Advise Needed

[1dsmer]

I bought this car a little over a month ago, decided to tare into it today. Pulled the exhaust manifold off to find that 3 out of 9 studs have been heli-coiled in. This is besides the manifold to turbo bolt being ####ed. Anyways one of the heli-coiled studs pulled out. So what im wondering is what to do next. I have another head thats cleaned and ready. im gonna do a compression test tomorrow to help me decide. The question being do i use this as an excuse to do an engine build or just throw the other head on or heli-coil them back in and just be done with it?

 

[shredwin]

If it has a lot of miles I say use an excuse to do an engine build... I wouldnt reuse the head with heli-coils though, so you got 2 options. Now its up to you to decide

 

[CardShark]

If the compression is good, no reason to pull the head off just for a missing heli-coil.

Is your spare head just a clean, stock head or is it built?

 

[1dsmer]

clean stock head with new valves. But i've never heard good things about helicoils

 

[doubleclutch99]

theres nothing wrong with helicoils. alot of times they work better than just driving a stud in. the shop i work at builds an 1800 cubic inch v12 for the us government that goes in the bradley recovery vehicle over in iraq . the engine and trans almost exclusively uses helicoils. and that engine puts out around 1100 hp.