Off with his head!

Today i finished pulling the head, i bought the complete gasket refresh kit from West Covina Nissan. Their price on that kit is incredible. A look at the head gasket didn't show anything peculiar, so my guess is that a valve stem seal on #6 is having a bad time. My dad helped me clean the old gasket off the block.

Adventures in Powdercoating Pt2

Today i did the valvecovers

I might have a better idea of why the car has been stinky [after having pulled off the valve covers], we'll see how things turn out after i do the seal refresh

Do-it-myself powdercoating

So the car is on downtime while i wait for a gasket refresh kit to come in. I purchased a powdercoating gun and some powder quite some time ago but never put it to use.

Today i tried it out.

The crossover pipe was my first try, has a small hot spot on it, but barely noticeable. The spark plug cover came out exactly as i had wanted.