Anyone have experience with Impreza 2.5 RS'?

"404 Name Not Found" (404namenotfound) 06/17/2014 at 21:50 • Filed to: None

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A lady is selling a 2000 2.5 rs with about 225k miles. It's super clean, but it has an automatic transmission. What would be a good price to offer her. She wants it gone.

Squid > 404 Name Not Found 06/17/2014 at 21:52

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Buy it cheap and then save up to do an STi swap. It is worth it.

Louros > 404 Name Not Found 06/17/2014 at 21:53

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No more than 1500

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > 404 Name Not Found 06/17/2014 at 21:53

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$1000. That's some pretty high miles, and you might find yourself in project car hell.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > 404 Name Not Found 06/17/2014 at 21:54

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check for first rust in the rockers and then buy it. So much fun. Then wait a year and buy a wrote 04-05 still for a full swap...

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > 404 Name Not Found 06/17/2014 at 21:55

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A very, very small amount. $1500, tops. And I'm usually the most generous, optimistic appraiser on here.

daender > 404 Name Not Found 06/17/2014 at 22:01

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Pay no more than 4k$ tops, I'd go for 3.5k$. The former president of my college SCCA chapter bought a 200k mile '99 2.5 RS coupe manual for like 5 or 6 but it was in great shape minus the typical poor Subaru paint job. If it's a coupe, it's worth its weight in gold.

404 Name Not Found > Louros 06/17/2014 at 22:01

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1500 to 1000 seems to be the sweet spot.

404 Name Not Found > Squid 06/17/2014 at 22:02

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Exactly. I heard its a lot of plug and play. Almost like Lego's.

404 Name Not Found > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 06/17/2014 at 22:02

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That seems like the right price.

404 Name Not Found > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 06/17/2014 at 22:03

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I think that 1500 is high too. 1000 is the right price.

404 Name Not Found > Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius 06/17/2014 at 22:03

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Doesn't look like any rust. But the whole timing belt thing is scary.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > daender 06/17/2014 at 22:04

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Even by my apparently high standards, that's waaay high.

PheeNoIVI > 404 Name Not Found 06/17/2014 at 22:05

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Thats a lot of miles for a turbo

Squid > 404 Name Not Found 06/17/2014 at 22:07

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Yup, if you can get the body cheap you just need to source the powertrain on the cheap. Granted to do it correctly you'll be at least $10-15k in to it when it is all said and done, but you can end up with a 2400 lb car making 400 torques and 350 horsies. If it is a coupe it would be worth it to buy just to save to sell to someone wanting a a donor for a swap. especially since you can try to get it from the lady for a grand or so.

404 Name Not Found > daender 06/17/2014 at 22:09

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Yep. It's a coupe. Though the general consensus seems to be closer to 1.5k for the price.

404 Name Not Found > Squid 06/17/2014 at 22:10

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That's true. Honestly I probably don't need the STi motor, because it has the autobox and it probably won't be able to handle all the HP. I might even settle for a WRX engine.

Louros > PheeNoIVI 06/17/2014 at 22:12

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2.5RS = non-turbo

Squid > 404 Name Not Found 06/17/2014 at 22:13

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You yank that slushbox out and sell it for scrap and put the STi tranny in there. If you are in CA you really can only put the EJ25 in if you want to have any chance at remaining smog legal and getting a smog referee signing off on your car.

daender > 404 Name Not Found 06/17/2014 at 22:13

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Good luck.

PheeNoIVI > Louros 06/17/2014 at 22:58

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Ohhhhh good to know!

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > 404 Name Not Found 06/17/2014 at 23:31

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Offer her 400$, if she wants it gone. If she balks a bit, come up. The money on a flip is made at the beginning, not at the end.

A 2.5RS coupe body is worth money as a roller, or as a donor car. Just cleaning it up and listing it for sale will probably make you money.

If you want the car... and if the car is straight and fairly rust free... it is a candidate for a WRX swap (EJ205 or EJ255, and a standard 5-speed and viscous limited slip rear diff),

Otherwise, if you REALLY want a car... a WRX STI swap... (EJ22 or EJ257 and a WRX STI 6-speed and torsen front and rear diffs) with Brembo brakes, and BBS forged wheels, preferably under 22B STI replica fenders, and painted WR Blue.

That is the way GC8 Coupe deserves to be built, and the way it was offered in Japan and other markets... but not in the US, only the EJ25 non-turbo engine was offered here, and the WRX came over to north america right after this body style stopped.

JasonStern911 > 404 Name Not Found 06/18/2014 at 00:24

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It totally depends on where you're located. In Reno, Subarus are ridiculously overpriced because all-wheel drive is nice for the 5 days a year we get snow (and for the people that snowboard/ski), so you could probably get $3k for it. But in Vegas, despite being in the same state, you might get $2k for it due to nobody caring about all-wheel drive. Still, they're cool cars so unless you need to dump money into it to keep it going, you might be better off keeping it.

MonkeePuzzle > 404 Name Not Found 06/18/2014 at 09:33

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not worth anything in my mind. An auto with mileage that high, you'll be looking at a swap in the near future anyway. That means you don't care about the engine in it, and that's the only thing that really sets the RS apart from the regular impreza. I vote you buy regular impreza, and do a swap on that. It will be lower insurance, and the hood and bumper can be obtained pretty easily.

my 2 cents