Well as most of you know I sold my built 04 STI that made 540AWHP about 2 years ago. I missed it so I bought a 2011 STI. UPDATED BUILD SPECS: Motor fully built by Ball Engine Outfront Motorsports closed deck block 99.75mm Torque plate honed Mahle forged 2618 pistons Manley turbo tuff I beam rods Clevite performance main and rod bearings OEM headgaskets and case seals ARP 625+ headstuds BC stage 2 cams BC springs and retainers Grimspeed lightweight crank pulley Group N motor mounts PT 6266 turbo with DEI titanium blanket Grimspeed EBCS Tial Q BOV Tial MVR EWG NGK 1 step colder spark plugs Rotated intake manifold powder coated candy apple red Grimmspeed phenolic 8mm spacers Valve covers powder coated candy apple red FMS FMIC with custom piping for rotated manifold TGV deletes Air pump delete KillerB oil pan KillerB oil pickup KillerB windage tray Crawford AOS Omni Power 4 bar MAP sensor Odyssey PC680 lightweight battery Cobb accessport V2 speed density tuned via DBW Motorsports 606.0 awhp and 540.6 awtq on Q16 on a Mustang dyno (md-awd-500) Fuel System: Walbro 460 fuel pump AEM fuel pressure regulator Perrin fuel rails and lines ID1300 injectors Drivetrain: Competition clutch stage 4 Kartboy short shifter Group N transmission mount Perrin pitch stop Exhaust: GTSpec EL headers DEI titanium wrapped Custom 3" downpipe no cat Custom uppipe Magnaflow exhaust Suspension: Cusco strut tower bar ISC coilovers Perrin super steer kit Whiteline front and rear swaybars Whiteline steering rack bushing Interior: Status racing seat DEFI boost gauge DEFI oil pressure gauge AEM UEGO wideband TWM weighted shift knob OLD BUILD SPECS: Build specs are CP Pistons Manley turbo tuff rods king bearings ARP head studs BC stage 2 cams BC springs and retainers GS lightweight crank pulley Group N motor mounts PT 6266 turbo Tial Q BOV Tial 48mm wastegate Rotated intake FMIC TGV deletes Killer B oil pickup Walbro 460 AEM fuel pressure regulator Perrin rails ID2000 Comp stage 4 clutch kartboy short shifter Magnaflow exhaust custom DP and uppipe Cusco Strut bar ISC coil overs Perrin Super steer kit whiteline front and rear sways whiteline steering rack bushing car made 435AWHP on 93 at 21psi. Will get a retune soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQe_YRH8hg
damn. Engine bay looks awesome man. I'm sure cops will not hesitate to give you a speeding ticket when they see your license plate holder though haha.
Well with my recent short block failure and new build is under way! As of now the car is still getting to and from work on 3 cylinders. Outfront Motorsports 2.5L closed deck block ARP 625+ head studs Cosworth 99.5mm Pistons Changed to Mahle 99.75mm pistons Cosworth Billet Crank changed to stock crank Cosworth Rods keeping the Manley I beams Everything else will most likely stay the same. I will be doing the short block swap once the fresh short block gets here from Outfront. Then it will be time for break in then off to TopSpeed for tuning. Will most likely tune for 93 and race gas. Most likely gonna stay away from E85 just due to the toll it puts on everything it comes in contact with.
Cosworth crank? Ballin???? I'm going to do the same, i'm going to get Doug to do a race gas tune for me, and pick up a couple jugs of C16 or Q16. That will be what I run at the half mile next year.
Got a pretty good deal (I guess) so I pulled the trigger. Was just gonna reuse my rotating assembly but the new stuff just made more sense then I'll sell my stuff to recoupe some of the funds. Now I can continue to drive my car to and from work while waiting for the short block to get done.
Watch your oil like a hawk and I hope you don't mess up your heads. if a bearing spins add another $2000 at least to the cost you may get hot spots in that cylinder anyways from it not having compression and getting a good burn. or a carbon chunk in between a valve and seat and burn a valve. I guess you gotta do what you gotta do but I'd quit while you are ahead.
Wow! That is awesome. I'm gonna try to borrow a vehicle from someone I know buy if not I may take you up on that. I only drive 12 miles to work so it's not a lot of driving.
And it begins.... Just want to give a HUGE thanks to digitizedsoul, without his help I don't know what I'd do or how to get this started!
Happy mechanicing! Just remember the second definition of an engine hoist: "tool also used to test the tensile strength of ground straps, electrical harnesses, and piping."
LOL i broke the same ground strap (bottom one) TWICE. Gave myself the o'l facepalm for that one. Hope the Passat does good for you Ryan, God knows it needs a bath inside and out, and pretty sure the turbo is shot but it beats walking!!!
Scientific fact: Only a given number of subaru's can be on the road at one time. One must die for another to have life. Mine's alive. Good luck, I'm praying I don't have a fire from the oil leak.
When things settle down after my wife goes back to work from maternity leave, i'm going to see what days i'm left with and put together a gwinnett meet for wrxatlanta somewhere local to peachtree corners
Well motor is out. Thanks everyone for offering to help, but I got it all done by myself. Now I just got to break it down tomorrow.
Well here is the damage on #2 and #4 These are from #2 where leak down was 90% Here is #4 where compression was a little low at 135
Looks like some serious ovaling happened there man, and obviously the cracked stock sleeve which could also have been cause by ovaling. This is why folks pin their blocks I guess or go closed deck.
Extreme combustion chamber heat, high cylinder pressures and detonation. It's clearly obvious with the amount of pitting at the top of the cylinder wall
Keep in mind I drove the car for a few weeks daily after this happen. So I think a lot of that crap at the top of the cylinder is from that. Because the other side of the block doesn't look like that
Hmmmm the fact that both cylinders are damaged makes me question if it was a fuel delivery issue on that side?
So just to recap. Closed deck case from outfront, but Ball is assembling the shortblock? I know you switched studs to 625+ Still all the fancy cossy stuff?
Yes closed deck from outfront. 625+ studs mainly to save a few bucks plus 1/2" are on back order. Deal fell through on cossy stuff you could say. Lol. Will be Outfront closed deck block 625+ studs Mahle 99.75 pistons Sti crank Manley I beam rods
What alloy mahle's? most people use mahle's for the 4032 which would scare the piss out of me with your setup? is this a halloween prank? If you pull this off it will be impressive, but James and I are both using 2618 for our higher power setups. I know the Cosworth stuff was magic and walked the line.
They will be the powerpak plus which is the 2618's dont think regular powerpak (4032) pistons can handle the power level I'll be at.
Well just a quick update. Block will be leaving Outfront in Cali. on Monday (Nov.3) then it will go to Ball Racing to get bored, honed, and assembled. Also going on it are the Killer B V2 oil pan, Windage tray and Tomei timing belt guide. Should have it back on the road very shortly
They do, but I decided to get all the work done at Ball to help support a local company and so I didn't have to ship my stuff to Cali.
I'm hoping Ball will be done with the build this week. I dropped the closed deck block off to them last week.
Can't wait to see this done!!!!! I might go drop by today and see them. It's been a while since I saw muh ball's