You do NOT spray metal gaskets of any kind with permatex copper spray.

That is for any other type of gasket besides metal and rubber. Some of these guys do that. I used permatex on all of my paper or whatever they are composite gaskets. The stuff works great if you use it on the appropriate seals.

well anyway i took it to another more reliable maching place (carquest) they use a diamond cutter instead of a stone. he said they fucked up on a corner of the head so he had to machine a little farther down. another $60 down the drain.:frown:


so that machine shop really sucked a lot of dick then. i dont even know if they did a valve job and replaced the oil seals. ill post some pics of the head when i pic it up tommorow.

$60.00 is a small price to pay for the repair. It's probably the best 60 bucks you could have spent thus far.

your right it was the best $60 i spent i got a boner when i saw it. heres some pics. the last one is what it looked like before. the new head is 4.563".

It looks good man. I guess you are just going to have to live with the gouges.

I would use an HKS beaded hg, If not the toyota oem replacement. I guess it depends on what you want to do with the car.

There' only 1 machinist here in town that does engines. He works out of the old napa bldg. The closest spped shop is an hour and a half away. But that's like a drive to eat out after having lived in california. So it wouldn't bother me to drive it and drop it off and go back to pick it up a few days later.

next got to score some cash and do the block. deffintly going mhg


most likely going to be hks

The HKS beaded is an MHG. Just fyi.

found a new shop and there ganna do the block. surface the block change bearings and piston rings and put a new timming belt and tensioner on. and clean it. they mentioned something about polishing the crank shaft. will that have any performance boost at all and is it worth it?

The only way that will help is if it is weight reduced, unless you think that's going to make it spin faster at lower rpm's or something. I don't see that as logical. IMO.

i found out that polishing the crank helps it move through oil better.