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05-07-2008, 11:06
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| dorifto kingu! Join Date: Oct 2006
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| r33 gtst build up (well down);) once upon a time there was a nice sexy skyline........................................... ........having the shit kicked out of it at santa pod at a drift day and it got a little hot to say the least, we all thought it was the stat playing up so we took it out and re-filled her up bled her nice and good slaped some new rubber on her and over heated again.............. so cut a long story short the head gasket went Boooooo we got the car back and did a compresion test and came out 1-160 2-150 3-160 4-25 5-145 6-160 so that was it the head has to come off............................................... .................2 hours later it was off but the gasket looked ok to me?? so i thought then i got thinking could it be the valves?? hat got sent off and pressuer tested and skimmed,and guess what came back fine, then i'm like oh fook is the pistons?? i read on other forum's that rb's are prone to the pistons cracking, so by then the engine was out and got pulled apart with help from STEW/SAM (thanks again mate) and ADAM but you'll never guess what i found when i got the pistons out............................................... .............................. ..............fook all!!!!! so i got chatting to a really nice bloke called Chris from a company called CONCEPTUA TUNING top top bloke and god dos he know his stuff, we went throught the problems and he was convinced that it was head gasket had gone, soi'm sat here pulling my hair out on what i could be????? so on that night MARTIN came round just back from his holiday and took one look at the gasket and spotted where it had gone lol!!!!!! buy this time a mini meet was happening around mine i had that day STEW/KAM/MATT/THE LINE/ADAM and MARTIN and ME OH WHAT FUN!!!! never made so many cup's of tea any how here's the pics so far ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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