jagcars26 Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 I know this was discussed in another thread but; We had a fairly large Subaru/Nissan meet last nite and I got talking to a Suby tech who works at a dealership on the other side of Baltimore. He asked me if I had replaced my upipe,I said yep with an STi one.He then told me he was at the time working on a 05 LGT(15,000 miles) that had an upipe/cat failure,ate the turbo, etc etc etc .The car was bone stock BTW. He went on to tell me it was covered under warranty but its seems as if Subaru didn't want to admit that this has happened more then once or twice(WRX/LGT) when he talked to them on the tech line. Anyway the point of this is NOT to scare anyone,just a heads up that we MAY have the same problem with the catted upipes that the WRXs have had . That is all ,resume your normal activities:icon_wink mods you may want to move this to the exhaust area.thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godwhomismike Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 That makes it the second known up-pipe that failed. I'm sure there are more. This is something that makes me a bit uneasy. I wonder how many more have failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxx Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 I said it in another thread. I replaced my UP just in time. The cat had come loose from the pipe in 1 piece. It would've only been a matter of time before it broke apart completely & got sucked into the turbo. "Barack Obama, mothaf#%@a! Barack Obama! I'm the president...of hittin' the ass!" -this is not a political view it's merely a quote from a hilarious tv show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIZARD Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 Yow!! Another "destroyed turbo" averted by the grace of the "Mod-Bug"!!!! I said it in another thread. I replaced my UP just in time. The cat had come loose from the pipe in 1 piece. It would've only been a matter of time before it broke apart completely & got sucked into the turbo. Stage2.5376, TDC ProTune,blah blah blahhhh and....Alky/H20 injection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.T.Subie Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 I have my UP on the way after reading all of these threads recently. Denial is your best friend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreoSTi Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 My '03 WRX (TurboXS tbe + EcuTek) had 20,000 miles when I traded it in without any stock uppipe problems. My '05 FXT (TurboXS stealthback + Cobb AP) is going on 18,000 miles with a stock uppipe. Not that I've (ever) had high mileage cars, but in the grand scheme of things parts (stock or aftermarket) can fail. However, especially in the case of the uppipe cat, this doesn't make me paranoid about it... -Mike- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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