Done with SOHC turbo....

[thermal]

I'm just fucking sick of this SOHC turbo bullshit now.

For those of you who dont know, my stock boosted Y8 finally gave up. Out of desperation to get my daily driver back up, I was able to scavenge a Y7 block from a friend.... for free. I was gonna pair this with my Y8 head (mini-me style). But the whole valve train got fucked since the chunk that came out of my Y8 piston penetrated the #4 cylinder valves and bent a couple of them.... and God knows what else could be wrong with the head.

Diggin through my garage, I found an old Z6 head I had laying around. I cleaned it all up, relapped the valves and bought a VTEC solenoid for it. As I was going through the torque specs, one of the head bolts stripped off the block...it was the last bolt too. I also failed to realize that I will need an OBD1 distributor and a Z6 timing belt.

I will give it one more chance to heli-coil the block... of course I will have to remove the head again to do this shit. If this fucker doesnt work, i will go ahead drop an all-motor B-series instead. I found a complete 95 GSR swap (tranny, mounts, axle, blah blah) for $1700 shipped. I also found an almost complete swap JDM B16A with LSD tranny for $1500.

I'm gonna sell my SOHC turbo kit to my friend to come up with some cash for this shit. I'm just really fed up trying to get my boost SOHC back. I think an unmodified B swap will be a more reliable daily driver anyway....