Buying a dismantled block and head - what contents are critical?

[jtoomasson at yahoo.com (Jeff Toomasson)]

Ahhh, my friend - the distributor will not be necessary (other than maybe
recouping some costs).

This motor is destined for SDS territory and the land of Coil Packs!  :)

But the real question is whether to mill the pistons or use a JH crank to
reduce compression (or, I guess, cheating and stacking headgaskets!)

Thanks for the info, Dan -

Jeff
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Jeff Toomasson" <jtoomasson@yahoo.com>; <mr.utility@highstream.net>
Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: Buying a dismantled block and head - what contents are
critical?


> TT sells bigger valves now but they used to make a point of the
reliability
> of the stock valves. My TT head was ported back in 98 and has stock valves
> although they are backcut. They didn't offer a bigger valve option back
> then.
> CIS hydro head internals should fit as far as I can tell from ETKA.
> Make sure you get the 3A distributor for when you add a KS ignition and
get
> all the crap on the front of the block (not water pump and oil filter
mount,
> but the other stuff) , the ventilation holes are different.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Toomasson" <jtoomasson@yahoo.com>
> To: <mr.utility@highstream.net>
> Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 12:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Buying a dismantled block and head - what contents are
> critical?
>
>
> > Sorry - but I'm kinda missing your point.  Are you referring to whether
TT
> > offered a bigger valve combo?  Also, what are these problems you're
> > referring to?  I thought Colin's heads were among the best offered by
> anyone
> > other than Oettinger or maybe Drake?
> >
> > thx, JT
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <mr.utility@highstream.net>
> > To: "Jeff Toomasson" <jtoomasson@yahoo.com>
> > Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:27 AM
> > Subject: Re: Buying a dismantled block and head - what contents are
> > critical?
> >
> >
> > > I am almost positive that they used to, but I do not know about now...
> > They
> > > were much more in the market for tuners some years ago, but I think
they
> > have
> > > had some trouble since, and they do not sell all of the 'go-fast
> > internals'
> > > they used to...  The 'trouble' appears to have been too many idiots
who
> > > thought they knew what they were doing, and when they discovered they
> did
> > not,
> > > TT got the blame...
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > David      fahrvegnugen
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Quoting Jeff Toomasson <jtoomasson@yahoo.com>:
> > >
> > > > Tomorrow, I'm most likely going to be picking up a 3A shortie and TT
> > head
> > > > that've been torn apart.
> > > >
> > > > Other than the obvious,  block, pistons, wrist pins, crank, I-shaft,
> > rods, is
> > > > there anything the block must absolutely must come with?  Should I
> bring
> > a
> > > > micrometer to measure the pistons? Or can I just insert them through
> the
> > bore
> > > > to verify fit?
> > > >
> > > > As for the head, it's supposedly a TT ported hydro 8v head from a
Digi
> > II
> > > > setup, but the running gear is missing. I assume I can use the gear
> from
> > my
> > > > CIS hydro head?  IIRC, TT did _not_ use oversize valves like
Eurospec
> > and
> > > > Oettinger - just the typical 40/36 GTi combo. Is that true?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Jeff
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