Having an FA20 makes me happy to see this teardown! Always good to see your in-depth explanations to help those of us who may not be as familiar. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see the EG build on the dyno 🏎

I’m a simple man, I see a smeedia engine tear down and I hit like. You’re a true inspiration man keep up the great work!!!

Brave man doing engine work with a yellow sweater 😅 One love brotha

Every video I watch of yours I’m slowly learning more and more about Subaru and I friggin love it 😍 your passion and energy radiates like crazy and it really makes me want to learn more so I can work on my own car some day 💪🏽

FA20 Sqaud! Love these videos. I've learned a lot in a short time watching these. You're my #1 go to for all things Subarus. Your driveway made me laugh in your last video too. I have the 2020 WRX, 2004 Impreza Outback Sport, 2002 Impreza RS, 1999 Subaru Forester, 2003 Subaru Forester, 1999 Subaru Impreza and a 2000 Subaru Impreza RS lol

Love learning about my engine. I have a 2017 WRX and for the longest time I was looking for a video just breaking down the motor. Awesome content as always my friend!

Happy to see fa20 videos like these, very in depth thank you for these videos 😬🤙🏼

ive torn down about 20 of these with spun bearings, and after thoroughly grilling each owner for the truth, i found that lack of maintenance was the culprit on 90 percent of them, the other ten percent was abuse. when i say lack of maintenance, i mean using subaru cheap ass oil, and 6 month over 3k mile intervals. these are SO sensitive to oil quality, but they are very reliable when kept with fresh, clean oil.

Finally, someone I know did this. I have 18’ WRX. Planning to build it myself. So happy to see this 😃

Great video, it gave the streght and knowledge to rebuilt my 2011 Forester instead of buying another used engine. Worth the challenge!

My man!! Purchased a 2015 wrx with 46k and slowly been doing add ons while I’m back home I’m hyped to see all the upcoming videos of the build!

Thank you for going over this in so much detail! Listening to your process and expertise is the icing on this beautiful video!! I'll be looking to build (or buy my own) FA20 to hold 500 or so when I'm ready so getting to learn more is highly valuable~

It's funny you mentioned the stank of an engine when you tear it down, I honestly got a wiff of the engine when you pulled the cap off the spun bearing..I don't how that's possible unless the stank was stuck In my memory bank and drifted to my nose at the same time it came apart.. Funny but true.. Somethings I care not to remember rear themselves at the oddest times.. Thanks for the memories..

Very interesting! Thanks for doing that FA20. The farts and smalls were hilarious.

Glad to see some FA20 content :)

When I tore my boys 3800 down (blown head gasket) I could not believe the rod bearings were like new at 180k all I could think is it was the guys first day on the job and he wanted all tolerances perfect that day in 2000. Its now supporting hbeams, je pistons, ported everything including supercharger etc... went a little far for his first car so I had to dial it back and teach him in a ford fusion 4cyl ftw!

Actually stumbled upon this video! 49,951 miles into my FA20, and I’m 99.9% certain-I have spun a rod bearing…so, I’ll watch this video 579 more times, and hopefully get it done 😅

Since I've never seen a fa torn down this is super interesting

Finally!! Thank you Tanner I appreciate you for doing this build.. I have a FA20 and have a rod bearing starting to go..

Thank you for the break down brother, I plan to do this at some point or maybe even buy a short block to play with!

Bro you just made me feel so much better about putting power to my FA20. Unless a piston goes through the wall this engine seems somewhat easy to tare down and rebuild

This is the next step if I want more power for my FA20. I need a built motor. Good tear down video!

It's funny to see that they made the engine rods weaker for ease of teardown. But nice think cylinder walls. Kind of ironic.

this is great to know. im glad to finally see a little fa20 love. pretty fun little motors :D

Great video as always bro! IF YOU EVER GET A CHANCE, I know a lot of people would love to see you build a FA20 with a ETS turbo kit! There isn’t any high quality build videos out there yet. Thanks man!

Thanks for the FA20 content 👍🏻

Could please do more videos of the FA20 because I'm planning on building mine and your videos will help

This makes me want to get an blown FA20 just to rebuild it!!

Awesome! I have an FA20 with 122,000 miles. Fully stock but running great. Looks like a solid design and seems like a reliable engine so far, but I'm no professional lol.

Excited to see the FA20 videos. Helps when deciding where to put my earnings

I build the fa24 and na fa25 short blocks in the outback, legacy, and ascent models here in Lafayette, Ind. I was cringing the whole time lol. So many tools we have to make assembly so much faster and easier is really apparent here. I own a 2017 WRX myself.

