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Designer King
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Toronto, ON Canada
Posts: 5,499
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Which Head Studs Do I Want?
Well. while doing a "While I'm in there" valve adjustment during my new trans/ clutch installation, we uncovered a broken exhaust head stud. When the engine was rebuilt (about 1991) the PO had Dilivar studs installed in the bottom, which was typical then. The rebuild/enlargement has about 80000 mi on it.
I'm going to replace them w/ steel, which is what are on the top. In other threads, I've read about Raceware, ARP, Supertec and steel 993 studs.
The car is a daily driver w/ minimal track time, and it's likely that pattern will continue as long as I am driving, which would average about 5000 mi/yr.
I have some questions:
1 Which of the above brands of stud should I get? Or is there some other? Is plain steel, epoxy coating or powder coating preferred?
2 W/ only 80000 mi, should I be doing any other "While I'm in there" internal engine stuff?
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Paul
Yellow 77 Sunroof Coupe/cork interior; 3.2L SS '80 engine/10.3:1/No O2; Carrera Tensioners; 11 Blade Fan; Turbo tie rods; Bilstein B6; 28 tube Cooler; SSI, Dansk; MSD/Blaster; 16x7" Fuchs/205/50 Firestone Firehawk Indy 500s; PCA/UCR, MID9
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