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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: rallye_golf on January 30, 2016, 04:17:36 pm

Title: 1.6 GTD head
Post by: rallye_golf on January 30, 2016, 04:17:36 pm

Hi all, I have acquired a spare cylinder head off a 1.6 GTD (SB engine) after getting all the gunk off it it appears not very good.
Question is, is this head savable, or scrap? Pics speak a thousand words, so..

The plastic cam cover is cooked, so it has got very hot at some point...
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq190/rallye_golf/GTD%20head/IMG_1779_zpslzsirq2g.jpg)

(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq190/rallye_golf/GTD%20head/IMG_1763_zpsr9keqegl.jpg)


Crack around one of the injectors
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq190/rallye_golf/GTD%20head/IMG_1761_zpswwrtqvnr.jpg)


some corrosion of the water jacket into the combustion chamber, so I am assuming head gasket failure caused the overheating
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq190/rallye_golf/GTD%20head/IMG_1762_zps2tpmvueg.jpg)

Also some cracking on the pre-combustion chambers
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq190/rallye_golf/GTD%20head/IMG_1767_zpsqydpkq7g.jpg)


(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq190/rallye_golf/GTD%20head/IMG_1766_zpsrmj8vnck.jpg)


(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq190/rallye_golf/GTD%20head/IMG_1765_zpsd4pny77x.jpg)


Pretty hefty cracks between valves too
(http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq190/rallye_golf/GTD%20head/IMG_1769_zpsgufhfs1i.jpg)


Opinions? could the corrosion and crack around the injector be welded, and the head re skimmed or is it just not worth it?

Title: Re: 1.6 GTD head
Post by: vanbcguy on January 30, 2016, 05:06:46 pm

Pictures aren't working for me..


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Title: Re: 1.6 GTD head
Post by: rallye_golf on January 31, 2016, 06:01:57 am

Oh, bugger. I can see them, they are hosted on dropbox, and its set to public..
Anybody else not able to see them?

Title: Re: 1.6 GTD head
Post by: Smoker on January 31, 2016, 10:39:00 am

I can't see them.

Title: Re: 1.6 GTD head
Post by: rallye_golf on January 31, 2016, 11:52:47 am

hmm, I seem to be having issues with this forum, I cant edit or do anything other than make new posts and use quick reply.
I am using google chrome, and can see them, but if I try with safari i can't. Using a mac pc by the way.
If and when it gets sorted I will try re hosting on something other than dropbox, I cant use photobucket cos Im already up to my limit on there..

Title: Re: 1.6 GTD head
Post by: vanbcguy on January 31, 2016, 12:40:09 pm

Quote from: rallye_golf on January 31, 2016, 11:52:47 am

hmm, I seem to be having issues with this forum, I cant edit or do anything other than make new posts and use quick reply.
I am using google chrome, and can see them, but if I try with safari i can't. Using a mac pc by the way.
If and when it gets sorted I will try re hosting on something other than dropbox, I cant use photobucket cos Im already up to my limit on there..

Had an issue that should now be sorted, sorry about that!!

Title: Re: 1.6 GTD head
Post by: rallye_golf on January 31, 2016, 12:43:35 pm

Ooh, working now!  ;D  although I cant see my pics either now. will try hosting them somewhere else and see what happens.
-edit- I have rehosted pics, working now?

Title: Re: 1.6 GTD head
Post by: vanbcguy on January 31, 2016, 01:43:11 pm

Yep, pictures work now.

I'd consider that head to be scrap. The individual problems can be fixed, and any one issue on an otherwise perfect head could be worth fixing but all together? Not worth it!

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Title: Re: 1.6 GTD head
Post by: rallye_golf on January 31, 2016, 02:43:19 pm

Kinda confirms what i was thinking.. I guess I just have a spare cam, followers and injectors then.. ha