blown head gasket
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blown head gasket im lookn at a 95 z28 m6 its was in amazing shape when i looked and drove it i mean it is flawless... it was the smoothest shifting car i have ever felt lol not even kidding.... so the i was gettn ready to get it and over teh last weekend he calls and said he blew a head gasket... he said he'll take off 2 grand of the price but is it worth it...he said as soon as he blew it he had it towed all the way back to his house but would that still have messed up the engine? please let me no if it is worth buying still and any other suggestions about it please help me out here
I would look into how much it would cost to put a new ls1 engine in it. If the total price ends up being about the same as it was before I'd go for that. Sure you wouldn't have the car running right away but you'd have a brand spankin' new ls1 to play with afterwards 
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Originally Posted by Z28/TA_love
its and LT1 imma stick with an LT1 and i was talking about the head gasket
If you can still start the car and it runs just as good as it did when you drove it, than it could just be a blown gasket. Is he losing coolant through the gasket (coolant getting sucked into the cylinder(s), when idling are there bubbles coming up near the radiator cap (cylinder exhaust is being pushed into the coolant system). Or maybe the blown part of the gasket is leaking cylinder exhaust around the head somewhere. If a gasket blows real bad a cylinder can take a big gulp of coolant and hydralock a cylinder and that would/could be a total engine loss.
Weird that he would take so much off the price, ya know? He may just want to be getting rid of a damaged car now.
Have someone check it for you. He may have taken it for one last HARD drive and blown it real bad.
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Originally Posted by Z28/TA_love
thankz a lot that helped out soo much i appreciate it man imma go check that out and see about it again thanks a lot
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Originally Posted by DBEST369
ya i was really wondering what u were talkin about. but sell that v6 n get a v8, thats what u need to do
<--- 150% broke
Once I replace this one with an LS1 it'll be a manual I'm sure.
Sorry for not having the money to get something better...
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I had a Olds overheat and blow the headgasket and destroy a piston back in the early 90s. My uncle replaced the piston with a junk yard special but that thing burned oil since the cylinder wall was gouged. I carried a case of the cheapest oil in the trunk and refilled when needed - it got me through that last semester though.
