Engine Rebuild

[dale_8888]

Hey I was just wondering what is involved in rebuilding an engine other than ripping it apart and replacing all of the gaskets and blah blah blah.

Do you recommend getting new internals or just reconditioning the old ones? I frecondition, then how?

What sort of prices should I be expecting to pay with things like a gasket set, engine internals (if needed), etc?

Cheers.

[sic86]

What engine is it?

Cheers

[crazy86]

If all you do when you do a rebuild is replace the gaskets, then your missing the point of a rebuild, and missing a valuable opportunity to refresh the internals in your engine. What you should really ask is how much money do I want to spend. Cos if you have the whole engine apart, you could replace everything with special aftermarket parts, and get everything better than new, or you could replace everything with new stock items, to make the car as good as new, or you could just fit new bearings for example, to ensure that you get the best reliability out of your current setup.

Depends what you want, and how much you want to spend.

[mattysshop]

exactly..depends on how much effort too..eg while mines apart, i am linishing the rods (and ofcourse weighing them afterwards)..making a gapless ring on the stock piston by using one of the old oil seperator rings ontop of the first compression ring..there are heaps of little tricks you can do..

Matty

[dale_8888]

I was thinking maybe just polish up and get the carbo and crap of the original internals. Is that an option? or what that break stuff?

What would be like the difference between running aftermarket and stock parts like pistons, rods and crank in the GZE?

Anyone who's done it themselves say how much for themselves to do it and someone who got another person to do it.

How much pressure would you recommend to be the max with stock internals? I was thinking maybe like 12-14 with the SC14.

[mattysshop]

well my build plan is ..stock pistons, hone the bore a little, ACL rings, with my special top ring , ACL bearings (mains and bigends), linished rods, if i can block acid bath..head i am getting a hand with from my mate who owns extreeme engineering for a mild port job, mostly just to clean up the cast lines, and shave .3-.4mm off the deck, using a .5mm TRD metal headgasket, new valve stem seals, maybe guids (depends how bad they are) and a full gasket set..

the gasket set, cost me $104.95 inlc GST for an ACL VRS kit, and front and rear seals (gotta love ya mates who are in the loop), acl rings and bearings are costing app $250..the head work varies..but i am getting it bounce tested, and 3 side surfaced..$500 max..all the honing, and bearing clearences myself, aswell as most of the labour putting it together..this is my first full engine tear down and rebuild that i am doing by-myself..but my mate is a engine builder who will keep an eye on how things are going..

[mattysshop]

that sorta boost is a walk in the park even for a 200 000+ GZE..

[verm69]

stock as a rock gze's have even been reported to run 20psi okay... or so i've herd

[dale_8888]

dayum!!! that's alot...out of a blower or turbo?

[crazy86]

= blower

Mabey just a different pulley