Buying a dismantled block and head - what contents are critical?

[jtoomasson at yahoo.com (Jeff Toomasson)]

Sorry - but I'm kinda missing your point.  Are you referring to whether TT
offered a bigger valve combo?  Also, what are these problems you're
referring to?  I thought Colin's heads were among the best offered by anyone
other than Oettinger or maybe Drake?

thx, JT
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From: <mr.utility@highstream.net>
To: "Jeff Toomasson" <jtoomasson@yahoo.com>
Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: Buying a dismantled block and head - what contents are
critical?


> I am almost positive that they used to, but I do not know about now...
They
> were much more in the market for tuners some years ago, but I think they
have
> had some trouble since, and they do not sell all of the 'go-fast
internals'
> they used to...  The 'trouble' appears to have been too many idiots who
> thought they knew what they were doing, and when they discovered they did
not,
> TT got the blame...
>
> HTH
>
> David      fahrvegnugen
>
>
>
> Quoting Jeff Toomasson <jtoomasson@yahoo.com>:
>
> > Tomorrow, I'm most likely going to be picking up a 3A shortie and TT
head
> > that've been torn apart.
> >
> > Other than the obvious,  block, pistons, wrist pins, crank, I-shaft,
rods, is
> > there anything the block must absolutely must come with?  Should I bring
a
> > micrometer to measure the pistons? Or can I just insert them through the
bore
> > to verify fit?
> >
> > As for the head, it's supposedly a TT ported hydro 8v head from a Digi
II
> > setup, but the running gear is missing. I assume I can use the gear from
my
> > CIS hydro head?  IIRC, TT did _not_ use oversize valves like Eurospec
and
> > Oettinger - just the typical 40/36 GTi combo. Is that true?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeff
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