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As long as your present head is in good shape, there's something to be said for keeping the engine somewhat original...especially externally. Sure a big valve head would give you more power. So would porting and polishing your existing head. So would a blower. Just depends on how much power you want to buy. Obviously now is the time to upgrade if that's what you want...but there's plenty of MKI cars running around with the original head....and their owners are happy. Problem with spending lot$ of ca$h on power upgrades, is that most drivers probably never use that extra power. And the price per HP is pretty high.
 
I'm not doing anything radical. If I were, I'd be putting a cross flow in her and a T9 5speed.
 
I just want to do this rebuild right, you know? Not wish I'd done something differently after she's finished.
 
John...great minds think alike

Janell - probably...its an older leaded gas head...he needs to replace the seats with hardened ones for non-lead gas...simple exercise for a competent machine shop...don't toss that old head - its actually one of the good ones (get me the casting number please)

Joe, my granddaddy used to say "speed costs, Tony - how much money you got will define how fast you go." How fast you wanna go, Janell?
 
Faster than the speed of light. But I'll settle for cruising at a nice, safe 80mph.
 
Then do as John Moore & I suggested!
 
Yes Sir.

~clicks heels and salutes sharply~
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****, John...mention your name & she obeys - dare I try it with Jerri?
 
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Faster than the speed of light. But I'll settle for cruising at a nice, safe 80mph.

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You don't want to go too fast Janel..

Or else you will think you are driving a TR7

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Nope, if it were a TR7, I'd be sitting on the side of the road flashing those gold stilettos, trying to get someone to stop and tow me.

Heya Tony, I never said WHAT I saluted with...
 
I came late to this party, but I will say the same as Tony has... "Run what ya brung." No need to spend cubic dollars for marginal return. Put together a nice SOLID, reliable engine. You have ALL the BIG pieces already. The rest of that crap is "bragging rights" stuff unless you do it yourself... Just proves you have more money than you need. Someone will try an' sell you fuel injected lugnuts if they think you'll buy. +0.030" bore is 0.010" under the LAST overbore I'd want to do to a B engine, Crank would be "iffy" in a higher compression (racing) engine to drive onna streets ('cause WHEN it goes *SNAP* you gotta walk home) but fine for your Emma. IF you find you just can't STAND not to have MORE POWERRR... acquire a "spare" and build IT to the hilt, swap out the "nice" one and wrap it in plastic... that way when the "high performance" one scatters you still have a ~reliable~ unit sitting at home. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
 
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Heya Tony, I never said WHAT I saluted with...

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Two toots of the "hooters"

Just being picky technical.
If the crank journals have been machined, then they, and the bearings, are .030 UNDERsized.. not over.
When you machine a journal, it becomes smaller in diameter, and requires a bearing that is also smaller in diameter on the bearing face.Thus, undersized
When you machine a cylinder you are inside the bore and you are making it bigger in diameter. Thus, oversized.
Just to help you make sense of that sheet from the rebuilder.
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The guy clearly said OVER. So they're oversized because they're undersized?
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Banjo - I knew that was gonna confuse her....

Janel, don't worry about it...you're gonna either have to buy .030 rings & bearings or have it bored & turned to the next size....we all understood what he said; Banjo was just explaining the correct technical terms
 
Not the crank, jb. It'd surely be a 0.030" undersize journal (expressed as -0.030")... but really, each bearing shell would actually have 0.015" (approx.) THICKER babbet than standard...

Goo-on an' 'splain THAT to 'er Ben /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
This'd be soo much easier if we could DRAW stuff on here too!
 
GAWD, GUYS!!!! Now she's lethal - i.e. dangerously confused...don't get within shooting range...hehehehehe

...just buy whatever he says, Janel..I'll understand & so will any other parts guy....we know what .030 means on bearings or rings!
 
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