www.ka-t.org

If you are boosted, as I assume you are and you want longevity you may want to search and see if you can find anyone that is producing "Viton" valve stem seals for the KA. You would want them on the exhaust side to help to deal with the added heat that the turbo puts into the exhaust side ...

Call Trubo XS and see if they know what output voltage cause which color light to display.

http://www.kirkracing.com/

This guy is cool to deal with and many of his cages have SCCA certs.

Be aware that if you use too much moly lube you will hydraulic lock the stud in the threaded hole before it bottoms out. One way to check to see if you have this condition is to take a straight edge and sit it across the tops of the studs and see if they are all at the same height (or close to it). ...

Hawk HPS+ if you can stand cleaning the brake dust off the wheels every time you drive it.

I Have HPS+ at all four corners and 300zx brakes at all four corners and Hella brake dust at all four corners.

Great brake feel and never any fade but lots of dust.....did I mention the dust...HAHAHAH

The typical answer to reusing a head gasket is NO there is a crush seal around the cylinders and at the coolant passages that will not seal properly if you reuse the HG. If you are using a solid copper HG I would say reuse it cus they always leak some. anyway. If you BOOST it HELL no DO NOT reuse it.

How did you remove the caps? The technique here is critical to get an accurate read.

http://www.gauge-tech.com/ If anyone is interested this is the product that I was requesting software for. It is a cool compact digital dash. I know the graphics are a little dated looking but it is simple to install and has programmable warnings for any parameter that the AEM reads. BTW it is plug-...

I have a Gauge-tech digital dash and I need to swap it into another car, this swap is going to require a change in the screen presets. I tried to get on the Gauge-tech web site but it is either down or gone all together. Does anyone have a copy of the software for the Gauge-tech dash. If you do Plea...

Please keep this thread going. Some good info it to be had here....

Good info here thanks to all.

Can you give us link to the Cosworth Site and in particular to the HG for the KA24DE

Just to clarify...

Did the caps that you gave the machine shop go with the head that you gave them or are the caps off of another head?

480sx wrote:All ka's caps are marked. I1-I6 and E1-E6

98's didnt have 6 tho, they had 5 although they were still however marked.

Voucher:

I have a 98 and installed a set of Brian Crower V2 cams and there are no #6 caps at the rear od the head.

Walked past it,got ln my Civic and drove to work.

I measured my 98 cams last night and indeed the last journal is smaller. The journals that have caps measured 1.100 and the last journal closest to the back of the motor measured 1.060. which was no cap on a 98. If you don't have any oil holes in the last journal you have cams from some later model ...

I think they do.

Here is another thought: if you have access to a good set of dial calipers; measure the diameters of the two cam shafts at the rear bearing surface you have and see if they are the same.

I will double check with a few other Heads / Cams but I am pretty sure that is what you have going on.

In final prep, prior to installation of your ringed pistons, you should take a clean "white" paper towel and wipe the cylinder walls until you do not get any color on the paper towels. Honing produces a very fine metallic residue and even if the machine shop hot tanks your block there will...

I could not get a good pic of my 98 s-14 cams. What I did notice is that there is no oiling holes on the last bearing surface of the cam shaft closest to the back of the head. The 98 head does not have the provisions for the last cap to be used. It looks to me like you have a mixed set of cams. One ...

Not to say that I disagree, I think this is a major problem, although I don't remember what the stock cams looked like. Can anyone confirm that this is not what the journal is supposed to look like? http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n63/toady225/cam013.jpg http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n63/to...

You guys are right.Maybe I'll put the money towards a log manifold and a bigger, heavier flywheel... :? You need to PM duncan351 and ask him about the head work I did for him. See if he thinks it was worth it. The job I did for him was a little better than what I would call mild there was a lot mor...

It did not look like he even got the car to turn in. Looked like he was going too fast to make the corner anyway.

Here are a few of mine.

Job (1): Project manager for an Architecture firm. (Regular 9:00 to 5:00)
Job (2): Operating a fabrication shop out of my home shop. (Always at work)

Just finished a 8.9 million dollar addition for a big church at job (1)
Just finished a custom transmission build table for Mercedes at job (2)

I did a quick search and didn't come up with too much, I'm currently looking at the press fit wrist pins. Is there any real big bonus going to floaters? I'm doing a mild rebuild nothing fancy just wondering cause I can get floaters for an extra $20, and if I went with floaters would I have to do an...

OK for all of you that are to lazy to pick up the phone and call BC... The price as quoted directly from John at BC is $1950.00 usd plus shipping. The bad news it that there is only one left out of this batch. I did not ask when and if they are planning on running another batch. Sorry, I guess if yo...

Just call BC (619) 825-8719 and ask then you will know for sure the exact price.

EstoMax wrote:

outlaw09 wrote:i just didn't realize that there were so many space for what looks like where the rods connect

only 4 of those bearing surfaces are for rods, the rest are for the main bearings

Dang....I was hoping that I had one of the rare JDM 5 cylinder KA cranks HAHAHA