A20SUB

Im am about to buy a new engine for my sti and i was wondering if there is any way you can tell a closed deck block on a v2 classic sti without taking the heads off and also if the heads are sti ones? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers

joz8968

iTrader: (13)

Cross-hatching around the oil filter housing is the ONLY surefire way of knowing it's a CDB (without looking inside obvioulsy )

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

I would be more concerned where your buying your engine from rather than wondering if its a cdb or odb

Really unless your pushing 500bhp I wouldn't worry too much about it, but why are you buying rather than rebuilding?

Tony

A20SUB

Cheers for info. The reason im replacing is that i have bought an sti ra with a 2.2 bottom end and blown head gaskets. The car has no supporting mods and i dont know the history of how the 2.2 was built so i am going to return the car to the way its meant to be

joz8968

iTrader: (13)

Yeah, as TB says, you don't have to concern yourself with the whole CDB thang until over 500bhp anyways....

Saalro

iTrader: (8)

What Impreza's are running closed decks?

Thanks,
Sam

bigsinky

mine is

bigsinky

if that's the case you should be putting a ej20 engine in and not an ej22.

Saalro

iTrader: (8)

As in what MY lol? What MY you got?

Thanks,
Sam

bigsinky

sorry mate my car is not a standard car. it was originally a 95 wrx jdm. it has seen 4 engines as i have upgraded step by step. it now has a linered ej22 that has been stroked.