where can I buy a used long or short block around these parts?
Other than the wonderful, trust worthy gruppe-s????

 

mike@gst Jeremy says I might be able to get one through you guys??

 

What kind of condition does it need to be in?

Mike

 

gruppe-s is in socal now... Those kids get to deal with them now

 

running. LOL

I am not looking for something really nice and race ready. I just wanna get my wrx back on the road and for it to be reliable with a 2.5L

my plans(eventually) are pretty much a vf34+supporting mods, TGV delete, turboback, uppipe, tuning, perhaps a couple random things from there, but thats about it for power. So anything that can handle those and stay reliable would be fine with me.. mileage isn't a huge deal to me as long as its not much over 30k.. if it is.. let me know what you got.

 

i'd be interested to know as well

 

I know at this moment AHQ has some used STI shortblocks, and used longblocks

I'm sure all the Subaru shops have craploads of random crap including STI shortblocks, JDM sti heads and goodies.

GST of course you mentioned, try LIC too, they should have used goodies

I would give NASIOC a shot since shortblocks actually aren't all that expensive to ship.



In all seriousness though I'd still call Gary/Max at Gruppe-S to see if they have FXT complete motors. Or whoever else since you don't seem to be a G-S fan. It's pretty much cheaper to just drop the whole longblock in, and you can sell your WRX heads too. And your TGVs/intake manifold can probably fetch a couple hundred bucks.

The only downside I can think of is if you do a hard turbo inlet (IE the APS) the ej255/257 complete motor then requires intake manifold removal, as opposed to the WRX intake manifold you can tilt the power steering (I forget what the thing in the front is) and just slide it in (very painfully).

 

^^verc

to be honest, i hope gary@gruppe-s chokes on his ****, and if i ever see him in person i will personally make sure it happens.. i am going down south soon to see justice. don't go with gruppe-s they are the BIGGEST pieces of **** you have ever seen... seriously... do NOT trust them..think i am bias? ask anyone here if they have had a good experience with them in the last year....

 

yall shoudl see the sti block i saw from gruppe s... hahaha.. major crank play! and it only had like 1500 miles on it... hahahaha

 

thats because gruppe-s is complete trash now.

 

yeah, maybe they will sell him the STI short block they STOLE FROM ME before they ran down to LA. That was the one I was going to hook greg up with in the first place.

 

Hey Greg, Sorry mate I really don't have anything other than new built motors. I have myself been trying to locate used STI block halfs so we can build the 4 motors we need for our racing effort this year (we rotate them and refresh them every couple of events, now with 2 cars I need more than we used last year).

I can give you a brand new OEM one at my cost if that would help you out?

Mike

 

Sorry mate I shouldn't laugh but when I heard the complete story on that whole ordeal I damn near split in two

Mike

 

^^i laughed too.. then realized the joke was on me.

can you PM me with cost on a block?

 

Yeah, to be honest though as I have always stood, I don't know but one shop in the bay area which has not had it's share of fans and haters <-- both parties of which have valid points and can cite real incidents from which they can base a genuine (and valid) motivation for their beliefs. Gruppe-S has always been fair and professional to me when they made a mistake, so I'm alright with them.

They're probably doing well in Socal, as is I-speed. As is Crawford. I mean, there's more than a shop or two in these parts rekindled to great success from a suboptimal previous "first-generation" subaru shop. No one today seems to think the less of them.