Another reason I love my wife
 

Here's Anna removing the nuts from my stretched garbage ARP headstuds:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3331/...d658d5bf9b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3650/...a06c6550c8.jpg


I'm working 8pm to ~2am tonight for a massive maintenance window for work, so I went into the office at 8am with the intention of leaving at noon and taking the rest of the afternoon off to get the head 90% of the way off and relax a little. Instead, I skipped lunch and got home at 5pm. :( Anna showed up in the garage in grubbies and my buddy chris (bananas on here) stopped by to lend a hand. 7:15 we had the head off, not bad for a noob eh?

Now I'm at work. Head goes to MAP tomorrow to swap for a core they had and (hopefully) have their stage3 port job done on. Plan is for Bob to do port cleanup in the exhaust and intake runners (no reshape, no CC work), new 5-angle valve job, reuse the stock valves but backcut the exhaust valves, and new valve stem seals. Gonna use oem MLS headgasket ( but w/o copper spray this time ), AMS/TMS L19 headstuds (thanks Shane@DB!) and one of the phenolic spacer gaskets on the intake manifold. She made 375whp on DB's dyno on pump gas only (395 w/alky) with rough tunes....the goal in the back of my mind is to creep up on (but prolly not break) 400whp with some real tuning on just pump gas and not push the boost too much to keep this thing nice and reliable as a daily driver.

Alky will be kept but I think I might add a .7mm jet (have a single 1.0mm jet now) lower down the UICP. Possibly switch back to 100% meth but 50/50 is a decent combo for me and the price is right!

Anyways, stay tuned!

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The muffler is not a light bulb, you may take it off the ceiling now.

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Darn admins don't even know what a light bulb is... Kinda nice you have some help to figure this out.

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LOL you fukers! That's rosey's stock turboback just chillin in my garage attic :D

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HAHA sorry! I suppose now that i have a house i could get that out of you attic and put it in mine!

Glad to hear you got the head off! Wish i coulda come over to help, woulda been more fun than busting up shitty cement!

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:nod: nice! lucky man. Always nice to have help, but better when it's from somone you love... and without asking. Wow!

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quoted for truth.

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Nice! Phenolic spacers are so FTW!

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She normally doesn't want to much but IDK, she must have just seen the frantic look in my eyes to get it all done and just helped me buckle down and rock it out. Hard part is behind me now, just gotta get it the rest of the way apart and get it back together. Then to shane for tuning (finally), then just keep driving it. It's been broken for a month and I have still driven it quite a bit, just taken it easy and stuck to 'only' 24psi :D

Heh Hughes was going to come over and help me with this tomorrow AM after I get off of work then go work on his jetski....looks like the jetski willget lots of love! :D

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Hope ya get it all done soon! :) Picking up a water pump in the morning. Just getting all the stuff I need for doing the timing... & the cheaper I find stuff the more affordable the hks 272 look. :D

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Awesome! Thats really cool she helped you out. Do we need to do any tear-down to the head this morning before running it over to MAP?

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Thanks Hughes(Kracka) and Jim(TalonFiero/TalonEvo) for coming over and helping me finish prep everything for the head to go back on! I dropped off my stock head at MAP on Saturday and porting guru Bob@MAP had already started on my core. I think I got on their schedule about 5-6 weeks ago to make this happen, and through diligent pings over IM and in person visits (had to buy parts for this project as well as brakes) everything seems to have come together. Anyways, picked up my head today after work and zzzzomg it looks pretty decent! I wasn't after a super insane port job, just a nice basic one and I am quite impressed. On saturday I saw it with the valves out and now I'm kicking myself for not taking pics.

When bob disassembled my stock head he discovered that ALL BUT THREE of my valvestem seals were kaput and looked like this:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo-m...0449.sized.jpg

So, oil burning issue....CHECK! Nothing huge but hopefully this will solve it.

The next detail that was unexpected but very thoughtful was the EGR port plug. This will keep all exhaust gasses from reaching my intake manifold and combined with my phenolic spacer IM gasket should keep the IM nice and cool. Not a biggie with the alky but def nice on straight pump gas.
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo-m...0459.sized.jpg

Here's the phenolic spacer (notice anything funny? I didn't until later in the evening):
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo-m...0456.sized.jpg

And finally, some shots of the portwork. Any pics where you can see studs around the port will be on the exhaust side.
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo-m...0448.sized.jpg

exhaust
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo-m...0453.sized.jpg

intake
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo-m...0467.sized.jpg


Jim cleaned the block deck since he owed me a favor and the damn punk got lucky; the block was very easy to clean, there was not much to do! Everything was nice and level, very nice except for one worry-some spot:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo-m...0466.sized.jpg

I'm thinking this will be sealed nice by the new gasket but still worries me slightly. This is NOT where the HG blew either time, so not sure.

Anyways, I went to bolt the IM on and realized that I had gotten a phenolic spacer for a 2G, not an evo :( I chalked it up to karma telling me to not stress about the car, so we seated the new AMS/TMS L19's in place and called it a night. Head is fully assembled with my GSC beehive springs and Kelford 272's strapped in and ready to rock, exhaust mani bolted on, engine bay cleaned up. Just gotta get new gasket and bolt up the IM and drop the head back onto the block. I was hoping for as little downtime as possible, but I figure I'm still within that window, considering the changes being done.

