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Several years on, how's it going?

Welcome. I have a 2litre sti and online says 0w20 oil. My oil cap says 5w30. It's an fa20 engine in mine and personally I think 0w20 is to thin. I use 5w30 shell helex ultra and I use a genuine subsru filter. any stock panel filter will do, but I went for the washable pipercross one. Cvt fluid i...

Im no mechanic but see that type of metal as swarf. Id say its normal.

I thought sparkles was normal as you have metal constantly rubbing. Were there any chunks? Thats when I'd worry. Did you take any photos of the fluid as mine was a very dark brown when I drained it, and it looked nothing like the sparkly videos ive seen online.

Removed from my Sti, covered 58,000miles covered. Collection from Milton Keynes. £150 fair?

Ordered but no longer need them as ive gone custom

What fuel are you using? When was it last serviced, plugs, and sprayed carbon cleaner in the inlet?

Theres a recall for the hand brake

I found a really interesting discussion about Subarus CVT design, and one guy on this forum, who i wonder if he helped design it, knows a lot and backs up his words with proof. It's a great read. https://www.ascentforums.com/threads/cvt-high-torque-and-slip.4499/

A little fun yesterday. With the temperature in the UK going from a mild 12c to 3c, my car key battery died whilst I was out by a lake. Even using the metal key wouldn't openthee door. 10 minutes or so with the key in my armpit, and I noticed my interior light came on, I guess the warmth from...

Would camber bolts not help

Did you buy this in the end? Any improvements

Thank you for sharing a detailed write up.

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Very nice colour. Enjoy

This any good https://bedint.com/SUBARU/ Also, there are several links people have shared on this club

https://bedint.com/SUBARU/ Sorry i cant send you the link to the page.. ive just woke up and my eyes cant focus properly

Welcome! I had torque Gt import mine, and its great. I am considering finding a way to import my next car directly to save some fees

Hi ya, I ordered these: Part number- 44011SG010, went to my exhaust fabricator, and rather than cut the existing to join the genome to it, he is going to do a whole new cat back in stainless steel, with no middle resonator. In theory, i wont need these gaskets.

Follow this link and a user named "SilverOnyx" posts a PDF on where the TR690 sits compared to other LuK CVT's and the engineering performance of the Lineartronic compared to some other CVT's. There's come good information in that thread...