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He's dead, Jim

Replaced my ea82 bushing with poly, pretty sure I torched out the old ones

Hoard all of them

Yea the pitting I'm not so stoked about, but it'll be fine for much the car will be driven

Not to mention I rebuild busted EJs all day at work, the hell would I want that on a personal car too?

Yea me either. I'm still gunna slap it together and throw 15lbs at it. Just trying to gauge if this is common or not. As far as opinions of the ea82. I'm good, trust me I know ohmawgawd EJ, yada yada. But that's not what this car is for. Sitting 10ft from the car is an EZ30, ej22, ej255 etc. I choose to keep the EA because when it works consistently, it'll be glorious.

Well thanks for that reply, although that has nothing to do with the block. ........Which I am actually wondering about

ALMOST A YEAR LATER. Let's see: New job Bought a house Built a friends FC Turbo II and dismantled the rx. As it sits it has no harness, the core support is cut out, and the engine is on a stand. However ill be returning work. So far larger radiator, different intercooler, bigger VF52 turbo and a complete rewirering of the car(except my sweet engine harness) Stay tuned, don't stay tuned. Eh

Anyone have some shortblocks laying around? I took apart my turbo motor and noticed some seperation between cylinder wall and deck. So I took apart another one and it had the same seperation, now in wondering if this is normal crap casting or if I'm pushing the motor too hard. Let's see if I can remember how to post images.

alright, codswallop it. im done. this car can sit for a while.

Won't do a clean pull, suspecting bad coil but can't find one local

took the turbo block, retorqued the heads. got a bit too lazy to take it off the back of the truck lol. it's in, running. dyno it tomorrow. running a fair bit richer currently. and for those wondering if the clutch will hold..... yea i think it will

ive not done ea-ej diff changes but on later stuff i just swap the center chunk, ei the pinion never comes out and i just swap the ring onto whatever diff i want

lol

^THIS

completed launches will be 3-3500rpm with a clutch switch, not worried there. im not going through the effort of finding ej22 turbo heads, ive looked before and either didnt like the price or the rariety. the open center diff does me zero favors and locking it will never come in use as its a street car, not for gravel, now if i can get past the rally america novice license restrictions that may be a viable option. space of an ej swap is always a concern and if i do turbo the 22 it would get pistons and bearings at minimum

Alright. Had a look through my storage unit. Here's the options and I really don't know what to do and am open to suggestions. This is what I have (1) turbo ea w/fresh heads, good (1) rx gearbox, good (1) xt6 trans, missing front diff (1) 97 ej22, needs rebuilt (1) set of dual port 22 heads (1) ej18 intake w/rails no harness (2) wrx DBC throttle body, complete (1) spare TWE header (1) oe excedy RS clutch, good Do I ej it? MOD a twe header to fit the single port and turbo it? Put the spare ea in and see what it does? Find a 25 bottom end and build another frankenmotor? Eh, I just don't know.

Meh, what's the point if I can't launch the hell out of it. Trans was on its way out anyway #justain'tcare

So, put it back on the dyno, running good. 12psi netted like 150-160hp theeeeeeen it started to break up. Took some timing out, fattened it up still not running right, also running hotter, put it in vehicle sim, yep, getting hot runs like spoob, said codswallop it, it's broken. Turned anti lag on, got some great fireball video, cranked the boost to the moon, drove it around back and launched it so hard it all came apart, it still runs and you can still somewhat find gears but it's done. Which is OK, I got fed up when it started to break up. Not sure what's going back in it but it's done for now. MEH, WJM would be proud.

Broke it. And the trans. Also, moving jobs, not sure on the dyno in the future

Well, I don't know about you guys but this was a fascinating read.

It's already been dropped to .028 with platinum plugs Since I've fitted the coil it runs significantly different but no chance to stick it back on the dyno yet.

The car hasn't fallen off the face of the earth but there is A LOT going on in my life right now. So nothing new except it drifts around the building pretty well. D3F0, I wish you luck with that, there are alot of forces on that area and I'm not sure how you'd brace it up well enough to justify that cut, usually a hammer nets the same gain

took a couple hours after work to fool with the oil stuff. need to wire in the sensor but that'll take 30mins, ran into an issue with oil filter, using a ford sandwich plate and the subaru filter did not seal at all, the ford one was too big finally found a random filter kicking around the shop that worked perfect.