Anyone want to tell me what would cause this kind of damage to a head gasket?
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Anyone want to tell me what would cause this kind of damage to a head gasket?
Got a 97 Formula with a blown head gasket. Just pulled the drivers side head off, and I get this. I've seen some **** happen to a head gasket, but this is a new one for me. It looks like this engine has been apart in the past and the work looks pretty new. One part of me thinks detonation, but there is zero damage to the pistons or the head.
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Lean running? Nitrous tends to leave metal flakes on the ceramic of the spark plug if detonating lightly. Nitrous also pinches the ring lands and will show some visible damage on the top of the pistons.
However maybe you had a bad injector and were detonating in that cylinder.
I've run nitrous/methanol/race gas all together on stock gaskets and never burned it like that.
However maybe you had a bad injector and were detonating in that cylinder.
I've run nitrous/methanol/race gas all together on stock gaskets and never burned it like that.
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If you had no damaged to the head you got lucky. When that happened to me I had to get the head welded on because it torched the aluminum away. This happened running the thinner gasket. Lasted almost two seasons of racing. Now they get changed every year.
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There was some minor pitting in the combustion chamber surface of the head, but I'm not sure if it was from the coolant or from detonation. I never found anything definitive that would have caused that level of damage. I know it's running great now and I did everything possible to diagnose it.