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Old 02 April 2006 | 11:43 PM
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Hi everyone,

Got me first scooby today!! 99 turbo 2000 in blue with full leather and all for just £5650.
The cars in great nick and WOW DOES IT GO!!,that is one amazing sounding engine, I love it.
The car is standard apart from a custom exhaust with decat pipe he had fitted, sounds nice but a bit too load , he still had the original exhaust so I mite get them swapped next week.Thoughts?

There is one thing, I'm hoping isn't going to be a problem,when I had it on the M25 and put me foot down the turbo kicked in ok, nice and smooth, but then as I kept accelerating the turbo seemed to stop and start about three times but the speed was still increasing at the same rate. Is this normal for classics? or is there something wrong?maybe knackered turbo?,a drop in engine pressure?(possibly to do with the custom exhaust?)
My brother has a 05 WRX and hes turbo doesn't do this.

As you can tell from all the question marks I know very little about scoobs so any help you can give would be appreciated.

I'm shore even if this is a problem I'm going to have a whole heap of fun with this car.
Old 02 April 2006 | 11:49 PM
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congratulations mate on your first scooby. im sure someone will help with your questions on here. same as you, dont know that much about imprezas but learning more each day. enjoy your new motor
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if you was booting it and u get a sudden jolt of slowness, hitting a wall feeling then, seem the car is running to much boost, or is spiking due to the decat...the feeling you are getting is called fuel cut and means to much boost., check to see if u have a manual boost controller or bleed valve installed... manual boost controler isnt that bad, i have one, but a bleed valve is a no no.do u have a boost gauge? at 1.1 bar urs will be faster than ur bros easily
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Congrats, didnt take you long to find it at all!! No doubt I'll see you about around town - what should I be looking out for?
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Congrats, didnt take you long to find it at all!! No doubt I'll see you about around town - what should I be looking out for?
A '99 turbo 2000 in blue, perchance?
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Cheers guys

Don't think there's a boost valve I'll have a look tomorrow,sounds like a possible explanation,maybe I should get the car checked at a dealer or somewhere?

Cheers Spirit, def see you about mate my car is dk blue with sti 17s, gold breaks and a driver with a stupid grin on his face.Whats yours like?
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Not the one I was after originally, no sun roof got the leather seats though.
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air-con?
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Bubba po you sound knowing in some way.
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LUVLY JUBLY.most of the time if you have air-con you wont have a sun roof. proberly be prooved wrong, but that what i was told . didnt take you long to get a scooby. im 33 and had mine 6 months. first one. i feel like a big kid again!!
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
A '99 turbo 2000 in blue, perchance?
I was after a little more info which JPF has now kindly provided

Silver 1998 R STi with 17" WRX grey alloys also being driven by someone with a stupid grin on his face
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Originally Posted by fieldy
LUVLY JUBLY.most of the time if you have air-con you wont have a sun roof. proberly be prooved wrong, but that what i was told . didnt take you long to get a scooby. im 33 and had mine 6 months. first one. i feel like a big kid again!!

I'll prove you wrong then ,found one on ebay same as the one I got but but with a sun roof,sl?,verry nice carhe wants 6k for it.
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thort i would be proved wrong. JPF (1) FIELDY (0)
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Originally Posted by Spirit
I was after a little more info which JPF has now kindly provided

Silver 1998 R STi with 17" WRX grey alloys also being driven by someone with a stupid grin on his face

STi nice! I'll lookout for you,maybe give you a race down the A14 some time.
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LOL.
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thort you might.
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Any of you guys know how to post a pic?, me brother is just mailing be some he took of my car today.
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if i ever get up to camebridge, i will keep an eye out for you mate. have a good one . drive carefully
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Originally Posted by JPF
Any of you guys know how to post a pic?, me brother is just mailing be some he took of my car today.
done mine through msn. but there is an easier way but im retarded wen it comes to computers. someone will point you in the right direction
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Originally Posted by fieldy
thort you might.
I have to admit it is a bit strange to have a car with aircon and a sunroof don't think other makes do.
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Cheers fieldy see you about mate take it easy.
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my experiece over the years is that you had one or the other. now and again you do get both but not often
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Originally Posted by JPF
STi nice! I'll lookout for you,maybe give you a race down the A14 some time.
You having a laugh? lucky to get over 40mph on that car park

To post a pic you need to host it on your own webspace them post a link to it here - I'll happily host a pic for you, email it over to

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And I'll post it up for you
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you to mate. always remember, SMILES PER MILES.
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Originally Posted by lightwave693
at 1.1 bar urs will be faster than ur bros easily
Not when his bro's has been PPP'd At least I hope not, I'll never live it down

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Originally Posted by Spirit
You having a laugh? lucky to get over 40mph on that car park

To post a pic you need to host it on your own webspace them post a link to it here - I'll happily host a pic for you, email it over to

ds3 AT ntlworld.com

And I'll post it up for you
Ok, the M11? its great on a sunday night ,I'll need a bit of practise first though me last car was a rover only about 160bhp

Ars! just looked at the pics me brother sent all ten meg of them,a bit big , I'll have to scale them down at work tomorrow before I email them to you if that ok,cheers.
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Ok, the M11? its great on a sunday night ,I'll need a bit of practise first though me last car was a rover only about 160bhp

Ars! just looked at the pics me brother sent all ten meg of them,a bit big , I'll have to scale them down at work tomorrow before I email them to you if that ok,cheers.
Hi bruv
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M11 is probably more likely lol My last car was a honda prelude running about 220bhp but the Sti is still a massive step up from that so I've really been easing myself in to it.

Send over one or two pics if you like, my email account should be able to handle it fine and I can resize them before uploading them here
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Pics a great bruv but I haven't got photoshop on me computer anymore so cant scale em..doh!



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