My sad sad tale
about a month agho I replaced my old engine with a JDM with 30K when I did that I had a metal HG put on as well as arp head studs. I drove the car for about 3 weeks and put 500+ miles on the motor just to be safe and played nice while I was doing it. after that I added a MBC and was in process of trying to get it dialed in.
Last Friday I went to the track I made a total of 3 runs we wont talk about my times cause well we just wont. I didnt have any problems at the track the car ran fine(save for hitting fuel cut). on the way home I came to a hill thats a 6.5% grade the temp guage spikes and I see steam comming from under the hood. I was allmost to the Zoo exit so I tried to baby it to the Zoo and parked it.
It was late so i took the train home from the zoo and went back the next day with a new hose and water. The car starts fine and on the rest of the way home it ran fine no temp spikes. altho it was idling rough.
I called a friend who has been helping me work on the car because the car was idleing rough past 1500 RPM it smoothes right out. he said sure bring it on over and we will have a look. I did that well on the way over the temp guage runs as expected for about 10 miles then its startes yoyoing up and down getting closse to hot then back down then coloser to hot then back down. well it finealy gets to close to hot and I pull off and let it cool put more water in and then start out again. needles to say it took me like 4 stops to get the rest of the 15 miles to his place.
So what we have done so far is clean out the valley it had some water in it from the blown hose and the rough idle is still there. Changed the plugs the idle is still the same and the car is still overheating. We have taken the thermostate out and its still overheating. We have also backflushed the motor and still no progress. There is no oil in the water or water in the oil. We did a compression test and all the cylinders are dead even. any suggestions?
about a month agho I replaced my old engine with a JDM with 30K when I did that I had a metal HG put on as well as arp head studs. I drove the car for about 3 weeks and put 500+ miles on the motor just to be safe and played nice while I was doing it. after that I added a MBC and was in process of trying to get it dialed in.
Last Friday I went to the track I made a total of 3 runs we wont talk about my times cause well we just wont. I didnt have any problems at the track the car ran fine(save for hitting fuel cut). on the way home I came to a hill thats a 6.5% grade the temp guage spikes and I see steam comming from under the hood. I was allmost to the Zoo exit so I tried to baby it to the Zoo and parked it.
It was late so i took the train home from the zoo and went back the next day with a new hose and water. The car starts fine and on the rest of the way home it ran fine no temp spikes. altho it was idling rough.
I called a friend who has been helping me work on the car because the car was idleing rough past 1500 RPM it smoothes right out. he said sure bring it on over and we will have a look. I did that well on the way over the temp guage runs as expected for about 10 miles then its startes yoyoing up and down getting closse to hot then back down then coloser to hot then back down. well it finealy gets to close to hot and I pull off and let it cool put more water in and then start out again. needles to say it took me like 4 stops to get the rest of the 15 miles to his place.
So what we have done so far is clean out the valley it had some water in it from the blown hose and the rough idle is still there. Changed the plugs the idle is still the same and the car is still overheating. We have taken the thermostate out and its still overheating. We have also backflushed the motor and still no progress. There is no oil in the water or water in the oil. We did a compression test and all the cylinders are dead even. any suggestions?
