Moment of terror:
I just realized I made a mistake. I thought I sucked-up all the oil/water in the head-stud bungs but there was some left, so when I tightened the headstuds it probably forced some fluid out, under the headgasket, contaminating the surface.

Should I pull the headgasket, clean, and start over?

 

I dripped a ---- ton of oil out of my head last time I did a head swap. I was handling it myself with a really shitty HG that wouldn't align very well, I had to remove the rear dowel; it wouldn't fit over. Seems to still be holding compression well -- YMMV.

 

Things are looking up.

 

lol, you read eyesoreracing's page, didn't you.

 

Yes. It never dawned on me that when I was tightening the studs down, that any oil or water in them would NOT fold into another dimension through a worm-hole.

 

lol. the 1st thing you do when you rip off a head is soak up the oil from the head stud holes. n00b

 

I failed in execution. I thought I soaked it all up with my 8-little rags, but apparently I didn't go down deep enough.

Do I need to tear this thing apart or what?

 

Practice makes perfect.

 

I doubt it. id leave it as is.
if it holds/works and holds compression and no leaks why would you wanna do that?

 

Because it has not been tested yet. I have my first weekend at the track in a few days, I don't want to break the car 5-hours from home.

 

Where is your van and uhaul car trailer?

 

then go test it lol
beat the ---- out of it for a couple hours then do compression/leakdown which will take all of like 30 minutes

 

I don't have enough cash to buy that stuff yet. I'm getting the van next month, the trailer a couple months later.

 

It doesn't really work like that. Show me a stretch of road where I can go 0-100-0-100-0-100-0-100-0-100-0-100-0-100 about 50 times and I'll call it done.

 

[quote=hustler;825008]apparently I didn't go down deep enough.
/QUOTE]


That's what he said.




You don't know your area well enough. Test tracks are everywhere. I say floor it and then drag your brakes so you are boosting and not accellerating. Hold that at 60mph for a while until something catches on fire. Yay.

Seriously though that is valid for load testing

 

if I can find a long stretch of road between two fields in the middle of bum f*ck egypt here in clusterf*cked Cali, you should not have a problem at all in the great state of Texas s0n

don't be a beech

 

Come to Greece. You can do 120 in a 75 zone for two hours straight and not get pulled over.

 

Isn't the van your GF dad's? Could you not just borrow it for the one weekend and then rent a uhaul trailer.

 

To save your brakes just attach the van to your miata bumper, put the van parking brake on and load your motor right up pronto.

 

make sure you do this with a rope please.