BIG JINX! The LAST WRX STI: Subaru Impreza VA // Nürburgring 

Was so stoked to finally see Misha drive a VA. As a VA STI owner myself, I'm so envious and wish I could have the ride of my life like you did with and incredibly talented driver making the most of my car. We'll, I got the next best thing and I'll be Savinng this video and I'll be watching it over and over again on my TV at home. How is your car after rubbing so hot for so long? Did you have a baffled oil pan as well? What turbo are you running with your fmic? Was this run done on E85?

Love to see a fellow HKer on this channel!

@@stansuarez it full stock engine and turbo have a service after this run and everything was fine. It’s a bit difficult to find e85 in Europe however the gas in Germany runs a high rate so everything was good

Great car mate, enjoy it in good health.

​@@stanleylam2159beautiful car mate. It's just like mine 😅

same. That was unreasonably hot, these engines risk detonation WAYY too much to be running that hot at high rpms and etc.

def needs an Oil cooler and better rad

well nvm it has an oil cooler damn

Yeah me too, is 136C really still safe to drive? My piston melted at 130…

@@henrym5889 first thing I did on a 98 wrx sti before tracking it,RCM baffled sump and pickup,money well spent.

Because most people only invest in the cheapest way to impress friends, they dont know how their cars will behave in real racing conditions, which is overheating and melting. If you increase power, you need to improve braking and cooling, period. If you don't do it this will happen.

Stock cars can handle it, but most modified cars aren't modified for track use. Most people just add power, when that should be the last thing to do

@@ALIENdrifter66not necessarily my tuned Saab Viggen doesn’t overheat as badly as my friends GR86 when we run on our local roads and his car is stock and mine is tuned

Stock cars absolutely can and do overheat if they are not designed to be driven this way (which many are not). There is no point to install oversized radiators and overpowered cooling systems if they will never be seen under design operating conditions and would be a waste of resources and money. Sometimes cars are adapted from the factory for local conditions in the target market (e.g. climate).

You need to take into consideration that Nurburgring is very long and has some proper elevation changes. I bet this Subaru can do like 3 laps on a average 2-3 km long, flat racetrack with ease. And after cooling lap you will be able to do this again.

Ähm, okay. Hat der Subaru nicht angeblich 390 Ps, oder waren es 319. Und selbst dann... 300 ps sind viel :D Oder bedeutet a ton of hp 1000 ps... Have a nice day or whatever. Sorry for the german

@@SuperBubba01390 horsepower yes. and i think its a fast car for sure. I dont know what kind of missile mikey drives 🤔

@@user-mi8ie2kq4e currently building a ‘96 GC8 and “dailying” a ‘22 VB WRX. You could say I’m kinda bias 😅

Lol Until it goes boom like 99% of them.

@@mikey_gc8 ew a VB? Cringe. I have a 2015 STI and a fully built 09 STI with a rotated turbo set up

@@Tanuki974 really?

He was actually impressed at the corner speed

Thinking of his car blowing up 🤣

Id be scared too if I see temps go up like that. But with an incredibly talented driver at the wheel, I'd just hold tight and tell him to SEND IT! 😅

I would think the front mounted intercooler would have something to do with it. Big impact or not on daily driving, when driving for a long period of time on track that difference could be exponentially greater.

Has both owner mentioned it in comments

@@kunfupandaroflwhy would the front mount affect cooling negatively. It’s getting colder air

@@kunfupandaroflnvm. You saying the front mount is blocking air I assume. But there is cooling from the hood scoop.

@@AntilleanConfederation front mount intercooler are placed in front of the radiator, meaning the cool air goes towards bigger power than actually cooling down your car. The hood scoop can’t help with cooling because the radiator is still in the front. A WRX/STI with a front mount intercooler essentially becomes a badly designed Evo, the hood scoop then just becomes a source of bad aero increasing the CD.

Is the engine okay?

nice 4014 shirt sir!

​@@asm200sx nah it's cooked

@@asm200sx It runs fine for now

Какое масло используете в двигателе ?

Definitely because the sensor is only reading 240, must be slightly hotter in hotter parts of the block and ESPECIALLY on the EJ's where it naturally runs hotter in some parts. That coolant evaporated and most definitely fucked up the headgasket, I hope he had full compression test and everything done right after

@@ohnaw223 I think in the video it is around 245, if it to the max left it will be 250, that niddle will start moving at 230, I track my VA as well, I will never let it over 230

@@ohnaw223 never mind I see the owner say the coolant is 126c which is 258f, that means oil temp is at 270 probably 300, that motor fucked up for sure, no matter it is a built motor or OEM one, headgasket and bearing is failing for sure

with coolant mods, are for example longer autobahn sessions possible or not

@@kiritowow2736lol

Oil temp ...not coolant

Each shift was way off.. trail breaking and heel toe is basic. Far from playing the piano, but he knows the track very very well. In his own car I'm sure he's much more smooth

My temps on my VA also inches up on hill climbs even if I have the koyo rad and perrin oil cooler but it never gets *that* hot and the temps drop quickly as soon as I let off a little. Having said that. I also hyperventilate as soon as the temp needle starts moving. Hahaha

@@stansuarezthe Perrin Oil cooler suffers behind the FMIC. I actually placed mine on top of the FMIC and routed the lines differently. Zero issues with the oil getting too hot or even the coolant temps sky rocketing.

