by imania » Sat Jul 05, 2014 8:23 pm
Update time:
I'd been having issues with my coolant being a funny colour and getting air into my coolant no matter how many times it was bled. Had it diagnosed as being the head gasket (turns out this was probably wrong as it was found the my radiator plastic end tank had cracked).
Long story short I've had some huge assistance from people on and off the forum and the car is in a much better way now:
Owen (bspec) helped my source pretty much all my parts, was an invaluable source of information and a great resource for the forum. If you're in Victoria and need any parts I highly recommend you get in contact with him. He also put me onto Paul who is an amazing mechanic, did all the work from his garage and kept in touch with me the whole way so I knew what was happening. Have a chat to Owen if you need the referral, I highly recommend him.
Work done and additional mods are:
ARP2000 studs,
Tomei gaskets
New valve stem seals and valve seats machined (tested low pressure)
Heads machined
Dayco Timing belt
New water pump
ID1000's
AVO fuel pump
Pierburg 3 port BCS
Added the custom 3" mufflered centre from Hallam Performance
Perrin TMIC
Tomioka throttle body hose
Japanese Excedy heavy duty clutch
E85 tune by Matt
Massive thanks to Owen, Paul, Alex, Brian, Ben, Matt and anyone else who helped me diagnose, repair or improve!