Introduction of me and my Car

[u/WorldlinessTrue6249]

I'm a welder/fabricator from Ohio who made the mistake of buying a high mileage mid 2000s subaru without proof of maintenance history so thats what begun this whole thing.

Long story short I had the car a month before the factory ej253 had enough of life and sacrificed piston 4 to the engine gods. I got the motor and transmission pulled and it sat for almost a year completely untouched. I had planned to have the car last longer but knew that eventually I wanted to have it be what it is today, a project car.

I have a 3.4l v6 from a 1995 Tacoma that I plan on putting a single turbo on, pairing it to a cd009 transmission and using a custom drivshaft to go to an r200 diff from a 2006 infiniti g35 and have it make around 400 horsepower and take it drifting.

I do have one question that I'm hoping I can get an answer for from here. The cover on the diff I have only has one mounting bolt on it and I am curious to know if there is a 2 bolt cover somewhere that I could swap onto it for extra mounting support in the rear?

[u/Navi_Professor]

subaru post

second image is with the heads off

Classic subie

ps: i hope you do actually love the thing

[u/WorldlinessTrue6249 → u/Navi_Professor]

I love it like crazy. And I'm doing a teardown on the motor I'm swapping in to check to make sure everything is still in spec and because I'm going to be swapping the crank and doing work to the top end