Banged-up Scooby

An archive of Classic Impreza tips, tricks, and ownership guides

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The one universally-accepted upgrade that benefits everything from acceleration to braking is removing weight. Does swapping out the standard flywheel for a lightweight flywheel make sense, or does it create more problems than it solves?

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Are classic Imprezas easy to maintain?

Any more than a cursory glance online would have you convinced that Subaru engines explode if you look at them wrong, blow their head gaskets every week, and leak enough oil to make the folks at BP feel a bit uncomfortable - but is that true?

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Is the classic Impreza (GC8) a good daily driver?

To some (although if we're being fair it's probably most) the mere thought of daily driving a '90s Subaru Impreza would at best raise an eyebrow, and at worst get you laughed out the room. But is that fair? If I were to propose the notion of a 90s Japanese-built, all-wheel-drive family saloon as a daily driver, leaving the name of the car out of the equation, I suspect that the scales would shift ever-so-slightly.