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Class action lawsuit on the rod bearings. Rod bearing failure will cost generally about $10k on up. Piston ring lands are weak and can shear off. Cost to fix with forged pistons is on the order of $5-$6k. Broken firewalls due to weak pedal assembly mounts. Intercoolers are plastic junk. Fuel economy is honestly terrible for a daily. Fun factor is kinda meh in stock form. STi's are pretty fun but really they get pretty meh also after you drive one that's stock for a while. You'll quickly want more power. It's a slippery slope - almost no one ends up leaving them entirely stock. Then you have the CANBUS electrical mess. That's a whole different topic and applies to almost all vehicles ~2005+ or in the case of Subaru about 2008+. Personally I can't own anything from the last ~18 years on the consumer side. It's all plastic crap that's smothered in electronics that's all the "intellectual property" of Subaru and essentially that means you really don't own the car at all - Subaru just lets you use it for a fee and when they decide to no loner support it you will have a nice lawn ornament rather than the car you "paid" for. GD

Cheers Bennie, yes I've got a lead on an early carbureted EJ18 Legacy with the part time 4wd box too, so I'll grab that and use the Carby and dizzy on this one, and the dual range box behind my other EJ22 in the blue one (to keep it all EJ clutch setup). Build parts are slowly being worked out!