jkeyzer and fiid are awesome, picked up an engine for me today Options

[TonyAKAVW]

I found this engine for sale up in San Francisco, a 2001 2.5 liter Subaru motor, complete with the wiring harness, ECU and a bunch of other stuff. I called up my good friend Jeff and said "hey why don't you drive for a couple hours and go look at this engine for me, and while you are at it, pay for it and brign it home and store it until I can either come up and get it, or get someone to bring it down." He agreed, because well, he's a good friend and a good guy.

So I got a call today from him and he had picked up Fiid as well and they were checking out the compression, making sure everything was in order, and cleaning up spilled coolant (from the new engine) in the back of Jeff's nearly new WRX wagon.

Needless to say, next time I'm up in norcal, I owe these two guys dinner.

-Tony

[mightyohm]

Update: Something very, very amusing (and a little bit spooky) unfolded regarding this engine.

About 2 years ago my roommate wrecked his 2001 Subaru 2.5RS by falling asleep at the wheel and driving into a ditch. He didn't have anything more than liability insurance and had to part out the car so he could afford a new one. He sold a lot of parts separately but in the end sold everything that was left of the roller including the engine and trans to a guy in SF.

This weekend, I bought a 2.5RS engine out of a 2001 Impreza from a guy in SF. The guy had bought a roller from the south bay and yanked the engine but never got around to putting it in his Ghia. I noticed that his story sounded very conspicuously like the one my roommate told me. 40,000 miles on the car, rolled in a ditch, insurance problems, etc.

Tonight I confirmed it. THIS ENGINE USED TO BELONG TO MY ROOMMATE!!!

How weird is that?!?!?! I am not joking. This is 100% true. My roommate was even able to point out little details that he remembered from back when he owned the car. The AC compressor for this engine is sitting in my backyard. The wheels off the car are there too. And now the engine has come home, and is sitting in the SAME GARAGE that the car used to be parked in, 2 years ago before it was wrecked.

SCARY!

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