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I just received emails this morning from the previous owner. Attached is info on the block that was put in by Eiji. Block number L28 614069. On the paper it says "Tims block" this was the dudes name that owned the block previously before Eiji bought it and sold it to Kelvin. This is not the same block that is in the car currently. I just looked. The block number for the car that is sitting in my garage is L28 641027....

How much for the purple shag shipped to 92081?

And I wanted to thank everyone on here for helping me identify the problems within this ordeal. I really do appreciate all of your experience and thoughts throughout this process. Im just stoked it got fixed within a reasonable amount of time and it didn't cost an arm and a leg. Thanks again for your help. --Zach

Oh I plan on enjoying the hell out of her. Taking her to a show first weekend of June!

now I have to admit my past with sports cars. I am cursed with them. Every single sports car I have ever bought something miserable happens shortly after I buy them, always within the first month. Brand new 2006 WRX, burglarized 1989 Maserati Biturbo, wrecked 2005 WRX STi, alternator shot on way home from dealership on day I bought it stranded on freeway for 3 hours 108 degrees outside. 2005 WRX STi #2 hit in rear quarter panel while parked, 6000$ in damage, hit and run. so on and so fourth....and I have owned many different sports cars all with horror stories after I bought them. I should be used to it by now. I've also owner a few trucks, never had a problem with them.

Glad I can be of some entertainment

Just got off the phone with the previous owner. Sounds like there is bad blood between him and Hosomi, but I think I got to the bottom of the mystery, kinda. To make a long story short, kelvin had a high compression build on the car E88 head with cam on a L24 block. The L24 block failed him. He shipped the car to hosomi, from what I gather hosomi sold him this F54 block that I have now that caused too high of compression with the E88 head with cam. This caused DETONATION. Kelvin shipped the car back to hosomi and hosomi put a metal head gasket in? And shipped it back. He told kelvin the blowby was normal. Kelvin didn't like how the car was running and bought a rebuilt P79 head from Zcar source Arizona...ran out of money and sold the car to me. Yay! Kelvin said he will send me receipts and emails to prove this correspondence between him and hosomi. Kelvin swears up and down he didn't touch the block after hosomi built it. The Pistons in there are the ones that hosomi put in, and they're not ITM as he says. To be honest I'm over it. The car is mine. Nothing is going to be done about any of this anyways. I ate the 1300$ that it cost to put new Pistons in it and I'm fine with that. I just hope that like someone else said, it's not too sloppy inside the cylinders after multiple honing done.

I texted the previous owner all of the pics of the Pistons along with me telling him that I spoke with hosomi on the phone and that there wasn't ITM Pistons in there. No response...

It would have been only a 3 day turn around if the shop owner knew how to use the Internet! The Pistons he originally ordered were dished Pistons. I had to get online for him and order them and have them shipped which took an additional 4 days. It was miserable for me though. I had sinus surgery and it got infected post op which sucked. I had to pick up the car with the worst headache I've ever had in my life!!!

And I was wrong. The mechanic said he absolutely checked the bore size, it is standard he said. He also said that thing would sound like $^!# if It wasn't!

Ya I drove it an hour home from the shop at 60mph on the freeway. Also just got back from picking up my son at school with it and had 4 people literally yell out of their car in traffic to tell me how sweet the car is. Runs perfect. Sounds great. No smoke. I don't hear any unusual sounds. Idles very smooth.

I don't know if he checked bore size. He probably didn't. I told him the previous owner had standard bore 86mm Pistons in it and that's what I ordered and that's what he put in. But now that I'm finding out after the fact that and the car is already back together and in my garage that the Pistons that we took out aren't the Pistons that Hosomi put in it would have made sense to check the bore on it....too late now... I guess I'll be big time SOL if the whole thing happens all over again and I'll have to get the RB25det early......and my wife will be SUPER PISSED. I'll call the mechanic that did the work and see if he measured bore size before he honed.

Ok, well just got off the phone with Eiji Hosomi. He confirmed that ITM Pistons were used when he built the bottom end. ITM Pistons were not in the car when I bought it. In the eBay ad, it clearly states "Engine block builder, Eiji Hosomi" so I'm obviously upset. Someone is lying here. The good thing is, as mad as I am about this, it doesn't bother me as much as it should. I got the car for a ridiculous price. Even with the money spent on labor and parts to get this fixed the car is worth almost 2x what I paid for it. Now if I paid a lot more money than I did when I bought it then I might pursue getting reimbursed from the seller..At this point it's not worth it. However, I did text the seller with ALL of the info uncovered.....The car is fixed, ITM Pistons are singing nicely in it. Here are more pics of the Pistons and broken skirts. Yes, the skirts were broken on the same side on each piston. I don't know what marks to look for, but the break in these are about as identical as you could get as you can see.