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Block looks immacculate. But will give it the same treatment but with 1000 grit. Dave I'll get interior pics when I detail it. Its pretty gross after a road trip.

Shitty vid of it going. Loved that noise.

I'm just jealous.

I completely agree Ben but I'm phucking poor as shit. The plan was to buy this, daily it then part out the KE. The KE part out was gonna pay off the loan while giving me play money to spend on the MR. Unfortunately I have a broken MR, a KE I can't strip for dollars as I need to daily it. I hopefully have someone coming to buy my KAAZ tomorrow which will give me $400 breathing room to get it on the road. At the moment I'm looking at gambling that the head is ok enough to get me out of trouble for a bit. Get the car good enough to go. Once the KE is off the road I may look at breaking the engine up and keeping the head and cams, getting that sorted and putting it on the MR. The whole situation is crap, I'm not particularly happy but at the same time what can I do? I could start throwing shit on credit cards but thats just asking for trouble, I don't know enough people in the game to ask favours. At the moment my options are back yard ingenuity, elbow grease and good spirits.

The KE is so depressing now. Diff is getting noisier. I got offered 5500 for it. That'd cover the loan for the MR2. But parting it I'd make a few more grand. Clean break, pay out loan, new car. Part car, deal with KE70 retards, pay out loan, extra MR2 stuff. Decisions, I kinda want to part it.

Head bolts turned up but not the gasket so it'll sit for at least another week I'd say. Might give the interior a really good detail and fix the drivers side power window. I also got a whole bush kit with it too so might get stuck into that. I gave the head a bit of a tidy up. At least the pistons look legit. They have STD stamped on them so I'm hoping that means bore and not compression. If anyone can tell what they are by the pics let me know.

I'm really tempted to throw the head from the GZE on it. Might do it over Easter.

Yeah looks like a nasty $30 durapro or something.

Straight edge ruler

Visual. I know it's not the best system but it's all I can afford. Will give it a far more thorough inspection tomorrow.

This car is amazing. We should just give you honorary COTY for 2014.

And they wonder why everyone torrents shit.

Head is off. The 'genuine' head gasket was some shitty cheap one. The 'cams' are stock. The pistons however are what I was told and are high comp ones. I'm not an expert but the head bolts didnt feel torqued down enough. The head and block arent pitted, warped or cracked. Plus the gasket doesnt have any noticeable blow outs so I'm guessing the head has lifted due to improper torquing? Look I'm, definitely no expert but I'm just happy its all easily repairable. Maybe the HKS cams will make it in from GZE_illa :y:

Plus I'm pretty sure I get free Netflix with my Iinet subscription.

Yep, I will never pay for TV/cable again. Plenty of HD free live streams with decent commentary.

That's a good price, will look at getting a kit. For now I have bought a $10 pipe cleaning tool off eBay to clean out the current pipes as good as I can. As it is I need some way to clean the insides of the metal ones anyway. And yeah I'll stay NA, it sounds cool and is peppy enough to be fun.

Yeah that's my philosophy. I can do an egr delete and tidy up the engine bay as well. Gotta look at the positives. I wanna get something I can feed down the coolant pipes to clean them out. Might see if the local hardware store has something

Paint isnt OEM Matt, but it is a Toyota colour.

Dunno, but glad I did. Exhaust cam out by a tooth. Getting it ready to pull the head off.

Scraping this off the inside of the rad hoses.

I'm wondering if I should buy a 0.8mm TRD gasket to peace of mind.

Supposedly the engine was totally rebuilt which I wouldn't doubt as it drove great and was super responsive for a NA. I'm leaning more towards a cooling system issue. I know they have issues if shit isn't bled properly. It could be as simple as a cooling system that's been used more for urban stuff not up to the task of extended driving. I'll know more soon. We were lucky enough that Sams dad was at our house and grabbed a trailer and came and rescued us. The guy I bought it off has also refunded me $500 to cover trailer hire, racq membership and buying a new gasket and head bolts. He didn't need to do this and I was blown away, great guy 10/10.

Blown head gasket. The guy I bought it off is refunding me some money.

Broken down. Battery is rooted I'm pretty sure.