well, I only got one shot at gainesville,fl last night. screwed up launch, almost stalled, had trouble with 4th, blew something mid track, and wound up 13.3 @ 106. oh, lost ignition completely too. pretty sure its not supposed to chug out steam and water. guess I blew a head gasket or something.
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damn, did you get it home ok??
Dart Block 331 and No Power Adder, currently in pieces...... :weird:Originally Posted by Kato Engineering
Used to run 6.90 @ 100.4 mph in the 1/8th
luckily my friend had AAA. its only about 60 miles away. well doesn't look like any water is in the oil so thats a good sign. maybe intake gasket. wont fire up either. something is wrong with the key switch or that ignition box under the steering
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DAmn it sounds like that thing just erupted into a plethoria of problems, just because there's no evident water in oil does not necessarily mean that a head gasket did not let loose.
Check the radiator for oil contamination, once you get it fired up & up to operating temp check for bubbles in the coolant reservoir. Either of these two and you most likely smoked a h/g.
thanks, i'll be checking it out later today. if it turns out to be a h/g, thats my excuse to pull the whole thing out. i'll be one of the guys running a stroker. hmm, someone posted a 392 shortblock for sale around here not too long ago.
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I pulled mine after 4 sets of h/g in one season, got tired of messing with it.... that was over a year now. Hope to have my running by the start of next season.
The car also wont turn over if you fill a cylinder full of water/coolant.
This is also a symptom of a blown head gasket.
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chuck true... and if it does start it's able to bend/snap a rod.. I know cause my f-150 truck snapped a rod in half because of that :)
Pull the plugs, if you have any water in the cyl, drain them.
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thanks for the tips, i'll check it out. I was having ignition problems before I went to the track. the week prior I would turn the key all the way forward and the engine would just turn w/o firing, then as soon as I let off on the key it would fire. we did start it after the h/g blew at the track. had to jiggle the key, now i'm not getting fire no matter what I do.
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got it running. no water in oil pan, no oil in coolant. did notice what looked like gasket flakes at top of radiator. when it warmed up it had a nice stream of big bubbles coming up. thats are sure sign of h/g trouble isn't it. I haven't done a compression test but the comp. part of the gasket could still be okay and the meat of the gasket blown out couldn't it ?
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bubbles almost always = headgasket
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strange, I always thought if I blew the gasket it would be missing or something. seems to run okay. guess I'll be pulling the pos out for the holidays. I think i'm going to ditch this tko and go auto while i'm at it.
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