Scotty's "engines gone up the swanee" thread
 

This is fun at least I got to clean my wheels lol
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Hopefully see my car in a few weeks ready for its transformation woo hoo

Engine, gearbox ?

Oh mate, what happened?

Engine gone be on the case tomorrow when I hit UK soil for a stronger engine .

Sorry to see this, when did it let go?

On the way back she will breath life again .

Woo hoo car will be home in a few weeks time to start thinking about what engine to put in her .

If you let us know what you're budget is as I know of a few for sale

Talk about making the best of a bad situation, love the enthusiasm! You home now?

You know that there can't be a budget but what ones you know are for sale C.J and price wouldn't mind a nice strong STI v8 long engine just incase my heads are gubbed .

Yup just in the door .

I didn't even know there was a South London Scoobies ^^^ :lol:

It's a £7k engine if you build it yourself

Good luck Scotty in finding a suitable replacement engine.

glad you got home ok.:five:

Cheers Ian going to pop down and see a Mr Steve Whiteson of SW Motorsport as I know I can't go wrong with him building a replacement engine just means beans and toast for the rest of the year lol .

All the best on your future plans Scotty.

Glad you both finally got home and happy to see she will breathe again! keep us posted dude.

Sorry to see this Scotty.

Great to see you're going to crack on and sort it. It's a really nice looking example, so deserves to live on.

Best of luck with it.

To be honest I don't care about costs it's the effort I have put in her to get her to this stage I'm not letting it go this time so I will be up dating with what is going on in my project thread .

That looks suspiciously like the car park I ended up like this in....
http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/o...1052010014.jpg

I think it may well have been..:nod:

Well that just proves the known fact that Subaru's can't handle high speed/sustained high speed abuse. Hence why I always keep it below 110mph on that stretch.
Worzels done the same but on the other side of the road.

I know a good starting point.

http://www.southeastscoobies.co.uk/v...ad.php?t=19916

It wasn't the same car park Nick, it was about 5 miles further up the road (towards Belgium).

But echo what Scott says, they don't like continued high speed runs. I did a couple of 140mph fly-bys but kept things down under 100 most of the time.

Yes that would be a good start as you said light knock but would like to know how bad and would like to know if any other damage to the block halves .

I got one run at 140mph won't be doing that again for a while lol .

Same with the P1 that let go with me and Nige the other year, did warn him that they don't like it compared to my Evo I was in

I can get a STI 03 plate long engine which had a rebuild by API 11k ago when it had just done 74k and also a STI 05 plate long engine with 76k I know I can't use my inlet mani but is there a lot involved when fitting it with new age mani into my classic .

Surely you'll only want a short engine as unless your going for something like a Syvecs you won't be able to utilise the AVCS heads.

You can with Alcatek .

How much do you think AVCS heads are worth peeps as I won't be needing them as I will confirm over the weekend once spoke to Steve and Matty .

About 300 too 500 on spool

:lol::lol::lol:

For the time , effort and money Id not bother . Just buy a newage sti bottom end and stick your heads on with Cosworth stopper gaskets and some updated head studs .

+1

That's the plan C.J but can only find sti long engine at the moment with low mileage and it's been rebuilt .

Buy the long engine and sell the heads for two reasons
1. You may make a little
2. The engine won't of been left open with the possibility of crap getting in

Cheers C.J well I'm just off the phone to Scott at Scoobyspares he's got a JDM sti bug coming in next week with uber low mileage he's going to do all the pressure tests and let me know that's a stroke of luck .

Cool

Keep as a long engine and a very tasty price delivered got my name all over it . Better order some APR/ cosworth head bolt kit and head gaskets soon .

My Type R is based on CJ's suggestion and Dave's + 1.

JDM STI V7 bottom end. Rock solid. With plenty of 140 + pulls ; ).

WTF just phoned to get an update on my car and it's still sitting in Germany and I've to phone back on Wednesday for a estimated delivery date .

It can take several weeks before its recovered to the UK :(

Mine took 2 and a half

I guess they wait until they've got enough to fill a whole transporter and then send them over in one go....

That means loosing valuable prepping time for next years trip .

No, only takes a week or two to prep for trip, only reason the classic didn't come this year is I couldn't decide what wheels to put on it............... Honest.

I wish it would take the long but not for me Si I've got a big list this year lol .

Ready built one?
http://www.scoobynet.com/scoobynet-g...-it-worth.html