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+1

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That will be checked when the head is off.

Noob question, can you reuse any types of headgaskets, like the permatorque or cometic mls? Like if I take the head off, turns out seals and guides are terrible so I fix that and reinstall the head. But then I need to take it apart again to also do the rings.

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keep in mind..these are two totally seperate things. You can do the seals without pulling the head either andrew..and if it burns alot of oil, that could very well be it.

-A. Swift

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Not unless you want to deal with it possibly pushing coolant. The Permatorque is sticky like fly paper and the Cometic MLS comes with it's own kind of coating on it that will likely stick the head and block when you remove the head. You could be ghetto and copper spray the MLS and try to reuse it. The Mitsu MLS would be the easiest one to try to reuse.

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I found out there are two types of Permatorque headgaskets: single layer and MLS. Which do I get?

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The multi-layer one is the new hot head gasket, unfortunately they are on backorder everywhere at the moment, we have several on order :(

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I will pick one up on Friday/Saturday with the bearings and my coated parts if you have them in by then :D

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I'm hoping but we haven't heard any updates :( What bearings do you need? ACL race for 6 bolt?

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Yep the tri-metals for 6 bolt, standard size. I called and was told you have several in stock. $35-40 for the set if I remember correctly?

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Do you need just rods or mains or the full set sir?

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Just rod bearings. I'm not taking the crank out or anything.

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OK cool yeah that pricing sounds right.

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Got the turbo and related parts all coated and picked them up. Also got the turbo rebuilt because it was apparently leaking/burning a decent amount of oil.

Tonight I got the xfer case and oil pan off, and it turns out my motor has a crank scraper. Should I keep this in there or get rid of it? I called the motor builder and he verified he installed one several years back.

E-PSI has been super dumb about shipping me new rings, so I'm calling Magnus first thing tomorrow and ordering directly from them since they had Ross make them originally. They couldn't tell me what rings were necessary until I had the exact piston numbers scratched onto the bottom, which is why I delved into it tonight.

Oil pan was super clean, and from what I've seen so far from the bottom of the motor the cylinder walls look really good still. I should have the head off tomorrow, hopefully I'll get some pics posted up.

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My vote is keep the crank scraper. If your worried about oil leaking just make sure to RTV it right nice and proper.

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Got the head and intake manifold off tonight, took me about 3 hours. Not too bad considering it's my my first time doing the timing belt stuff with the motor in the car.

This also exposed all the brake lines in the engine bay so I decided to start on the ABS delete. I got the lines off the master, and removed all the lines to the proportioning valve. Now I just need to get to the store and get a 10mm flare wrench so I can remove the rusty front brake lines from the SS lines in the wheel wells. Should have that done tomorrow, and install the new non-ABS lines I got from Mitsu.

How do I get the ABS unit out of the fender area? Do I have to remove the bumper cover to get to all the bolts?

Anyone else care to comment on the crank scraper? I'm not really sure what it's benefits are, and if I'll actually need one making around 400-450 hp.

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You will make more than that.
Good luck.

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I hate e85 right now. Bought some really clean used BlueMax 1350s about two months ago, put around 600 miles on them. And I get this shit, even though they are e85 "safe".

I'm going to do a tank of pump gas during motor break in and see if they clean up. Apparently people on the dsmlink forum have had good success with that cleaning them up. I'll also clean them up best I can with some carb cleaner.

I never had a huge issue with the 1600s building up goop, maybe it's the Iowa stations that have this junk in them, I always go to the same one here.

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Ghey.

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That is ghey. I'm really glad I haven't run into that yet. Yet another set of FIC's with the same issue. I swear 90% of the people having this issue are using those FIC injectors with the "belled" tip on them.

Are you in Iowa or MN? If you're here, I can lend you my flare wrench set.

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I would call fic and talk to them about it.