Recent content by Dire McCain

Here's a new one for me. out of nowhere the alternator guage is off the scale on the high side...it's reading over 18 volts? wtf? It drops when I turn on somethng like the AC...or when I am at a stop light idling...but still way closere to 18 v than 12... Battery? Voltage regulator?

The head straightenng and other work on the head was performed by Dover here in Jacksonville. They charged $45 twice on the same invoice for 'head straightening'...not sure I undersood it then nor now. And I am in the process of locating another head.

I can't remember...when doing the retorque do you start in the middle (#1 in the manual) and work out to #14? Or do you start at #14 and work in to #1...?

Machine shop said it wasn't warped. They had to machine it to clean up the repair too a pit in the #6 cyl fire ring.

As I have -posted, my cylinder head is a bit on the thin side having been surfaced at least three times. I checked the valve to piston clearance and there was plenty of room, so I bought a new Toy gasket and put everything back together. Runs great. Idles nicely. Plenty of power...

Both seals out? You must have had some major gushing...but, yes, I installed new seals on both cams...

Well, it was the cam seal. Replaced it and the leak is gone. But it seriously was a bad leak...like a quart in only minutes.

No, it's not in backwards. But even if it was I would not expect oil to leak in such a volume. A leak for sure...but a gusher? Not insulted at all. I've pulled enough bonehead stunts to know better...

After doing a HG repair, there is an extremely large amount of oil gushing out of the camshaft seal on the exhaust side... I have seen seals leak, but never anything like this...naturally I am going to replace the seal...even though it looks OK...question is what the H would cause so much oil...

88 supra non turbo. Has anyone discussed what the minimum height might be for a head that has been shaved three times? I know that the stock height is 116mm...but what I want to know is the miniumum height before the valves contact the pistons? Assuming, of course, that the block height...

Yes, bone stock injectors...yellow head

Anyone have a source for injector pigtails? NAPA? Advance? JY? 88 7mge... Thanks

I'm putting my non turbo cams into a a turbo head. Any reason not to swap out the cans as well?

I live in Jacksonville and as soon as I get a cylinder head, I will be back onthe road.

The banana shape isn't especially obvious but one you see it, you can't miss it. Put a straight edge along the valve deck and...yep, it confirms the visual. Looks like I need a new head.