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I went through one turbo which had a wg failure and spiked 25+ psi ( gauge only went that far) 4 headgaskets (oem, turbo, felpro) never broke a ring land. The ring lands are pretty far down on the oem n/a piston so it is more forgiven than more modern engine with shallow ring lands design to save gas and hp. Detonation kills piston though.

Sounds like he's talking about the euro spec pistons. I heard they are slight raise as he mention. I've not checked mine but I got a similar set up those pistons in a N42 block/head combo.

There is a local guy selling a LT1 for $250 in AL. no harness but complete long block

Gabe, be sure to let me know if you are coming back to see the IRL race. I'll be sure to hang out and catch up.

I went since I'm just a mile down the road. I can say I was impressed. 1:10 would be average speed of 120mph I believe. The track is 2.3 miles long. I saw few run off going into the turn 1. Those guys were going at it.

Thanks. Exsactly what I needed to know. I guess I should shorten up the bead and add few extra. Right now, all I have is time and tig welder. lol I can go borrow my friend's millermatic if I must. The rotisserie is to come, right now I'm just trying to weld up what I can reach.

I was hoping someone can teach me few things on the general rule how to seam weld the chassis. How long does the weld has to be? I've been running a bead about 1.5 to 2 inches. What about the spacing between the weld? I'm using TIG to weld, I guess it's acceptable. Do I need to run a second bead to convex the bead? Here is a picture of the weld. Let me hear what you guys think. Thanks

1&6, 2&5, 3&4 I believe. you tie the TDC cyl with the TDB cyl together.

You should be able to use the factory ignition module. I can't remember how to wire it up on the 6 cyc. but the multipoint injection is about the easiest way to hook it up. You have 4 devoted injector drivers on the E6K so you can do 2 injectors per driver and do a batch fire too I think. Also you can may be use a trailing ignitor to make the 6 cyl full suquential. You would need to use two aux output drivers to run extra 2 injectors. I can only tell you vague infomation cause I don't have the manual in front of me. There is a tech forum for haltech on their website should be more helpful

My daily now is a vw golf 8v 2.0l. Mark iv. Under powered but it handles good and fun to drive plus gets 30mpg.

I didn't think of that. Good point. I was thinking it might have been a bad idea due to heat stress from the weld. Too late to go back now though. Can anyone lead me to a good read on where and when to stiffen the chassis?

Welding up the rear strut towers like this? At the time seem like it should help some on the rear strut stablity. Any comment welcome. Thanks.

Looks like the amp is too high and the torch traveling too slow. First what kind of welder are you using, set up? Getting use to your machine sometime takes time. I just finished up flanges to 16ga mild steel pipe and my setup was 90-100amp, 3/3" red 2% thoriated tungsten with pulse set at 1 per 1 sec. Usually use filler on the every other pulse. The pulse really puts the weld in good rythem, if you have it I would use it. On sheet metal work in 20-22 gauges, I'm stepping down the tungsten size to 1/16" and low amp in the 30-40amp. The arc are alot stable with smaller tungsten in lower amp. I do increase the pulse to 10 per sec also. My machine is Miller syncrowave 200.