Bent valves? or Droped a valve, Pictures inside!

[1999Gst]

yea i think im still goint to pull the moter i read its pretty hard to do the balance elmation kit while the motor is still in.

[Perkul8r]

I did it on my first vr4 with the motor in, but it was a pain in the ass. So its possible, but better to do with motor out.

[sleepydsm]

Use a dremel and smooth out the knicks in your pistons. I made over 550 awhp with stock cast pistons with knicks on them.

If you spend $100 to get that "new" head from your friend, who is to say the valves aren't slightly bent in that, or it has shitty valve stem seals (which will cause your car to smoke and use oil),

If money is an issue for you right now...
Buy your friend's hopefully good head.
Get a stock headgasket, use "Copper Spray" on it (you can get it at any autoparts store: it helps the new headgasket seal better).
And get standard ARP headstuds.

If you can spend a bit:
Bring your head to a machine shop, get it repaired RIGHT.
Buy a stock headgasket OR a fancy one (IE $250 Felpro Permatorque)
Buy standard ARPs or fancy studs (IE $200 ARP L19/ MAP H11)

[Pushit2.0]

The 6 bolt head bolts are not TTY, so if the threads look good put some oil on the threads and under the bolt head and fallow the factory torque down method. Or a set of ARP head studs is around $100 new. If you go the ARP route I recommend torquing them to 100ft/lbs with the moly lube. And if you use a composite gasket to put copper spray on it.

~John

[1999Gst]

Yea i had a 6 bolt lined up but that fell through, so a Yeai'm a go mls and get some arps and post some pics of my little rebuild in the project fourm.