Don't look like its the headgasket...


Im hoping its the water pipes as there was alot of water marks in the engine bay, as if something has burst and sprayed it everywhere...


Who knows heads gone for crack testing and skimming, so will know more soon, I hope.

Some pictures of the headgasket - tbh, It looks fine














and how it stands at the moment






Not impressed


So whos gonna "crack" the first sarky comment

 

unlucky Rad, hope you get it sorted

 

imposible to tell from the pics anyway mate although as said earlier, any gamage or imperfections in the gasket arnt always obvious.

 

"Cracking" motor mate

 

Are they all as unreliable ?

just ive seen a few popping up on ebay that are too cheap not to concider

 

Beat me to it

Pressure test will hopefully show something up mate

 

hope its sorted soon kidda

 

Hope you find out what it is mate, Its more together than my SR20'd motor.

Block and crankshalf sitting on my living room table.

 

i take it no one knows what's broken yet then rad?

at this rate you'll be taking it apart every weekend thinking "this weekend, i'll fix the fooker for good"

hope it's an easy fix though mate, i'd have torched it by now

 

my money is on a cracked head

 

Can they be repaired?! Or is it a new head job....

 

think they can be welded up and fixed?

Not sure tho?

 

........fuckn perv

 

hope its not too serious Rad.

 

Was wondering about this earlier..

If the head has cracked it must be from an airlock or something..

If you say there was some spray marks of water at the back it may be that one of those hoses went (as they are tricky cnuts to see under the plenum there) and air lock insued causing damage.

If it is the head you'll be able to get another easily from one of the guys on GTROC or on ebay for little cash.

If this is the case I'd get the samco water hoses for the back of the engine as you stand next to no chance of getting them on any other time

 

Nor me, I wanna track the cunt



Skint this month, Had tax, Insurance and every fucking thing else this month to pay

I think it might be the bottom hose front passenger side tbh with the way the water marks are on the bonnet , or the other rad I put on

 

Did your mate who sold it to you not have any problems with it?

 

none.. while he owned it, its had a box rebuild, and a new clutch...

never over heated or anything else like what i've had


I think its all come from the waterpump and just got worse

 

Technically the GTIR SR20 is incredibly strong, i mean MEGA strong, more so than the 200SX SR20, and even thats happy to do 450bhp on standard internals on pump fuel.

So you cant blame it for being a shit engine at least.

Been unlucky i guess.

 

What with the window popping etc, thats all it is

 

well im in your club with the window mate, at least there other sunnys and pulsars in the uk, unlike my car

 

I got mine off a Sunny, I now have a different shaded glass...

Becasue am I fuck! Paying Ł220 for a 'bronze tint' shade pane of glass

I plan on selling the other passenger one and get a normal blue tint one for the other side.... Might look ok then

 

yeah i couldnt give a monkeys about the tint, only geeks notice

 

Exactly!

Ł220 for glass

 

That gasket looks fucked and it looks like I can see blow by marks on the block too.

The gasket fire rings and the head and block also chould be clean all round the bore/sealing faces of the fire rings and not have blackened. if they have, gasses have been blowing passed the fire rings.

 

DazC

Does this show anything else?

 

always a good reason why the water system is heating up/overpressurising, the combustion gasses being foreced past the fire rings, would explain the 2 rads you fucked as well Radders ..... I recon a new gasket, skim of the head to flatten it and it will be fine ... hope it comes back uncracked

 

Yes.

Using a clock type reference to positions, it looks like it's been blowing on cylinder 1 between 2 o'clock and5 o'clock, cylinder 2 between 6 and 10 o'clock and at 3 o'clock, cylinder 3 at 9 oclock and 3 o'clock and cylinder 4 between 6 and 9 o'clock.

 

Wipe off the oil and take another picture. Some of it looks like oil but there is deffinitely gasket blow signs.

 

Oh right, thats kinda make me perk up just hope thats it

 

Car is at TOTD, Will go down in the morning and get some more mate

 

Ooooooo look, PICTURES

 

Didnt really chat to chris much, was to busy


Lee, Im on it

 

Charlie Chalk

 

Just resized, You'll have a PM in a sec once uploaded

 

hope its nothing more serous mate
and another note would th insurance not sort you the window out?normally there covered separate on insurance and you dont lose no claims bonus.

 

Im only TPFT so no, not covered

I got it sorted anyway through a mate

 

just tint the other windows with "gansta" film and no one will notice