April 19, 201114 yr I pulled this motor at a junkyard, and put it in my 97 OBW last year. To make a long story short, the heads are now at the shop to be redone, but the guy tells me that he needs to know which EJ-22 it is, as they changed them in April or May of that year. He tells me that there is another letter code after the EJ-22. Does anybody know how to tell? I got the following numbers from the block: VIN - 4S3BK4253W7321517 Stamp - 3608 Stamp - 6 Stamp - 1-D Print - 98 3 09 Eric
April 19, 201114 yr VIN - 4S3BK4253W7321517 Print - 98 3 09 give him 3/09/98 as a build date. 9/3/98 would be a 99.
April 19, 201114 yr Author I kind of figured that was a date code, but I wasn't sure which was the month and which was the day. Your rationale about a September build being a 99 is a good call. Eric
April 20, 201114 yr Good. Whatzis "MY" reference? i don't get around much. Model Year, the year the car was sold as, not the manufacture date. My car was manufactured in 88. But the year it was sold as that is on my registration, etc is the model year, 89.
May 23, 201114 yr Author Indeed, it was an early 98 build date. The heads are back in and the car is running great. Now if I could only figure out how to get rid of that darn EVAP code!! The 97 OBW (originally a 2.5) doesn't have the same configuration as the 98 2.2.
May 23, 201114 yr had that on my 98 w/2.2 Found where a mouse had chewed a hole in the hose at the evap cannister in the back. On my 2000 Impreza, a new gas cap solved it.
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