Love how honest you are about the problems you encounter when working on cars, not many RU-vidr's want to show themselves sort through the issues on camera and it's great to see you don't skip any steps and don't hide anything! I can't wait until I have enough money to build an engine and use all of your tips
Honesty is always key, it is part of why i have the clientele list i do. Im very straight forward, and im doing what hasnt been done in the subaru community or high hp community that is... Being transparent, showing the real life side of things. Thank you for your kind words and watching!
Totally agree. I have played with diesels my whole life. I love hp and tq to death. I turn wrenches for a living and am damn good at it. I can tell when someone knows their stuff* so to speak. Honestly I really like the content and can truly appreciate it as you do. I love my Sti and am new to the turbo gas side of things and enjoy the Videos as well. As a tech I appreciate his honesty as I can understand how things take longer than expected and don’t go as planed. Also no matter how good you are, mistakes happen. Can’t wait to get my Sti to high HP!! Keep up The good work and thankyou for the info Sir. Would love to Meet this guy someday but I’m in NH a long ways away!
i guess Im asking the wrong place but does someone know of a method to log back into an Instagram account? I somehow forgot the login password. I love any help you can offer me.
Awesome and informative video like usual Josh! I’ve learn something new every time watching one of your video’s. I always appreciate your HONESTY & DETAILS in all your work. I would like to get your name & great work out there to all my friends and local Midwest Subi enthusiast every way can so I would def for sure be interested in your sponsorship program once I am ready for my BADERBUILT engine. Keep up the amazing work my friend!
Thank you for all your kind words! Im glad you're enjoying the videos and honesty. You're getting to see me as if you were a friend working in the garage with me.
I normally don't comment on stuff like this on RU-vid because I'm probably going to be wasting my breathe but i'm struggling to watch this so here goes. You are correct in saying you encountered the timing problem because of the block & heads being surfaced too much BUT you have adjustable cam gears on this engine so you need to learn to set up a degree wheel and degree in each cam individually setting them to appropriate specs for the cams you have. The timing marks are literally a ballpark guide only and proper timing can be achieved with a degree wheel even if there is no physical timing marks on the belt or cam gears, and is the preferred way of timing a modified engine. The timing marks could be 4 teeth out but if you set the timing with a degree wheel to the specs you want this over rules the timing marks, you can literally draw your own new marks once this is done. Hope this helps you understand a bit, buying these other pulleys you mention may look like they help but in reality you still don't know how much difference there actually is in the cam timing, just because the marks line up doesn't necessarily mean the timing is correct on a modified engine.
@@crimescene25 so I have a BRZ, love it. I test drove an STI but it felt "slow" , "laggy" and rode high compared to the BRZ. I know it's the faster vehicle but didnt feel like it. That is why I keep asking the owners of this channel if he may build a BRZ.
Glad to see you show all the problems that you can have. Surprised to see you was able to manage it was out getting frustrated and throwing in the towel and making a short vid. Keep the vids coming.
This is the first time I’ve ever seen this happen to someone else but I had to figure out how to fix it the hard way because no one else had the same problem that I could find! I had one used head that I had no clue if it’s been decked or not and one new oem head. So I took them to a machine shop and they said they were nearly the same and shouldn’t have been causing that issue. So I timed the car exactly the way you did in the video and car has been happy for over a year now and no cam codes!
I just want to do a light build on my EJ and seeing videos like this were errors/problems that occur and are shown seriously helps. keep up the vids man, subb'd.
the quality of your channel is crazy considering how early in the making your channel is! im excited to see what you can do with an fa20 i need some motivation to tear mine apart
I really enjoy watching your work and thorough knowledge about the EJ257. You create some top notch STI's out of your garage and do some really quality work. I only have one complaint, I understand your a one man show however your camera work sometimes gives me motion sickness with the movements and it going in and out of focus. I suggest a gimbal for your shoots to eliminate this issue.
@@BaderBuiltRacing no worries man. You had a lot to try and accomplish in a day. Keep up the great work. Glad to see more Washingtonians cranking out the content and sharing great info.
I just subscribed to your channel, I’m glad I found it , I’m doing a head gasket job on a ej25 wrx sti Turbo and I had the heads decked , now I’m getting cam and crank codes and I know I put the belt on right, but when I turned the engine over by hand it went out of time, I thought it was a bad belt , now I’m thinking otherwise, I was wondering how you got it in time without the Adjustable pulley’s? And what are you under on Facebook?
I have a 2015 sti, I love watching your build videos. I’m just curious what it would take to reach about 350hp I don’t have a ton of money so doing a full blown build isn’t going to happen any time soon I just want enough that’s stock block safe but still gets goin you know?
Hey Bader! Aside from the cams and AVCS delete are the heads otherwise stock? No machine work, +1mm valves? Just wondering for my build how far to go with the heads. Shooting for 550-600whp.
would love to see how to degree the cams. I have a 96 coupe with a wrx swap with BC 272 cams and just ordered BC cam gears. just found your channel a few days ago and love it!
