Hi, Im swapping heads on my lancer and I was curious about the head bolts. They say you should replace your head bolts every head gasket change. Im having a hard as hell time finding bolts for the lancer but I found a whole kit for the 4g93 in the mirage. Since the heads are identical, shouldnt the head bolts be identical. Yes I know I should get studs but I cannot afford them as I am on a layed off budget and have to replace my whole motor due to hydrolock. Yay! Thank you for your input.

 

my motor also got hydrolocked 3 day's ago do you have comp. on your insurance? But speedcorps sells them for 130 arp. But i dont know about the mirage ones. How much are the and were are they comming from? Also ever think about a junkyard motor?

 

All oem bolts are torque to yield, so meaning once its stretch "supposedly" you can't reuse them.
When you swap heads make sure you surface them by a shop.

head bolts between lancer and mirage is the same.
Head stud i used on my mirage is ARP head studs #203-4204 which is for a Toyota

 

Thanks. I bought a junkyard block. Im ordering a mirage head tomorrow cause my head had scarred valves in it from a while back. And I wanna see what all this hype is about the mirage cam. I wish I could afford studs but sadly it'll have to be just bolts. Ill upgrade to studs when I attempt the 4g92 head swap. I have a friend in japan that'll hook me up with the whole 4g92 motor with tranny and everything for 1200 plus shipping but thats down the road when I get a job. Lol. Anyways thanks for the info. I love this community.

 

Hey wait, is it still safe to use the old head bolts? I mean Im obviously not making large power and I have other plans for when I do anyways. It would save me 25 bucks and thats a lot of money to me right now. I just don't want to jeapordize my engine. It seems like one of those things thats a "recommended" practice but you don't have to do and if it would be alright to cut that off of my list of things to buy it would be a huge help.

 

Just get it to be safe.
If you're on a budget, then I would suggest you not to do any mods.
Sometimes things happen and can be way over your cost.