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Originally Posted by scheides
Sweet! Is the cossie gasket extra thick or something--why it over OEM? Just curious.
Lots of good fixes there, hopefully your leaks are all gone! good wok sir, you now have me worried about my stupid timing chain....something to think about down the road I guess.
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I can't use OEM even if I wanted to, 90mm bore vs. 86mm
If I was still a 2.0L I would use the OEM, no reason not to, I had one in my gasket kit anyway. The thicker gasket (1.3mm vs. say a 1.1mm) was simply for extra material for a better seal and to lower compression a tiny bit to offset my head being decked so if anything its lower than 10:1. I don't regret high compression yet, but it just makes me nervous now more than anything to run high boost even though most guys run a ton with the high compression. I'd love to try my car on 32psi and see what it can do and might with real e85.
I didn't do this to fix the timing chain honestly, mine seemed fine, never had issues with that. But since everything was coming off, mind as well fix the shit.
Forgot to mention, MAP suggested part of the problem my car was leaking was excessive crank case pressure. I do have a small catch can, but they said its no where big enough. So I am prolly going to get them to put a bulkhead on the valve cover or an AN fitting of sorts and get a big JMfab catch can to relieve the pressure. They said what I have now is insufficient. That way shit won't leak, so I will prolly do that soon.
They offered to do a custom setup to make it fit nice but they said it would get spendy and I care more about function then form so as long as it works I don't care.