Is the person who did the work going to fix this?

 

Thats what I thought


The person who did this was my cousin who said he was a best STi mechanic out there, he tells me he builds fast STi all the time that he worked on over 200 STi/WRX, he lives in Texas and he always tell me no one knows the car better them him, I never want him touching my car again. he also said he always torq down the cam gear at 65ft/lb, I even question him about that because AVCS are delicate.

I flew him up from Texas to work on my car because it had a ringland failure, I bought some new pistons to go in, he told me he had cosworth motor for me, so I paid him about $5,000 for the motor, he took my piston i bought and sold them to someone else and did not even give me the money for the piston. He said I don't need the piston since I getting a motor.

When he show up with the motor I found a few things wrong with it, the rod had too much gap. I question him about the rod play and he said its for high rev, I told him that play will pound the heck out of the bearing and destroy it. He told me that I don't know anything about Subaru and that he knows alot more then I.

When he put the cosworh motor in my car, he drive all the bolts in to the block with the air gun with out even starting it with his finger, and he did not use a torq wrech to put them in to spec he just drives it in with the airgun and ruin 3 threads and snap 2 bolts.

After the motor was in, I started up the car and you can hear the rod knock was loud, he said it was piston slap because its using forge piston, which to me it was more rod knocking sound then piston slap, so after 300 miles the motor burned out cly #1 which look like piston/ring gap was too small and scrape the heck out of the cyl and melted the rings together. And the Rod knock was getting worse every day.

He told me I blew the motor up, and I was running it too lean, which AFR was 10:1 under boost which is not lean.

So I had to buy a new set of pistons to put in the new block which are cosworth 9.2:1 that cost me $750 and I yet never saw the money from the piston I bought before. So we put those in my stock motor. On the 1st start I heard a loud slap and it never idle right after that, he said that noise was normal. cyl #1 and #3 was not firing, plug was dry and no sign of carbon on the new plugs. He said I had bad injectors so he swap out my new injectors with a 2008 STi used injectors and the car still did not run, the ECU was reporting 60deg intake cam timing at idle my mouth drop and I said "What the hell?! The cam is at 60deg no wonder the car does not run.." He told me "That is normal" and I said "No, cam max physical advance can go is about 30deg and its suppose to be at 0deg" and he goes on how I don't know much about subaru and that I am wrong, and that my ECU is most likely bad.

After he said it was my ECU he said "My job is done here, replace your ECU and its all good, I am going home now, and you owe me 1 month of labor for your car"

I got a call at work from my mom telling my my cousin is putting stuff in his car and taking off.

I turned out my cousin took the cosworth motor I paid for, took my tools, and took money out of my piggy bank in my bedroom and 35 bucks from my wallet including the loose change in my wallet. So I was only left with my stock motor.

he was here for 1 month but he slept most of the time, he didn't do much work on my car at all beside swapping motor and pistons." which someone can do in 2 to 3 days full time which he had full time when he was here.

So after buying a new ECU, and the car still does not run, I went out and barrow a oscilloscope and hooked up one channel to the crank sensor and the other channel on the cam sensor, and I notice on the scope that the cam was opening 60deg before top dead center of the crank sensor. So that's when I told myself I need to buy a cam gear.

The noise on the 1st start must of been the piston hitting the valves