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that lancia is a beast, know the fella who owns it. its fat.

I am looking at possibly fitting this :

GGS2500 : 2.5 Litre Subaru Short Engine



The latest American specification STi Impreza uses a 2500cc instead of 2000cc engine. This short engine is the basis of that engine.

Both engines are dimensionally the same, and this means that the cylinder heads, manifolds and all other ancillaries can be transferred from your 2 litre engine to create a 2½ litre version based on this short engine. (We have used these crankcases in our 500 BHP Impreza conversion).


With these following :

• Forged Cosworth Pistons.
• 550cc Uprated injecters.
• Walbro Uprated Fuel Pump.
• FSE Power Boost Valve.
• Front Mounted Intercooler.
• Larger Turbo.
• Water Spray Intercooler Kit
• Remove the Nitrous Progressive Controller.
• Down Jet the Nitrous jets.
• Lower boost pressure slightly.
• Stand alone engine managment system

This would give me approx 350 - 400 BHP without any Nitrous.

If i was to do this i would keep the car for the foreseeable future and see how it goes......

All opinions are welcomed on this option

Or do i sell the Scooby and buy somit like this ??











Come on peeps, what do i do ????

Decisions decisions, I give up, i just dont know any more, its up to u jay, i think maybe u shud fix scooby doo and then sell her.To get the range. Or keep the scoob for the speed and the award winnin flames etc! On the one hand is a 450BHP scooby and the other is a well pimp range rover, both gr8 but for 2 very different reasons, ur choice mate but i back u either way

if your thinking of a range rover, then get the newer shape ones, that one looks a bit to farmer-ish with some big chrome rims and an install

I havnt seen many farmers driving Pimp Mobiles....

I am off to buy a farm, lol.....

In my eyes its to old a car to be called "pimp"

I see pimp as, the newest reg/model available, at least 24's, biggest petrol engine possible, tints of course, chrome vents on the sides (available on the newer Range's)

An "S" reg just doesnt look very pimp to me

Cars that suit the "Pimp" look = New Range Rover's, New X5's, New Hummer H2's + H3's, New Lincoln Navigator's, New Cadillac Escalade's

ALL in Black.....and in some case's....Yellow

What about this:





More Details here

Dare to be diffrent!

its got to be rear wheel drive and turbocharged!







HEY ITS A 5.0L


Well it drifts.....





Become a drift god..

I would seriously think twice about a british car.

PARTS ARE TOO MUCH £££££££££££££

I had a Landrover before my scooby and I had nothing but hell with it, First the Viscous coupling went and that was like £200 to fix, then the IRD unit went and they wanted £2500 to fix that for a part the size if a football, then the Injector went on it and they wanted like £250 for that!!!

The Price of the parts for Land/Range Rovers is too high because for some reason unknown to me, I had nothing but trouble with mine and was so glad to see the back of the damn thing,

To be honest I personally dont think you can beat the Jap cars, Nissan, Toyota, mitsu and Scooby's.

I know how you feel about your scooby backing out on you, but i would seriously have second thoughts about getting rid.

Maybe what you can do is get all the tools needed to rebuild Scooby engines and offer that as a service @ your garage. If you think about it most places charge £1500 for a complete rebuild. I am sure that its not going to be a mission once you have the right tools. If you go down to CAS motorsport the dude always has like 3 engines to rebuild on the go, (3 x £1500 = Good Cash) The labour for it cant be that hard and technical, You would probably make back the cash that you laid out for the venture in the first 3 rebuilds and you will also have all the tools required to do your car whenever you blow the engine

Just my 2 cents

get yourself to an auction scoob! me and adam went to one yesterday and there were some bargains to be had! skyline R32s and R33s goin for no more than 4k. supra went for £3200 and rx7 for £2400 and they had lots more evo's and skylines there aswel

There is a sports and performance garage just down the road from autosafe with a skyline in it

Gary, what Auction was it?

My uncle lives in devon, and he goes to the auctions at southampton docks and said there is a lot of very nice, very cheap jap motors!

duno went with mister adam. it was in the docks in lpool just past 'yes car credit' they have them there every wednesday apparently

Sorry to hear about that Jay.

As you know I was forced to sell the Evo because of all the engine probs (and others) I had with it so I know how you feel. I thought I might have regretted selling it but I needed reliability and something to get me around the country without breaking down after a heavy right foot.

I'm more than happy with the skyline. No where near as quick but it draws more crowds than the Evo ever did plus the handling/brakes are far better. I've had no problems with it up to now but from what I can make out on www.skylinesdownunder.com and www.skylineownersclub.com the GTRs can be very unreliable. The GTS is the more reliable of the 2 and far less complicated.

If it was me, if you were to sell your car i'd go for the GTS, get some mods done plus they've got over 250BHP to begin with.