SS4Luck

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bout a month ago i thught i blew a head gasket. thought cool, little bit of work and ill be back on the road, but with school starting i didnt have time and took it down to the corvette mechanic where i take my '82 (corvette mikes, for those of you that might know about them)

anyways i get a call from Carl sayin he had some had news it wasnt a head gasket, infact the head gaskets looked perfect, and so did the head and i needed to come down and look....

well this is what waited for me..




and this is why we thought it was a head gasket, after looking at the heads and everything Carl cant figure out where the water was coming from...

ZexGX

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You're just lucky that NOS didn't blow the welds off of your intake.

Seriously though, that sucks hardcore.

PREDATOR-Z

Let me guess, piston #5 and # 7

SS4Luck

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yea howd u know lol

JDP

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cause those are the back cylinders and they get more air and go leaner than the front ones.

my number 7 looked like that 2 years ago when my car went lean on spray. your not the first person this has happened to.

time to build a new motor

PREDATOR-Z

Been there, not fun, intake design flaw.

SS4Luck

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*insert sarcastic voice* ******* cool!

anyone have any idea where the water is coming from then?

bongva

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dang that sucks!

Red96TA

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looks fun :-)

RsSean

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well since you have the motor I don't think there is a way to pressure the coolant system to find out where it is come from. How come the tech did not do a pressure test to see where the coolant was coming from in the first place before taking the heads off.
But I was going to ask if you were running boost but someone said it was N20.

SS4Luck

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the n2o comment was a joke, my car is NA.

When they pulled the plugs cylinder 5 was full of water and i started it right after it happened and it just shot white smoke forever so it was classic head gasket symptoms... until we opened it up

60ftkiller

HEEEEY! Thats the exact same thing that happened to my motor, but it was #3,5 and7! **** sucks!

ddnspider

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its not an intake design flaw.there have been tests where someone put the intake manifold on backwards and the same 2 rear cylinders were still the lean ones.They said it has something to do with the waterjack design right there.

SS4Luck

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so would that solve the wheres the water coming from problem?
because when we pulled #5 plug it was full of water... like to the brim in the chamber and there was some in #7 too

JPH

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Check for the water leak down by the motor mount area. They crack around there. If this was a N/A motor only, you had/have one HORRIBLE tune or 79 octane!

SS4Luck

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eer id like to think it wasnt the tune.... car put down numbers in sig and ran times to back it up...

and its so cal, u never know what kinda gas your getting

Damian

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Were u running a FAST intake?

98Camarod

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You must have had some water in your oil because water doesn't compress. You're lucky you didn't throw a rod.

SS4Luck

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no it was a stock ls6 intake and there is no water in the oil, at least none on the dipstick

c0ncEpT

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Are there any visible cracks in the cylinder walls? All I can think of is that maybe there is a hair line crack thats leading right into a water jacket or something along those lines.