So for some reason the head I got from eBay is not to spec.

"KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb" (KillerRaccoon) 08/15/2013 at 14:43 • Filed to: None

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The machine shop I have checking out it and my crankcase halves just called to tell me that. FUCK. Maybe I read the manual wrong and gave them the wrong specs. Time to go check. I've only got a little more than 2 weeks to finish it up before school, so that better be the case or I'm going to have to wait even LONGER.

William Byrd > KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb 08/15/2013 at 14:46

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That's funny, most people usually get head from Craigslist.

Casper > KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb 08/15/2013 at 14:47

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It's possible you read it wrong or... because Ebay.

Buckner > KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb 08/15/2013 at 14:48

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CB?

KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb > Buckner 08/15/2013 at 14:59

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GS550. False alarm, someone at the shop was derping hard.

KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb > Casper 08/15/2013 at 14:59

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It turns out that they just took the measurement wrong. It's honed and waiting for me.

Casper > KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb 08/15/2013 at 15:00

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Wow, that's a lucky break... other than I would be nervous that a machine shop measured wrong ;)

KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb > Casper 08/15/2013 at 15:01

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Eh, I gave them the wrong spec the first time, so they probably just took a quick measurement after the second spec I gave them. They seemed to know their stuff.

Casper > KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb 08/15/2013 at 15:03

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Ah, good. You leak testing or anything? Just cleaning it up, honing, and putting it in place?

KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb > Casper 08/15/2013 at 15:06

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A piston seized a year and a half back, so I got a new(ish) cylinder block, crank/conrod unit and pistons. The hardest part of the whole thing was all of the phillips-head bolts holding on the engine covers. Who the HELL had that idea?

Casper > KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb 08/15/2013 at 15:09

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The same guy who decided to use them to hold Honda brake rotors in place... an asshole.

sloPro > Casper 08/15/2013 at 18:27

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they're only a pain without the right tools.

it's called a impact driver, works great.

Casper > sloPro 08/15/2013 at 18:30

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That's the exact manual impact I have lol. I broke two freaking "impact" bits trying to get them off my S2000. At one point I was using my mini-sledge... I moved straight to measuring my hammer in pounds after I slipped and smashed my hand into the rotor the first time.

sloPro > Casper 08/15/2013 at 18:38

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yeah i have a cheap harbor freight one, but all the bits are matco. the cheap ones literally disintegrate as u put them into the driver.

Casper > sloPro 08/15/2013 at 18:45

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Yeah, the ones I destroyed were from Lowes. Husky I think. They weren't terrible, they just couldn't handle the torque and eventually torqued the blades off. I never got mad enough to get the harder bits out of the air set at the other shop... they probably would have taken it.

KillerRaccoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb > sloPro 08/15/2013 at 19:46

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Yeah, I discovered that AFTER I had drilled all their heads off. I really don't care, I'm going to get allen or torx headed bolts instead, I think.