Wondering where you got the block off Allen heads at for the cam gears, I’m running bc 272 cams and bc adjustable cams, been watching for a little since my 15 is torn down
Reviving a old video 😅. I'm starting to think I have no choice and needing gears. NO matter what or who has put my belt on... it looks very similar to this. Am I correct to assume you just started by setting the cam alignment to what stock marking would be? Or degreeing the cams (BC272 in mine). I'm not looking for every little HP at the moment being fuel limited I just want it running tuned AND out of the damn garage
Any ideas or opinions about putting oversized oil pans on the belt drive Motor. They all suffer from the same problem, oil starvation when making long sweeping turns.
Do you do the cylinder #4 reverse cooling mods at all on your engines? Curious of your thoughts on that relative to ring land failures etc. Do aftermarket blocks have a different design for cooling at all?
Preference, ive always been different and deleted it. Ive invested alot of time / testing into them and its paid off. Its proven on the dyno to pick up 40whp / 40wtq across whole powerband and quicker / more responsive spool time. Obviously power of the car plays a roll in how much itll pick up ect. You also get a actual cam lope at idle.. With the series grey build, I only used 272 cams in that car due to not expecting to push it like i did. It proved on the dyno that we got every bit out of the cams with the adjustable cam gears. It reacted like 280 camshaft but spooled sooner. Deleting AVCS isnt for everyone, once you get into higher power (800whp+) the exhaust avcs gear will actually fluctuate and move with the amount of cylinder pressure. So having control of that cam gear locked where i want it benefits throughout the whole powerband.
The honest answer? Budget. The other side of that answer, I would never recommended a twin disc. Triple disc for drag racing this car will be doing, but in the mean time I’ve used these 6 puck ACT with great luck if you are a experienced driver 👍
look at his previous video titled what headgaskets should i run. in the video he says for most people he recommends the standard je pro seal mls gasket. going north of 800 wheel he recommends the athena fire ring head gaskets, but for your level he recommends the mls je proseal
Preference, ive always been different and deleted it. Ive invested alot of time / testing into them and its paid off. Its proven on the dyno to pick up 40whp / 40wtq across whole powerband and quicker / more responsive spool time. Obviously power of the car plays a roll in how much itll pick up ect. You also get a actual cam lope at idle.. With the series grey build, I only used 272 cams in that car due to not expecting to push it like i did. It proved on the dyno that we got every bit out of the cams with the adjustable cam gears. It reacted like 280 camshaft but spooled sooner. Deleting AVCS isnt for everyone, once you get into higher power (800whp+) the exhaust avcs gear will actually fluctuate and move with the amount of cylinder pressure. So having control of that cam gear locked where i want it benefits throughout the whole powerband.
Preference, ive always been different and deleted it. Ive invested alot of time / testing into them and its paid off. Its proven on the dyno to pick up 40whp / 40wtq across whole powerband and quicker / more responsive spool time. Obviously power of the car plays a roll in how much itll pick up ect. You also get a actual cam lope at idle.. With the series grey build, I only used 272 cams in that car due to not expecting to push it like i did. It proved on the dyno that we got every bit out of the cams with the adjustable cam gears. It reacted like 280 camshaft but spooled sooner. Deleting AVCS isnt for everyone, once you get into higher power (800whp+) the exhaust avcs gear will actually fluctuate and move with the amount of cylinder pressure. So having control of that cam gear locked where i want it benefits throughout the whole powerband.
Preference, ive always been different and deleted it. Ive invested alot of time / testing into them and its paid off. Its proven on the dyno to pick up 40whp / 40wtq across whole powerband and quicker / more responsive spool time. Obviously power of the car plays a roll in how much itll pick up ect. You also get a actual cam lope at idle.. With the series grey build, I only used 272 cams in that car due to not expecting to push it like i did. It proved on the dyno that we got every bit out of the cams with the adjustable cam gears. It reacted like 280 camshaft but spooled sooner. Deleting AVCS isnt for everyone, once you get into higher power (800whp+) the exhaust avcs gear will actually fluctuate and move with the amount of cylinder pressure. So having control of that cam gear locked where i want it benefits throughout the whole powerband.
Hopefully you can answer my question I sent ya through your website contact. I understand your super busy and all. Just really like to know an estimation for when I get me an STI. Or what is the best way to get in contact with ya for question?
I will have to look into why the email isnt coming through from website. I was worried about having this issue. Send me an email directly to me at joshbader.anr.motorsports@gmail.com.
Email is best sir, Joshbader.anr.motorsports@gmail.com My blocks are all available on the website if you would like to take a look at them, link is in description 👍
The complainer across the street, if you look back in older videos he got his nickname since he likes doing loud home improvement in his garage, and then call the cops on us for warming cars up lol
