nothing wrong with it, cracks can be fixed

Stick to dark colours on the block, hides the dirt better ;)

welcome, What are your plans for the build?

Did it kick a check engine light, if so it's sensor related, if not Id be measuring that for crankwalk

Throw some ARP's in there, that should hold the head down. However if the head was lifting you would have oil and coolant issues as if a head gasket was gone.Sound like you just have a nasty boost or vacuum leak to me

Check all of the earth wires, check for good contact

Maff sensor bad?

I doubt that ould be a problem because t's getting air regardless. have you tried fiddling with an idle screw at all on the throttle body, might raise the idle enough to stop it dying out

Cool look forward to seeing you restoring it back to its glory

Could there be a chance that youve replaced a bad starter with another?

Wow CTS-V brakes are huuuuuuuge

Very rare to find one untouched. Lovely find

nice! you wont regret buying that car. They can be a pain, that's for sure but when they work, they are fantastic

Sorry to hear this. Its sucks so bad when people sell cars and are just not honest with all the bad bits. Get that new head on and drive it. Just enjoy it. I'd get yourself a spare block and start slowly building it for when your ready to go for that 10 secs

Welcome, you will find plenty of helpful tips around :)

Dont worry about losing the airbag. They are extremely heavy anyways.Plus airbags are overrated Angry old lady sets off airbag - YouTube

You say its squeezing past your manifold. Could it be coming from the manifold? Could be the valve stem seals or, check the manifold studs as these pass extremely close to oil passageways and can sometimes work loose and leak oil out

Could be a badly seated valve stem seal. Ive just had a brand new one go on mine, managed 500 miles before going

Mine just does it intially on start up for about 5 seconds max, unless i turn the heating on then it squeals a little longer

What are the plans for it?

Hello, welcome

Looks really good, love it

Just roll the arches, will look awesome :)

Looks nice as it is. Just touch up the bad bits. You will get more money in a couple of years for a clean original looking car than one with a cheap paint job. Let's be honest you really do get what you pay for when it comes to paint jobs

Definately do the leak down test. Because it may not necessarily be a piston or bottom end. I had the same issue and id bent and damaged a valve and came up as a 0 on the compression tester from where my valves had hit the piston

Do the RPM's drop at all after driving it and coming to a stop? Even slightly?

Yes if your valves were hitting the pistons it would sound like a diesel motor. Definately sounds like a timing issue

Fantastic, glad you got it figured out because im having the exact same problem when I try to start my buddies evo that im taking care of. Ive bought a battery relocation kit and am hoping that replacing everything, terminals, wires etc that it will be cured of this issue.Does exactly the...

Ive heard good and bad things about NGK irridiums. Ive never ran them personally, ive always gone for coppers.Some say they are great and help ignition issues, other say the car runs badly or that they foul out quickly

Not sure, my last motor in my evo 3 was running evo 9 pistons and rods. The later 9's have THE best pistons to go for. My compression didnt change at all. Was 9-1 I was running a strong 350 on mine just fine, very good upgrade to do

I wouldnt know, however pull te o2 out and clean it

Firsty, sorry for this but im from an evo background, but do you have a 16g or a big 16g? A big 16g is a good upgrade, if your exhaust manifold doesnt work then get an evo 3 exhaust manifold.Stock boost as far as i'm aware is 0.7 barI would get DSM link regardless, just for logging...

Legit brand or copy'sShouldn't be a hard choice really. Seen so many sets of rota's collapse on themselves, never heard of it happening to an Enkei

Did you fix the headgasket?

I had a similar issue before, I thought my tranny was done, but when i took it off I found it was in fact the clutch. It was an exeddy clutch and one of the springs had broken out of the clutch itself. Tranny was fine. Id take it off, as you have to really, and just check the clutch out then...

Tuning is the key. Get yourself a good system or a link even to be able to map and unlock power

My Evo did this a while back.I replaced the CAS and it's been fine ever since. Can you get a spare CAS to try?

That's really good to know, thanks.Ive got a few things ive got to sell on here, gotta wait until ive got enough posts etc first thoughLoads of evo 3 stuffAwesome, thanksLol yeah I notice that too.Dyno results, on my current setup it just ran 342whp at 1.1 bar :cool: I was...

Hmm, this has got me thinking. I've relocated my battery to the rear and has been running just fine without a breaker, however after just reading the post above, I think il throw one in there. It does sound to me like it is Definately a grounding fault, ensure there is no paint on the...

Im from CambridgeThanks for the nice comments everyone. Im sure you will see trackside pics of me soon enough :) Yeah my build is getting there. Ive currently got my eyes on an EFR setup. Im looking into what best suppoting mods i can do to help maximise that turbo and getting it to fit...

Hi, I'm Tara and from the UK I drive a 95 evo 3 which Ive just fully built. Had the car a while and had lots of problems with the stock 4G63 so I thought what the hell, did my research and built the car. I love it! I'm booked in for tuning on the 5th March after shes all run in, then ima go...