So after having seen this done before, I decided to try and take a stab at making a table out of an old EJ shortblock for myself. I picked up this shortblock (i believe out of an 05 STI) from a fellow member, took it apart and cleaned it, added some paint, miscellaneous hardware, and a top cut out of a 3/4" thick slab of acrylic, and this is the end result. I'm happy with how it came out!

 

I might just hold on to the spare blown motor in my garage and make a table myself. Good stuff man.

Ron

 

Sweet looking table, something I would love to do in the future. How much time and $ did you put in? Obviously, shortblock prices will vary, so excluding that.

IIRC, the EJ25 table that I saw, could spin the table and see the pistons move in the cylinders. Did you keep yours intact?

 

your table is cooler then my motor =/ haha

 

sweet! Great conversation piece.

 

Very sweet! I wanted to do something like that with some unused cross-drilled rotors. But that would be wasteful. Yours is not!

 

Nice. I like it.

 

Awesome. I did the v8 table and have been wanting ej25 side tables. Looks great

 

nice! haha yes i'm curious if the table can spin around too.

 

I have wanted to do that too. I want to put Teflon rings in it (or something like that) and hook up a small motor to make it turn over.

 

I was gonna do this, but the table top would be on the top of the block instead of the end. I like it though!

 

Took me the better part of a day to take the shorblock apart, clean it all up, put it back together and paint it.

The acrylic top was waaaay more expensive than I had anticipated. With material, labor, and taxes it came out to roughly $250, almost as much as what I picked up the shortblock for! That was thru TAP Plastics in Pleasant Hill. There may be other places out there that could've done it for less, but it's something I didn't really look into. I spent another $30-$40 for the paint and misc nuts and bolts.

Yeah spinning the table will rotate the crank and cycle the pistions in/out.

 

neato table!

 

Nice table...wish I had time and patience for that...

Haha how many rpm can you get it up to?

 

Redlines at 40 rpm