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Originally Posted by blsfrs
FWIW: I don't know how far along you are with this project but most folks are going with a FA24 swap rather than mess with rebuilding a FA20.
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Not a complete rebuild, more like a freshening/inspection/reseal job. This engine will see very little "hard driving" (mostly just an around town car), just trying to sort out any known issues while I have it apart.
Previously, before we jumped ship over to these FR-S's, we drove a couple of high mileage 2000 Celica GT-S's,.........one with 370.000KM, the other @ 450,000KM. Those Toyota/Yamaha 2ZZ's seemed to be BULLET PROOF!
With all the Subaru FA20 engine failure stories I'm reading, I'm starting to second guess our decision to jump into the Subaru deal. I understand that a fair bit of the failures relate to lax maintenance practices, lack of attention to detail while applying FIPG, running the engine low on oil, etc. But with the shear volume of engine failures, coupled with the wear that I'm seeing inside this engine at least, have me wondering if there are a few design issues that need fixing to make these things live.
The area that seems to be a common thread to all these failures is lubrication,...... or lack there of, to be more accurate.