Goodhart's budget beater 1g

[asshanson]

trade ya rims lol. I need more friends I always see um for 800 wtf

WTF really? I have seen several sets here for $400 or less.

Goodhart, going to bring this on the Fall cruise? :nod:

[turbotalon1g]

Let me know when it's assembly time.

[goodhart]

No way it would be ready by the fall cruise. I also paid way less than $400 for these. :D

[goodhart]

Got a little work done on the motor this weekend.

Got the block hot tanked by Gosh Tuesday, picked it up on Thursday. While I was there I got a quote from John for my head and he said it would be cheaper if I took the valves out myself since they have to be taken out to resurface it. I had checked the flatness with my feeler gauges this week also, and it has a warped spot that is about .008" off, and another spot that is about .006" off. The service limit is .008" so I decided to just have it re-surfaced to be on the safe side.


When I was in the area I picked up a bad ass valve spring compressor tool from Ling Ling. Thanks again for that man, it made quick work of taking the head apart! I also picked up some other supplies I will be needing.

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Getting the valves out:
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Bought a cheap tackle box tray to keep everything organized:
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Also measured the head thickness and found it is still a virgin head. Good thing since it will need at least .006-.007" taken off I am thinking.
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Also got my my block all painted up. I went with regular parts store dupli-color low gloss black. One can ended up being enough, worked pretty well.
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Bagged it all up until it can be put together:
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[goodhart]

So I've been watching a ton of Jafromobile videos on youtube and this is something that he did in one of them. Good thing I checked into it too, it ended up being worth my time.

Check out the cast flashing here about to fall off:
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Barely tapped it with a screwdriver and it fell right off:
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End result:
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Here is the pile I got from the whole head:
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Also dug out all the rtv from the valve cover bolt holes:
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Next up was doing the head oil port mod. Got out the die grinder and used an old head gasket for a template so I wouldn't screw up the head surface, I used a couple head bolts to keep the gasket put:
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[goodhart]

I also wanted to drill out the head bolt holes to 1/2" to accommodate the bigger 1g head bolts, and tap and plug the egr hole on the intake side of the head, but couldn't find a drill bit long enough for the press and I don't have a 1/4" npt tap for the egr. The local hardware store wanted $8 for a 1/4 npt tap and didn't have the style plug I wanted so I will just have Gosh do those two things for me.

My list of things for Gosh to do to the head:

- Bore head bolt holes to 1/2"
- Tap and plug EGR hole
- Re-surface
- Hot tank

[b00sted_spyder]

I also have that valve spring tool. Makes life so much easier!

[evotuner]

Nice work, especially on the head material. That would suck to have the whole thing built and have crap start flaking off into motor.

[Halon]

Maybe I missed it but are you going to run aftermarket valve train components or stick with the stock stuff? Block looks nice!

[turbotalon1g]

Just use a 1/2" bit and still by hand.