Originally posted by chet
its funny you say that...cause i have a friend who just put an STI together...made like 375whp...and it just destroyed the transmission.
obviously some drivers are harder on transmissions...but i still wouldn't take any chances and keep the car around stock horsepower levels.
Just out of curiosity, was he drag racing or auto-xing/tracking the car? Drag racing an AWD car making that kind of power probably means a sticky clutch on the stock flywheel, which means hard launches and some nice 60' times. Not a big revelation that the trans might go under these circumstances. If he was tracking the car, I'm honestly surprised it blew up on him. People have been having some great luck with those trannies. sp far.
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