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[Bee Jay]

I didn't make the WCC because of this sound coming from the engine compartment. It didn't get louder when we plugged the tailpipe. I ran a compression check this weekend. Cylinders 1,2 & 3 were 100lbs +- 5%, but number four was only 50lbs. OK, the head is either cracked or the head to piston seal is gone. There are only 4K miles on the engine since Wayne Dempsey, Tom Gould and I built it in 2000. There was a lot of debate at the time on whether or not to include the copper "head gasket" and the popular advice was to leave it out. Am I to regret that decision? My 3.0 motor isn't ready, I haven't even started tearing it down yet, so I guess I need to drop this 2.0 liter, and repair the head leak, if I want to drive it this summer.
Bee Jay
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[aircooledboy]

QUOTE (Paul Illick @ Jul 19 2005, 10:46 AM)

I think you're reading that wrong.  It says that VW's own reman engines were changed as of that date.  I'd say if VW found that change to improvge VW's engines being rebuilt to be put into VW cars and busses then it's probably equally effective on VW's engines being rebuilt to be put into Porsche cars.

That is possible. I guess the question is whether they made changes to the engine and/or head to allow for the omission of the head gasket. If they reduced the compression in the reman engines, but the stock engines were not reduced, that is a pretty big deal.

In my line of work the assumption is that if an idea that could have easily been spelled out wasn't, then that idea was not intended to be conveyed. That SB doesn't say "leave the gasket out in all future engines if you take the heads off". I understand that the world doesn't always follow that logic, but if you are sending out SBs that are intended to educate your service departments. . .

I don't know the answer to this question. I am going to build a 2.0 soon though. I find it interesting though that this idea gets debated alot, and you often hear about an SB that says "leave the gasket out from now on" (and not just you DD), but every time an actual SB is cited or posted, it is this one, and it doesn't say that. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif)