Whats a good time on a 5ktq head?

[Jim Green]

--- Cody <Cody at mail.craincorporated.com> wrote:
> So 2 days ago I went to finish up the work on my
> 5ktq (EFI conversion done Saturday night, now
> working on theelectrical gremlins with stock stuff)
> and when I started the motor all of the sudden I had
> a really bad knock. Sounded at first like a rod, but
> then it got much quieter and came from the top end
> so I thought a lifter died. Then when running it
> more the noise completely went away, then got really
> loud again, then quite. So I got out the boreoscrope
> and took out the plugs and started looking in the
> cylinders. Cant see any objects, but there are hits
> on the #4 and #5 pistons and valves. Yesterday I
> decided that I had to pull the head (wasn't exactly
> excited about it either!). I got all worked up and
> quite pissed off prior to the job, but the results
> were pretty good. Had the head on the workbench and
> then the car running again in 3 hours flat.

Damn, that's pretty good.  Having EFI helped here
since you didn't have to fuss with all the CIS stuff
in the way.

=====
Jim Green
'89 90tq 034EFI Stage II
http://www.mswanson.com/~jgreen/car_home.html

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