first time for everything,, want to do it right

[Hitmachine101]

hey guys,

ok took the head off my 95 gst and all the valves are bent to hell,, so i have a buddy whose got a 1g head all assembled that im going to throw on my block and use

im selling the car once i get it running,, i took a chance on this one and picked it up from the PO without it running a suspossedly a new head on it that needed to be timed.... more or less he lied about a lot of things

anyways here are my questions:

whats the best way to diagnoise the bottom end of the car? i havent bought the head yet from him so i want to do everything i can to see the health of the bottom end of my motor,, ive drained the oil and theres no chunks in it or anything -- what else should i do??? should i take the oil pan off and visually inspect the bottom end??? or should i just take the oil filter off and clean it out to see what kind of metal content i have in it

second question: i am getting a new head gasket but i am reusing my head bolts ( please dont give me the DONT DO THAT because in in all theory i can,, theres nothing that says there a one time use head bolt ) again im just trying to get it running and get my money back out of it ,,, so will my 2g head bolts fit on that 1g head???

third question: the intake gasket looks good on the intake manifold, im gonna re use it but would it be a good idea to put some rtv silicon around the edges to seal it better?

thanks for the help in advance

 

[BLINKY619]

havent you posted a thread about this... that the guy said it had a new head but he just put one on and it was no good?

 

[Hitmachine101]

havent you posted a thread about this... that the guy said it had a new head but he just put one on and it was no good?

correct the guy said the head he put on was all rebuilt and all set,, just needed to be timed,, he lied and i would just replace all the valves and everything but that will run me about 400 bucks or so maybe more from my local machine guy, as stated above, im just trying to get it to run and then sell it,,, since my frined has a used head laying around in his garge that has 20K on it, im buying it for 150 bucks, so that sounds like a hell of a lot better deal to me,, plus ill have an extra head laying around for a performance build in the future if i want to