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Originally Posted by cody
LOL, I'm only "up in arms" because you guys continue to twist my words to make me look wrong. I never said that your experience (or lack there of) is not factual. We are all spouting anecdotal evidence. Anecdotal does not equal non-factual. It seems you guys are confused by this word and think it means that your accounts are fictitious. This is simply not the case. What anecdotal means is that your experience isn't conclusive to the question at hand...end of story.
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The issue here isn't one of factual vs. non-factual. I believe you have facually heard "people say they didn't mod or abuse and they still wrecked a gear or two" since I've heard the same thing. However, you have not directly encountered a car with said failed gears, right? Your evidence is hearsay, whereas mine is based on my own direct observations. Anecdotal or not, I don't see evidence that the WRX tranny is as bad as it's reputation. That doesn't prove the WRX tranny is bulletproof... its reputation had to come from somewhere... but I'm suggesting that if you take care of it, and don't run an unreasonable amount of torque through it, it'll be fine. Hell, at stock power levels, if one breaks, I'm apt to agree with Subaru's party-line that is was probably abused.
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Originally Posted by cody
And who said the WRX is garbage? Like any car it has strengths and weaknesses. All I wanted to do was point out the weaknesses. This was relevent to the OP question. It seems like anything I post here gets slammed.
I have no issue with your assertion that the WRX tranny issues are blown out of proportion and I've made every attempt to make that very clear. If you read what I say, I'm very clear, but all you hear is, "the wrx is garbage".
What the hell is wrong with you people?
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Go ahead and quote where I said you think "the wrx is garbage". I totally agree that the WRX tranny is the weakpoint in the driveline... hell I spent nearly $8000 to pre-emptively replace mine with a 6MT so I could step up to a bigger turbo w/o risking it. I just don't think it's something that should stop someone from buying a WRX, which is directly relavent to nightwalker's question.
So, to get away from the semantics and back to the original topic of WRX vs. STi vs. EVO... With regards to the tranny, IMO the WRX's tranny is fine as long as you're not looking to make huge power. If you'd buy a WRX with plans to go to a larger turbo, you might want to think about the STi or EVO instead, but it's been my experience that the WRX tranny will take all a stock turbo/block can throw at it as long as you know how to drive & shift smoothly.