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Originally Posted by BRZ-One
that car is out of hand...
***In regards to the stock internal parts.
I talked with a tech at the Subaru dealership, he claims that the transmission is only designed to handle a 10% increase in torque. Everything was built with weight in mind and apparently the gearing in the MT is made of lightweight materials. They said they had the same issue with the WRX STI's when people started upgrading them, they were burning through their trannies and differentials..
I did some further snooping around trying to confirm or reject his comments, and it appears that TRD will be releasing a beefier transmission to handle additional torque to go in conjunction with all of the performance upgrades they'll be releasing. I guess time will tell, maybe sooner with that monster turbo.
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STI transmissions and diffs can take a lot of power, so I don't think I would pay attention to what he said.