Originally Posted by centerforce99
Fawk dude, that sucks. Good intention gone haywire. Did you really have to change out the springs and seals? I remember once I tried to do a valve adjustment on my 67 VW when I was in highschool, when I turned it on the car was shaking like it was having a heart attack. Then I was like fuck man, it really didn't even need it, I decided to do it just because. I had to ph. a friend to cme help me fix it, but man for a second I wished I'd just left it alone. Good luck man, hope it all works out.
P.S. Any chance you can borrow a car to go to work in case you decide to send the head off for a p&p? Since the head is off...
The seals had to be done since I was spewing shit out of my exhaust AGAIN. I decided to pick up some ITR springs to go with my CTR cams since they were only $100 shipped.
I can borrow a car, but I have been spending too much money lately and this project set me back another $200 with the springs, keepers, head gasket, and valve to be spending another few hundred for a relatively useless p&p. Plus the head is junk...I have two sheared off cam holder bolts and the valve guides need to be replaced.
Originally Posted by tegbooster
haha shoulda bought my headgasket off me... lol i still have that thing laying around... i woulda tossed it to ya for like $20 lol.... oh well... that sucks so bad, i don't know how i drove 100 miles w/ a loose timing belt and you managed to bend a valve w/ just starting it up.... luck of the draw i guess. anyway.. goodluck w/ the rest of your stuff... sucks we're not gunna see you down at the eibach meet... like i said on the phone... gimme a call if your lookin for another wrench, im always down
Yeah, I remembered that you had that headgasket after I bought it from Acura for $60. I will probably need one in the future since I have gone through 4 of them in the last two years.
Be careful with the Eibach meet. Cops are getting smart and busting those. Cars are being impounded and such, so be sketchy or take a car that won't get you busted.