The BMW is stock, other than the wheels.

I read the ad and the owner had put a full CAI on the car...MAF fouling was most likely caused by that. The tune, TBE and other power mods also make this just another janked Subaru, spec.B or not.

The MAF dying at 85,000 miles is a symptom of something else, not a cause into and of itself. The oil in the intake tract that causes the MAF to fail is also a symptom, where the problem is oil seals in the turbo (though turbo Subarus get some oil in the intake normally, but not enough to kill a MAF sensor) or other…

A full CAI on a turbo Subaru is a worst case...if not tuned well these could cause serious engine problems and are generally not good mods for making power. Reading the Craigslist ad the engine is much more modified than this article let on, so my assessment is even worse.

Yeah, this time I went and read the ad...not just a panel filter, but a K&N Typhoon! Ugh...CAIs do *not* work well on turbo Subarus. Beyond that, the power mods are much more extensive than noted in the article. I wouldn’t touch this car at any price without a doctor’s note from the tuner who wrote the “custom Stage…

Excess oil routed back into the intake system via the PCV valve. When the turbo oil seals start to go you get not only oil in the exhaust but also oil in the intercooler tract that gets picked up by the PCV system. It happens in all turbo Subarus to a degree, but it gets much worse when the turbo oil seals begin to…

That’s true, I forgot about just having an oiled panel filter. Nonetheless, because so many of the turbo Legacies had turbo oiling issues, that’s still my first guess.

Best case scenario the MAF was fouled by oil blowby, meaning this Legacy is about to have the turbo problem most of them did. Budget another $2-3000 for a stock replacement.

Mustang dynos tend to be more conservative than other brands and calibrations. As it is, you can’t really compare two cars across dynos, the external conditions and software differences are too great...for before/after, though, they’re great.

If the Nismo gets the 215hp and LSD out of the Juke Nismo RS, they could have a contender (if they get the price right).

In the 15 months since I made this comment, I found out that the turtle light on a Prius is the “limited battery function” light, and it came on when the battery was too hot.

Luckily I’ve never crashed anything at 40mph, be it bicycle, motorcycle, or car. I still say landing at 10mph from a bicycle hurts less than a motorcycle falling on top of you and trapping your leg...

It’s a fair question! I’ve done downhill tucks where I hit 35 on my bicycle, and you definitely think about it. If you’re in traffic or road conditions where you’re at risk of falling off, though, you’re not going to be going nearly as fast. I’ve had two wipeouts in my last seven years of street riding, one was going…

Downhill mountain bikers do wear motorcycle leathers, roughly speaking. For Tour de France level road cyclists the leather would impede performance too much...and the rest of us schmucks don’t usually go fast enough to warrant it. Getting thrown off a bicycle at 10mph sucks less than laying down a motorcycle on top of…

When you look broadly at what can still be done with Li-Ion technology, the conclusion to be drawn is not about how we sorely need a battery breakthrough. Cost reductions are the easy part, and they’ll happen.

I’m also 5'9". Every time anyone else drives my car, be it a valet, mechanic, anyone, the seat is pushed all the way to the back.

The N52 is a beautiful mix of not-new technology, not-turbo and not-direct injection. From everything I can tell (and my own anecdotal nine months) they’re fairly decent.

The tire chemistry thing has been the obvious omission to me, so I started looking into it. From what I’ve found, the range of durometer readings for car, bicycle and motorcycle tires all overlap significantly, with performance-biased tires for all 3 starting in the 60 range, going down to the 50s for car track tires…

I think most of the commenters here put way more effort into disagreeing with me than I put into my initial analysis.

This is the big thing...those skinny tires may have more absolute grip than you’d think but one divot and all the physics equations in the world won’t save you from being thrown into the woods.