thats a good link, i may drill the rivets out and give them a good cleaning and see how they look afterwards.

thanks man, really appreciate the input, i hope to resolve this issue on the weekend. i'll post when/if i fix it..

hey guys, i've been forced to drive the "spare" vehicle until the bonne is fixed. the "spare" is a 99 dodge caravan with the 3.8l. it was running kinda rough as it doesn't see the road too often, so i figured i'd give it a basic tune up. plugs, wires, fix up bad vacuum lines, new pcv.. with all that ...

well put, i'll be buying a new set today.

just thought i'd ask, these gaskets only got about 7000km.. and i remember a while back reading that they were reusable.. i don't really wanna spend hours prepping and cleaning the cometics and still not have peace of mind when i'm driving it. i think i'll go with the oem style gaskets.

i thought i read somewhere a while back that cometic head gaskets are reusable.. any truth to this ? should i just buy a set of felpros and call it done? i'd like to use the cometics if i can but if they're gonna cause problems in the future i'd rather use new gaskets.

well as the title says.. i've had some trouble with the bonne lately (chunked #3 piston) and i've been considering all other alternatives.. one of the others is a 30k l32 block from morad for $800.. how do you guys think this will work?? i know the rods are better than the l67's but what about the ...

thats funny, the mopar.... lol thats thing aint running to good these days either, i'd probably be better off with the ssei with a chunked piston.. i think i'll be in the hhr

crap, too bad i done broke my motor i'd be there for sure.. maybe i'll take the womans hhr ss

not sure as to the complete explanation of the chunked piston, the only thing i seen was that my rear knock sensor had a poor connection and wasn't giving an accurate reading, but that was a month or so ago, after fixing that issue i checked for knock at 13 psi and was 0, just a little during ...

trans.... yes, well thats the other deciding factor.. if i were to continue on this path with the turbo i would be into another tranny also.. and then proably another one... and so on... i love the car, i've driven this thing across canada with my kids in it.. it just seems now the more i do with it ...

i was already looking at morads site and seena few low milage l67's there for under $1000.. i'm thinking thats the way i'm leaning.. i could probably get enough from selling stuff to get a motor for those kinda prices..

well it seems i have some decision making to do... i won't go into to much details, but anyway here it is: i've spent the past year or so building up a good powerplant for my bonneville, in the process of all this i spent upwards of $7000, put countless hours into the car, and basically pissed off ...

yes, a non-intercooled turbo............. i was running 12 psi with 0 kr.. the temp was about -5*c.. at about half throttle something let go and lost power.. seems most likely that i chunked a piston and crushed the spark plug. i suppose your implying that the lack of an intercooler is the cause??

yeah, i'm gonna pull the plugs one day this week.. i'm in no rush... i'll keep ya posted

i still got my old coils, the new ones are oem's that i got from zzp. they only got about 3000 km on them.. i suppose it's possible that they're not as good as the originals.. i'll probably try swaping each coil with a old one to see if it solves it.. but that doesn't explain they knocking that i ...

since this has happened the engine has only ran for a total of about 15 minutes.. i work 35 km away from home, i had it towed home just as a precaution not to do any further damage.. what bugs me is that i wasn't even driving it hard, and after spending upwards of $7000 building this motor i ...

i'm trying not to jump to any conclusions yet.. we'll see how the compression test turns out....

no codes, no engine light, coils are brand new....

so i was on my way to work this morning, taking it easy... then came up on a car going slow in the fast lane, so i pushed the throttle to maybe 75% for a couple of seconds and it took off for a second but then i lost power and it was struggling to stay up to speed... i found myself having to give it ...