Also, you need to make sure to clean out the main bolt holes. They need to be clean and dry.

Looks like an early but hard to tell. The late had little ledges for the thrust washers to sit on. Text me and I can send you a picture after work.

I installed an ebay unit on my brothers jk wrangler, properly wired with a relay..the first wouldn't even stay on, the second strobed. The third came from a vendor and functioned like the sun.

Aside from fumes, possible spillage and the risk of a fire, it won't effect the running of the car in any way shape or form.

The car uses 9005/6 lights in factory housings. That plug is for a 9007 bulb and would need hard wired, providing the bulb will fit, because it probably won't. 9007 bulbs use a lock ring to hold them in.

I always use a dab of green loc tite on the pins, after having one nearly come out.

If it's off, media blasting would be your best bet. High temp paint won't hold up for very long, leave it raw or ceramic coating would be the choices.

Being those are torqued to around 100 ft/lbs and may have thread lock on them, an easy out probably isn't going to do it and if it breaks, which it likely will you'll be in more trouble. I would say a used crank would the most cost effective option, but I'm assuming the engine is still in the...

Did you set the pulley correctly, and with the car in time, does the tensioner have the right amount of space between the top of the tensioner body and arm?

I've never seen one of these in real life :-( Should probably just tote it across the ocean for next year's. Just saying!You would definitely give some of these awd cars trouble!

No, it will not.

To me, the pitting looks like an issue. I would guess whatever you stuck it in had a chemical reaction to the material of the piston, and if that's the case I would question the strength of the rest of it. For that reason, I wouldn't use it

There is no possible way a piece of a valve spring shim (broken or not) could make it into the combustion chamber. At all. Did you find any broken valves? Something made its way into the intake tract and got sucked in, or maybe a bit of a spark plug could have broken off. Hard to say.

I personally use a 1g throttle body.

You built a stroked engine for down low power, I'm assuming. I would just guess that you're going to be living life under the 7-8k area, a street manifold or race would probably be what you're after. I also use a 2.3, and opted for the race manifold based off what I heard/read and was told.