Scott at Team Harco

Way to go Travis.

Hopefully the guys on the fence will take the jump. This is a good investment for those with parts that are deteriorating.

Speaking of investments - I'm sure the tooling costs had to be pretty steep. Unless sales volumes are large, it's got to be difficult to offset this with the cost of the kit. As it is, there can't be that many 16 valve cars out there anymore. So it's even more amazing that you have taken the risk and initiative to have these produced at all.

rechtien

Just finished my belt job 2 weeks ago. Wish I could have done this at the same time. How long will the coupon be active for?

Travis - sflraver

Until Saturday.

HICKS

Awesome.

kwikt

Very tempting Travis.

touareg

Does anyone know the cheapest place to get this?

$299 someone got seems like a great deal!

$460 is the lowest I have found from a Rennbay reseller.

Want to order this, going to order my variocam solenoid too, so any cheap places for that would be great.

Thanks!

touareg

Ordered one on Friday, will get it Monday. Can the hall sender be easily replaced after this is fitted to the head? Or is it best to replace it now if needed?

jollyted

Thanks for this great post Scott! Super photos and great write up!

And thanks to Travis. Awesome job man!

Cheers!

Scott at Team Harco

Hall sensor needs to have either the cam cover out of the way (slightly difficult) or the cam pulley covers out of the way (easier). You will not be able to access the bolt heads otherwise.

touareg

Thanks to this thread, great help in making the decision. While my cover showed slight seperation near the bottom, I decided to replace it.

Great piece.

While mine was not broken yet, it was starting to swell and crack, pushing the top cover up. The top cover is perfect. It looks like this could be repaired if the mounts could be replaced, perhaps with a aluminum barrel that acts as a shim?

Not sure of the reaction, if any between materials.

Scott at Team Harco

You'd still have the same problem of the magnesium deteriorating.

Looks like you've got some heli-coil inserts in that piece already. No telling how much longer those would hold up.

ddombrowski

I can't tell if these are cast from a mold or stamped, but either way, in low volume production, with the additional machining on these, I can see $500 worth of work to produce them.

As with most things, a large production volume would likely reduce costs.

phL

any chance on a new coupon for these anytime soon?