My suggestion is that if you're going to start replacing bushings, just bite the bullet and get polyurethane bushings. Energy suspension makes a master kit for the front and rear suspension for ~$150. The hardest part will be pressing the old bushings out(find someone with a shop press, it'll...
Come on man, you're in school for engineering (as am I) and you didn't take into consideration which surface was load bearing??????? *tisk tisk*.(kidding around BTW).Yes, caps can be cleaned up to a degree, but definitely don't remove much material.
To start with, minus the front cam journals(ones by the cam gears) the bottom side of the journals are non-load bearing surfaces, therefore minor damage to that face is not a concern. I'd be much more interested to see what the cam caps looked like since they are your load bearing surface. As...
While there are plenty of oil cooled turbos, I'll agree that they don't always need water cooling. If the charger has the capability to be water cooled, why not use it? Here's an article that helps explain it better than I can...
I've actually got that same system on my car, the car had it when I bought it. Now that I've got a customized 3" o2 housing and down pipe off of my PTE and removed the resonance chambers(the 2 little what look like cherry bombs in the exhaust) it sounds amazing and you can hear the turbine...
Oiling grooves go toward the crank, as that's how oil moves down the bearing to get to the entire surface of the crank thrust flange. Also pre-lube the sides that go against the crank, the ones with the oiling grooves.
The one that they have will be very difficult to use on our heads. They're usually generic lever spring compressors, to be used on springs that protrude from the top of the head, but ours are recessed inside the head.
There's a lot of factors beside just run time. I can't really give you a mileage number, but I will give you a way to test without getting a bunch of expensive measuring equipment. I call it the wiggle test, pull the springs off, pull the valve out about 1/2"-1"(just enough to where you can get...
Plus with worn guides, you'll be sacrificing valve-seat sealing. You'll also see accelerated valve-wear because instead of the entire valve closing at once and centered(as its supposed to) one side or the other with close first and then as the rest of the valve closes(not centered) the valve...
I've got the VRSF short route front mount kit on my car and honestly I don't even remember the AC lines being an issue at all. The only thing that I had problems with fitment wise was the 2gb fog lites. I've read that there are ways to modify them to work in the factory location but I didn't...
Also as far as new cable end bushings, I highly doubt that your local autoparts store will have anything. I would suggest any of the cable end bushings on this page:
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You said that you hear the noise AFTER turning the engine off, as the engine begins to cool, correct? If that's the case, then you're just hearing all the metal components in the engine returning to their normal size. Due to thermal expansion, when components heat, they expand, and as they begin...