Well, my car has had an ITR swap for over a year, and I was going to put the AC belt back in yesterday when the motor starts to drop. The 3 threads in the short block on the drivers side were all stripped. I took out the motor today, and am having it machined, but just wanted people to be aware if you buy a salvage motor to check these threads. Sometimes when a car that the motor was in is hit on the drivers side the bolts are pulled out stripping the threads. Here are some detailed pics.

 

that sucks yea i took 20 min going over every mm of my motor before taking it

 

same thing happend to me, i just helicoiled it
and put studs instead of bolts

 

that's what i am going to do on monday