My Winter Upgrades

[sleepydsm]

Ha!

OK well the new front mount should be here early next week.

The L19 headstuds arrived and are sitting in the garage. One of these days when it looks like we're going to have a lot of rain, I think I'm going to take the head off, and go have the surface remachined. The shop that did it was pretty cheap and not sure how good of a machine job they did on it. Hopefully having it resurfaced will make it smoother, and that combined with the new L19's will hopefully take care of my "pushing coolant" issues.

Remember, having a flat BLOCK surface is key too...

I had a freshly decked head, with a copper sprayed (lol) OEM metal HG that pushed coolant.

[Halon]

Considering the whole new block has maybe 10k on it, I'd hope it's fairly flat. I would expect the head would warp well before the block would. I will check it though when I pull the head. My roommate has one of those "certified straight edge's" up in his room that I could use.

And if my block isn't perfectly flat, well right now there really isn't much I can do about that. I'm not pulling it out. (waiting for a "that's what she said" remark)

[asshanson]

Yea I'm guessing that head was fairly warped. I blew the headgasket on it and still drove it a few times because I was a dumbass noob at the time, plus it overheated a few times before all that happened. It got to at least 260-270 probably half a dozen times.

[sleepydsm]

Brandon, what clutch setup are you running?

[Halon]

Stock Flywheel, Fidanza 4.3 clutch.

[niterydr]

Very light Light cuts on the head. Sometimes by pushing coolant it isn't a non-flat head, but more of the head material compressing and allowing coolant to flow by. The lack of aluminum in my head is what caused my heads to "lift" and push coolant on the stealth in 2005-2006. The higher tensile strength headstuds should help keep it down as well.

[Halon]

I didn't completely follow those first two sentances. Are you saying I should put very light cuts on my head?

[FattyBoomBatty]

I'm guessing no. lol. I think he means when you have heads resurfaced a bunch it takes away metal that would otherwise contribute to rigidity.

By very very light, he means take off as little as possible.

[MustGoFaster]

i'm guessing no. Lol. I think he means when you have heads resurfaced a bunch it takes away metal that would otherwise contribute to rigidity.

By very very light, he means take off as little as possible.

+1

[Halon]

Well the car decided to leave me stranded on Hwy 96 today. I was sitting there waiting to make a right turn, just idling, and it shut off on me.

Huge thanks to Nick (munchgsx) for coming and towing her home for me.

Car is turning over great, sounds like it has heathy compression, but won't fire up. Won't even come close to firing up, just cranks and cranks. My first thought was it wasn't getting fuel. So while sitting on the shoulder, I checked the ignition and MPI fuses. Both checked out good. I turned the fuel pump on via DSMLink, checked the fuel pressure and it was good, and I could feel the fuel running through the lines. So there went that theory. Got her towed home, and decided to check if I was getting spark. Kinda hard to do with just me and no helper. I unplugged the wires from the plugs, and set them right next to grounded parts of the car, figuring that when I cranked it over, if I have spark I'd hear some arcing. Well, I didn't hear a damn thing. So right now, it's looking like I lost my spark, somehow... I'll have to find someone to help me to verify that though. I'm thinking somehow either my coilpack or transistor died. Which might go hand in hand with my intermittent missfiring I was running into.

Put up a WTB add, so if anyone has a transistor, or coil pack, that I can borrow to see if it fixes the issue. please let me know ASAP!!!!!