I am very glad to hear rod bearing failure is fixable and I can reuse the block as mine is closed deck and I can’t afford another one. Unfortunately every shop within an 8 hour drive won’t work on my Subaru because they all say rod bearing isn’t salvageable and they only will put another new shortblock in along with replacing everything else under the hood that has any sort of fluid going through it. Not even joking all the parts under my hood have 6000 miles and every shop wants to replace everything. I’m just going to have to buy all the tools necessary to write done and do it myself at this point since literally no one is willing to help. That’s what I get for having a Subaru and not something ls. Edit-found a small local shop an hour and a half away that will take apart the engine down to the short block to send it to a machine shop in order to have them fix it.

Thanks for the fa video. I had about the same amount of trouble separating my trans from engine.

This is great because since STI prices are going up quite a bit and if they don't go down to where they were by July I'll just get a wrx. Still should be plenty fun and understanding the engine is great!

Tanner! Absolutely love the channel. I look forward to every video. Just got my first Subaru, the shitbox is a 2018 WRX 6-speed with 65k miles. I have dual Radium catch cans on the way, but any other upgrades / mods / fuel additives to protect the cars longevity?? (I assume the car has been Plan is to keep it a mostly stock, daily driver. You're the man!!! Wooo!!

yooo this had me dying during the love glove part😭😭😂😂 i had to put it on my instagram story and tag you

FA20! the EJ's are better, tho I've grown to like the FA more because of the turbo noises, even at low speeds🙃. Really like to see the guts and gore of the tear down😳👍🏼

Just know your content is always appreciated. Thank you for this. I hope to use this knowledge.

Hey I have a scenario I’d really like your advice about; my sons engined failed 2 years ago on his 2016 Subaru WRX 2.0 L DO HC inter cooled turbo engine with 44,000 miles on it. Subaru service found turbo charge shaft broken and impellers damaged. The short block cylinders 3 rod bearing also failed and found a lot of metal in the engine oil. Luckily, this was under power Tran warranty. Subaru replaced the short block turbo, oil feed lines, high pressure fuel line and oil pan at no cost. In October 2022 he was checking the oil and heard a tapping noise. I took it to the local Subaru service center who replaced the short block and turbo 2 years ago. They diagnosed it needed an engine rebuild to replace short block assembly, rod knock cylinder 4 at the cost of $ 8046.32. They said it was out of the one year warranty on parts from when they replaced it two years ago. The car only has 65,000 miles on it. I found the old invoice from two years ago which I never looked at because it said no charge on it and noticed that on the last page of the invoice it states after replacing the short block and turbo and engine reassemble they started the engine for a test drive. The engine check light came on Cam P00ll camshaft position timing over advanced bank1. They removed the cover and inspected the cam pulleys and found all 4 pulleys still had debris in them from when the engine failed and needed to be replaced. They replaced all four cam pulleys and reassembled the engine again. My question to you is can the debris that they found after replacing the new short block and turbo get into the short block oil passageway or oil galleries and heads and Over time cause it to fail again two years later causing # 4 rod to knock? What do you think?

I love how when you rattle the rod cap with the bad bearing it makes the identical sound my fa just started making when it spun the bearing 😂😂😂

So informative! Im doing an fa20 tear down on my motor currently for the exact same failure, and the guidance in your video is much appreciated.

Much appreciate the tear down and knowledge brotha 🤙

Your Videos are so interesting and entertaining. Love watching and learning about WRX's. 😎🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸

Also I think it's about time to buy some merchandise my friend. Built FA20DIT 👌

Yoooooo! is the give-away international on this one?? Great Content too my man! keep enjoying life!

FUCK YEAH SMEEDIA !!!🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Yes! thank you

so beautiful! talking about you tanner! and that FA20

That would be awesome to win a built FA20. It would look good in my car.

The engine farts had me dying 😂

FA20 content babyyy! ❤

That piston looked like toast my kids would make when they were little.

Please build the fa20 I want to build mine soon and 500whp is my goal, I'd love to see your video on it, it would give me a lot more confidence. I'm not confident on what my rod and main bearing clearances should be and that scares me.

Keep up the FA content!

Thx for the FA content. Now you make me want to get a built engine! Afraid of the crappy rods now. Gonna have to shell out $5k for an Outfront block. Yikes!

Watched yer video again. Nice to see teardown. Curious, what caused the bearing failure? I read spun bearings are oil related. Yer opinion?

would you do a 6spd trans teardown and rebuild, especially center diff non dccd. i put one in my 05 LGT and center diff is done... could be a colab vid with matt

Ok, we need glove love stickers or a shirt lol

I'm guessing they use these bolts because they grip really well and resist stripping.

and if i don't have IG how would i know about the winner for the give away?

