You guys are full of shit, getting it done in an hour! Took me 6ish hours to do with help, we had a couple snags, but still. I had to pull the intake manifold off with it, because I couldn't bust the bolts loose underneith on that damn bracket that is almost impossible to get to, but I figured it out.

Getting the timing belt loose was a total bitch, and I still don't know how I'm going to get it out...do you jack the motor up, or lower it down? I just have the drivers side motor mount pulled off. Thanks for advice.

Bad News:
-Exhaust valves are WHITE! Very very white. Means lean, correct?
-Head gasket doesn't look bad at all, but I guess that doesn't have to be the source of a leak there.
-Pistons look like shit. Mostly black, but my dad says that could be from just pulling the car in and out of the garage real quick, car being in open loop and running rich for a minute. No obvious damage to any of the pistons though. (that's a relief from running 18-22psi for the last 45K miles with probably less than acceptible tuning)

Good News:
- None to report yet. Drop off the head today at the machine shop. They will tell me the rest.



Question:
The air conditioner *radiator* has a bunch of white crusty build up on it...any idea what that is??



Comments:
Damn this is going to be a bitch to put back together. All those vacuum hoses, brackets, just a bunch of bullshit to bolt back on. Hope I'm not in over my head and can get this car to fire up again.

On top of all of this, I did most of this with a 100* fever running all day Saturday at a car show and Sunday while working on the car.

I have been without my car for about 26 hours and I miss her dearly already. Can't wait to get her all fixed.

I'll get some pics hosted up tomorrow of the block and air conditioner radiator.

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6 hours.....WTF......took me a hour.

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Jerrome B.
1995 GSX - Race
1997 GST - Drive
1995 GST - Who the hell knows

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Just remember where everything goes. 2 hrs is all it should take anyone.

Now if you just take a razor blade and cut the timing belt off , you can have that bitch out in 30min


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Originally posted by Remy
Just remember where everything goes. 2 hrs is all it should take anyone. Now if you just take a razor blade and cut the timing belt off , you can have that bitch out in 30min WWW.CNNMOTORSPORTS.COM

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Originally posted by Remy
Just remember where everything goes. 2 hrs is all it should take anyone. Now if you just take a razor blade and cut the timing belt off , you can have that bitch out in 30min WWW.CNNMOTORSPORTS.COM

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Jerrome B.
1995 GSX - Race
1997 GST - Drive
1995 GST - Who the hell knows

Yes! Head is finished and ready for pick up! I guess he couldn't do the .020 deck because he took down .003 or .004 and was already knicking the tops of the valves. Vacuum test came out perfect, valves look great, he said there is really no need for porting at all because they are pretty big runners... $100 ...kickass!

I'm still going to post pictures later, I've been sick as a dog this week.

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Sounds good, Dan. Reminds me of when I picked up that 93GS and had to assemble and install the head. Did it next to blind in an apartment parking lot, but it's been running strong ever since. HoO-rah!

Took me 2 1/2 hrs to get the head off tonight. Fucking timing cover bolts took most of the time.


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