{"id":79,"date":"2007-09-29T00:41:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T07:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/29\/car-preparation-day-2\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T07:07:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T14:07:43","slug":"car-preparation-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/29\/car-preparation-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Preparation &#8211; Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 of preparation was all about fixing up the head. As you can see below the valves were in really bad shape and all of them had to be replaced. We cleaned the head and the block before putting on a new head gasket kit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/1009993636\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1285\/1009993636_d9ffa8d136.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"A very bent valve\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/1012660788\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1388\/1012660788_0dca348c02.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Cleaning the underside of the head before putting it back on\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The manifolds were bolted back onto the head and we put the head back onto the car. At this point we were feeling quite optimistic about getting the car done when we realized that we didn&#8217;t have the right tool to tighten the head bolts &#8211; seeing that it was already late we called it quits for day 2 with the head just sitting on the block.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/1012090743\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1150\/1012090743_2c7dca2c84.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Manifolds bolted back on the head\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/1012985394\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1163\/1012985394_112906888f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Put the head back on the block\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More photos on <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/rnair\/sets\/72157601230239943\/\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 of preparation was all about fixing up the head. As you can see below the valves were in really bad shape and all of them had to be replaced. We cleaned the head and the block before putting on a new head gasket kit. The manifolds were bolted back onto the head and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3],"tags":[349,109,98,64,110,91,68,59],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-24-hours-of-lemons","category-cars","tag-24-hours-of-lemons","tag-109","tag-bmw","tag-e30","tag-engine","tag-prep","tag-preparation","tag-racing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqPFW-1h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}