Andial951

Well Arash (FRPorscheman) came over today and we began the head gasket replacement. Everything went smoothly considering some of the horror stories I have read here.

We got the intake, hard pipes, fuel rail and other stuff off.





All the bolts came out with no trouble and we were feeling good.






Of course we also drained the coolant and oil. There was definately some ugly milkshake pouring out. Here is a pic of the oil drain plug......

hmmmm......yummy milk chocolat


next we got to work on the head and AMAZINGLY Arash got every bolt off with no problems.....nothing snapped.....nothing got stuck......it all came off with ease....

After all the head bolts were off we moved to the crossover pipe and got all the bolts except 1 to come off. So Arash was finally able to pull out his dremel and went to work on the bolt. After the bolt was cut the head was pulled off with a little bit of prying.






Inspected the head gasket and I think there may have been 2 failure points.



So now I will take the head to be machined and made have it ported and polished.

Also will do a few of those "While you are in there" things, like AOS seal, oil cooler gasket, all new coolant hoses, and such.

more pics of the finish up work at a later date.

Tom M'Guinn

Looking good man. Bores look good too. Is it just the pictures, or are your cylinder tops o-ringed?

sharky47

Looks like a textbook operation - glad to hear it's going well.




P.S. - Your Andial engine would look soooooo good with some stainless fasteners.........

Andy1212

What did Andial do to your engine? I didnt think they did small little custom jobs.

Pauerman

I've got a 100mm bore widefire head gasket if you're interested. I went with a Cometic, so this one is still in the package. $69 shipped.

ckathens

Good luck Roger! DIdn't you already replace all your coolant hoses already when the turbo waterpump hose burst?

Andial951

nope....never got around to that but now is a perfect opportunity so I will be putting in all the new coolant hoses from LR's kit.

Andial951

To be honest I'm not sure what an O-ring job looks like but there is a metal ring at the top of each cylinder wall soooo..........

Andial951

Thanks Pauerman but I have already orderd a full kit from SFR.

Andial951

The job wasn't too small I suppose. They put in their 2.8L Stroker kit which I think can still be bought from them although they wont do the install. With the kit came the Mahle pistons, carillo rods, the ANDIAL 3L cam, the magnesium intake (in the pic and weighed at 3.5lb), a cup oil pan (supposedly magnesium as well) and back in 91 when they did the job it included what they called their Stage II upgrade which was to put in the K26/8 (long gone now) and some other upgrades.

sharky47

Is that the intake manifold from the turbo cup car?

Tom M'Guinn

Yep, that's an o-ringed block. Might want to check the surface of the head to see if it has a receiver groove -- some o-ring set-ups are done that way.
Also, you'll want to use a widefire (or stock) head gasket either way.

Andial951

I'll have to go out and take a closer look. But here is a pic of the top half.

toddk911

Looks like it blew over #4??

Also seems to go in that same place of the HG on most cars. Right on the edge for the coolant passages.

KuHL 951

Roger, I'm well behind you at the moment on my rebuild. Just torn down the engine last night. I found some minor scoring (can barely catch it with a finger nail) in bores 2 and 3 from carbon breaking loose. I also have valve kiss marks on all of the pistons. The PO of the engine must have thrown a T belt and had it fixed because the valve are straight and the guides are new. I'm pulling pistons, measuring the bores, and checking crankshaft play today. It sure is nice to work on a motor on a stand. I barely got dirty. Good luck on getting your car back on the road soon.