Has anyone done this? Did you experience problems later?

If I do decide to go this route, should I remove all the stock ones two at a time and replace with ARP torqued to spec or just remove all the OE ones and then use typical ARP tightening process?

 

i know a guy who does this with the evo's he builds...he does them one at a time...i plan on doing this with my d series soon...i talked to a guy a lil while ago and he did it this way also and he said he has not had a problem with it

 

Its been done many times on our cars. I've done it, no problem with headgasket etc. One at a time and don't forget to lube the stud.

MB

 

anyone else with similar success stories?

 

it's like halfassing homework

 

not really...as long as u do it correctly its fine...you dont have to take the head off just to put head studs in...hell a lot of V8 guys put the heads on then put the studs in

 

if your going to all this trouble why not replace the headgasket? seems like a waste of a good opportunity. I guess if your cheap ok, but then why are you replacing the bolts with studs in the first place?

 

thats what i was thinking...might as well change everything right?

 

there's a reason that you take the head completely off you might want to look at pistons and walls and might as well replace the head gasket

 

"don't go cheap on the things that matter"