finald8t build ver 2.0

[finald8ta]

picked this 2003 up for real cheap.

after going over the engine, and noticing the sound of no compression, i pulled the timing cover to inspect the timing belt, and notice a freeze plug laying on the cam gear, and a freeze plug missing on the head, so after that ordeal i sptarted to work on the spark plugs and wires, the wires were broken and melted inside the plug wells. and a spark plug missing on #4 theres my no compression sound i was hearing), check for spark and fuel and all is good there.

going to have to replace the head, most likely

[wetamup2k3g]

Look at all that rusty water residue by the coolant overflow tank. That plus the spark plug wires being fried, I'd venture to say she's been cooked. DOHC in the plans perhaps?

Other than that she looks clean

Edit: what's up with the passenger window? I've never seen one that frosty by itself before.

[Black8GV6]

Welcome back, if you need some help let me know.

[oakrdrs187]

My guess it overheated. Head gasket is probably gone.

Clean straight body though...

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[finald8ta]

um how should i put this, some one put tint on the out side and it was removed, i have a buddy who will remove all the tint for me and retint it
no dohc swap just yet, that will happen when i put my built motor in.
i still have my old head from my old build,

Look at all that rusty water residue by the coolant overflow tank. That plus the spark plug wires being fried, I'd venture to say she's been cooked. DOHC in the plans perhaps?

Other than that she looks clean

Edit: what's up with the passenger window? I've never seen one that frosty by itself before.

[wetamup2k3g]

Haha get outta here, tint on the outside? Someone was trippin. Anyhow, looks like you already got a plan, looking forward to seeing where it all goes bro!

[Galantman03]

I HAVE A HEAD! lol

[finald8ta]

I HAVE A HEAD! lol

lol i have a head from my old car, pics will be up soon, the head is complete garbage,
just wait,,,

[finald8ta]

let me kno what you guys think

[wetamup2k3g]

Yeah that's salvageable....

So what exactly am I looking at? Did the metal in between the valves melt? Is that friction damage, say something was banging inside the chambers? I overheated an engine once, and I had small cracks between the combustions chambers and it was warped, but that was it. I've never seen one fried like that before. So what is that?

[finald8ta]

My uncle seems to think it was nos. I have a hard time believing that since i see no signs of it on the pistons and intake area. Thr pnly thnk i can think of is it over heated really bad from the freeze plug that popped out of the head. Later tonight ill remove the intake mani and do a wet leak down test. All in all the head gasket was fine. It was the original since 03 same with the timing belt

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[wetamup2k3g]

Is the block ok? That thing got HOT!

[Ivory8g]

Wow! That thing got that hot with no forced induction?! O_o

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[finald8ta]

My uncle seems to think nos was used. But i have a hard to believing that.

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[oakrdrs187]

Nitrous runs cool, motors that blow on nitrous usually do so because of internals (bearings, rods, pistons) failing not overheating. Also theres no nitrous installed in that bay, and realistically no random person squeezes nitrous in this kind of car.

To me this looks like the regular carelessness of an overheating engine. I would trash the longblock assembly and get a motor from a yard then go about doing maintenance to it to get it going. One sure of the extent of the damage that was done. Maybe you can source an 03-05 eclipse engine and manual tranny combo and drop that in.

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[6G72gearhead]

Ummmm, no, nitrous acts primarily as an oxidizer, which means it can cause a lean condition, which results in heat, lots of it without a tune ( if using a dry shot especially). The typical signs of nitrous are holes burned in things, however that is not what looks like happened to your engine.

If the head gasket failed that could have pushed out that freeze plug, if it was already overheating this would have pushed out all the coolant in the head, while leaving some in the block. This would keep the block cool for a short time, long enough to bake the head pretty good.

The real question is what caused it to overheat initially, it probably has other cooling system issues.

[finald8ta]

Ummmm, no, nitrous acts primarily as an oxidizer, which means it can cause a lean condition, which results in heat, lots of it without a tune ( if using a dry shot especially). The typical signs of nitrous are holes burned in things, however that is not what looks like happened to your engine.

If the head gasket failed that could have pushed out that freeze plug, if it was already overheating this would have pushed out all the coolant in the head, while leaving some in the block. This would keep the block cool for a short time, long enough to bake the head pretty good.

The real question is what caused it to overheat initially, it probably has other cooling system issues.

I agree.

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[Ivory8g]

I was just about to say cracked radiator and driven on it.

[wetamup2k3g]

I got lucky then. I drove on a cracked radiator for two weeks in my old G, I never noticed my temp going up. Then again, I topped off my radiator and tank every morning and after two weeks I replaced the radiator and all was well. Also, I put that bish on jackstands and ran it with the radiator cap off for an hour to make sure all the air got out. Perhaps that didn't happen with this car and they just said "fuck it."

[Ivory8g]

Da hell? Yeah you did. I had a tiny crack in my stocker and it steamed and got uber pissed off.

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