4evascoob

Evening all. So engine is out on 2016 sti , spoke to builder earlier and he mentioned may need a new crank as the bearings were starting to wear ?? He said the bores were remarkably smooth and pistons looked good ( is being sent off for machining and re bore anyway) car has done 45,000 miles , he said it normally points to run low on oil but to my knowledge it never has. I’ve owned it since new. Anyone any other ideas ?

stockcar

low oil, detonation, debris........can be caused by various things without seeing the exact damage/ issue
why is it in bits??

4evascoob

It’s having new pistons, rods , arp studs and rcm gaskets ready for everything else to be added on. Nothing wrong with it I’ve just got bored or the stock power.

stockcar

if your aiming for 400+ then a CDB conversion is a must IMO on a 2.5 block..........

JdmSti2006

first step with 2.5l is bin ,2nd send it to asperformance for rebuild followed by remortgage

4evascoob

Exactly there is a price to what we want unfortunately, so I’m going to stick around 420-440 and having spoke to a lot of people and tuners included they recommend the insert beyond 450 so I’m braving it. I’m sure builders wouldn’t build it if they knew it would go bang without !! Car isn’t tracked and always allowed to warm up and cool down

4evascoob

out of interest what do you charge for the insert , machining and rebore ?

1509joe

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AS Performance 01914103770

johno01

🤣🤣

Danjo

Compared to a 2.35, building a big power EJ25 is actually relatively cheap.

lockheed

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Actually Alyn is not that expensive but you will be drawing your pension before it gets built .

4evascoob

Yea it seems you can’t rush these things car has been there since mid November and the engine only came out this week !! Lol Xmas and new year stuff didn’t help as machine shop was shut for two weeks.

stockcar

?? maybe we should try being less popular??
no idea who you are or if you have work here but if so and you have any issues then please ring direct to discuss........

1509joe

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Typical Southerner

4evascoob

So besides machining for the block and head faces what is the extra cost for the cdb conversion inserts ? I’m guessing around 400-600 ?

Danjo

It’s around that, yes, and worth the extra cost for the extra security it gives you. It’s worth thinking long and hard about your future goals for the car now. Many people think that a certain power figure will be enough and then get bored and regret not spending extra when the engine was out in the first place. For the “relatively” small cost of a deck plate and some decent head studs, you could have an engine capable of 500bhp so gives you headroom should you wish to turn up the wick a bit in the future.

4evascoob

hello mate how’s it going ? So the fmic is here. Engine is gone. Hence the thread. I’m going to ring him tomorrow and ask about weather the machine shop offers this insert or if it has to be sent elsewhere. I’m hoping it hasn’t been machined already as I’m presuming if it gets the cdb it will have to be done again. Not sure on what’s what until I speak to them tomorrow.

Danjo

All good thanks mate, hope you are too. Do you know what machine shop they’ve sent it to? If they’ve machined it already all they would have done is deck the heads and block, it’s no biggie to get the deck plate put in too. They would have to deck the block again to ensure the insert is flush with the deck surface, but it’s not the end of the world.

4evascoob

Not overly sure other than it’s the people that did all prodrives stuff ? I will find out. If it’s only 500 ish then I will get it done. It’s taking forever ! Mid November since I last saw her !! I’ll ask as if it’s sent to them how long it would take to do

Danjo

Yeah they do take a while, my engine build took a year, but some of that was waiting for the ECU to come from Australia and some of it was having the machining work done, it took a while for the Iron Ductile sleeves to turn up.

4evascoob

What ecu are you running mate ? Hear there is only a few that work with the 14+ cars ?

4evascoob

It’s just waiting on machine shop. Everything else is there waiting. Hopefully won’t be too long !

Danjo

Emtron, it’s a high end competition based ECU. There’s a few options but this one floated my boat and I’ve been impressed with it ever since. Very easy to use. Not cheap at £3.5k though.

4evascoob

Wow !! So are ecu’s a case of unplug old demos one and plug in and map a new one ?

Don Clark

They can be if all other functions that are controlled by the ECU are included......

https://emtron.world/product/subaru-...15-plugin-ecu/

4evascoob

Very nice but way outside my budget !

stockcar

std ECU can often be re-mapped and is fine at a certain level but for more features or more advanced mods then often its better to simply go aftermarket

4evascoob

will stick with original and ecutek map