i bought mine new in 05 never had a probablem mines a beast "i think so at least"it put down about 430hp to the wheels that still on stock block it fun as hell and its half as much as a evo/sti im poor so that matters i have no thing but good things to say and pretty much everyone that drive them is cool theres lots of meet and such all the time go over to the srtforums for mor info