A very long time ago.
As soon as he writes me into the will I'm having him killed.
Uncharacteristically on topic for me...
What are the primary differences between that clutch and something like the McCleod RST Twin?
I really like the new "blingless black" engine compartment.
It's ironic looking at it, it looks small in the engine compartment, and mine looks huge. Yours makes twice the power at probably half the boost, compared to me, and your engine will probably live for years, whereas I'll be constantly worried about breaking something, and will probably dial the engine back while you're turning it up.
Guess that's why there are 50 bazillion 5.0 builds, and one TTB six banger going on here.
Well, it looks like the Cometic head gaskets are biting me in the ass already. I filled the radiator with coolant a few days ago. I went into the garage to finish up the turbo piping this morning and see a couple drops of coolant on the floor. As luck would have it, the coolant is coming from between the head and block on both sides of the engine. I torqued the 1/2" ARP studs to the same 90lb/85lb that they were torqued before. That's with the ARP lube. Maybe the cometics require more torque? It's also possible the block deck and heads weren't perfectly clean. I thought I cleaned them up well, but who knows. All I know is I'm ****ed that I probably need to take the whole top end of this engine apart.
Yea Mike. I think I need to re-check the head surface. I'm not sure if I made them squeaky clean enough. I think I'm also going to coat the gaskets in spray copper. It seems like people have success with doing that, regardless of what cometic's instructions say.
That thread is a few years old, and I know cometic made revisions to the gasket design to make up for that defect. I did make sure to be generous with the silicone where the lower meets the corners of the heads though.
If anyone is bored this week, feel free to come by and take my engine apart for me.
No smartass-ness taken, Mike. I got unanimous opinions from 3 different engine builders and my tuner that cometics were the way to go for my setup. I had no reason to think otherwise besides from some horror stories online about sealing issues, but that was before cometic made changes to known issues on their ford gaskets.
I'll clean the block deck real well with acetone and double check the heads and make sure they're perfect. Had I used cometics from the very beginning, I may not have these issues. The graphite gaskets probably did put small pits in the heads, so I'm hoping that's part of the issue. Fixing that along with some silicone should get me where I need to be. I hope.
If you've been following me (like I do you), I wrestled w/ a similar issue after having to tear down the monsters' engine to seal my stupid HG. I thought I wanted a MLS gasket, (and could've bought one from China) but after reading that even they had their own fair share of sealing issues, requiring a mirror like head/block surface finish, I stayed w/ the copper.
As expensive as it was to have a copper HG built for the engine, I could at least take solace in the knowledge that #1. I could boost the engine to internal part failure, before HG failure (not one of your problems), and #2 I could reuse the gasket after I throw a rod outta the engine from point #1.
Now that you've compressed the Cometic, can it be re-used?
If you can, I have a one word suggestion for you.
Hylomar.
nice to see it coming back together Scott, on the clutch I went with the 11" centerforce dual friction, has full coverage organic pressure plate side and carbon composite puck on the flywheel side, it has the springs and suppose to be best of both worlds - easy engage and slip with strong hold for higher power, kinda leery of the weights but didnt find any real negatives about them..... Looked at the dual disc but went this way.
on another note, did you figure out the front wheel misalignment with mm kmember when you first put on your fenders? Im worried mines gonna be off (no reason, just since I saw how yours looked...)
Absolutely, I wouldn't hesitate at all to re use a set of MLS gaskets so long as they aren't jacked up from copious amounts of boost and extreme engine temps.Now that you've compressed the Cometic, can it be re-used?