Raising the heads on spacer plates, that puts the lower intake manifold out of spec and won't fit.
Not a problem......it actually opens up new possibilities.
The maths part of it is quite easy because it's a 60 deg V6.
Raising the head by 4mm (old gasket 1.4 mm, new gasket + plate = 2 mm + 3 mm + 0.4 mm)makes the gap between the heads wider by ........4 mm. Because it's 60 deg. That's 2 mm each side.
The intake ports are at an odd angle to the heads too, in fact close to 60 deg and the angle from one intake port to the opposite one is close to 120 deg.
Taking a guess at the required thickness of intake port spacer is therefore 4 mm each side. That would work with one extra gasket an a 3 mm spacer.
Just by chance I've already got some plastic spacers I got conned into buying years ago.....pretty bad quality with port alignment but they fit.
The downside is that the lower manifold needs the stud holes slotting or rather just cutting right out so the ends are open, which I've done.
Going to the next step, the lower intake is always a problem with a 6G74 block. The Pajero ones have the top holes the wrong shape for the upper manifold, a lower manifold from a SOHC is better but some of the stud holes need re drilling......both are hard to obtain.
Making a 6G72 lower intake fit a 6G74 block might be a good idea? Spares are easy to get.
I've done some more calculations for going full out on a 6G75 block and keeping the CR turbo friendly.
If it's possible to take the stroke out to 95 mm (without the rotating bits hitting other bits that might be in the way) and also boring out to 97 mm, the capacity will be 702 cc per cylinder or 4212 all up.
If we aim for a CR of 8.0 to 1 we need 78 cc clearance.
That's made up of 46 cc in the 6G72 head leaving 32 cc in the piston and gasket combined.
If the piston is a flat top then that 32 cc is all in the gasket meaning about 13 mm thick, that's if it's tapered from 97 mm down to 92 mm.
That's quite a lot.
How does everyone else do it?
They use the other heads...SOHC.
Or do they??
No, they just make it all up.
But then I found this and haven't read it all yet.
http://www.gencoupe.com/3-8-v6-discussi ... r-kit.htmlSeems like this one here is the same as ours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Sigma_engineThe others are different.
More pretty pictures.
Cometic gasket first, 2 mm ish, spacer, 3 mm ish, 30M gasket, 0.4 mm ish.
The extra long headbolt, that's for later for a 3.8 with a thick spacer plate because the stock bolts will be too short. I don't know what that's out of just yet, was in the "spares" box. ....Maybe an RB? Has a 12 point 17 mm head........it's threaded for about half the length so just needs cutting down a bit. Should be plenty at "pinch a part". I'm NOT buying studs.


quote from barryboys.
Yes, yes, yes, that might be so, but you're clearly missing the bigger picture.....
4 intercoolers!!!!!!!!
Beat that!!!!