IDK if you will read this, but since you put RTV on both sides of a cork oilpan gasket. REMEMBER Go back and retorque your oilpan bolts, they will back out!
tip for the future, when doing the RTV, try to keep it on the outside half of the contact surface... you dont want any of that getting inside the pan when it gets squeezed out from tightening. also, dont be too liberal with it. a little goes a long way
Your supposed to rtv the lower cover so it shouldn't leak. FYI it's redundant to use gasket/rtv on oil pan/rear. RTV is more than enough, OEM it's rtv only. Buddy had has oil pan leak using that cork gasket. I only use ultra black rtv, max oil resistance. 2cents
im a little curious on this headgasket fitment also. its not off by much but its still off. it might restrict your oil and water flow. I honestly think it might be worth it to redo this one if you are drilling into your headgasket.
Chlorophant i cant exactly remember for turbo setup. But for the engine build $700 for wiseco pistons, $500 for timing chain, gasket kit, main studs, water pump. $550 for white bunny clutch, head studs. $900 for machine work/parts. So around $3grand... not cheap. Thats canadian so like $2300 USD
You're supposed to use RTV on the paper gasket? 13:40 15:53, you said you need to place RTV there in the grooves. Does the manual tell you to do that or no?
Rebuild, this guy spent about 3k building the motor and if you put it together clean with the same parts you should be able to push 700-950hp as long as you can keep the head down, a lot of people drill and tap the head studs for 12mm studs
Andres Delgado havent done a compression test. But ratio should be close to 9:1. Im not really sure man i just got what the machine shop told me to get haha
You should have loosened the head to align the bolts, the Japanese don't cut corners, and you just did young Canuck, do it right I rebuild the same motor and I will never do it again.
The manufacturer shows to loosen the head bolts completely so the gaskets seat. He isn't using a stock head gasket and technically he needed to contact arp because they normally have a different recommended torque for their fasteners.
