my metal head gasket build pictures
 

here are some pictures..
I know we all like seeing pictures...lol..

here are some pictures of how the engine looked before and after, also some pics of the car and also one of my son.....love that picture..

thats nice sauce i like your supra


what kind of hg?

thanks alot. I got a titan motorsports mls head gasket. and arp studs ..

also replaced every gasket I could,including the oil pan...

nice how much it set you back?

here is a pic of the interior, by the way, I just did the short shifter mod but I still havent installed it due to the lack of a shifter boot...I need one bad..lol

I believe it was about $130 for the hg. and $120 for studs, 300 for head work and 150 for miscelaneous seals and gaskets.

oh nice and that is the first tan interier supra ive seen. im really liken the car man:bow:

thanks, im very anxious to get it running again, Im a bit afraid I must confess, because of all the horror stories I,ve heard about using Metal headgaskets and not prepping the block. although I did machine the head, the block i did not.

But I pray everyday that I work on the motor that it'll be fine.

how did the block look ?

oh im so glad someone else has a tan interior. its the first one ive seen except mine. looks great man.

thanks Damdog.the interior I hear from many people is still in great shape,it has no tears on the seats and carpet looks good.. as far as the block, it looked fair but you can never be sure until you have it decked,machined.lol.

today I got the harness on the engine and is ready to go into the car, but I found out that I have missplaced one of the flywheel bolts. I will have to search realy hard or else I'll have to buy one.
My debate now is if I should wait another 3 weeks to buy and receive the OEM clutch and throwout bearing or reuse the one that I had in it wich still looks decent in wear.
I know the right thing to do is to replace it now...but I just cant wait another week from driving the BEAST.

clean engine mang.

i wanna see some pics with the head off :)

here are some pics of the head after it was milled. sorry, no pictures of the block without the head...sikes..I found one before it was cleaned....what a difference eh..?

looks good meng

looking awesome there!!!! ;)

thanks supra girl...its an honor to get that from you...!!:)

got the beats running, so far I havent seen any overheating issues but at this point I am extremely paranoid...checking coolant every chance I get..lol.

here are some more in the shop, I test drove it yesterday and it dint loose coolant , but like i said..Im very paranoid..

lol...forgot the pictures...

lol i can see me doing that ^

i will pray to the supra gods that you recieve their blessing for all your sacrifice to please them

thanks J3PZ, I will definetily need those blessings and thanks for doin that.
I drove it today all day and have'nt seen any unussual heating issues or loss of coolant. although yesterday after I took the previous pictures and 15 minutes after I got the engine running id did over heat a bit...upon closer inspection I noticed lack of coolant but no leakage at all. Must have been an air pocket because it took about a gallon of coolant/water. after i filled it up I havent seen any coolant loss on the radiator or reservoir...Thanks supra gods...!!!
like i said, I drove it a lot today and havent had to add a bit of water to the radiator or reservoir.
At last the supra is at home and my kids are so happy...too sad its getting a bit cold here in Georgia to take the targa top off. allready installed the stereo and checked all the lights.

here are a few pictures more...I'm so happy to be driving the Super again..lol

• I drove the car nearly all day long for the second day and no coolant loss...hurray!!

the supra gods have heard my prays...lol

My paranoya is slowly going away,unfortunately after reconecting the PCM after the head gasket repair, the evil code 52 appeared. now I will be checking the wiring to the knock sensors and possibly rewireing it using the coax cables refered to in http://oldschool.supracentral.com/ .its a posibility the wires came loose at the pcm since I noticed that there are some spliced coax cables near the pcm conector from the previous owner.
I did notice some surge under boost that wasnt there before I repaired the headgasket but can easyly be a by-product of the CODE 52 retarding or advancing the timing under load..
has anyone else suffered from this with code 52?