My slow STI
 

I stumbled across a Craigslist ad last week regarding a 2004 STI with 69,xxx miles last week for <$7k. I went and checked out the car within a couple hours of seeing the ad and decided to take a chance on it, knowing the engine was toast (0 compression on the passenger side. Engine turned over freely with no odd noises).
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Conned AAA into towing it using my mother's membership
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Yesterday I found a complete longblock, freshly rebuilt by Phoenix Performance, a shop out of PA that does endurance racing in their two STI rayscars. The engine is assembled using OE parts, except it has JE pistons, ARP head studs, and Power Enterprises head gaskets. For the price I got it for, it was a no-brainer. I also picked up a rebuilt Blouch Dom 1.5xtr turbo (49 lb/min, for those that are Subaru-tarded), for half retail. This turbo is good up to 400whp with bolt-ons on pump gas, and 475+ on e85. I'll be shooting for 350-ish on a conservative tune.
The rest of the supporting mods.....clutch, larger top mount, 850cc injectors, fuel pump, etc will be ordered within a week.

I look forward to eating shit.

Appears to be 4x4 status...

It is, indeed.

That's pretty clean lookin, needs more rice.

I ordered an STI badge for the wrx trunk, just so all the ricers know it's not straight line friendly

Looks to be a nice car. Good luck with the build.

man i love Sti's... what i dont love is how they drink oil.. legit pick up

........

That's why this will be getting a catch can or air-oil separator.
My WRX might drink 3/4-1 quart over 5,000 miles

Killer B oil pickup and windage tray ordered...as well as Power Enterprise 850cc injectors (actually flow 935cc at 3 bar)

I wish I had your money :lol: You still have both motorcycles too?

Sold the dirt bike and race bike in October/November. Still have the street bike though.

Anyone wanna buy an 09 wrx....98k miles? :lol:

Ahh, didn't know you sold the race bike. I knew the dirt bike was gone though....

I'm interested in the 09 wrx, but I do have a few questions before I send my broker with a check to purchase the vehicle;

What color is the car?

Anything done to it?

Do you have maintenance documentation?

Clean Title?

How has it been driven?

Has it ever been smoked in?

Handjob?

Has it ever been eaten in?

Was it stored outside, or in a garage?

Do you have any pictures?

Do you PIITB?

Does it have any dents or dings?

Any body work done?

Title in hand?

Are there any tears in the seats?

What is the overall condition of the interior?

What is the overall condition of the exterior?

Original paint?

Original engine?

Smelt any metal for it?

Have the rotors been reconditioned?

How often is the car waxed and/or polished?

Will you take trades?

Will you take a check?

What brand are the tires?

What is your SSN?

How much tread is left on the tires?

Has this car been out of state?

Has this car been used for illegal activity?

Any flood damage?

Any storm damage?

Any fire damage?

Original glass?

Anything not original?

Matching VIN?

What is the VIN?

Carburated or Fuel Injected?

Blower for a 57 Chevy?

What Color?

Are the offsets of the wheels okay?

What kind of bearing load on the wheel bearings?

Are the stress on the lug bolts too high?

Have you ever used the cigarette lighter?

How many cigarette lighter spots?

Good battery?

What brand battery?

What brand air filter?

What kind of headlight bulbs does it take?

Batteries included?

A little encouragement I stumbled upon- http://www.iwsti.com/forums/power-br...-torque-2.html

Same setup, less the headers and up-pipe.

Placing the order tonight/tomorrow on the rest of my parts...just waiting on an email back from my vendor. Might actually have this thing up and going within a month!

Nice car man.

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Seems someone dropped and cracked the heads at some point. Also appears to have used vice grips on the cams
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Both heads are toast
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Jesus

In before Shiftdrift comment...

Shoulda used royal purple.

probably ported the heads with sand.

I was thinking a chisel

Wow. Someone actually welded the piece back to the head? lol

nice pickup though....always loved WRX's

Yeah and it has a small hairline crack in the weld :lol:

One would think.. if you have to weld your head back together.. that its time to put down the tools and back away.

Since my buddy got a new STI, i've become a fan.

I'm slightly depressed, as I have spent quite a bit of money and nothing to show for it....all my parts are in transit.

still winter....plenty of time :lol:

That's the only time of year these cars are worth having around.

You should have bought a Corvette :lol:

Vette wouldn't cut it. Newborn baby, winter time, grocery store, soccer practice, etc....

Gzzz... wonder if they were using a vice grip to hold the cam to get the cam bolt out and it broke the head with the force applied on it by the vicegrip? Either way, that's nuts.

That's the conclusion we came to, Jesse. Definitely some bright ones working on this car in the past...

He hasnt hit enough stationary objects yet lol

Got a few treats in the mail today:
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The next obstacle is deleting the exhaust side avcs...which isn't really difficult. The only part I don't have currently are the cam seals. The cams, cam gears, and valve covers, I already have.
I hate waiting for parts...

Edit: Beechmont Subaru had the cam seals in stock!

Progress:

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Deleted exhaust AVCS, as the 2004 ecu only supports intake AVCS. Swapped exhaust cams to 04-07 cams and checked valve lash. All in spec.

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Also mocked up the parallel fuel lines...some trimming likely needed, but that's what I expected.

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We weren't able to do much more as I didn't think about needing the 04-07 intake cam gear (thought we could use the 2012). No big deal, as I need to pickup 04-07 cam gear bolts from Subaru, as the 08+ bolts are too long to work with 04-07 cam gears.

The cam gears will be installed Tuesday night and the engine will hopefully get dropped in as well that night. Startup is possible, but I'm foreseeing that taking place this Saturday evening.

Those engines are so fucked up looking. Lol

They're a bit difficult to work on because of their design. Nothing is easy to do in the car besides fluid changes.

serious question, where do the plugs and coils go? since the front has the timing assembly, up side of the head is injectors and intake

Center of the valve covers, on the sides, which would technically be the top of the engine if it wasn't a flat 4.
Changing those suck when the engine is in the car.

Looks like LT1dave ported the heads and patched the block up :lol:

Killer B Oil pickup and tray installed:

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Timing belt and covers are all back on. Clutch and flywheel will be bolted on Saturday and hopefully it will get started up as well.

That would drive me insane. on my a4, i could have plugs and coil packs changed in like 15 minutes.

dig?