Originally Posted by
slo-180sx
So out of curiousity, is it fairly common for these motors to go south, once they hit around the 300whp mark?
No. Although the 2.0l are much weaker than the 2.5l out of the sti....300 is seen commonly for 10s of thousands of miles. Mine had 120,000 miles and I beat the shit out of it. It was my fault the motor went.