That’s correct. And its for sale.
YIKES!!! Good luck.
more progress:
removed sideskirts and remainders of the mud flaps
trans/rear end gone
interesting “high flow” cat
removed this ugliness
to remove this:
and installed these:
overall not terrible progress. I still have a lot of cleaning left to do in my garage.
looking good, lol i have those same jackstands
FML
EJ257 is fucked:
Is that the axis block or stock?
that’s the axis block, less than 10k miles on it. It looks too deep to bore out.
i know that rick (BTF Racing) is setting up his CNC to be able to do the work to install sleeves in subie blocks as he has a trashed cyl motor as well. you might want to give him shout before looking for a new block.
Brian
The block was to be sold to Rick, which is why he is now thinking of setting up his CNC to do it. lol
so dumb question, but what causes the scoring on a new motor like that?
x2, that’s fucked up.
Lubrication inefficiency. Either something caused that cylinder to not properly get oiled or something entered the engine and reduced the lubricity of the oil.
i figured you guys might have talked. 
never hurts to have the info out there though.
Brian
shitting machining, poor piston ring gap, piston play, the oil thing
whoever built the motor
:tup: to the new interior. i had the same in my rs.
absolutely. Thanks.
I’m kind’ve stuck right now. I put WRX blue seats in it up front and I’ve fixed almost all the wiring, the portion by the ECU was just snipped for right now until I decide what I want to do.
I have a stock transmission sitting here that I was planning on putting in, and I have a line on a stock rebuilt motor four about $1,500.
I can’t decide if I want to take the time and effort to put it back to stock, or if I should try to find a buyer for it as it sits. Right now there is nothing stopping anyone from having the harness merged and putting in an STI or WRX motor. Honestly if a shell this solid popped up a while ago I would have bought it to swap but now I’m tied down by the DD and the truck I bought and need to recoup some money.
I have stock brakes I can put on it and I still have the '06 4/2 pot brakes, I have the aluminum hood still on it along with the JDM STI grill.
Any ideas on which way to go?
Selling an unfinished “project” won’t yield much in the way of $$. Then again a stock 2.5 rs won’t yield much either… I guess it all depends on how you feel about the car and how deeply your pockets have been gouged from it.
I said pockets, not cylinder walls. Pockets.
returned to stock w/hood and interior it should go for over $6k
I have no idea about a chassis with no motor, but I could probably include the brakes, lip, spats, WRX crossmember, engine harness, upgraded interior etc etc…
So it really is a question of are there people out there looking for a project right now or does the modified car market still suck ass.
I still have the M3 too, lol.