Thread: advice needed......lurch has a headache.....

ive been told to use 300tdi studs.......


are these thicker........? ie......will i need to drill and tap the head to take them......

and was also told to drill out all the manifold holes to 10mm except for the centre port.....to locate the manifold.......



oh....and i just picked him up from mums place.......so should hopefully start to pull him apart tomorrow after work........

Defenderzook,

Given your thread I may just tag along if that's OK.

I'd be interested in where you are going to get your manifold skimmed and the cost.

i was gonna try where we send our flywheels to get machined......


wont know till i get it off.......




otherwise.....i will just do it the greek way.........a sheet of wet and dry sand paper on a sheet of glass.......

and a sheetload of elbow grease........

I've got a mill but I'm still learning how to use it.

I think I saw a post from "Discowhite"?? where he millled his, He indicated there was quite a bit of setup and that's knowing what you're doing. I think he took off 1.5mm.

I thought that you would have to skimm each of the ports to the same height basicly end to end. I wouldn't have thought that you could do this with wet and dry??.

i can pop into tr spares if you have no luck, off work monday
ian

Originally Posted by DEFENDERZOOK

i read something about that........drill them out to 10mm to allow some movement......
drill out all the holes except the middle 2 to allow it to locate in the correct position......




and im even gonna paint the manifold whilst its out.......make it look really sexy.......which also means faster.......
i just have to decide which is the fastest colour.........

DONT PAINT.... HPC Coat it..... Paint is useless... Ceramic coating helps thermal dynamics, flow etc.. and prevents heat soak...

Around $80 for HPC to do the job...

Tombie2

I phoned HPC and they told me it would cost about $500. This was about 8 weeks ago. From memory give the heat say 800C that I would need the higher grade application. Also to get the benifit I would need to do the dump pipe and turbo. Hence I'm thinking of just paint

Be interested in the $80 applicaton. Can you shed some light on it.

Originally Posted by muddymech

i can pop into tr spares if you have no luck, off work monday
ian

theres no rush.......ive got the mazda to drive around with........

plus i still havent taken the manifold off yet.......and ive got a couple of rdo s due........


but thanks for the offer.......