Engine Too Old?
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Joined: Oct 2002
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From: MA
Yeah, if you are going to invest money on a cam and heads, youre halfway through the rebuild! Besides, if you have the block looked over, you will be guaranteed that there is no deck warpage so those fancy new heads will seat purrrfectly. If you are on a budget, no, you dont NEED to rebuild it, but (like my father learned on an old mercedes putting new heads on it), some old parts cant stand up to new parts. The added stress of them doing their job right can make marginal quality parts head south. Do you have a certain cam and heads picked out yet?
Rich
Rich
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Joined: Sep 2002
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From: Gateway to the West
With that many miles as soon as you regain the compression on the top end (heads, valves, etc.) you are bound to lose the lower end (pistons, rings, etc.) from the regained compression so I'll second or third the idea of just rebuilding the whole thing.
Hotshot
Joined: Jul 2002
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From: Bend,OR
you can get the bottom end rebuilt pretty cheap to. especially if you do most the work yourself. a machine shop shouldnt be more then 300 -400 bucks to bore out the block and stuff. then just purchase a rebuild kit from summit and away you go.
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