Here's Anna removing the nuts from my stretched garbage ARP headstuds:
I'm working 8pm to ~2am tonight for a massive maintenance window for work, so I went into the office at 8am with the intention of leaving at noon and taking the rest of the afternoon off to get the head 90% of the way off and relax a little. Instead, I skipped lunch and got home at 5pm.
Anna showed up in the garage in grubbies and my buddy chris (bananas on here) stopped by to lend a hand. 7:15 we had the head off, not bad for a noob eh?
Now I'm at work. Head goes to MAP tomorrow to swap for a core they had and (hopefully) have their stage3 port job done on. Plan is for Bob to do port cleanup in the exhaust and intake runners (no reshape, no CC work), new 5-angle valve job, reuse the stock valves but backcut the exhaust valves, and new valve stem seals. Gonna use oem MLS headgasket ( but w/o copper spray this time ), AMS/TMS L19 headstuds (thanks Shane@DB!) and one of the phenolic spacer gaskets on the intake manifold. She made 375whp on DB's dyno on pump gas only (395 w/alky) with rough tunes....the goal in the back of my mind is to creep up on (but prolly not break) 400whp with some real tuning on just pump gas and not push the boost too much to keep this thing nice and reliable as a daily driver.
Alky will be kept but I think I might add a .7mm jet (have a single 1.0mm jet now) lower down the UICP. Possibly switch back to 100% meth but 50/50 is a decent combo for me and the price is right!
Anyways, stay tuned!
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