[Rich911E]

I have a magnesium case engine with a pulled head stud that I would like to fix and start using again. It seems that there should be some way to use a long drill to drill out the magnesium case and insert a case saver without disassembling the engine. I was thinking that a long gun drill (or something similar) in a fixture would be sufficiently accurate to drill out the case and use an extended tap to prepare it for the case saver(s). I realize that there might be some chips from the drilling that might work their way down into the case but it would seem that these could be washed or cleaned through removal of the oil pan/screen. The gun drill is sort of a half-round drill that collects the majority of the chips in the drill itself.

There are a lot of people on this board with machining experience and I wonder if this is possible.

Rich



PS: Took the GT3 on a drive last weekend -- a 550 Maranello and a 360 Challenge Stradale showed-up to challenge. The GT3 acquitted itself quite well -- the Stradale wasn't keeping up.