Here is the engine as I got it. The timing belt broke, and dealer said there were bent valves.


After taking off the valve cover I saw small drops of antifreeze in the oil. THe engine needed a head gasket, and maybe more.


Cylinder head shortly after pulling it from the block. NO BENT VALVES!!!


Carbon build-up on the combustion chambers


Cylinders shortly after pulling the head off. PISTONS LQQK GOOD!!


Cylinder wall


Cylinder head after I use oven cleaner to strip off oil and carbon. A toilet
brush is good to scrub with. I plan on painting the head flat black.


Clean values and chamber


Use the gasket as a templete to widen the exhaust ports



Piston after cleaning


Freashly painted intake manifold and components


Freashly painted valve cover


Gaskets are in, the block brace and turbo system should be in next week.


Modified by 97TegraLS at 10:36 AM 9/16/2004

 

Learn to resize your pics you buttnut.

 

HOLY CRAP!! DEFINATELY NOT 56k friendly. I'm on the schools t1 or somechit system and its still taking days to dl the pics! Please RESIZE!!!!

 

looks great to me dude. so are the valves bent or what?

 

The car was a coworkers that I got for $1000

He paid $230.00 to have the dealer installed a new timing belt. They said 35% compression in the #1 cylinder.

The cylinder head and pistons look fine. The low compression was from the head gasket

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 97TegraLS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The car was a coworkers that I got for $1000

He paid $230.00 to have the dealer installed a new timing belt. They said 35% compression in the #1 cylinder.

The cylinder head and pistons look fine. The low compression was from the head gasket </TD></TR></TABLE>

damnit.. why cant i ever find deals like this

for project b00st!

 

are u just leaving your head sit on concrete.... i would never do that..

 

That is asphalt, and of course none of the machine surfaces touch anything but cloth. There is nothing wrong with sitting a cylinder head on its side.

 

lookin good man

 

Thanks.

While I wait for the parts, I am going to remove the valves, clean the stems, and lap them to the seats. That is when I am going to blend the bowls on the exhuast side.

 

Yeah, i would atleast put the head on some paper or something. Paint look snice though

 

hahaha what do you tell your coworker when he sees you driving around in the fixed car? damn 1k for a 3gen teg and only a bad hg and belt..nice deal.