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Mikkel Jensen

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    Subaru Impreza WRX STI, 2007, Hawkeye

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  1. Mikkel Jensen
    Thank you for your insight and previous experiences. 🙂 It's purely a question of money, seeing if it's possible to save some money here and there. As its my daily driver, I'm not looking to get very high HP. Somewhere between 300 and 400 is fine for me. But I want it to be reliable and future proof too, 'cause I plan to give it a little it more "oompf". 😛 It's a difference of 700 GBP between the 2 blocks I'm looking at. I think I'll go with the more expensive one. Should be good for 650HP/850NM. I can't be bothered with any weak links
  2. Mikkel Jensen
    Unfortunately I don't have OE part numbers, and I doubt from OE numbers I can find out if there's any difference in materiale and strength. The reason I'm asking, is that in the one block there's OEM head bolts and a friend with primarily experience in EJ20 engine (mine is a EJ25) says that he experienced the original head bolts for the EJ20 couldn't handle up towards 400 HP.
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    Hello, I'm the unlucky owner of a hawkeye STI, that has a blown head gasket. Along with some other problems with the car and no service history from previous owners, I thought it would be a brilliant idea to get a new block, so I'm sure there's no other funny business in store for me. I'm standing to save quite a lot of money between 2 different engines from 2 different places with forged components, I'm looking to add a bit of power, not too much as its a daily driver. So to my question... Is there any strength/material differences between OEM STI EJ20 head bolts to a OEM STI EJ25 head bolts?
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    @savage bulldogs Yeah, that's why I want to make sure mine doesn't turn out that way - Getting a new one, honing, fitting better pistons and headgasket. From what I've read it seems all STI's from after 2000'ish have a Semi-closed block. My target is 350 at this time, but with some room to grow. I just got the car 4-5 months ago, not ready to do too much to it. 🙂 So daily fun driver! Do you know which price range a.. Let's say EJ25 semi-closed honed to 100mm - Slamming something like this in: https://www.advancedautomotives.com/subaru-impreza-ej25-forged-engine-rebuild-kit-500bhp-stage-2-sti-wrx-avcs-9014-p.asp? (suggested by the guy doing the swap) My problem is buying a completely rebuilt engine for a rather big amount of money and shipping it to Denmark - We have these ridicoules tax and shipping prices which could lead to a really nasty surprise. ;o
  5. Mikkel Jensen
    @Jay762 Ah yes, that's the ones I was looking at. Way to expensive for me right now. If it's a 2.5L and the damage isn't too bad from the knocking, then I would be interested!
  6. Mikkel Jensen
    @Tidgy I tried visiting their website, but it seems to be under construction! 😮 Do you know if they ship to Denmark? @Jay762 Isn't it a bigger project to convert a 2.5L STI Hawkeye to a 2.0L? Either way, doesn't seem like the seller is sending to Denmark. @Savage_Builldogs That's my plan. Getting a used EJ25 and basically build a new engine. Hone it, new stronger pistons, new, new, new. 🙂 I got a guy here in Denmark willing to do the things needed and I even save money on the parts (pistons, oil pump etc.) buying them through him. 🙂 I can't seem to find the "crate engines" you're referring to, if its the blocks they're selling then it's rather expensive, ontop of that i'll also need to get it into Denmark, which is why I'm looking for a used one. My current block works just fine, no issues - The reason I'm not honing this and doing the build on this one is because of the build time. I would have to be without my baby for a month or more! 😞
  7. Mikkel Jensen
    Bump. No one has a used EJ25 engine block, semi closed? I only need the block, nothing else.
  8. Mikkel Jensen
    Hello Jay! Unfortunately that's also a bit over budget, I appreciate it though! My budget is around 4000 euro - Plus/minus 500 euro. I have to get everything else aswell, oil pump, timing belt, pistons, etc.etc.etc. ;o So I was hoping for something a bit cheaper. 🙂
  9. Mikkel Jensen
    Hello LucidDream, I think this is a bit over budget for me. I also need to get oil pump, water pump etc. So unless you have a REALLY good price, then I'm not sure it'll work. ;o I can see it costs 3500 dollars from IAG themselves. I'm guessing you're not gonna sell it for much less than that 😛
  10. Mikkel Jensen
    Hello Jay Thank you very much, got my STI only 4 months ago and I've read all the horror stories about the ringlands. I'm not willing to risk that! So I'm looking for this new engine block to fit it with all new parts and forged pistons to future proof myself and then I'll have my current one as spare. 🙂 I'm not going to go all out and build a crazy beast, so I think the Semi closed is the way to go!
  11. Mikkel Jensen
    Hello, I own a Subaru WRX STI from 2007, Hawkeye, I live in Denmark and I'm currently looking for a EJ25 bare block engine. No pistons, no nothing and untouched. I'm looking to get this untouched EJ25 engine block mounted with forged pistons to make a bit more power and to future proof my car and put the current engine on the shelf. If you have one laying around with no cracks then please contact me. Kind regards Mikkel, from Denmark.
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