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Originally Posted by VisualEcho
I don't consider the N55 or S55 to be superior engines to the EJ25T at all, not in reliability or modability. You might lower your nose a bit on that one.
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You have to be kidding? The EJ257 is one of the worst engines ever made. It's balls slow in stock tune by today's standards and is simply a poorly designed engine from the get go. Due to the boxer design taking up the width of the engine bay Subaru is forced to go with short stroke oversquare engines when they go up in displacement and since the EJ is an old design the large cast pistons in these engines are simply not up to the task of handling knock and meeting today's emission standards. All EJ's are on borrowed time whether stock or tuned and it's only a matter of time until ringland or bearing failure. Superior engines don't have multiple class action lawsuits filed against them;
https://www.carcomplaints.com/news/2...-lawsuit.shtml
https://www.carcomplaints.com/news/2...-lawsuit.shtml
I'm a former STI owner and have been in the Subaru community for a long time so I'm not talking out of my ass as I have seen failures in other people's cars as well as numerous accounts from people all over the internet. I only owned mine for 2.5 years before selling so while mine didn't fail I had to get an aftermarket tune to at least so I didn't have to resort to aggressive launches from a green light just to keep up with people movers such as V6 Accords or Camrys as the powerband stock is extremely narrow and it's weak up to about 4k RPM.