It’s the EJ’s fault cant make a motor from the 80s last forever

That Subaru is a headcase. my guess is it's gonna break down again before they even cross the Mississippi

Subaru and Reliable don't go. Love the content keep it up!

The EK Civic is Ben's best vehicle.

That number hasn’t been invented yet

If we wanted a roadtrip to not have any issues, we'd take some Hondas

@@GearsandGasoline That would be great. you know I'm something of an average honda enjoyer myself

@@GearsandGasoline - I hear Toyota Corolla's are cool for roadtrips too! =)

Would be great for an April fools series lol

@@GearsandGasoline Nah, man. Toyotas. Short Ben gets a Camry hybrid, tall Ben gets a Sienna minivan so he can finally roadtrip in comfort.

Retro san, can 1996 Impreza WRX STi Version III also able to travel to Alaska?

This is awesome.

Lies again? Grab Car USD SGD

I'm heading out to complete my motorcycle course in a week. The closest course location is three hours away. I'm in Ontario Canada.

I was in Ireland the summer of 2016 for work. I had Fridays off. Spent the long weekend driving/exploring the entire island. Locals thought I was crazy.

Yeah same

Honestly, I know you probably wouldn't be able to, but a 20-40 hour multiday roadtrip across the US is surprisingly really fun. Just get a cooler with some snacks and drinks, a somewhat roomy ish car and a bag of chips or whatever snacks you want, and just admire the change in scenery and possibly stop at some landmarks. I would love to go to Europe and do like a tour accross a few countries, sounds awesome just walking around and taking trains and crap to go places (excuse my absence of knowledge about European cross country public transportation, I'm american so all we have is amtrak which loses money and buses which are... strange to put it that way) Edit: you'll want at least one friend to go with you, 3 is probably to sweet spot

I regularly drive from Saskatoon to Calgary & back, it's a combined 12 hr drive lol

Yup, I love their trips between how entertaining they make them, how fun it is to listen to them, the beautiful cinematography and the scope of each trip. I actually wasn't expecting this trip, I was going through their videos and with how many projects they had going on I figured they would skip a road trip or even with how grand their have been maybe put them to rest. So happy they are continuing to do them, it's what hooked me in the first place followed by their fantastic grid life stuff.

I like the themes but I agree. I kinda want a most reliable road trip car theme but then it would lack repair content which I like

If only it didn't cost them 5 figures in gas alone LOL

then to think about truckers driving big rigs back and fourth idk the $ amount but gas is taking a good chunk of Americans change

The Gas truck I drive is about $600 average each month. I love these price changes :) but that being said $4500, in a 500HP car over that distance to me is quite decent.

@@frbrbrgrblgrr7777 Exactly my thought. I think its worth it. This is one in a lifetime trip not everyone can say they drove from Florida to Alaska.

Well prices vary in different states so it could be more or less (which is crazy)

@@ToStompU I'm a trucker and surprisingly it's less than that. My weekly amount is about $3000-3200. Before had went up it was $1400-1600

Yeah Stock for stock subarus are nice but when you start pushing for power they’re quite limited on stock components. Evos are the perfect 4 cylinder to build but issue is if you want to exceed 400hp and not have your rods bend you have to build the bottom end.

@@manhattanskyline4526 Agreed. I have friends that all built their Evos or STIs and they all didn’t end well. Not saying it’s impossible, just proving that Evos & STIs can be reliable if you don’t build the motor. Stock is always the most reliable. Hey, both Bens made it back home right? They proved that you can drive to Alaska & back with 500whp built motors 🙌🏽

@@manhattanskyline4526 Josh Bader is a great guy to go watch on KZfaq. He shows you what you can do with a Subaru. His wife's Type RA was 700 whp for 2 years on the stock engine. He's shows it all. It takes a real specialist to get these cars reliable with power. But I think wrenching on your build is half the fun.

At 25:32 he says The Subaru was stock when it blew up at 70k miles

@@skitstv2707 Yeah man, I watched the episode when he dyno’d it and blew it up..

Right!????

wait are you telling me you DONT have 2700 bucks lying around to use just for gas???? What are you some kind of pleb? The economy is doing great and I know its true cuz the government said so.

@@philstaab7420 you mean 4k ? for 10k miles ? i paid 2500 about 3 years ago in my jeep for about 9k miles from GA to Montana WY , UT , CO and back to GA. Not included hotels food and other expenses. Good luck doing a trip this long for under $10k today.

