FORMONTOYA
DSM Wiseman
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- Oct 7, 2004
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Houston,
Texas
i am doing a turbo swap and this weekend i got to the point of removing the turbo and exhaust mani so i could get the mani ported and start getting this toy back together. well, about 2 am saturday morning the turbo is off and i am taking the mani off...not what i wanted to see (even though "hope for the best...expect the worst" is my motto), #2 & 3 exhaust ports on the head is totally covered in oil...#1 is about 75% covered...but #4 looks pretty good for a 95k car. top it all off, a visual of the mani revealed one he** of a crack from the inside...not migrated through...yet! what a somber moment, :thumbdown but it lasted about 20 seconds or so then i started to think...if i work 5 nines (my job is such that i can work as much over 40 hrs as i want) i can have this new addition to the project done in about 4 weeks. then a few seconds later i start to think again...timing belt change was at roughly 55k...at 95k now...inside of 10k i will need to start thinking about a t-belt change...the head is off the car, might as well do that now. :thumbdown head work, t-belt change, plus associated other parts and crap that go along with that and i start to think...if i work 5 tens then in about 6 weeks i should be looking pretty good on the second addition to the cause. then it hits me...i am married, (do not get me wrong, i love my wife, but...negotiating deals can really suck, especially when she thinks you have already sunk to much money this go round) then i start to think...if i work 5 tens and a half day on saturday...in about 8 weeks this could be a done deal. because after all...my wife is not going to ok the deal unless she gets something out of it. soooooo...have not got the head off as of yet...but i am hopeing, and my wife is praying, that i do not find even the slightest thing questionable about the lower end...if i do ...maybe if i work 6 tens for.....
jim
jim