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Just got back from a 1500 mile trip through the mountains (tail of the dragon area). Cars still in one piece, but if doing this swap I recommend valve spring upgrade. Multiple times through the weekend I experienced valve float, at first I thought I was just popping out of gear. So I would just shift to the next gear, then I realized it was actually in gear and when I slowed down a little the engine would get back to normal. Doesn't seem like I hurt the engine at all though.
Another issue I ran into was losing a throttle body bolt, and nearly losing a second one. Luckily I caught that in time. I started the trip with over 2000 miles on the swap so it's strange that I all of a sudden started losing throttle body bolts.
My header cracked at the head flange for cylinder 4, and my TRD mid pipe decided to instantly break right after the resonator. Im guessing this was due to vibrations, there was no warning (no small leak). I was just cruising and the car got really loud all of a sudden.
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