All lined up ready to be refurbished for 2.1 strokers.
I'd like some more as they are selling like hot cakes.
Only, don't bother if your name's John Robinson from Yardley, Birmingham as you've already had a stack of my money and no blocks from you, ya waste of air. Court action to follow.

 

Engine ****

 

Very nice what can i say top service great blokes and as the pic shows got the setup 2 also alan spline key is onroute

 

looking good Alan

 

looks good which one is mine. looking forward to picking it up
JOHN ROBINSON from yardley Birmingham sounds like a right w@#ker

 

I was going to say third from the left!
You know how it is with some people, just basically dishonest.

 

They look so pretty when all lined up like that

 

Prettier when finished! This uses an open deck block, but you get the picture.

 

looking good alan, just what i will be after when i get back into subaru ownership.....

 

Does look lovely!!
I'd love to go down this road, what sort of price for a forged 2.1?

 

Current price is £3650 for what you see above, less the clutch, based on your own block and heads. This includes vat.
We fully strip your block and chemically clean. We bore and hone to fit using a stress plate. We use Wiseco pistons and K1 H beam rods with a new 2.5 crank and ACL Race bearings. We balance the assembly. The heads are fully overhauled including the guides. We use Cosworth head gaskets and sump baffle plate, along with an RCM uprated oil pump and ARP head stud kit.
New cam belt. We paint the engine.
All work is carried out in our own machine shop.
We can fit the engine as a full drive in drive out for £4250 inc vat. This also includes the first 50 miles of running in, oil and filter change, washed engine bay etc.
These engines have run well over 500 bhp, even on open deck blocks!

 

id always be willing to donate mine for an overhaul alan, so long as it came back to me like the above and for free of course!!!! lol

lovely work you guys are turning out, and as soon as wedding is out of the way will be getting in touch for something special unless i win the lottery inbetween of course!!!!

 

Or I do!

 

my open deck is running just over 450 bhp on v-power, so no to bad really

 

Very good power from an open deck! Just out of curiosity, what power have you had the ej257 block running at without failure?

 

We've never experienced a block failure at all, so perhaps I'm not the one to ask!

 

I know that the 257 is recommended not be run over 480hp due to risk of breaking cylinder walls/liners. I just know a couple that are running over 500 with no problems at all.

 

Us too. I think it's what they call "the exception that proves the rule!".
It would never be the power output itself that caused the problem, so much as the cylinder fill required to produce it. If you accepted that's what the problem was. I think it's more likely to be a gasket compromise, followed by water ingress into the cylinder. Hydraulics are not to be messed with.

 

Ah i think i understand. Obviously water wont combust and has to go somewhere, which is basically expanding and smashing its way out?