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yes. do some research fool! stock headgasket is QUITE good and even with moderate boost levels is just fine. most of the construction of the composite gasket is now metal after all of the revisions....but without the surface requirements. I do have a pretty good RA value head, that could...

lol don't worry about the oil filter guys... I know what I'm doing. in my defense, it's actually a tough guard which has a decent anti-drainback valve in it. there's no way the cardboard end cap will fail within 20 minutes. wix filters and castrol for the rest of the summer after the flush...

had a great day today... lots more work done by all! same guys back again, and tons of stuff done! shawn worked on the tranny, intake insulators and helped with the motor. nick cleaned allll day and painted the parts that needed it! and jamie was jumping around doing different projects, and most...

I started working at 7:00 today on the crank scraper. I wasted $40 worth of gasket maker and spent, well....an incredibly long time fitting the crank scraper. i! actually took three tries (sealed and torqued) before it fit perfectly....and that means scraping, sanding and brake cleaning each...

raptor racing delivery making sure the oil pump works. torquing the front plate the way the gasket make should look with the front plate torqued... time to test fit the scraper checking for 1mm clearance tomorrow I will have to remove the oil pan again. I sealed it up, but it...

what more do you want? it was my point and shoot sitting on a stand while I was taking pictures with jamie's camera. you do realize photbucket reduces all image and video quality right?

mmmmm yes a proper burnout post. it was enjoyable to watch in person.. smelled nice!

I want to see how long the bar aluminum lasts. this is the only polished part in the engine bay, so it should be easy to maintain. I have clearcoated things n the past with the best clearcoat I could find I used glisten PC made by restomotive (POR-15 guys). super expensive...I had my wheels...

It's been a long time coming, but they're done. My roomate gave me a hand tonight and painted the head for me along with the AFM etc...looks great! here are the covers! The black paint is POR-15 engine enamel too. everything that is steel on the engine got POR-15'd, aluminum painted too. :D :D

got the white rouge done on the valve cover! a little touch up and then on goes the paint. I had to stop because my die grinder started to catch on fire...literally. I must say I am quite happy with the image quality I was able to get out of it. getting better at this!

best looking modified exterior I have ever seen. great job.

just got off the phone with witchunter. the bottom numbers should be 309 across the board. there was an error in his excel sheet for the multiplier. My injectors were run on a 20 second cycle for measuring flow rates and then he multiplies them to get the cc a minute in the spreadsheet. His...

I'm planning on missing the meet. start taking the engine out friday, cleaning and preparing saturday, have the engine in by sunday. I have all of next week off to work out any bugs and get the thing working properly... I'll be there for all three days of the big meet on the 15th to 17th! and...

well, surprise surprise...I didn't get as much accomplished today as I wanted to! but I did get all the sanding and the first stage of polishing done on the valve cover. it only needs about another 45 minutes worth of work and it will be done, but I've got to get to sleep so I can work...

that car looks awesome with that stance and rims. definatley going on my favourite mk3 list.

finally got these babies back! looks like they were in good shape before the cleaning! but now I can count on them for a few more years of operation.

excellent suggestions black cat! I had not even thought to check if the dowels were too tall now.. I bet they are!!! THIS is the reason why I made this build thread, awesome! coolant bolt and pipe? hmm you mean the heater union mounted to the head itself? it wasn't leaking and I coated it with...

it's actually kilkenny...delicious creamy goodness. I usually try something different every time, I have no brand loyalty..but this is one of my favs.

thanks. meh, even with upgraded camshafts I don't plan on exceeding the stock redline. stock will do.

progress today! very time consuming, but I did make a dent in the project. first, the bottom end assembled! I cleaned everything (again) and checked all of the ring alignments...applied copius amounts of assembly lube and popped all of them in! everything went in super easy...with a coat of...