This car burnt through the same exhaust valve on cylinder three on three different occasions. With the help of Thawa (yah rly) we believe it was a bad injector driver in the ECU.
I was sick and tired of driving on three cylinders and I had been gathering random parts from people so I built a 2.5 engine. The extra power made a previously ignorable problem noticable
I drive the piss out of my car. I take it over jumps. I thrash through the mud. This meant many worn out or broken parts. I once broke the headers in half lol. Before I was able to fixI wore out the front universal joint so badly that the two u shaped pieces were touching each other! This caused one hell of a vibration. I tried to use a driveshaft from a newer car and found out that it was a different length. We ended up cutting the end off both shafts and welding the new end onto my old one
The car drove great but had a major random failure. After driving normally for 150miles the temp suddenly shot up extremely high and the car died. I pulled over and assumed the coolant was gone,,, but it was still full! I tried to start it and it turned over very slowly (the pistons were sticking to the cylinder). It started and the noise was AMAZING to say the least. It had rod knock on at least three cylinders and more than one bad main bearing
Frankenbeater V1 consisted of a phase 2 complete shortblock with DOHC heads, turbo water pump and oil cooler, stock 91 computer, 98RS intake manifold, Legacy engine harness, Legacy throttle body and stock intake piping.
I crashed a White 2005 STi (with 2006 front end conversion) and we happened across a super clean 98RS so the entire wrecked car was swapped in. I could have as much of the RS as I wanted excluding the trans and heads.
Frankenbeater V2 was V1 parts but with a phase 2 block using "phase 1" pistons and I used an NA pump eliminating the oil cooler. I also installed the 98 Outback 4.44 final drive 4eat but left my 4.11 differential. (yes I installed the fwd fuse).
This engine ran great but I could hear this rattle sort of noise on rev up. It wasnt load dependant and didnt do it while cold. I ran the car on a lift and checked all sorts of crap and couldnt find it. I finally started unplugging injectors and the noise was diminished most on number three.
I tore into this block and found that the rod bearings were FARKED! They should be a silver color and they were worn down so that some were solid copper color 0_o
I removed the V2 engine, tore it apart, put it together and installed V3 all by myself.
The differential part screwed me up. Not only did I have to convert the carrier from female to male (which I have done before) but I got it all together and the mustache was upside down
I fixed this and started to bolt up the driveshaft AND IT WOULDNT FIT!!! Come to find out there are two types of R160 mounting flanges. I had to remove the flange from my old diff and swap it onto the new one,,, which isnt easy since I had to use a puller to get the old one off and the night is supposed to be tightened to 145 ft lbs.
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