While you do X, you might as well do Y - a tale of woe.

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

08-15-2013, 09:42 PM

#21

18psi

VladiTuned

iTrader: (76)

Join Date: Apr 2008

Posts: 35,821

Total Cats: 3,481

I would never, ever, open up a perfectly running engine unless I was refreshing or building it.

Just my .02

08-15-2013, 10:21 PM

#22

fredb

Junior Member

iTrader: (1)

Join Date: Feb 2009

Location: Kamloops B.C.

Posts: 274

Total Cats: 36

Run all of it , then you can do the head gasket ,rods and pistons etc. all at once.

08-15-2013, 11:12 PM

#23

codrus

Elite Member

Join Date: Mar 2007

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Posts: 5,165

Total Cats: 855

Quote:

Originally Posted by fooger03

But if you DO do a coolant reroute - well, since you've got the head off, you might as well get bigger valves, and since the valves are out, you might as well replace the valve seals, and if you do all that, you have to shim the lifters. Since it's going to a machine shop anyways for bigger valves, you might as well get it gasket matched , ported, and polished....

This happened to me. Well, not quite, I had burned exhaust valves, so the head had to come off, and I had to buy new valves. And the oversize ones cost LESS than stock valves! And FM's machine shop charged LESS than the ones in California, so I sent it to them. And as long as it was there, well, I pretty much had to get it ported & polished & unshrouded etc etc, right?

--Ian