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Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:18 am
hey guys, so i spun a rod bearing and the engine in the car is knocking, so im deciding to do a top to bottom rebuild on the spare ka, but with stock rods and pistons because the extra 500-700 bucks is very elusive at this point. but the local shop is putting a kit together ( with timing and oil pump etc) for me for a lowered price,so i told him to include ACl race crank and rod bearings, arp2000 rod bolts, arp head studs/bolts,performance rings,and a commetic gasket. about 2,000 miles before i threw a rod bearing i replaced the headgasket and had it decked and hot tanked and all that machinest wizardry to make it new,so thats gonna be the head for the engine thats getting rebuilt, id also like you all to know my power goal has been lowered to about 230-280 on a t-28, and the engine is going to be n/a for a while because i need to get 2 work. !final question! maybe Wd racing can chime in on this, i know the recommended ring gap for turbo'd ka's is 17thousanths for the top and 19thousanths for bottom, would this lead to problems (oil burn) if i had that ring gap instead of oem while running the engine n/a? or would this be fruitless and just get oem gap rings