I heard the issue with subaru engines is mostly because of emissions! (Making pistons prone to melting and fragile because of piston ring placement which is too high).

Not true at all for EJ257 didn’t have head gasket issues it had ringland issues your no Subaru tech your an imposter

Nope nth happened to the car and it made it though my whole Europe road trip

@@wanderer7779 yea we're lucky we even got turbo ejs in the US because they had to be heavily restricted for our emission laws, and it only got worse over time so reliability took a hit. JDM turbo ejs are highly regarded because they could actually breathe and make power

I'm not taking my Subie to you cuzc apparently you know nothing about them from your comment lul

Re71 is a killer tire

Glad the owner kept UELH on the car.

I had a Subaru for 10 years

He already had an oil cooler apparently. Oof

He said big intercooler aswell. I bet its covering a big part of the radiator and the whole cooling balance is off.

​@@siraff4461that's one reason I decided to stay with the top mount on my VA. I do get less WHP at 365whp on pump Gas but at least my Koyo Rad gets better airflow.

@@stansuarez Yeah cooling gets a big issue as you go for more power and a lot of people just go for the power without considering its implications on everything else. I would take ~30hp less reliably all day over an extra bit of peak that you can't really use for fear of cooking something. Lets be honest - 365 wheel is still a lot of power and more than enough to be great fun. My old Impreza (GC8) was only just over 300 wheel but it had the right mods and I could just beat on it all day until the tank went dry then beat on it again. Fun fact - the best mod I did to that car was the gearbox and diffs from an RA. It revved hard at high speed but I never took it on long runs anyway and it was a much better drive when caning it. Short/close gearing really works on them.

For real dude

I just have an AOS and radiator and equal headers for the bigger turbo. Thats kinda it.

@@Craiggg12345 It's solid! I'll do my best to list mine: Alum rad, High flow water pump housing, Cylinder 4 cooling mod, AOS also (not really a cooling mod), and silicone hoses with Turbosmart Murray Clamps. That's engine, I also have a power steering cooler for the steering rack, ETS top mount (less heat soak, but still awful after sitting in traffic), and I am probably forgetting some stuff. But keep those temps happy and proper maintenance for a happy EJ.

@@ozzysgarageyeah I have an ets TMIC, cylinder 4 cooling mod, VSC hoses but the bare metal for the killer b headers and Cobb up pipe generate so much heat so summer sucks. I was gonna get the Killer B high flow water pump but a waste for a daily.

Mutkurve was pretty understeary but it was also a little fast 😄. lovely car 🔥🔥

Does the FMIC affect your coolant temps since it’s blocking the radiator

@@Craiggg12345 I could only imagine so since the core size for my FMIC is 4.5 inches. I installed my FMIC just when winter started so I will have to gauge it when it’s summer, since that’s when I went to the ring.

@@gotboost1183 FMIC will significant'y increase coolant temps. I'll take higher intake temps and slightly reduced power than high coolant temps which = no more lapping.

@@gotboost1183seems like it’s only worth upgrading the top mount to a bigger unit and leaving the air for the radiator clear.

I do cringe a bit in the manuals when he slams gears flat without finding the biting point properly, could be done a little more gentle at first as your brain learns the points as by 3rd 4th corner it’s fine but out of those cones it’s rough as toast every time😢

​@@AI-Records24I know!! Every single car. Let's make this boosted cars internals scream with load

@@gabemiller9873 sometimes it’s literally a bang too you can see the owners just cry inside 😢

It's a shame subaru stopped making STi. Now we only have ugly wrx and soon to be "hybrid" cars.

@@kevina.4036 indeed, it's like killing the legend...

That does nothing for oil temp lol

Clown 🤡

Well nwo will eliminate i.c.e very soon so won't have this issue

They probably didnt design a car to have 400 bhp and most people dont drive this hard for so long as you cant on the road and the engines are not designed for being 2.5 liters also which dont help with it staying together

Because at the end of the day, it's still a grocery getter from factory.

hopefully that was oil temp.

@@Nebbia_affaraccimiei You can see on gauges that coolant was propably close to 130c too.

Shhhh 🤫

And that's one of the more reliable motors that they offer XD