Always good to upgrade headstuds on a boosted engine. Also fit a mls head gasket.

Springs are fine for stock cams.

Treay81
(My sig wont change for me for some reason so I appear to still own my neat little NA which never broke down or faulted on me!)
 
Thanks for the heads up.

To edit signature:
Open user control panel at the very top of the page > signature and comments > always attach signature to posts > save profile.

Reddtarga

Treay81
(My sig wont change for me for some reason so I appear to still own my neat little NA which never broke down or faulted on me!)
 
Thanks for the heads up.

To edit signature:
Open user control panel at the very top of the page > signature and comments > always attach signature to posts > save profile.

I have been trying to change it for months now. But it keeps timing out with some error message "Error 404" what ever that means. doesn't matter if I try to change it all at once or just one thing at a time. got me buggered!.

Error message is as follows:
 
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And I have tried it on 4 PC's with the same outcome?...

I just checked a moment ago, and I can edit my signature exactly the way I described with no probs.
Maybe post a message to the admin/moderators.

well, mechanic has reported back today to let me know the engine is stuffed. He said it has no compression in cylinders 1 and 2. most likely piston damage etc.
 
Apparently there is no longer a machine shop in Dubbo so I told them to just leave it and i'll pay him for what ever investigation work he has completed and take the car home to work on it myself. guess i'll just take my time and put some goodies in there to make sure its a touch stronger this time round.
 
I have looked at some engines to just do a straight swap but im a little nervous about going a used engine now as I don't want to risk buying a lemon... again haha.
 
Theres a caldina GTT engine on ebay which is apparently only 25,000kms old, but it looks like crap so think i'll steer clear and just do it the hard way.

So, I can find a Gen 3 3SGTE with Loom and Ecu on Ebay,
 
Engine has 110,000kms on it, the guy cant tell me if it had good compression or not when they removed it and sent it to Australia etc. so it is an unknown. The price is $2800 + freight.
 
Does anyone think its worth the shot or just bite the bullet and rebuild my engine with H Beams, forgies and a balance?.
 
Appreciate your thoughts.

If you can afford a decent rebuild then imho that is always best.

I just went through the same thing and decided to rebuild my gen2. I got ct20b and all the parts i needed off dylan for a really good price. If you can at least drop the motor and put it back in yourself its a better result than an unknown condition gen3. My rebuild owes me about $2500 but i did everything except machining and balancing

I was contemplating doing the rebuild myself, only downside being my lack of time as I get very little time at home. But I guess I'll go the built bottom end route if this is best. When I get home in November I'll strip her and have a look at what the insides are like.