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There's no knowledge to gain here. You might get away with it and you might not. Depends on the surface condition of the block and heads, and how accurately the gasket is located with respect to where it was the last time. The gasket is there (obviously) to take up imperfections in the surface of the block and the surface of the head. That's it's job. If the surfaces were *perfect* then no gasket would be required. In fact many nitro-methane top-fuel engines don't use gaskets - they use highly accurate and highly engineered mirror finish surfaces instead. So if the gasket surface is uniform, the gasket is located exactly where it was the previous install, and the gasket did not experience plastic deformation - you will be successful. If one or more of those qualifications is not true you won't. There is NO mystery here. It's a bad gamble, and one that you might win or lose. But a gamble not worth the $100 savings for the loss of two days worth of work if you lose. There's no significant data to be gathered from one trial of this hypothesis. You would have to repeat the experiment many times over to have any useful statistics - which you clearly are not in a position to perform. One anecdotal success or failure does not a scientific theory make. It would therefore be a waste of time. GD

If there is a vacuum line going to the FPR disconnect it and plug the engine side vaccum line. Did you hook up any of the EVAP system if the car has it? If so do the same for it. After those two it has to be injectors. Did the oil smell like fuel before you tried to start it? If so then leaky injectors. If not ecu is flooding for some reason, pull codes.

The answer to that question is actually very complicated. If I'm billing it out, a lot. At the other end of the scale, there are thing I'll do for friends for free that I would refuse to accept as paying work because it's too tedious and unpleasant and/or I know the client would be a PITA. And I've done a lot of volunteer work, notably for a Bay Area performance art group, for which I not only wasn't paid, but I had to cover my own expenses, including travel. In other words, if I find something incredible enough to work on, I'll pay to do it. I do R+D and startups, so I'm wired to accept varying likelihoods of success - or failure. I don't as a rule undertake something that has a high probability of failure, but again, there can be mitigating factors that make it acceptably attractive, like the people I get to work with and what we might learn along the way. This is sort of in that group. I know the odds of "success" are poor, but as we seem to have learned so far in this conversation, there may well be zero extant data points, and the idea of gathering the first is kind of attractive to me. I get that many here, and you in particular, may find this a bu!!sh!t argument - I understand completely. And (esp. now that it's almost summer) I've got a lot of important stuff on my plate, so I'm not in a big rush to do this. Just keeping it in mind should the the opportunity, inclination, and a little extra time coincide.

Eyesight shuts off when it cant see the road, it will tell you its off up on the display. The issue is with the lane assist control, so its turned off for now. I think the best time to use all of this is when your in heavy traffic and going at slower speeds. Just turn the CC on and let the car basically drive itself On a side note - Just installed front and rear dash cams, that was fun. Had it on the 05 OB and running the cable from front to rear wasnt too bad, no sunroof or airbags to deal with. Quite the hassle on this one, getting past the airbags and sunroof. Had to make sure it didnt interfere with the airbags or the Eyesight cams