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8-8-2008
Thanks. I will seperate the gearbox tomorrow this way, today I decided to remove the heads first, now that the engine is standing solid on it's feet.
Everything went well, one head more stuck than the other but could have been worse and good thing the engine was out of the car, acces to all sides was needed. The pistons and liners all looked good, I could feel no ridges and saw the crossing hone lines. Only now that I see the pictures I see the light vertical scratches. I hope I can be done with only rehoning. Should I remove the liners and take them to the engine shop and let the guy there tell me what to do? Let´s see what to do if I have the pistons out.
Also removed all the valves from the heads. Look how that injector is looking straight at the inlet valve, begs for sequential just in time injection I know...
All the inlet valves look nice, they will stay. So these are the infamous sodium filled exhaust valves? They look nice and innocent. On the stem it reads EL106553 E, now somebody tells me I´m lucky and they have already been replaced.
I could wiggle the valves a bit (with the springs removed) in there guides, the outlets more than the inlets, about 0.5 mm or 0.02 inch, is that to much? All my cars (Alfas and Lancia) had this without a problem.
Made a template on the PC for the SC inlet. Also a pic of my boost gauge hehe. It is BIG. And big fun, why not. I want to print or make a new dial, orange on black background, but how does one generally remove the needle on these things, I pulled on it but it didn´t give.
