My Legacy Rebuild...

**B-BGTLimited** · #1: 04-30-2013, 07:42 PM

To sum up my incident... Misfire on the higway at 70mph smoke and knocking... And #4 plug bent over from foreign debris...

It Begins...

156k Miles on this setup

BOTH Cars down right now... the toy and the DD... WTF!

Got my cam holding tools today and they came right off... Go figure.

Head removed from 2 and 4

Head looks to have survived enough to be refreshed and re-used.

Headless...

I can only get #4 piston out without a huge alan wrench

Fits on the bench... LOL...

Scored Cylinder

Hope to talk to the machine shop tomorrow and then drop the stuff off and maybe get the pistons ordered by Thursday... Going with CP Forged pistons and I think I can get away with .25mm overbore so if that's confirmed by the machine shop I'll order those and have him do the machine work.

After that's done, I'm doing all the assembly myself. I'll be doing a full gasket kit obviously... A full set of bearings and sending my injectors out for a cleaning... as well as thoroughly cleaning everything that came off this. I don't plan on doing any more performance work than whats already done on this car, I would just like to get the forged pistons in there for a piece of mind.

**Max Capacity** · #2: 05-01-2013, 03:37 AM

Sounds like a good plan.

I was thinking the head wasn't going to be to bad. It's amazing how much the head can take and not look to bad.

Sometimes you get lucky.

When you get the gasket set, make sure the half moons are in there. Might as well get just a timing belt too ?

**B-BGTLimited** · #3: 05-01-2013, 04:11 AM

Yeah going to, just forgot to list that. May also upgrade the clutch and grab a tsk3 kit. Not needing a head will allow me to buy those extra items.

And your talking about the half moons that are in the heads right? What are those cutouts even for on the head?

**Max Capacity** · #4: 05-01-2013, 05:05 AM

The half moons are the seals in the back of the cams in the head.

**heiche** · #5: 05-01-2013, 05:40 AM

Maybe the half moon cutouts are there to allow original machine work of the cam bearings?

**B-BGTLimited** · #6: 05-01-2013, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by heiche

Maybe the half moon cutouts are there to allow original machine work of the cam bearings?

That's the only thing that I could think of... otherwise its a bit odd for there to even be a cutout back there.

**tytek** · #7: 05-01-2013, 06:52 AM

How about a killerb oil pick up, since you have everything apart?

**Max Capacity** · #8: 05-01-2013, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by tytek

How about a killerb oil pick up, since you have everything apart?

Good thought there,

Check the oil pipe real closely. I just reused mine, it looked in good shape.

**B-BGTLimited** · #9: 05-01-2013, 06:57 AM

I was thinking about it, but honestly it's really not necessary if you check and re-braze the stock one... But i'll see what my prices are looking like on parts and maybe I can fit that in.

**06silvarubiLGT** · #**10:** 05-01-2013, 07:14 AM

^covert/tigworks was cheaper and thing was beefy I posted some pics in the WDYDTY4GT thread

**B-BGTLimited** · #**11:** 05-01-2013, 07:26 AM

Where is that one? I found a Moroso one for $86

Found the Covert one for $129 from IIR

We'll see what all of this other stuff comes up to for a price first... LOL

**06silvarubiLGT** · #**12:** 05-01-2013, 08:13 AM

http://www.importimageracing.com/cov...rester-xt.html

**B-BGTLimited** · #**13:** 05-01-2013, 08:26 AM

Its $168 vs $129 between the two so the price difference isn't huge... the Moroso one for 86 however that's a decent price difference.

It's just a matter of how good the Moroso one is...

**06silvarubiLGT** · #**14:** 05-01-2013, 08:29 AM

every little bit helps in my mind. but you are correct. I was impressed with the quality of the covert tube, welds were great and it was a very beeft product, never set my hands on a Killer B to actually compare to tho
For peice of mind, I would replace it rather than re-braze it, just something about "re-doing" something that flows engine blood doesnt sound right

**B-BGTLimited** · #**15:** 05-01-2013, 08:32 AM

Well I'm just referring to the reviews saying its way cheaper, but in reality its not a huge difference. I'll definitely be looking mine over to ensure that everything is all good with it before deciding if I will be using it, and like I said I could just run another bead of braze around it to reinforce it.

All of this came at a bit of a surprise to me, as well as my wife getting hit in her car the day before, So I am trying to get this built right and make sure it will last but I'm also trying to save as much money as possible doing so.