To Memphis or not to Memphis... Head Gaskets **PICS**
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To Memphis or not to Memphis... Head Gaskets **PICS** We'll Let The Ls1 Guru's Provide Their Inputs... 260* Water Temp @ 1000' Mark... Plugs - Meaning All 8 - Were White As ****! Prolly Running Lean Bc I Didnt Have It Tuned After A New Procharger Impeller... Picked Up Only A Lil Over A Pound Of Boost On A D1...
Help!!!
J
Help!!!
J
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I'm sticking with the car bein runnin way too lean and it caused some denonation... I can visually see the sleeves (3) of them are scorn.
Dont know what i'm doing about Memphis, but i will know Monday night for sure...
Dont know what i'm doing about Memphis, but i will know Monday night for sure...
Yeah on a FI car you can get away with a lot more slop in the cylinders than NA for sure. I would just check both of your deck for straitness and if they are strait I'd put a new set of gaskets and TUNE it and it should be fine. This depending on if you don't have any burnt pistons which I didn't see any of course pics aren't good enough to be sure so I am pointing that out. I ran around two months with no rings or even ring glands in 135&7 pistons so I am sure you can make it though the LSX shoot out if you get it tuned right.
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thanks for all your inputs guys... i'm gonna see if i can gett billy from w2w to check this out... he's the guy who built my motor... i think it should be fine... that would explain why the **** i ran soo good... it picked up a tenth in 20degree hotter weather... Its hot as hell in Michigan right now, i cant imagine what it's like in Tn...
i'm waitin for kp to see this and get his thoughts... i know the pics suck, i cant get them any larger... ls1tech says the files too large...
or if member "427" can look at this... HE'S DA MAN!
J
i'm waitin for kp to see this and get his thoughts... i know the pics suck, i cant get them any larger... ls1tech says the files too large...
or if member "427" can look at this... HE'S DA MAN!
J
Unless money is tight go for it. I'm waiting for my turbo to come back, I was having problems getting the car to boost up and one thing we found was that the impeller had made contact with the housing... that's racing. My turbo should be back Tuesday, and as long as it can build some boost on the street I'm bringing it.
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That looks like a brand new engine, I'll say it was a little lean.
I dont see any signs of the gaskets leaking or being blown, hard to tell in those pics. When I was having head gasket issues after 20 passes or so the gaskets and heads would look like these pics. Maybe I just cant see in the your pics but I cant see why the car overheated so bad unless it was just low on water. The scuffs on the walls are from detonation most likely, I have a couple cylinders like that as well, I dont lose any sleep over it.
If you want to go to the shootout I'd put it back together, throw more fuel at it and run it easy at 9.50.
I dont see any signs of the gaskets leaking or being blown, hard to tell in those pics. When I was having head gasket issues after 20 passes or so the gaskets and heads would look like these pics. Maybe I just cant see in the your pics but I cant see why the car overheated so bad unless it was just low on water. The scuffs on the walls are from detonation most likely, I have a couple cylinders like that as well, I dont lose any sleep over it.
If you want to go to the shootout I'd put it back together, throw more fuel at it and run it easy at 9.50.
Last edited by kp; Dec 14, 2008 at 01:20 AM.
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Unless money is tight go for it. I'm waiting for my turbo to come back, I was having problems getting the car to boost up and one thing we found was that the impeller had made contact with the housing... that's racing. My turbo should be back Tuesday, and as long as it can build some boost on the street I'm bringing it.
Now, I got some work to do... and KP... WERE DOIN SOME SIDE BY SIDE RACING!
Jay
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I'll be there Friday in the AM as well, guy thats going with me cant get Thursday off. Hopefully we can hook up on the way down.
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That looks like a brand new engine, I'll say it was a little lean.
I dont see any signs of the gaskets leaking or being blown, hard to tell in those pics. When I was having head gasket issues after 20 passes or so the gaskets and heads would look like these pics. Maybe I just cant see in the your pics but I cant see why the car overheated so bad unless it was just low on water. The scuffs on the walls are from detonation most likely, I have a couple cylinders like that as well, I dont lose any sleep over it.
If you want to go to the shootout I'd put it back together, throw more fuel at it and run it easy at 9.50.
I dont see any signs of the gaskets leaking or being blown, hard to tell in those pics. When I was having head gasket issues after 20 passes or so the gaskets and heads would look like these pics. Maybe I just cant see in the your pics but I cant see why the car overheated so bad unless it was just low on water. The scuffs on the walls are from detonation most likely, I have a couple cylinders like that as well, I dont lose any sleep over it.
If you want to go to the shootout I'd put it back together, throw more fuel at it and run it easy at 9.50.
Thanks again for everyone's help!
Check it out y'all...
http://motorcitynationals.com/v-web/...bum285/DOC2604
Jay
That looks like a brand new engine, I'll say it was a little lean.
I dont see any signs of the gaskets leaking or being blown, hard to tell in those pics. When I was having head gasket issues after 20 passes or so the gaskets and heads would look like these pics. Maybe I just cant see in the your pics but I cant see why the car overheated so bad unless it was just low on water. The scuffs on the walls are from detonation most likely, I have a couple cylinders like that as well, I dont lose any sleep over it.
If you want to go to the shootout I'd put it back together, throw more fuel at it and run it easy at 9.50.
I dont see any signs of the gaskets leaking or being blown, hard to tell in those pics. When I was having head gasket issues after 20 passes or so the gaskets and heads would look like these pics. Maybe I just cant see in the your pics but I cant see why the car overheated so bad unless it was just low on water. The scuffs on the walls are from detonation most likely, I have a couple cylinders like that as well, I dont lose any sleep over it.
If you want to go to the shootout I'd put it back together, throw more fuel at it and run it easy at 9.50.
KP, mine looked EXACTLY like that.....the one with 3 cylinders blown thru was on the passenger side
I never really blew anything out, I would just replace the gaskets when I could see the exhaust marks on the outside of the block last year. I'm still on the same set of gaskets I put on with the AFR heads though this year and no exhaust on the outside of block yet.
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Dont remember, that was over a year ago. If I remember #4 was the worst cylinder so I would say RH side.
