# Time for a re-build...... **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Automotive\ **Created:** [August 31, 2009, 8:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-for-a-re-build/127633 "2009-08-31T08:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![NewfoundlandDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@NewfoundlandDude](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/NewfoundlandDude)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2009, 9:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-for-a-re-build/127633/30 "2009-09-12T09:03:31Z")
> [@newstar31"](#): > > Guess that makes sense. So are you going to keep the block stock this time or new pistons again with the everything added to go with it. > Don’t think you should re-use the headgasket, but I might be wrong. > Still good luck with the build. And I’ll ask my brother if he wants to sell all the games. > He even has a BNIB Sega GameGear and Super Nintendo. lol If I can find a good condition short block and salvage the head, I’ll be running a stock bottom end. I might keep the Eagle rods in case I want to throw them in at some point, but the trick is going to be finding a decent short block or long block. It seems that they’re not easy to find unless you want to pay for a full swap type deal. > [@SOLD](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sold/22638/21): > > from the pics the head looks like it can be saved but its hard to tell. has it ever been skimmed before? also it looks like a chunk(s) of the Cumbustion Chamber around the exhaust vavles are missing or is it just a shadow in the pic? it seems the rockers on sr20 are a weak point of the engine as i have read about this on various forums including here. what do you usually spin your engine at when you compete? 7-8k? maybe time for a solid lifter setup. > > peace I don’t think there are any chunks missing, not quite sure what you mean there, but the head has been decked before when the engine was built. I’m hoping they’ll be able to deck it again, or at least weld and deck it. I’ve heard of a few guys doing that and it’s worked out for them. The highest I ever rev the engine is 7300rpm (redline), and it’s not often that I do that. It seems that whenever I do, I throw a rocker…lol I don’t think I’ll be going for a solid lifter setup, I’m just going to get the lash readjusted to spec if I can reuse this head. > [@Tiger Japanese Auto Parts (out of Toronto)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tiger-japanese-auto-parts-out-of-toronto/23887/24): > > Dont quote me on this but most likely the engine would have lasted longer with different cams and no internal work and everything else the same…imo no point in building your block unless you want high high horspower stock block can take 350-380 easily… I agree that the stock block would probably handle the power I make easily. If I can, I’ll be going back to a stock block. The cam’s aren’t that aggressive at all, they’re only 256. I don’t know why detonation would pick on the 2nd cylinder. Weak injector, IM routing, I dunno. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/time-for-a-re-build/127633)._