Why couldn't you be in Australia 🥲

So after tearing down a ej25 and a fa20 which one do you find to be easier? Also Its weird to see the similarities between the fa20 and diesel engines like the thrust washers look almost identical to the mx13 but just super small. Also the fuel system is also super similar. Some more fa20/fa24 content would be cool! Great video bud👍

Build a ez30 or ez36 next please 😭🙏

I caught me a glimpse of a wing on blue 😁

LOVE this ! Thank you.

as promised i am now a supporter!

I asked my local shop how much it would be to drop a iag block into my fa20. I was told 25,000$. Never discussed any performance mods. What a joke. I’d love to do it myself

Thank you for what you do!

Hey did you have to modify or bore the block when you attached the bigger rods and bearings to the fa20? What rods and bearings did you go with? We’re the rods and bearing plug and play on the pistons and crank? Are you gonna post a video showing the fa20 being sssembled with the upgraded internals?

FA20 gangg glad to see it, might be my old block 😬😂

I just gotinto a 2020 WRX. I have a few..esoteric Subaru questions. I see a lot in forums about the 8 million ways to die these motors appear to have. I want to hear from some professionals regarding the air intake addition to lean fuel state issue. So is it true that, with the addition of an air intake, the ECU can only enrich to a certain percentage, then it will stop even if it is still getting lean AFR from the narrowband O2 (issume these have a narrowband from the factory)? So you basically have to have a Cobb, access to a pro tuner, or both if you change the air pre-MAF? Also, I keep seeing spun bearings from these cars. I hardly think people are banging the rev limiter drifting FA's lol. What is the primary cause of that in your experience?

So mines went out and you know everyone who has rod knock it can still turn on or still run mine doesn’t do it weird but my mechanic said it sounds like rod knock I’m confused because I took out oil was clean no sparkles but it doesn’t stay on if it’s warmed up it stays on if it’s been sitting but if turn it on while it on you have to rev it up so It doesn’t die out what do you guys say?

Can you still reuse that crankshaft? Or did you need to buy new one?

Do you want another one lol just replaced my long block and have a giant block of metal taking up my garage

Where did you purchased the short Block? I want to start my own build.

Can I use upgrade rods on oem block ?

Can you go over the cost of each engine build when they're complete please

Love the FA content, I pray to god I win this engine!

Enjoy watching the fa teardown. Funny question can I send my postcard in a envelope lol?

If only I had a garage to do this lol.

Which way do you turn to get the rod bearings bolt out

Love this!!

Sense you have both of these blocks out. Could an FA 20 bolt up to a transmission for an EJ series engine? Just wondering...

FA20 Could use some love but Ej's are more popular

I have a 18 wrx and really payed attention to this video lol, I’m only stage 2 currently being e tuned, probably not even 300hp.. with my power what are the chances of anything happening besides this to the short block? and what would it take for something to affect my long block? Just preparing for the worst lol. Thanks for the vid tanner!

I recently destroyed my engine took down the oil pan and there was a broken piston 😩 now my frs is parked

finally fa content!

FA20 content, nice. Rod bearing failure.... nice.

When you go to time the engine, don’t listen to stis. There’s a less confusing way to do it

bro how do i enter? my 40th is coming up & it would be AWESOME to win a giveaway...... It would be first one EVER!!!!!!!! lady luck must of got lost on her way to me cuz we have never met lol..

When a fb20 build? 🥺 (or the fb24 frankenstein: fb25 block, fa20 stroker rods and crank, fb25 pistons and fb20 heads) 🤔

From what you seen tearing down the block, what would you say the fa20 block has going for it that stands out as better than the ej block. Or at least what is it you liked better if anything.

in the middle of my engine rebuild. Oil starved after sustaining 1.5gs on track. Flat4s turn out to be terrible for tracking

Why do you think or do you know what lead to the spun bearing? Too much power put to it, bad maintenance, bad tune or other? Just curious.

Hey how did it spin a bearing exactly ? Low oil? Too much hard turning? I’d like to know just to prevent

Wonder what caused the failure being the other bearings were ok, Poor tune maybe? Low oil would have shown a lot of wear on the other bearings

Who's dusty farts are worse, EJ's or FA's?

Also quick question: I have the whiteline rear sway bar with kartboy endlinks set on neutral or middle setting. I will be installing 2 way front sway bar w kartboy links. What setting would you recommend on the front?

If you were to upgrade the rods on an FA20 (not offset), how much more difficult would be to get the rod/piston in/out of the block?

brooo, my engine spun a bearing or uncle Rodney came to visit 😂