Thread: Operation SR24VVL IN PROGRESS ONCE AGAIN

Yeah other time ive seen marks like that was on broken ring lands on stock pistons. Ive yet to see an aftermarket piston break a land however i have seen the rings get tweeked from detonation well before the lands will break.

Very well could be the top ring is damaged from the initial detonation.

Just appears like dirt marks to me. Guess we will see when its fully dissasembled.

so that's copper spray over the perfectly good new gasket? me thinks someone was hoping to seal a known front cover ridge.
i'm beginning to think i got screwed on the supposed head work to.

R&R seats=200
R&R valve guides=192
cut seats 5 angle=104
surface head=55
p&p head with +2/+1 over sized valves=800

and this porting guy took weeks to do what he did
i'll save the $$ next time and do the p&p myself.

again, wasn't that snickers? lol

Yea the copper spray confuses me. The head has been heavily ported and that's very obvious, I just noticed that the one thing that wasn't done is DE shrowding the valves. Those prices do not look bad.

What headstuds or bolts are most of you running?

that looks like the issue right? the cover is susposed to be decked "with" the block so all is perfectly flat. Plus you can see it couldn't have been sealing so well there being the amount of residue there, is completly different than the rest of the block. and wasn't the consensus that copper spray didn't work as well as thought. and even still why would you put it on a brand new gasket.

i would think a re-deck of the block "with" the cover and new rings and headgasket and it should be good. DO you have a straight edge? you could check across that section with feeler gauges to see if it is really flat in relation to the rest of the block.

My 2.2 VET and 2.4 VE are running your 1/2in head studs.

My other big bore is using your standard head studs.

All the big bores I know of (not sure of Teal97) are using mazworx headstuds.

and look at the pic of the headgasket it self you can see where the cover had a diffrent amount of "crush" compared to the rest of the gasket. Every sr head iv'e taken of the gasket seemed to look close to the same in that area.

I've used OEM bolts on the 2.3 and Mazworx studs with the 2.4


Also looks like the timing cover was lower then the deck .. if that's the case it wouldn't be the cause. Just a messy oily timing cover.

Just curious have you guys ever checked to see if the bolts have stretched?