Yep they are i went to rally event a couple of years ago where they done a a remorial for Richard Burns & they had loads of v5's there & i didn't notice any 6's about specially a wagon!

i have to agree with you on the colour, same as my Dad's v6 wrx sti in cool grey looks the dogs danglies when polished up

 

a version 7?

 

v7 is a bugeye newage shape - i got that one;-) my dad has the v6 wagon

 

Pete
In the olden days no-one had a clue about modifying the Scoobs - and even now there is still a fair bit of dodgy advice floating around
And in parts it was not listening to proper advice from Bob Rawle.......or probably to an extent Mr Lateral....
So I invested in dodgy exhausts, dodgy Turbo's that were underspecced (I guess I was kidding myself on what I wanted)
I've had a few head gasket failures - but I've known the causes so not so concerned about this...... Gearbox failure was a function of Brands Hatch 'killer' to car circuit........ My biggest 2 problems in the last 7 years have been Up-Pipe Gasket failures and warping brakes..... these are still a problem to some extent - on the Brakes front I will now no longer buy crap products like Pagid that simply overcook and turn to glass and then eat the discs!

£100k covers the cost of the car, servicing, running costs. I've had the car mapped maybe 50 times in its life also

At least now I know who is 'good' in the Scoob World and more who I can trust to give decent advice. Some people think I'm quite badly opinionated and rude to some extent and slag companies off - I think several companies know that if I thought the quality of service was lousy I wouldnt go back again......

On the colour - I had a Blue WRX/STI colour on a car I owned for a few years (a second car, I now own a Forester STI as a second car - these are awesome) Blue is common and nasty.... Kev Boy racer colour so I wont be going back to that again..... much better to have a more unique colour thats not repeated much so you are more rare..... Its funny, back in 1999 I had a choice between a Mitsubishi Evo6, STI or a UK car. The UK dealer looked at me in Bristol and thought I was a tyre-kicker that couldnt afford a car (******* muppets), I drove the Evo and thought, this car is ****... and the STI was just amazing - then again I was in a 330bhp demonstrator.......

 

Well the grey colour made the car pratically invisible. I even checked the manual to see if the car came with a cloaking device. Glad to see the back of it for three 'common and nasty' blue cars.

 

You can say thast again,sonic blue wicked colour ,my type r is the same colour.

 

i agree the Sonic blue is is a brilliant original colour for the Scooby (doesn't suite any other car as much with this colour - seen a few Evo's trying to pull it off

 

If I get another It'll be yellow. Always wanted a yellow one

 

Yellow - I take back all I said about Blue - its much nicer than Yellow ;-)
The Thing is you need to be invisible with the Police on the Motorways - its nicer to NOT be noticed
In Yellow everyone can see you coming a mile off

 

With regards to all the small comments about v5's being mappable.
Does that mean that V3' and 4' are not mappable?
Does the ECU need to be changed?

Dan

 

I think the V5/6's ECU's can be remapped, but the previous versions need a piggy back chip. I have a V5 Wagon, saw few about but not may when I was looking a couple of months ago, but got a gooden in the end. almost standard UK Turbo, not Sti but with similar power. My Evo 7 was quicker more shore footed and truned in better with little or no understeer, the Wagon seems to give more feedback, oh and the brakes are better on the V5 and V6, 4 pots instead of two, which are just a bout liveable with for everyday use and the odd track day. I love classics, my mate has a 2003 Sti with 340 hp, and he'd rather go back to his classic Sti.

 

I know exactly where you,re coming from fella, i went ALL round the houses with one of my cossies once to get to 500bhp goal, ended up spending bloody thousands.. but like you,ve rightly said, i listened to Tuners i thought were proven etc and that,s where i went wrong.. Eventually got there though and i must admit, it was GREAT fun trying..

I,m near on 43yrs old now and still spending like a mad thing.. cars a ???

 

Haven't actually had a good look at them but used to drive past everyday when they had 2 yellow Type R's in there last year

 

Pete
My previous car was an Escort Cosworth...... 1996.....last of the bunch
420bhp. It used to bounce down a local road on Leda's....... Handling was far better even now than my STI5 with Exe-TC..... but only on a very smooth road surface
Not the nicest of cars so in 1999 I sold to it and got the STI5

 

black type r v5, love it, you don't see that many around and with the dccd makes for some entertaining driving, not quite as tail happy as a rwd cossie i had years ago but still good fun

 

Still stuck and dont know waht to buy. Cant decide between the v4 STI or v5 STI or v3 Type R. Are there any massive differences between a V4 and V5 STI other than the ecu not being mappable. The car would only cover 2500 miles per year with a few track days and air field days so would a Type R be better suited to my needs as I do not need 4 doors. Thanks

 

Heres my old girl

Surrey Scoobies - CND Garage

5 years now and wouldn't change her for the world

Difference between the 4 and 5 i gather is that the 5 gearboxes are considered stronger

 

no such thing as a v7 sti...Subaru stopped using the version numbers after the classic. All new derivatives are denoted by MY, so his bugeye wagon is a MY01 sti

 

I have a version 5 wagon in cool grey metallic. I've had it 3 years or so, and was looking for 18 months to find one in this colour.

Only ever seen two others, 1 was owned by a Scoobyclinic mechanic, and the other I saw on here at some point prior to looking to get one myself.

Mine is currently dead though, bottom end collapse at 93k miles, so it's been sat gathering dust in the garage since december waiting for me to either gather the money to fix it, or gather the money to buy something to replace it.

 

having just sold a bike engined kit car which was ridiculously unreliable and finally broke down and needed a new engine i am sick of people telling me how difficult it will be to get parts, that everything out there will have been ragged, that they are prone to failures, that this model was just before one that had some revolutionary changed that made it faster / cheaper / more reliable etc! So do i go for blob / hawkeye for reliability and probably handle more power, or do i go for a v5 sti which is the first i ever drove and loved much more than the new ones? Id go for a type r too if i did get one.

Any recommendations for good websites rather than pistonheads where there isnt much choice and all over priced?

sorry to hi-jack thread - similar subject and obviously people on here who know about v5 sti's

 

Go for the V5 (or V6). I've driven a few newer ones and didn't like them as much. If it was an only car so more compromise and refinement is required then go for the newer one, but if it's your toy, I'd go for the older model.