Water bubbling between head and intake?

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May 25, 2011 | 09:40 PM

thunderstruck507

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Water bubbling between head and intake?

A buddy of mine just picked up a repo ls1 camaro and got a key with the VATS chip to get it started.

Once running, the engine is getting hot and there is water coming from between the intake and heads. Anyone seen anything like this before?

Engine has over 160k IIRC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ta_I0v_ibA

May 25, 2011 | 10:51 PM

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Thanks man, sorry for the **** quality of the video, the bubbling sound you hear is the water in the radiator overflow boiling, engine was off after having recently run.

May 26, 2011 | 08:33 AM

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Could it just be the block is getting hot enough to boil water that is trapped in the knock sensor cavities under the intake?

A factory ls6 intake car shouldn't have coolant steam lines under the intake should it?

May 26, 2011 | 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by thunderstruck507

A factory ls6 intake car shouldn't have coolant steam lines under the intake should it?

Nope.

May 26, 2011 | 04:00 PM

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Does it s,ell like coolant or plain water? If its collant you got something leaking under threre probablty the head gasket. If its plain water it could just be rain water from the cowling that dripped onto the engine.