove the sti many times, the evo is simply better. Road and track referres to the evo as an insurmountable opponent to the sti. The engines are bullit proof, and 350 awhp is simply turboback exhaust uicp and boost controller away(dyno tune of course)

DJ-of-E

I wouldn't call it bulletproof since I use to work on many evos as well. Then again, my standard of bullet proof is if it could hit 100,000 miles without issues or over 10 years old.

I do know 350AWHP on evo 9 and 10 seem to last a good 40,000 and the only thing to concern is a head gasket replacement (which is a WHOLE LOT EASIER TO DO ON EVO than a Subby). As far as bullet proof, I haven't seen a many evos in my area over 100,000 miles on that set up, but I haven't seen any complaints as well. At least better than many Subies going on detonation or rod knock when doing auto-x, why is their oil issues so....horrid compared to Porsche?

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phelan

2011 has different oil requirements lol. And detonation? Road knock? I haven't heard of a lot of the recent ones having issues, other than the 2008 ringland debacle.

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DJ-of-E

It's harder to tell with the recent WRX's because lot of SCCA entries are still 2002-2007 models. There were many at first, but twiddles very quickly over the years due to what I said.

The new ones, I do not know, but I'm guessing previous years' experience scared them off from track/auto-x.

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Red__Zed

prosolo d stock had 2 2011 wrx's. they seem to be holding up very well.

local entries here are also mostly 11s that seem to be holding up well.