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Agreed not to do it before. I'm thinking out loud here this could one of the precursor symptoms of HG failure. Curious to see if me little hiccups (hesitation under load at 2250 thru 2800 rpm) felt go away after the rebuild.

Car is e tuned right now with Dave at Cryotune stage 1 with stage three fueling. Going to talk to him about a break in map once I get closer or if it's needed at all. I'm also going to send the injectors in for a douche and inspect. The other thing I have been pondering is changing the fuel pump. More of a proactive maintenance action other than performance upgrade. But If I get the latter I'm all good with that. For sure I have ready your post a couple of times. Will probably be referring back to it a few more times before rebuilding. Thanks Max.

Thanks for the photos and posts. Huge help.

Why I jumped on it now based on your findings... But seriously thanks for the reference.

Just ordered the TiC FU Cam Bolt Kit - Single AVCS... Quick email reply that they are on back order but should be in stock within a week. Not holding my breath... Need to wait so getting my place in line.

All good GT. There will be plenty of fun to be had. Prep first. Getting closer. Trailer tires on the boat are holding air. Good will crap out of the garage and 100 ft air hose added to the tool collection. I have always taken pictures of tear down these days. Makes things so much easier going back together. Especially since I'm not stuffing dissimilar parts together. Getting my head wrapped around the decking procedure. To maintain the correct compression ratio I would get a head gasket that compensates for the material removed? I feel it would. Course this all depends on how much material is removed from block and head. My mechanic friend feels it would not make a big enough difference. 8:2 is what I see as factory from the 2005 manual. Looking at tolerance pages so I can speak intelligently with the machinist. Need to wrap my head around valve lash setup. I leaning to replace pistons regardless of what I find.

Yeah I get back from rehearsal around 4ish but usually beat enough to not want to do much. But with this on the table it's going to be interesting. Need to decide my next move where to tear it down. May try and get the boat out to a friends property and use that side of the garage. Kind of one of those necessary steps before pulling the plug.

I'll PM you and GT my contact info...Unless things change I have a commitment most Saturdays. Next Sunday I'll hope to either have it out or get it close to it. Gonna start pulling it apart the motor compartment in the morning. Need to make sure I have ziplocks. :/

Stand and lift assembled, bloody paint is still gassing out on these things. May get another pair of stands and a second floor jack. Good reasons suggested elsewhere on the forum. Tweaking my list a little but haven't posted any changes yet. Gonna drop the DP for the moment. Running first then stage 2 after break in.

Lift, stand and a couple more jack stands are in the garage. Will assemble this weekend and begin dismantling the engine bay.

Going to Harbor Freight today and pick up a motor stand, lift and adjustable cradle. They are not that expensive least for Harbor Freight. Future ex flipped her mind again and my initial proposal stands. I'm keeping this house! Get OUT!

My friend was fighting a 86 ford truck to pass... He purposefully went there to see of he could pass for free after I told him where it was setting up.

Besactly. But it's not about emissions any more. The future about system stability and visual as stated above. Tail pipe parameters captured these days are only because the state has not pushed the OBDII only solution out yet as the main solution. Recently there has been a couple of evaluation road side tests performed in town. Funny part is they roll out a dyno in the process. I have avoided them thus far. If I move forward with my plans the visual may be an issue.

Cool. Thanks Guys... I'll get my but out there now and start getting crap put away.

Getting there... Wife keeps throwing spit wad scenarios at me. I was playing chess in my head with all the variables this weekend. Picked up my loaner truck. Went to the Modesto GP with my daughter Sunday was good for the sole. Need to clean out the garage and get the motor stand and lift over here. Then today wife reverses her story via txt today while I'm at the office. At this stage no reply.

I'm splitting block... Taking the heads down with case half's with crank for inspection and machining as needed. Will order rings and bearings based on findings. If I get new pistons it will based on some convincing but will probably in the end.

Yeah I wanted to hear the extreme... The two shops that i have worked with or have called me back have their wife working the phone. They are all about mitigating liability and IMO praying on people not able to do most of the work themselves. They don't want to receive a motor to rebuild after pulling it out myself... So back in my court. Pulling. Breakdown. Machine (outsource). Rebuild are all on me.

I got lucky... I had the wrong stage one map on and could have pumped a EGT cel at any time... Didn't and passed. Only after I noticed. I have a Rev 8 that eliminated the EGT even though I had the device physically in the up.

I get it dude. I live out here too. My issues with smog testing are pretty simple. It's no longer going to be an emissions test. It's more so going to be an inspection to ensure the factory emissions BS is intact and the ECU is not seeing faults ensuring and working according to spec. If it was a system designed to identify particulates only and the don't tell me how I get there I'd have no issues with the "system". But no I can't touch any hard parts and if they keep snooping into the ECU eventually there may be a baseline ECU map validation. The coming ECU only test eliminates the sniffer all together. So they don't care about the emissions. They care about getting the money out of my pocket. It's in every persons best interest to keep their car in good working order. If you can't commit to doing that get the hell off the road. Less morons to get in my way on the road.

Of course... All subjective to the man deciding who gets screwed... Since we live in the valley or "dustbowl" of California the air quality is always going to suck according to da man.

Ok but since most shops don't have a four wheel dyno they just do the basic. I had the "basic" test performed a few months back and passed. The new method in the future is what Scotty mentioned... Just looking for codes and such. I seriously doubt they will be able to see much if the car is tuned or not so long as no codes are present. But visually it needs to look stock.

Ok found the machine shop I'll be using. Al Hubbard in Hayward will take the split block and heads from the tear down. Refresh both and hand back for rebuild with a rough estimate of 500 bones. This work will give me the measurements needed for the bearings, potential need for over bore pistons and will check the crank and such. They have been in business for years and although don't do a lot of EJ motors have and will do it. I spoke to GTS and their take on this was they will not do anything but a complete motor refresh... Rough estimate $7500... Yeah no thanks.

Well put a fork in it, for sure done. I have been driving it on a limited basis. Left it at the airport over the week while on this business trip. Needed to go pick up my daughter and found coolant puked on the driveway. So no go and told the future ex she needs to go get the girl. Now I just need to figure out how to get up to pick up this loaner ride and I can begin the tear down. Really don't need this right now but I have no choice.

http://www.rallysportdirect.com/Company23-500-STD-Intake-Exhaust-Cam-Sprocket-Tool Probably wrong as I looked again. This would be for Dual ACVS heads I'd guess.

Thanks. I hear you on the parts cost. Warranty sounds good but is that covered without factory certified tech installing? Why not the wrench that will hold both intake and exhaust?