Date:         Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:54:24 -0500
Reply-To:     SStones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM>
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From:         SStones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM>
Subject:      Re: gutless AND unreliable...
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At 12:26 PM 3/28/03 -0700, you wrote:
>In defense of the WBXR I seem to remember a post a couple days ago from
>someone boasting +200,000 miles on their original engine with no bottom end
>maintenance (rebuilds?). However I am installing a Subie 2.5 in my 87 Syncro
>(bought without a motor).

Other than a couple rebuilt starter motors, one head gasket job and a blown
voltage regulator, mine's been sweet for over 200k miles. (330000+ km). The
exhaust crossover pipes have rotted through more times than I can count,
but that's the salt's fault, not the WBX's.
Heck, It is an 85 and has only been towed once. (The blown voltage
regulator time)... If I'd had a second battery, I could have run it off
that far enough to get a new alternator. It certainly tried to get me home
that day but the battery went dead half-way.