Need to find Subaru motor
 

A friend of mine blew up the motor in his 04 STi and the dealer isn't going to warranty it. He needs to find another one to put in, the dealer gave him some crazy price for a long block. Anyone know of any places that i might be able to find one ? I can't find a longblock. I tried car-parts.com and the ones are there are sold. Any ideas ?

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Wow blowing up an STI is not that easy. Crazy boost, bad tuning or crappy driver.

Anyhow, I blew the tranny on my WRX about a month ago, an I'm getting a Forester transmission put in as I write.

Anyhow, the guy I purchased my transmission from is a Subaru Mechanic at the South Orlando dealer, he gets parts ;) ;), I know he has a WRX engine, complete, that he was selling for $1700 if I'm not mistaken.

An STi engine will be pricey. Check ebay, and do a search for used subaru parts, then fill out one of those salvage yard requests, they should get back to you in a few hours.

BTW, what happened to the car, how did it blow.

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Stock motor Stock everything....not easy to blow ?The first motor there was a "malfunction" in the oil system they said and it froze up the block and Subaru said it was their fault and put a new short block in and that was it. Well about 10k miles later the current motor ate all of the oil in 1300 miles after the oil change. Subaru is the only people to work on it, now they say they won't warranty it, the trubo was using excessive oil they said and the heads are junk and they won't pay a dime. I think it's kinda bullshit, it didn't leak a drop of oil at all, just all the sudden used the 4 quarts or whatever it is. So they want 6k for a new motor. Perhaps the lack of oil cocked the turbo the first time ? Perhaps the heads should also have been changed after the first "malfunction".

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Damn, that ------ blows.

1700 for an ej20 sounds pretty damn good. I'd say pick that up if you can't find an STI, ej25 around the same price.

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I would need to verufy the price if you are interested, but I saw it, and still had everything, turbo, manifold, alternator, well a full swap.

I see the problem was with the actual engine/car. Subaru's warranty blows big donkey dick, they might repair some things the first time, but even if it happens again, they will blame racing or abuse and not want to cover it.

There's a subaru dealer in Tampa, FL Mastro Subaru, that has an in-shop speed shop, they are pretty good when it comes to warranty work, because they really know what can damage a car, and what can't.

That's why when I purchased mine, used but from the dealer, I told them to stick their extended warranties up the ass, and modified the car. When I took it for a recall, the first thing they said was, you know you voided your warranty because you modified your exhaust and that air valve, referring to the BOV,

I was like yeah, so.....they looked at me mad.

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He wants a USDM STi motor..pain in the ass to find.

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im not saying i dont believe ur story, but i can believe this crap. The dealer is really trying to pull a fast one over on your friend or what. You better call subaru of American and threaten to stop paying for that ---- if they are not going to take care of the lemon they sent you. I have a wrx and sure would be pissed if they tried to do that to me, not that id let them change my oil ;), but you catch my drift.

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2005-...08972730QQrdZ1

Is not only the difficulty finding one, is the price of it. Honestly it might be better to make sure he has gap insurance, strip the ---- out of the car and burn it down.

Of course this is illegal and if you get caught you will go to jail, and will have to live with it in your consience for the rest of your life, but it's an out.

Try the salvage yard search. When I was looking for my tranny I did the search and I got some hits on STi transmissions, but they wanted over 4k for them. The engine will probably be anywhere from $5k to $7k, just because it is new and somewhat limited.

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lemon laws are your friend...tell him to talk to an attorney

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It's been tried before, specially with the weak as 2002-2003 WRX transmissions, Subaru is too big to fight.

But he can try..........

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Why not hit up Kingpin??? Got a motor from them before. Sold the motor to one of my customers and it worked fine. But I still have a tranny here and a rear subframe.

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where are you located? lemme get whatever i want off it n ill get rid of it for ya, then tell ur insurance i got jacked =x

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if what everything you say is true that dealer is seriously ------- you over. I would take that up with subaru or someone about this its clearly the dealers fault.

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All you have to do i look up some information about subaru and warranty and you will see it is like that pretty much anywhere in the country. Is not the dealer that doesn't want to do it, it's the actual subaru warranty team/office that will deny the claim, and the dealer can't do anything or will not do anything to help.

I would try a lawyer, because it clearly was never fixed in the first place.

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It's not the dealer that has the say in this, it's the district Rep for Subaru. They the rep has to authorize warranty work of this cost and since they've already put a short block in it a few months ago, their basically saying that their done with the car. He has tried to fight with them over it, and it comes back to the same thing that their not going to pay the $6000 for the motor.

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wouldnt the Lemon law work on something like this

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He dosen't really care at this point, he wants to fix it and get rid of it.

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lol, tell him to send me 12 k then, ill give him the motor and trans out of my car

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go to nippon-motors you can get a 95-99 ej20tt for liek 950

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Yeah but if he lives somewhere where they have smog checks he'll more likely fail with using an older motor. Now if you live where they don't do ---- like in upper WI and no smog checks. You'll be cherry but if not your gonna need to find something newer.

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www.car-part.com
just select the year/make/model your zip code hit enter.. comes up with a list of a bunch of junk yards in your area..
all i do is fix repairables.. and thats where i buy all my parts.. cant go wrong with them... tells you how many miles are on the engine..and the price and everything..

its a junkyard network..