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Building an EJ22t to be stout is more expensive than a brand new EJ257 block, which has thicker main bearing supports, #5 thrust bearing, nitrided crank, and better cooling being semi closed. So the smart people aren't looking for the 2.2s anymore. There was a guy in England buying short blocks for like $800 for his hill climb car, because he was sleeving, converting to phase 2 crank, etc., but even that was like 10 years ago. The heads are garbage, for any performance application What I would pay for it, would depend considerably on my intended use. But I can't imagine spending more than a couple hundred bucks. If I had a stock turbo Legacy that needed an engine, I would pay more for a complete engine.

Do you think it slid through the covid cracks? Our inspections were all screwed up due to COVID. Offices closed, no inspections of reconstructed vehicles for a year. They allowed local title companies to provide more services than normal and delayed/weren't enforcing any state inspections at all. My inspection is 3 years expired and they aren't pulling me over with my ancient peeling off sticker. I have inspection scheduled Thursday this week. Also I've seen a number of times where the insurance/payout/titling/totaling process doesn't happen like normal. "Totaling" a car means the insurance company buys the car from you. They pay you and take the car and title. The title then gets branded however your particular state brands wrecked cars. If you do a buyback they give you the title back branded and you keep or get the car back. Often times they don't acquire your car/title and just hand you a check, so no documentation happens besides just paying you. I find they'll act VERY QUICKLY (and thus skip those steps) if concise and I make it known I'd prefer to avoid lawyers if the situation is addressed reasonably. I've avoided them every time for myself and friends I've helped through wrecks with good results. Or take the car, but not the title, then you do a buyback and they never follow through with title. Whatever the case - the totaling/wrecked/title/branding/registering of wrecked cars through insurance often doesn't go the same way every time. I've found the insurance process is surprisingly not as regimented as other parts of the legal/DMV process.

It’s an interesting one to ponder - are you building something that historically had this block or are you looking for all out power that would need that extra cylinder bracing? And that’s the other thing - you can get newer blocks and add bracing to the cylinders to essentially make them a closed deck block. Look at what the fellas with the high horse power turbo engines are doing and take notes from them. Many say the closed deck block isn’t needed, I believe the EJ207 is only semi closed deck and that is a high revving engine and a strong unit to boot. It come down to that old adage - what’s it worth to you? You really need to look at what you’re going to build with it, do you need the closed deck block or is it a bit of wank factor/street cred? I can’t put a price on it. We didn’t get them over here in Oz but I know 20 years ago blokes were importing them from your neck of the woods for high HP builds as the engines typically used now were yet to be released or cost too much as a base to start with. Cheers Bennie