You can call me premature but.....

[burton198]

I am about a week or two from completing my G60 refresh and i just wanna say with out the help of my friends, girlfriend and illegal substances wouldve gotten the best of me. My head is getting a bolt pulled out today and as soon as its done itll be time for reassemble. I know there will probably be bumps in the road after its all back together but i cant help but get excited when im so close to having my Corrado back on the road. Pics to be coming soon and thank you to anyone who helped!!!!!

[dogger]

I can understand the feeling. Enjoy the feeling. Sometimes it doesn't last long...

[burton198]

honestly for it to be worth it i just want it to fire up and idle and go for 1 good run and id be satisfied, not to say i dont want to bdrive it more than that but with so much into this car and sacrifices ive made i just want to hear it fire up

[eurosportgti]

u did decide to send it to the machine shop for the exhaust bolt?

[burton198]

yea i had was talking with a buddy of mine and he said he went with out getting a bolt out and he said it leaked and ended having to pull the head off and everything id rather not risk it and just get it pulled out for the 50 bucks

[Lanceevox]

oxygen sensor is on the way man.

[burton198]

thank you sorry bout the PP dispute

[reborndub]

Quote, originally posted by burton198 »

yea i had was talking with a buddy of mine and he said he went with out getting a bolt out and he said it leaked and ended having to pull the head off and everything id rather not risk it and just get it pulled out for the 50 bucks

i had this prob on my old mk1 gti. 178k mls
a friggn 4x4(peice of wood) fell off a trailer going down rt110 in ames.
ripped all the lower exh man bolts out of the head.
so i bought a header to replace the man. and we were in the process of drilling a retapping and we ended up poking into the water jacket on one of the bolts.

ended up sending it to centerline machine and i said f-it . they welded it up no prob, but while we were into it that much, i just rebuilt the whole thing,with a little port work.

but anyways some of those bolts are just way to close to thin walls and need to be done with care/ or cost you more $.