[fredio54]

there is no way in hell soaking them is going to help!!

they take a lot of cleaning. look at your hourly rate, clean one, and then decide to clean more or buy all. make sure you keep em in order too, and get an ordered set with any cams you buy. and use moly grease.

pull ONE apart and see. if they are 13 bucks then it wont matter if you wreck it right!?

have a look on english.auto.vl.ru/catalog/ there you will find all the jap spec cars with FE3s. 140ps is i think what yours (and mine) make. by switching just the ap cam, youll find 5 - 8 ps. if you get both 5a cams youll find 10ps.

turboed though i doubt it'll matter much.

if you pull the pan off, id like to see the inside. my persona motor didnt have a pan when i pulled it, but it did have main bearing braces which dont fit inside my ally pan from my other FE3.(without grinding that is :-) )

i wouldnt use any of the 5 oil plugs on the head for the turbo if i were you, but i would pull them out and clean in there. dirt dirt dirt.

use the feed above the oil filter. if you can get an oil cooler and threaded tube (m20 x 1.5) i would use that too especialy turbed.

Fred.