Gen2 Hemi Engine - noob here, need some information

360duster said

i took it further apart...unfortunately some debris got between piston and cylinder 7 & 8....time for a complete rebuild. it´s .030" over already...hope that it´ll clean up at .040". We´ll see, will tear it down totally and then starting to make a plan.

strange thing i found: the heads are o-ringed, the wire is still there. Used with a conventional head gasket, no copper.....it seems that at least this did work.

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If you can hone the cylinders and clean them up, you can send the pistons to Line2Line coatings and they will cost them to take up the clearance.

Look them up on the web. If I’m building it I want the skirts coated.

You got lucky with the O rings. There should be an O ring in the head and a receiver groove in the block. Then you use a dead soft copper gasket. Best combustion seal there is but they don’t seal oil and coolant very well for street stuff.

Take the O rings out and either mill the heads to get rid of the groove or fill the grooves with JB Weld or similar and file it flat.