Back in 2009, I was a noob to Supras when I bought mine. It had a hole in the block, a perfect body, and was $1600. I jumped on it, and $1500 and 5 onths later, it was running. Runs great still, although I've maybe put 1000 miles on it since the rebuild. But I know more about it today then I did back then. The blown motor had been rebuilt 25-30K miles ago, so when it came to the head I chose to reuse it without any machining done as it showed no signs of BHG and had not been overheated. Looking back, I wish I would have machined it and used a MHG. my question is, given that the head had been machined 30k miles ago, wasn't overheated or BHG, I used ARP studs and OEM headgasket, do you think the car will be ok? Or is it a ticking time bomb and I should just pull the head and replace the headgasket and have the head machined? I look back and now am fully aware how stupid it was to not have it machined, but what can I say, back then I was young, naive, and still pretty new to cars. I didn't even turn a wrench until I was a senior in high school, and I bought the Supra as a sophomore in college.
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