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Can you get shorter valve stem seals that are sure to seal at the very top of the guide, and not above it? I know with my engine if you get a cam with big lift, it's wise to cut down the guides and get the shorter stem seals.

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To be honest I'm not sure! Perhaps bob could answer that, or someone else?

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I really like how they plugged the EGR port. Hopefully MAP can get you the correct IM gasket ASAP!

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You're one lucky guy. My have to practically beg my g/f to come out and help with 2 person jobs.

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Oh, and extra special thanks to garage mod #2! I hardly broke a sweat last night, even though it was like 95°F and high humidity out!

http://www.mitsustyle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11419

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It can be done, but you would be making a compromise. Cutting down the guide will reduce it's life and depending on how far it's cut, may end up loosing a bit of valve control. I know in 4g63 platforms it's mostly a non issue, but I'm not sure about the conquest motor....

Scheides, sorry to hear about the gasket, was it Chris that sold it to ya? LOL

This head was in for a little port cleanup with nothing major for shape changing outside of the bowl to seat blend, a fresh valvejob, fresh deck, the exhaust valves were backcut, and new seals were installed.

Now get that bad boy installed!

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We tried, tell Carey to order the right parts next time ;)

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Still isn't as bad as when he ordered me a 1G flywheel...

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I keep trying to get you guys to deal with the dedicated sales people over here, I'm a little rusty lol. In this case, however, it wasn't my fault for once. Apparently our vendor got it into their head that 2g and Evo gaskets are the same, which may appear to be the case until you realize that the Evo injectors are on the intake manifold! Sometimes I just can't believe the service in this industry...

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We just love you too much :D

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Haha I hope you will love me for my imperfections as well ;)

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No one is perfect.

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This.

And you know I'm cool about the flywheel, Chris. It's not like I've never made mistakes at my job, prepaying people at the wrong pumps or anything. We all do it, you're a great guy, and honestly, where would we be without you?

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Your cars would likely be running (albeit closer to stock form) and you would have more money in your pockets lol ;) Thanks for the kind words guys!

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so it's your fault! :news:

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Pssh, running cars and bank accounts with more than $100 in them are overrated.

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I thought the spacers were junk because they tend to melt and cause more issues then they make power? I know my spacer melted on my 2g causing a nice size leak and horrible tuning issues? Mine was from Magnus.

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After discovering the issue with the distributor Chris dug through some boxes and discovered the correct spacer!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3315/...0ea0fea004.jpg

I got home, scarfed some nummy greek food and got to it. bolted up intake manifold, threw the head on (THANKS AGAIN HUGHES!), and ran into a quick roadblock.


Last night I had the new L19's installed:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2426/...e356072af3.jpg

I ended up having to pull one of them back out once the head was on b/c the washers are so big it got bound up on the spring. :(

Once that was sorted, torqued the L19's to 91 ft-lbs, hooked up the cam gears, and put the valve cover on. Hughes had to take off just as Jim showed up to offer me moral support. I was gonna be done at this point but Anna was doing other stuff so I just kept my head down and buttoned everything back up! Filled the coolant and ran some o'reily's 10w30 oil through it for a few minutes, drained it, changed oil filter, filled with Mobil1 10w30 and started it again to make sure all was well. While the oil was draining I did a quick boost leak test and discovered that I might have ripped one of the injector seals when it popped in (felt a tish of a pop as it seated :( ). So, I'll check that out tomorrow and finish putting the heat shields and whatnot on.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3578/...d38fa50e65.jpg

Thanks again for all those who helped me, even those who didn't help this time around but helped me last time. Definitely not afraid to do a HG again, just hopefully its not on this car! :D

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That seemed to be the case before, but it seems as though those issues are a thing of the past. I have no EGR gasses going into my IM at all anymore, so the only heat will be from direct contact with the head and the bolts that hold it on.

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you coulda asked for help ya know..Also, don't you need an alignment?

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I got al the help I needed thanks swifty! I'll keep ya in mind for the set of bilsteins I have sitting on my workbench :D Yes, I will prolly need an alignment after those go in ;)

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sweet. I already got david on a shopping list for his evo..so far, I've got a FMIC from ETS going on soon. Then, some coilovers, hopefully some black enkei RPF-1's in a 18x 9.5 variant or so, cams, springs/retainers, etc.

Your evo makes me jealous..just how responsive it is, and yet still pulls..seat of the pants, it feels as fast as my car. I want your car.

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Man Scheides I'm so excited to have mine up soon! Glad MAP got everything sorted for your barrier gasket and that everything went back together well!

Hopefully mine works just as well :)

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Buttoned up everything but the undertray and the strut-tower bar after work and made it out to Wagner's with everyone tonight. Felt so good to drive the car again! It's a ton of fun, but needs some tuning. Time for logging and a visit to DB.

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Working cars are fun :D

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^^ Working cars are definately more fun than working ON cars!! At least when you have to work on them when your not putting on go-fast parts

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Nice Scheides! Hopefully this headgasket/studs will be a little nicer to you then the old one(s). :)

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I see 399.9awhp in your future.