machinist?

[boxer3main]

I have had a project in mind, the idea is much older.

I want to resleeve a spare ea82 by a few millimiters. The simplicity even allows for "hacking"..simply so..

when I was a kid in central maine, a guy had his ea81 redone. I hardly knew of a subaru. It was an EXOTIC back then as well.. sounded like a monster with 13 inch wheels, at 11:1 compression.

One day, a group of us was standing in the yard of a mechanic that helped it, and the owner just happened to go by. when he saw us, he floored it at already a quick clip, messing around, and tires were spinning...the sound is one of a kind, to get that kind of flow out of 3 mains.

I never forgot it. As I am in a bizarre restore beyond OE already, welding more than a damn broken frmaed pickup truck.just sitting in the car doesn't even move it.. it wants a bigger engine.

A quote back then was realistic if to tear the engine down yourself...the thing is I know of no machinists. Anybody know where to go in bangor area? I can't even find a machinist listed on the net.

I need not "go jdm" comments or an EJ swap mentioned. This is old school, SOLID state thinking I want to enhance. I ask here, as I have seen the several choices for resleeving EJ engines, wondered if a subaru dealer had some machining in ther garages someplace. I found "L.a. Sleeve" which has some plain jane sleeves and even a means for custom ordering, they supply for new subes pre-manufactured already. At most some suimple dynamics beyond a manual could make it dry sleeve, etc etc.

I write all this for simple question:

Anybody know of a machinist in bangor maine that resleeves, old, new, doesn't matter but the basic knowledge and machinery.

 

[IBratmanI]

I know you've heard this before, but sadly the EA82 motors were not good to get any power out of. The EA81's were popular because the aviation world used them a lot. But even boring the cylinders out is really not going to gain much power out of this motor. You can get cams ground for more power, but again, there have been more power gains seen in the EA81 motor. The EA82's would need much time and $ money spent to get them to flow any amounts of air, and even then, it would be hard to supply much more fuel. Then you run into the problem that all the EA82's have, which is the fact that the heads always crack on them. Which, yes, they will run fine forever like that but, it will only happen quicker and be worse if the thing has been machined to TRY to get more power out of it. Then they also like to go through head gaskets, again, they will run fine for quite a while with leaky head gaskets but they will again only get worse because of the work that was done. Also, JDM will get you nothing as well, other than having a few slight differences they have no power differences. I say go with EA81 and look around in the aviation world. They make lots of good stuff that will get you well over 100 horse, and will be VERY reliable in comparison.