I blew a head gasket and melted the head and block. Who can repair this?
I have 16K in this Engine and don't want to scrap it just yet
Thanks for any help.
Tom Hall

 

Could you elaborate more on the melted head and block?

 

Sounds like it's junk but your best bet would be to have the maker of the block check it over. I just got news that my 422 had a bad block as well and that was the first step I took.

 

It's an ARE engine built in 2002. Last year it started to leak some coolant and I pulled the heads and had them checked with some new Copper gaskets.
It still leaked and this year it started to blow coolant out the overflow.
It blew out the bottom of #2-4 cylinder and melted the block and head where it burned the gasket. No coolant ever got in the oil. I have a lot of Nitrous runs on this engine(400 shot) and have been happy with the engine.
I'm sure the bottom end is still good.

 

Block is junk IMHO. I have someone look at the crank,rods and pistons and go from there.

 

if the block was iron and the heads were aluminum then the block cools down differently than the heads and could have warped them and scored a piston wall

 

start over