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Yeah buddy! Looks great! Nice work!

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awesome, good luck man, you might make the 15th after all?

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I certainly hope it all works. I found another cometic hp hg I had, still sealed in the bottom most area of the bottom drawer in my toolbox..talk about lucky! So, it went together faster then I thought, because I didn't need to buy a new one. I hope it seals well enough after being copper sprayed, and I had to pull out...4 studs to get the washer down around them, for the headstuds, because the springs/seats are a lot beefier then before. The shim is also like 2-4 times thicker then stock. If this motor setup doesn't rev, I don't know how else to fix it. I over analyze things too much, but whatever..

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Take a picture and show us the headgasket you wanted to reuse.....

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LOL, already threw it out, to force myself not to reuse it. I can take a pic of the sticker that came with the cometic though!

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Looking good!

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lookin good man. when my cousin heard the car, he told me it sounded pretty mean. hopefully it'll ride even meaner ;)

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Looking good! A trick I always do is that before you put the head down on the studs, put the washers down in the holes where they belong. It makes it more of a pita to get on, but makes it easier, since you don't have to pull the studs.

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true, I wasnt thinking. It was hard holding the head and intake mani and dropping it down on the car, by myself, leaning over the car. But, I got it. I just hope it holds together.

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As long as you got the studs good and tight again before you put the nuts back on, it should be fine.

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Ya, I just get anxious. Did I torque things correctly, is this done right..will this leak, etc. I dwell too much, but I am a perfectionist at times, so I check and recheck a ton too.

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Come on Swifty spill it, you did reuse the gasket and dont want to admit it!

How many people have an unused cometic headgasket that they completely forgot about!

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um..me? When you acquire shit over time, and have a full toolbox with a "junk drawer" you find shit you didn't know you had, like this, or the coils I had, and like 30 used spark plugs, and other gaskets. You trying to call me out or something?

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Lol I am I am!

Did you get your oil cooler mounted?

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I found a bunch of stock 9b turbo parts, oil feed lines, and 6x9 speakers in my tool box when cleaning it. I forgot I had those.

Anyone want 9b exhaust housings or maybe some apline type s 6x9's? LOL (Kidding, keeping them all).

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Will those speakers fit the front doors on talon? Mine are blown.

And no, I still need to figure out a bracket for the oil cooler.

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Not sure what those sell for but the Cossie on mine was enough to make me cry. I could see the temptation.

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No I think a talon takes a 5.25" if memory serves correct.

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your mom.

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Finish welding/porting today, and then shipped to my house tomorrow..yay! He ran into issues, and scrapped the second WG idea, so it's taking longer then expected..