New World Datsuns...

Eagle_Adam wrote:I just can't leave it that way....

And it will cost me a head gasket and new headbolts to fix it :/

Sorry to hear/see that man.

You shouldn't need new headbolts. Not if they've only been torqued once and never ran.

I'd reuse them.

Head gasket, head bolts, and a water pump gasket are on the way

funsies

Well slight change in plans.......

Last Friday my employer decided to give theposition they had promised me in a contract to someone else, so i politely gave them the bird, took 10 weeks severance pay and unemployment

So now I find myself with lots of time and lots of datsun projects...


Stay tuned!

Well I should probably come over and talk some night this week.

I'll be home the rest of the week

Good for you, Adam.

Bitches.

Well I got my new head gasket, headbolts, and WP gasket so today I'm headed out to assemble the KA for what I hope is the last time!

First up the head gasket had to be replaced


Then it was out with the broken bolt


I win


And here is my new cylinder head with oversized super tech valves


But then it started going back downhill again.....

See the hole in the middle


See the hole in the middle not torque properly


See Adam want to throw things




So now I've got some research to do...... On how to fix this, off to redeyes KA build :/





But I did get a few more new toys

Too mount turbo mani


New cams


Fresh headbolts

And just for the fun of it

which cams ya get?

Didn't Dakota pull those same threads on his KA?

Cams are a secret till I'm ready to install but they aren't the Brian crower cams I was looking at :/

And so far redeye is the only person to successfully fix the threads in question.....

DRIVEN wrote:Didn't Dakota pull those same threads on his KA?

Link to the thread?

http://community.ratsun.net/topic/46566 ... er/page-15
Post #282. Pretty sure you saw it .

DRIVEN wrote:http://community.ratsun.net/topic/46566 ... er/page-15
Post #282. Pretty sure you saw it .

Ya I've been following that one, but he hasn't really driven it since he helicoiled it.

For that, I probably wouldnt Helicoil, but instead use a TimeCert.

Interesting.... Just googled a timecert

But apparently a timecert won't fit cus of an oil passage....... Grre