Awesome! check your PMCustomMSP said:I'm more than likely down for help on sat and sun. Great opportunity to learn a thing or two
How long did it end up taking to replace your HG? How many people were in it? When I put a new head on my car earlier this year, it was days worth of work for me, and I had help at times.azian6er said:man sounds like to what happpened to me...
except i had 30 psi in #3 not 90.
I bet your studs are failing man and you are loosing compression into your water jackets.
I would keep an eye on your coolant temps if you could. Also take off the rad. cap and watch for air bubbles come up. if you see them then you may be losing that compression into the coolant.
damn 10 mm studs!
-Bryan
210psi on all cylinders?? WHAT? How? That's so far above spec...azian6er said:ps i put the new head on with new gasket and 11 mm studs. Thumper is running and making 210 psi on all cylinders. I couldnt be more happy.
Take the studs out and get the 11s. You will save yourself a lot of guess work and headache later. TRUST me.
-B
Nah, I used 10mm head studs.PaulMP3 said:kooldino, you did use stock studs in you re-build correct?
Well, i gotta pull the piston to check the rings. And the test I did pointed to it being the rings.azian6er said:yes he did use the 10mm arp's aka death
pull the head man change the studs new gasket and your compression will be good i believe. But i would inspect the piston rigs of courseas well.
-B
damn dude, my 1st time opening up the engine took me 2 hours to pull the head....Kooldino said:How long did it end up taking to replace your HG? How many people were in it? When I put a new head on my car earlier this year, it was days worth of work for me, and I had help at times.
I checked my oil and coolant...they both look normal. Did you do the teaspoon of oil test to see if the rings had failed?
Yeah, that's exactly what I thought I had to do, recalling the time I built up the motor. Except i wasn't sure about the tranny. So i take it you speak from experience? Can you snap a pic and draw arrows pointing to the bolts i have to pull out?PRO 5 said:As far as needing to take your trans off.... no you don't. You can just slightly seperate the trans from the motor just to take off 2 bolts that are holding on the main bearing support that are just behind your flywheel. You will have to take your top end off, oil pan, main bearing support and then you can get access to the rods. Once you take off the rod caps the pistons can be pushed out the top of the block. If I lived close to you I would definetly help out but I'm about half the pacific ocean away. Good luck and don't get to frustrated when/if things don't go how they should!
Dave
The ones that came with my JE-SRP pistons.MAMotorsports said:What type of ring package do you have now?
The same ones, I hope.What type are you getting?
RA reading??Different ring packages require different RA reading to seal properly.
Where can i find a Profalometer?See if you can find a Profalometer(Gives you the RA) and take a few readings in the cylinders.Then look up what you need.
I'm sure mine aren't drilled. I've seen pics of ones that were, and asked about them, but supposedly they're only good for racecars since they corrode the ring sooner or something.On all our high HP setups we have the pistons gas drilled.This helps the pistons seal under high boost loads.
bored or honed?pdhaudio83 said:you can drive on it, but you might want to get those cylinder walls bored so its a fresh start.
How long did the whole job take?Focus said:When I twisted my rod we rebuilt the engine in car. Let me tell you it's a hell of a job. The only major hickup was removing the oil pan. They did it without removing the tranny, by drilling a little access window to get to two bolts.
2 hours? I had so many damn things connected to the head it took a day in itself.mp5jeff said:damn dude, my 1st time opening up the engine took me 2 hours to pull the head....
hah, sucks...you should be able to do it faster this time since you know what to do im sure...i basically just pulled the intake manifold off with the head, seemed to be alot easier then trying to **** with those hard to get bolts...Kooldino said:2 hours? I had so many damn things connected to the head it took a day in itself.
Looks like if you get me and jeff together we could take the motor completly apart it about half an hour!!! Hahaha!mp5jeff said:damn dude, my 1st time opening up the engine took me 2 hours to pull the head....
Yeah, that's what I did.mp5jeff said:hah, sucks...you should be able to do it faster this time since you know what to do im sure...i basically just pulled the intake manifold off with the head, seemed to be alot easier then trying to **** with those hard to get bolts...
...............................................(lol)Kooldino said:How long did the whole job take?
Which two bolts were being cockblocked? Pics/more info?
Well, here's the thing...the car still runs fairly normally. If you rode in it, you'd never know that I had low comp in one cylinder.LinuxRacr said:...............................................(lol)
Seriously, get that motor up and running again. If I was in the area, you know I'd stop by and lend a hand. Anyway, how many miles did you have on your JE/SRP's?
Kooldino said:Well, here's the thing...the car still runs fairly normally. If you rode in it, you'd never know that I had low comp in one cylinder.
But anyway, about 12K miles on the pistons.