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Originally Posted by Rob 930
A&F,
Good luck and please report back on what you found.
Rob
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Rob, thank you very much for the detailed and positive post. It actually had me really motivated to get out and look at the car. I was even thinking, "heck, this should be easy. blown top end is not that bad".
The oil leaks I had mentioned in my original post.
Pulled the oil filter.
I then pulled two spark plugs before I lost all motivation and kicked the tool box across the garage.
So I then talk to my buddy (who's built 20+ engines now) and he feels since the car was running great last week that maybe a rod cap came off. His big concern is the condition of the crank. If it's nicked I'll need a new one.
So I look at our hosts catalog... and laugh hysterically.
Pelican Parts - Product Information: 930-102-014-09-OEM
$8,000.
A brand new, Subaru STI forged crank from Subaru is $400.
I can't help but think I could have a machine shop make a crank out of billet from scratch for less. I see on eBay there are two cranks used for $2,600. Patrick Motorsport has them listed as $2,200 used.
So this is what I see happening.
Step 1: Pull engine and inspect crank.
If in spec - rebuild engine.
If out of spec - Two options.
Option 1: Swap in Liquid Cooled engine and delete Pelican Forum account. It would likely be a EZ30R (Subaru flat six) or a K24-Turbo (Honda 4). I believe adaptor plates exist for both because of the buggy world. This would destroy whatever value my car has left and much of the reason I loved in the first place. (old school air cooled awesomeness).
Option 2: Part out the whole car and sell it. I simply can't justify wasting $10k rebuilding this stupid engine.