[s-cars] RE: Valve Job Anyone?

[Tom Mullane]

Cody,

If it was my car, I think I would have the existing head rebuilt, drop in
the 7A cam (although I think you are already running the cam, no?), and
ignore the bottom end.  My reasoning it this:  As far as you know, there is
nothing wrong with the bottom end, and these cars almost never have ring
issues.  It's pretty hard to do a better job machining and assembling the
bottom end than the factory. 

What is the advantage of the higher compression head?  Won't you need to get
your chips re-programmed to back off timing advance to avoid pinging?

I'd spend the extra cash on an intercooler.

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: Cody Payne [mailto:cpayne at bconnected.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:45 PM
To: Tom Mullane
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: RE: Valve Job Anyone?

Hey Tom,
	Car has about 151K miles on it.  The loss is on the Exhaust
Valves.  They "estimate" that it will cost around ~$3300+tax to do:
- Valve Job with exchange for Modified 7A head (Swain Coating)
- New Piston Rings and Lower Bearings (As with the increased compression
w/ new the head and good non-leaky valves...this may cause increase
blow-by on the OLD rings)...so one of those "while your in there" and
only adds another 500 bucks to the job or so
- Waterpump and timing belt
- ARP Head Bolts
- Metal Head Gasket
- Fluids
- Labor

The thing I am having a hard time to swallow (even more) is whether or
not I should do the larger rods for another $1000 but I don't have plans
to do any more engine mods besides a FMIC.  Thoughts here guys?

Cody "Digging under his pillow for $$" in Colorado

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Mullane [mailto:tmullane at snet.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:08 PM
To: Cody Payne
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: RE: Valve Job Anyone?


Cody,  

How many miles on your car?  Where is the loss; leakdown should tell you
whether its intake or exhaust valves or if it is rings, right?

Tom


Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:23:32 -0700
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