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Ok I've finished gathering parts and am going to be prepping everything in the coming weeks for installation.
Got a BP from the junkyard with 47,000 or 147,000 miles dunno... only 5 digit odometer. Tore it all down and there was a ridge built up on the compression area of the cylinder walls. Head looks like it was recently rebuilt. Can still see numbers on the bottoms of the valves. Tore it down to replace seals and get checked for warping... just in case. I'm guessing it blew a head gasket cuz water pump and timing kit look pretty new as well.
Block had ridge removed from top of cylinders and was honed and hot tanked. Crank cleaned and polished and measured for bearings. Head is at the shop now getting cleaned and checked for warping.
New parts for build:
ACL engine bearings
NPR piston rings
ARP head stud kit
GTX intake manifold so I dont have to clear firewall.
Full Gasket Set (EBAY)
MSD Blaster Coil
Havent decided if I want to buy the 10.1 miata pistons or not. It'd only be 125 more from Rock Auto. But I've already spent about 600 on this....
I'm a pizza delivery driver... So this is going in my Daily Driver. I plan on mounting everything in my parts car first then swapping it over in the course of two days. I cant afford to have very much down time. For those who have made no-weld mounts. If I made one for my parts car would it then line up in my DD?
Thanks for any comments, and hopefully I'll have some pics soon.
Got a BP from the junkyard with 47,000 or 147,000 miles dunno... only 5 digit odometer. Tore it all down and there was a ridge built up on the compression area of the cylinder walls. Head looks like it was recently rebuilt. Can still see numbers on the bottoms of the valves. Tore it down to replace seals and get checked for warping... just in case. I'm guessing it blew a head gasket cuz water pump and timing kit look pretty new as well.
Block had ridge removed from top of cylinders and was honed and hot tanked. Crank cleaned and polished and measured for bearings. Head is at the shop now getting cleaned and checked for warping.
New parts for build:
ACL engine bearings
NPR piston rings
ARP head stud kit
GTX intake manifold so I dont have to clear firewall.
Full Gasket Set (EBAY)
MSD Blaster Coil
Havent decided if I want to buy the 10.1 miata pistons or not. It'd only be 125 more from Rock Auto. But I've already spent about 600 on this....
I'm a pizza delivery driver... So this is going in my Daily Driver. I plan on mounting everything in my parts car first then swapping it over in the course of two days. I cant afford to have very much down time. For those who have made no-weld mounts. If I made one for my parts car would it then line up in my DD?
Thanks for any comments, and hopefully I'll have some pics soon.
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