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Originally Posted by Daveyboy
Hey!
Wow thanks for the great insight!
first time stripping and rebuilding a sr20det and looking forward to it!
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No problem. There are a lot of great resources out there for what you're doing. Good luck and my best advice is to find a reputable machine shop in your area and talk to them BEFORE you buy any parts. Most of those machinists can save you a lot of money and wasted parts in the long run if you just take the time to sit down and talk about your goals for the motor and listen to their advice. Getting hard to find great ones these days but IN GENERAL, if I walk in to a machinist and he's got engine parts and jobs all over the place it means they're busy and, to me, that's a good sign. If it's squeaky clean and you could eat off of the floor I tend to excuse myself. Always exceptions to that but it's been my experience anyhow. If you can't find one, Mazworx in Florida is awesome and from what I understand, he's the exception to the squeaky clean shop rule I have. I've done business with them and have testimony from people who've had him do machine work to their engine that I trust as well. He's got quite the catalog for high power SR stuff.
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Originally Posted by Phlip
I did the bolded thing for months... Lived three miles from my job, car would puke coolant when I let it get to operating temp. Drove the car from NC to GA twice while it was happening like a dumbass.
My 20s were a wild time.
Did the head gasket, had the head fully checked out while it was off, resumed daily driving the car for four and a half more years and nary an issue.
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Nice. Yeah it's hugely rewarding to knock out work on your own car. Not for the uninitiated/faint of heart for sure. I'd like to be telling your story in a few year after rebuilding my KA from cracked ringlands last winter (although I don't daily it; that'd end my carpooling days real quick.)