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Re: Buying a car with repaired "overheated and warped" head
Posted by KevinC (more from KevinC) on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:50:24
In Reply to: Buying a car with repaired "overheated and warped" head, Dinesh, Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:50:55
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I did exactly that to my 9k Aero on the autobahn near Koblenz last summer, and used a junkyard spare head, with 3 welds needed, to get going again.
Result; car goes 165mph w/ stage 3+ on the A5 south of Frankfurt am Main, has spent two 3-day w/ends at Nurburgring being driven 'hard', in short it runs perfect.
IF the work was done by COMPETENT mechanics, then you have a brand new head plus DI and therm. People are way over afraid of heads having been repaired or welded. My car was sorted by some very competent Rhinelanders who build competition cars in there spare time, and it is in better shape than before the disaster of the serp belt idler bearing failing while involved in an autobahn road race with a BMW (I won but 'flamed-out').
Does it run/rev/boost correctly? If in any doubt, just do a compression test, if it passes this go for it and enjoy your partially brand new Saab engine.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Buying a car with repaired "overheated and warped" head, Dinesh, Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:50:55
- Don't., David Ingram, Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:30:47
- Re: Buying a car with repaired "overheated and warped" head, tz, Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:25:19
- Re: Buying a car with repaired "overheated and warped" head, tz, Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:22:48
- Re: Buying a car with repaired "overheated and warped", oliversexpedition, Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:28:25
- Re: Buying a car with repaired "overheated and warped" head, KevinC, Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:50:24 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Buying a car with repaired "overheated and warped" head, Barry, Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:15:57
- Re: Buying a car with repaired "overheated and warped" head, Peter Ingram, Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:00:08
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