Good, i knew the 5 door comment would get your attention

Need an opinion mate, got quite scared when i took this head off today.

Here's my freshly skimmed beast:


And here's the one i took off the LET:


Now i spoken to Bob about this, he's not entirely sure either, but we both think its had a few too many skims. What you think?

Mine is coscast, the LET one is GM

 

looks a little skinny to me mate .. and i know nothing ...

anyway back up for the 1.6i kid

 

Yellow cars = :gayflag:

 

I've not seen the yellow peril yet, any pics?

P.s Chip, wake up, your supposed to be working! (and answering my question)

 

Oi! how you know i got a 1.6i?

 

Im the 1.6 kid mate, with my gay coloured sierra.

That head has been skimmed to death mate, you have lost about 6cc out of each chamber i would guess from that picture!

Going to have compression like an XE now!!!

 

F*ck it, what do you suggest? I wanna sell the bloody thing......you think ebay is a good idea?

Not gonna get any valve slap is it?!

 

should be ok if you just took it off a working enigne?

make a nice coffee table

 

It wont touch the valves on the pistons with LET cams and pistons mate, they have hardly any lift/duration.

 

PS

Measure the chamber volumes with a bearuette its possible (but unlikley) they have meed modified to cancel out the skimming.

 

So whats that mean in English then Chip?

Cheers

 

turn head upside down (with plugs still in it)

measure how much water it takes to fill the chamber when the valves are shut.

If the valves dont seal properly (they WONT on an old head like that!) then open them, smear a bit of vaseline on them, and close them again.

Obviously if you were keeping it i would say lap them in instead, but thats a quick way to get them to seal well enough to measure the chamber volume.

 

Righ, i see.....and whats the measurement?