true true, but I am a kid who is trying to save, either way ill probably just go with whatever comes first.
Another thing!
I'm going to take the head in to get looked at, check out the seats and stuff. I stripped it all the way down to just head, cam bearings, and valve guides and the exhaust valves and intake valves had a hell of a lot of carbon built up, I took a wire wheel to it and got about 98% of it off making sure to stay away from the seat due to fear of making a costly mistake. I wanted to do the same to the combustion chamber but I am worried I'm going to mess somthing up somehow so I'm goin to hold off a little bit again in fear of ruining the head-block mating surface until I get some advice from someone whos done this before.
lastly I am considering "porting" my head, or at least gasket matching/ port matched but I have a slight fear its going to cost a little too much. if its a "reasonable price" I most likely will get it done just because I'll never have a better chance than now. Before i do go in and question the guy about it, any advice from you folks about porting or polishing or somthing?
P.S.
how can i check for cracks in the head without Magnafluxing it? can I flip and fill the combustion chamber with water(or oil) to see if it seals? not sure if that's proper or not, just saw some Indian guys in the internet do that for some reason
P.P.S.
Evintho, what kind of performance "upgrades" do you have again? Asking because I was thinking about hopping up my motor with some Big R stuff like their stage one T3 upgrade and their Ranger X performance cam ( I messaged them and they said I might be able to get away with smog with the Ranger X cam with California smog standards, worst comes to worse I'll just put a stock cam in once every two years )
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what turbo do I have? IHI or T3? and which is better? id rather buy a t3 because its a bit cheaper than the rebuilt IHI Turbo (pricing is entirely based off big R motorsports, im a little too tight on fund for Boport or Stinger stuff)