Hey everyone,

Here I start anew. After I parted out my 2000 Berlina black AP1 at 223k, I was left with a burning hole. I wanted to do it right this time, not just on impulse. I half succeeded! The car needed some headwork done unbeknownst to me. I thought it was legit cause it had a dealership inspection report but those guys suck. The tires were the wrong size as well lol. But the car now has a good home...got myself a 47k 2005 NFR! Smells like new still, some paint chips as the car was from Idaho/Utah originally. I am the third owner. Clean title as well. Car now has 52k miles and I am taking care not to drive it too much.







Getting the Firehawks installed

 

What kind of head work needed to be done at that mileage?

 

A valve was bent. So it got sent to a machine shop and they did what they had to do. Compression was 180 in cylinder 4 and 230 in others. I feel like a fool, as if I was bamboozled but not sure if the guy knew or not. I bought it from these forums from Jeffberry or something. Whatever, it costed $1400 for the repair and I’m good to go now

 

Yikes, really? How do you not know you have a bent valve?

 

Congrats on the new ride!

 

Thanks brother

Mechanic said it was only slightly bent. I did notice a minor loss of power, but I thought it was a valve adjustment thing and that's how I found out.

 

You can have "slight" bent? I thought it's either bent or not bent... haha

 

I guess it wasn't bent to a point where the head wasn't fixable, he said if it was in worse condition the compression would have been even lower haha

Here's a pic of before the full tear down took place. The valves had never been adjusted in the car ever.