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stock? What's that mean
fix it till it's broke wasting all your money in the meantime
^i'm sure there must be medication for this type of disease

I'm now stripping my car as the engine went pop again, and I decided it wasnt worth paying for a another rebuild probably to pop again at some point in the future due to running high hp (wouldve been even higher had I gone for the rebuild again) All I can say is dont do it. I'm absolutely gutted str...

My front left bar looks in similar condition as the photo above of the replaced unit. As for my right side, I've got a few similar looking support bars, and I'm not sure what 1 it is, it may have even gone off with other parts by mistake

I think mine are in decent ish condition. Ill take a look in the garage in a min and dbl check

bearings are cheap enough to replace i guess tho. Piston rings arent as bad as i thought either. I hear a lot of good things about total seal rings
cheers

have to +1 for the washer spacer method, the ones I used were about 2mm thick, and has stopped literal floods of water appearing on the seats

I need to change my block due to it cracking

It was fully forged, clevite bearings and arp bolts throughout. Can I swap all this into a new block, obviously after getting the bores correct for the pistons too.
Will the piston rings need redoing?
Also will all rev3 stuff go into a rev2 block?

thanks gav, that's what I was looking for

Mine is a late '94 rev3 block with 86.5mm wieseco pistons 9.0:1 compression

that's gutting that soon after mapping, I've had 2.5yrs since last mapping and about 4 since rebuild and overbore I've read so much about cracking thinking that'll never happen, expecting a crack to be a big noticable crack that you can see fresh air thru, not such a fine hair line that ours appear ...

I went out to double check last night, and I appear to have a crack in piston no3

sorry, I meant the gasket lifted off with ease It also has the arp head stud kit installed from when the engine was last built. I dont think the head was skimmed last time, and fortunately it hasnt even got close to overheating in the 9yrs I've had the car, so fingers crossed it shouldnt have warped...

it was almost covered in oil. I thought that part of the engine was supposed to be an oil free zone? The head didnt pull the gasket off when I removed it, and the gasket slid off the block, so I cant see how that pulled the layers apart. Only thing I can imagine is the realese of the tension when th...

i've just found a few pages that agree with what you say.
I'll double check the gasket tonight. Does the separation of layers on the head gasket not necessarily mean failure?

I had a quick check of the bores, and it still looks perfect from it's prior re-bore, but i'll re-check again tonight

so should I go for a 1.6mm gasket, what would that change the compression ration to? or, stick to the standard 0.8mm and not run as much boost? how much boost do you think will be safe with either scenario? am I right in thinking that with high compression, you dont need as much boost and get better...

I'm concerned now u say that bob. The actual symptoms I was getting. 1st I noticed the water level dropping gradually. Then at idle just after startup it sounded slightly offbeat until it was revved Then after it went, I had lower compression on middle 2 cylinders @170psi and outer 2 @190psi. Bucket...

does anyone know what is included in the samco ancillary hose kit? Cant find any info on them

My pistons are 9.0:1, what size head gasket will I need to safely see 2.0bar boost from a gt35r?

mark239 yours sounds exactly like where im heading.
how hard is it to fit the swirl pot and bosh pump. do you have any photo's?

good thread, giving lots of ideas

and to answer poster
currently
rev3 rail,
sard800's
walbro255
power fc @ 1.5bar = 398.7hp fly

looking to change to cope with 550-600fly

so from the pics, it def looks like a failed gasket??

I'd point the blame at too much overboosting, especially at the moment of death it spiked to 2.0 bar when its only mapped for 1.5