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Confirmed rods are same same. If you could snap a macro pic of where the drain enters the underside of the block in the main web that's usually a giveaway to a convert.

Shortstroke is a 5 minute mod any competent suspension shop can do it's only a spacer above the piston......

Just checked my 93 block and all the KS holes are Drilled/Tapped, from memory on NA's only 1 was? (I don't have my old NA block here anymore to check) Correction found a really old pic and yep only the middle boss was Drilled/Tapped so check the 2 end ones and see if they look "hand done" .

Some really early 87's had no squirters Steve.

Does it have squirters? (might be a convert Mike all 3 KS bosses are drilled and tapped)

LOL'd a bit and I like your Dad's :slap:

1 of 500 dude wow ;)

It's cos it's NOT in a TurboA ;)

And you know this how?

^ One of my all time favourite Mk3's and an inspiration!

When I had my Koni's built I got them to shortstroke them to get around this issue.

Check the Cam timing.

Moved

Back in the old days they were installed dry and were squeaky bastards of things...... You lose a little bit of stiction by greasing them but I always try and buy the hardest I can to counteract that.

Fouled plugs from "overfuelling"? (whatever that is)

And that there is why I wouldn't use an Aluminium 3 piece bar there, think of the force involved and that steel fails very predictably compared to Aluminium.

I'd say that's more the end result and not the cause.

L98 6.0L Chev ;)

Saddle ones or just washers? T04z, it was 470rwhp on the 7m.

Depends on how anal you want to get. It "should" be straight in both checks, a quick dirty check is to strip the head torque the cams back down with no valves/springs and make sure they turn easily.