@@dankcount Yeah no joke. Pretty much the only way to do a road trip longer than 1000 miles these days is if you happen to be elon musk or jeff bezos. lol Thanks Biden... oh shit sorry I meant Putin. Forgot we were blaming him for everything now.

@@philstaab7420 Gas prices and inflation are up all over the world, so whoever told you to blame Biden was lying to you.

Why man, why?

Agreed!

Most of the scenes in the opening minute were of Western Canada, immediately recognizable to anyone who knows it well. Cascade Mountain's southeast wall on the thumbnail, as seen from near Canmore Alberta, Mt Robson near Jasper at 0.03 seconds, entrance to the Rockies near Banff at the village of Exshaw at 0.31 seconds, google images will prove all of them, others such as the Icefield Parkway climbing Sunwapta Pass on the Banff-Jasper National Park boundary at 0:45 don't have specific pictures on-line, but anyone who knows every peak on that 150 mile long road can identify it in seconds, here taken above the cliffs of Cirrus Mtn by drone, the highway can be seen climbing the pass in the distance. That cowboy at 0:37 talking about his gun charges/criminal record looked and sounded Montana or Wyoming though.........

Yea but where's the next episode..? Even CarTreck don't drag their road trips like that. C'mon guy's!!

@@TermlessHGW this is better than cartrek imo :p

...to mongolia?

Except head gaskets, possible trans issues, and still potential for ring failure. Not to mention 25 mpg is hardly efficient these days. I’ve driven 3 various non boosted Subarus and one boosted one for long durations and had nothing but problems.

@@dudeshark2471 those were issues from 20 years ago. Their large SUV the Ascent gets 25mpg now. The Outback and Forester reach 33mpg highway.

@@dudeshark2471 got 26 mpg from a Golf R,getting the same from a GR Yaris,98 wrx sti getting 23 mpg.Fuel economy hasn't improved as much as you'd think.

I just sold my wrx with somewhat low miles and a babied motor and it was nothing but problems. Super fun and fast car but it was such a dick of a car to own with all the issues it had at 70k miles

I just bought a new to me, 2014 Forester 2.5i and other than some small issues with my electrical (passenger side running light and brake light burning out) it's had absolutely no issues

And the only thing that went wrong was a failed brake line. We’ve had way worse happen on much shorter trips. 😅

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Same here from pH as well.

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In a trip means they doin psychedelics lmao

@@MultiSneakerLover meant to say on* lol. Nice catch

I know me too I love this series

Loved the first series and so glad its back! Definitely serves an inspiration to get out and do a long road trip too

i misread this and thought you did biological research at 4 yrs old

@@thlee3 Hahaha! No, at that age I was researching ants on the window sill and taking apart my brothers Legos!

Yep. The 2020 Impreza WRX looked like BMW M3.

Spill the beans my dude 😂

Fellow Midwesterner, here. I second that: SPILL THE BEANS.

If they were averaging 17mpg at $4.60/gal that's like $2600 per car each way. Lines up with Ben saying they'd use about 1000gal of fuel lol about $5k in gas between them and now gas is even more lol

they used up 6k in gas and 6k in hotels all together

They *did* have a sponsor, so it makes sense

Are they planning to stay in Alaska? What about getting back?

@@nighthawk0077 They did say 10k miles. So…

@@01hafkee I know, I was replying to Carl

probably illegal lmao

a stock Subaru is driving on eggshells. I thought I was fine, until my stock motor blew up with 69k miles. I feel much better now with the IAG block!

@@GearsandGasoline Nice.

This. My XT needs a new motor. 1 year after the first rebuild.

@@leopoldwhylie5076 why did you rebuild in the first place/what did you replace. I have an 07 obxt and am pretty sure the ringlands are gone but it still runs fine

@@GearsandGasoline This thought keeps popping in my mind - didn’t the motor blow so early mainly because of poor maintenance by previous owner? Or just bad driving habits - boosting while it is cold and so on.

Deep squats dude, bollocks in socks.

The only maintenance change is using a different weight of oil. The stock Subaru Ej motor would use 5w-30. But with a built motor, lots of guys used a heavier weight of oil. Using the engine builder will let you know what oil to use depending of the tolerances of the engine build.

Even w/ a stock motor you have to carry out major service around every 60k like apart from the timing kit.