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Re: Looking for an EJ22
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýThanks for the response!I spoke with him this morning. He said he¡¯d be willing to halve his labor cost and give me a deal on parts which I definitely appreciate. He is definitely trying to do the right thing and that¡¯s all I can ask for. I¡¯m just a bit hesitant after this one failed, I¡¯d just hate to go through it all again and have another failure so quickly. I had heard excellent things about S&S, and that¡¯s the reason I had him build my engine. ? But I¡¯ve also some not very great things (including from two very highly recommended Subaru builders that I spoke with who have had to rebuild many of his failed engines). Not sure if it¡¯s worth spending the $ to have him rebuild it, or if I should just get a new EJ257 short block from my local Subaru dealer and do a Frankenmotor build after getting the heads checked at a machine shop here in town.? Anyways, Steve wasn¡¯t sure what failed and said if it was a fault in workmanship it would have likely occurred in the first 500 miles. I haven¡¯t had much time to dig into it myself, but the failure was sudden and resulted in over a gallon of coolant dumping into my oil pan with little to no emulsification of the oil and coolant. Never overheated and was cruising at about 3500 rpm when it happened. Coolant temps just started to climb (max was 195*F) when the oil pressure light popped on and I immediately shut it down and pulled over. I was climbing a steep grade prior but it was 1am and about 45*F ambient, and my coolant temps were steady at 180*F the entire time pulling that hill. When I drained the oil, along with all the coolant I found a lot of ferrous and non ferrous metal flakes (obviously from the oil being displaced by coolant).? It¡¯ll be a month or so before I have time to really dive in, but I¡¯ll shoot a borescope down the cylinders and pull the oil pan and pressurize the cooling system and see if I find anything, I imagine it¡¯ll be pretty obvious.? Thanks! Connor On May 15, 2023, at 6:10 PM, RICHARD KOERNER <rjkinpb@...> wrote:
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