Neat, havnt opened FA to see an engine for a while, also, angry linus

That's from after he made a dick joke and said to keep your mind out of the gutter.

I can not help but think about about the time when my brother was in college and his Oldsmobile Cutlass needed new piston rings (or something else that would require taking the entire engine apart). Rather than replacing the car, he spent a few months without it, while he took the engine out, spread the parts across our garage. He put a ton of work into it, whenever he could spare the time from his studies, his part time job, etc. Finally, he had it all back together one chilly night, and, with as much help as me and my mother could muster (for some reason my dad wasn't at home), he got the thing reinstalled. I felt like I was working with Dr. Frankenstein, as my brother took the pile of parts that he assembled, gradually fed it fuel, and, after enough turns of the starter, brought the engine back to life! ^!^

That's kinda how I feel. Especially after what I have been through in the last couple years. I have been working on this car for almost 2 years now. And it's still not done. Buying the parts needed every time I get a little bit of money. This car is all I have left of my old life, so it means a lot to me and I will do anything I can to keep it going. Even if the smart thing to do is to scrap it.

*nods and hugs*

Awsome, looks like alot of hard work c:

Keep going Kasey, you're in the home stretch!

Is it a 2.0L or 2.5L engine? It looks so much more compact than a R4 engine, that's one of the cooler thing about boxers. Love the painted head covers!

I'm currently (unfortunately) rebuilding the engine in my car. Would've love to do some fancy cleaning/detailing on it "by the way" but I had leave the entire job to a workshop - I don't have my own garage or full set of tools at the moment :(

Engine is a 2.5L Engine code is EJ251

I totally understand about the no garage bud. Before I lived where I do now, I lived in a second floor apartment. I had ALL of my tools packed in the back of that Subaru. My mother wouldn't let me bring them in "because I would get grease everywhere" As a result, I just kept all the parts in the back. At one point I even had a whole EJ251 in the back cargo area that had spun a bearing. I stripped the entire engine in the back of the car, sold what I could and scrapped what I couldn't. Still have the block and heads from that one.

I am incredibly lucky that my roomate's mother has pretty much let me take over her garage. My way of paying is keeping her van and her son's Jeep mechanically sound. So free labor in exchange for my own two bay garage.... Yea. I got lucky.

Car guy much :P When I get an evo hopefully I can work on it