The new Project

Your alot smarter then me I wont be able to do that haha

Is your engine, smoking or using oil, gumming up spark plugs or is there a lot of blow-by when running? Or does it only smoke on start up?

Its bit smokey more so on start up as I havnt had the chance to give it a good run with no rego on it its out of tune it smells of fuel when its running to start plugs where a little bit but not to bad im kinda thinking I should just swap the eghust manifold get the roady see how it goes and worst case swap engine after having a good run

I am thinking give it an oil change with a heavier grade oil and see if the petrol smell returns.

Yeah ill give that a go haha buy the time I fix the dam thing I should just buy a td

So I ended up just swapping the manifolds over found that they had already snapped the bolt off in the block down closest to the firewall and then also one of the threads from inside the block was stripped out so you would just screw the bolt in and out with fingers so now the one closest the fire wall has no bolts in it and it just got a bit of goop im hoping this wont cause me to many dramas?

You can buy a recoil thread repair kit, or there are mobile thread repairers that can do the job. With the Recoil kit comes a plastic tap tool that stripped out really easily, so I had to use tap wrench.

With the snapped studs, you can try drilling a hole into them and use Easy Outs.

Yeah I was gonna use the easy outs but I wasnt really to sure if I could get away with not having the bolts in I think ill only have that motor in the car for maybe 6 months before I swap back out

Pictures man, pictures ;)

So today I got some time and fit the new springs not a bad increase but it makes me need bigger tires :D Attachment 51015 before Attachment 51016after I forgot to get a pic of before the rear only have the one from top of thread