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Made some more progress today. Pics in post 3.

I think it's possible. I'm going to look into it and maybe do it for piece of mind.

Got a few more things done.

That's my plan. I'll tune it as much as I can and get it running really nice. I'll add boost and pyro gauges while I'm at it so it won't wind up with burned up parts again. I'll probably run the heads with the cracks between the valves, but I'll pressure test them to make sure they won't leak...

Updated with some more pics.

I got the head pulled the rest of the way apart today. The bottom of the head and the valves on the fried piston look fine. There's a little slag from the piston on the bottom and inside the exhaust valve but it should clean up just fine. The valves look very good, the seats are still shiny...

Yup, extra ring and it's lighter too.

Reserved...

Reserved..

3-19 update. Pressure tested the heads today and there was no leaking at those cracks. Also ground the valves. Some were really pitted so they will be replaced, but I ground them anyways.

Pic#1 is the #5 piston that got really burned up. Pic#3 is the #3 cylinder mentioned before. It turned out the sleeve isn't cracked, that was just some dirt that got on there. 3/7 update. Got the valves clean and thermal cleaned/ shot abraded the heads. A few of the valves are outside of the...

So I'm taking a engine reconditioning class in college and had to find a motor to rebuild. Of course the MV addict in me thought of a deuce engine. I looked in the classifieds and found an LDS simp5782 had listed and bought it. I've been wanting to re-power my M109A3 with an LDS so this will...