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yeah the 300ZX are really heavy, like 3500-3600 pounds. I think the STI would take it in every aspect of speed, except top speed, because of the aero diffrences.

you can do almost any thing if price is not an issue, the cams will cost alot to do, you should just put some lower comprsion pistons in the EG33 from a the ej22t, and then put a turbo on it. This way you would alot more power than just cams, and a intake/ehust, but it would cost about the same.

If i had the money i would, but rember the jello mounts helps cusin the bumps.

Running sythenthec in a turbo charged car is a very good idea. After you use boost(floor it and the turbo will kit in), your turbo will get hotter than noramal, and if you turn your car off soon after you boosted the oil thats on the turbo bearing can get cooked on the baering shorting the turbos life, and killing the oil. Sence sythetic will resist heat break down alot beater than mineral oil, it wont cook on the turbo bearing near as easy, promoting turbo life and oil life. Like most other people said wait till the car is broken in before running sythenthetic. All my parants cars, and my car use sythentic, no problems at all, including oil leaks, and none of the cars are young, varing from my SVX at 120,000 miles to my dads 90 legacy at 330,000 miles.

My cousin missed a up shift in my dads 90 legacy 3rd instead of 5th the engine at least went up to 7500-8000, rpm, nothing bad happened yet, 100,000 miles later.

yeah the 1 gen legaycs are really nice, and cheaper. My dad has 330,000 miles on his 90 legacy 5spd awd, and my mom has 190,000 on a auto wagon awd. These cars can take a beaton and keep runing to. I bought one(90 legacy 5spd awd) at a aution for $100 to beat on it. It never broke, after jumps, mud, and rocks, it had 227,000 on it to. The cars 1 gear is low enogh to go off road to a extent, but i had to slip the clutch alot to get it out of some deeper sand. I eneded up selling it as a winter beater to my cousin.

I wonder how much it will be abke to tow? That would help sales if it could acully pull something, like 5000 pounds.

the auto goes to a 50/50 split when a wheel spins, and when the car is in first, and maybe second gear, first gear for sure.

I can belive that the problem with the forester was something other than the trannie, but when my dad test drove the Wrx it wasent that fast, with the auto, but with the manule it faster, not 2.5 secs faster, but faster.

The point i am trying to make is the gearing diffrences between the auto and manule which is a big diffrence will afect the feel of the car and how fast it is. Dragsterauto trannies, which arnt alaways used are super built trannies that share little with a typical auto. F1 uses autos, but there not like the one in my moms legacy.

Auto trannie fluid should be red, or at least all the auto trannie fluid ive seen.

The grill/ nose is the ugliest part of the car, if they redesigned it, and put the 6spd in it, then it would be a really nice. Maybe it could compete against the corvette.

I would agree that if the auto had the same gear ratios as the manual that the auto would be faster, because of shifting speed. The auto does lose its boast when you shift. Any way the forester maunle has really low gears in the maunle, compared to the auto. Thats why the car you test drove dident feel like a 13 sec car.

auto matics till have a bov, and even if they kept presure while shifting the extra power lost throught the auto, would slow the car more than the (mini lag).

the vw engine may be simple, but it only put out like 60 horse, and was air cooled, if iam not miskaten.

It dosent look that bad, reminds me of the Acura SUV. The rear does look hard to get to.

duane b, what do you mean.

Autos really seem to make turno lag alot more pronounced, there seemed to be almost none, with the 5spd. My dad test drove a auto wrx, and a manule, the auto seemed to have huge amounts of turbo lag, while the maunle had some.

My dad test drove one, a maunule. I was with him. The forester was fast, faster than my friends supra, thats running 12 psi, probley around 300 horse and 320 + pounds of tork.

Only 4 years young, and you consider a car old. I still think my 92 svx is newer. definitly not old.

converting a new modle would be hard, new hubs, rear suspesion, rear sub frame, trannie, and gas tank those are the main things. It would cost alot and would be alot of work.

infinity=Nissian Why wouldent you compare your Acura to the Legacy? i would rather take the new modle legacy 04/05 over most if not all the new Acuras, or lexuses, that are in the same class.

It realy depends on the design. When i had my 87 turbo supra it ran perfectly well on 87 octane in the summer. When i ran 89, or 91 which i normaly did I never noticed the diffrence, and i am pretty sensitive to diffrences in a car, but the supra was only runing 7 psi, but my frineds supra is running 12 psi (5 more than stock), and runs 89 octane, in a 89 supra, same engine as mine was, and has no problems.

the stock turbo stup sould alow you to run 87 octane, but it may ping on hotter days, 89 seems like it would alow the car to run with out worry of detonation.

The center diff on the 90 legacy 5spd awd i bought in summer for $100 worked fine, and it had 230,000 miles on it. I know it was the sellers winter car because it had rust holes every were, i could see out the side of the car from were the jack was. I beat on that center diff prety hard, 1 wheel in the air on a hill and it just pulled it self up and over, with the front whell spinning. I did this alot becaus it lead to a good hill climb i only made twice, but the geo tracker never made it. Almost got stuck because of open diffs, one rear wheel in the air, and a tree in front of me barley made it out, it took about half an hour of trying, thought I burned the center diff up but it was good after that. I was origanly worried about burning cneter diff up, but after those experiances with a car with so many miles on it, it seems pretty strong.