my teg

[dsm king]

my poor teg, its almost dead. 90psi in cylinders. im getting a short block hopefully by the weekend. im putting new rings and rod bearings in. one question is, should i send the block to the machine shop before the new rings and bearings? also would getting a thinner headgasket be worth the extra money, than just getting oem spec? cause i heard all the hip cool ricers use thinner headgaskets to raise the compression. makes sense to me but doesnt seem like it would make much of a gain in hp's.

[vince]

I say save your money and get an OEM gasket. I would just make sure the deck is straight or since its out of the car any way i would send it off to get inspected, hot tanked and rehoned. I too need to replace the bottom end on my motor. What short block did you pick up? I have a GSR and im not really wanting to do an LS bottom end even though you can pick those up pretty cheap. Any plans with the one your taking out?

[dsm king]

i was just guna re-hone it and clean it up myself. im getting another ls block. im guna build the hell out of the one i pull out.

[saN]

Definitely get it cleaned up because you don't want something to go wrong anyways. I would like to redo my block, but only ended up doing the head. It would be fun though.

[M@]

Re-hone it and just put a stocker back on.

[dsm king]

Re-hone it and just put a stocker back on.

yeash thats what im thinkin is guna happen

[95integraLS]

Get OEM head gasket, hot tank, rehone, block. Make sure top of block is smooth as well....