i have a turbocharged 00 civic si and my car starts getting hot after i stay still for about 5 min. when i check my reserve tank its always filled... i changed the thermostat and the radiator cap and its keeps doing it. can anyone help me out??

 

someone help me out

 

What's your setup? Have you bled the air out of the coolant system?

 

Try flushing your coolant and repalce the coolant with a mixture using more water than coolant.. Water holds heat better while coolant has a higher boiling point. Correct me if im wrong.

 

yeah, i tried all of that. nothing fixed the problem.

 

i just went to burp the water system and as i was accelerating waiting for the water to go down, it started to bubble up white bubbles on the radiator. do u guys think its the headgasket?? i got a cometic one so i dont think it could be that. anything else it could be ?? warped head?

 

where the bubbles like milky white thick looking. Take you sprak plugs out and see if you can see any water in the cyl's. Pull your dipstick out and see if there is milky white substance on it, or even go as far as removing the valvecover to take a better look at the oil. It could just be a thermostat too did you try changing it yet since its cheap and easy?

 

they were not thick more like just white and really bubbly. no milky white substance on dipstick, and i changed the thermostat but it was a autozone thermostat. i read yesterday someone saying that those are defective?? could it be that??

 

you need a new head gasket .have fun

 

Change your thermo first. It also sounds like you may still have air in the head.

You don't need a new headgasket, yet.

 

HE ALREADY DID THAT DID YOU NOT READ THE POST

 

BHG, blown head gasket

the overflowing radiator catch can gave it away

 

yes, i did change the thermostat. i was reading up on this and i read the the autozone thermostats suck? that they work for like 3 days then they mess up again... well mine worked for about 5 days then it started overheating again

 

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HEY YOU DUMBAZZ READ HIS POST!!!

I would get a stock Honda one. You're having issues with overheating, but there's no residue in the oil. That's a thermostat, and air in the head.

 

thanks for the advice bro.. lol

 

I had the same exact problems with my first build... turned out my sleeves moved...

either way that situation sucks, hope it's a minor fix...

 

hope so

 

you do not know what you are talking about you can blow through to the water jacket only too you do not have to have coolant in the oil to tell you have a bad head gasket

 

same **** happened to me homie , its your headgasket.

btw it happened to me AGAIN im goin through the same **** again , even with a thicker cometic headgasket

 

Yeah but if it was a head gasket wouldn't you loose coolant? mine just fills the resivour. if you let it cool and pour from the catch can to the radator it fills the radator just fine???
kinda wondering myself

 

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no , because you can blow the gasket between the water jacket , thus it will pressurize the cooling system pushing coolant out of the engine and into the catch tank.

trust me this is common

 

hopefully its just the headgasket and not a warped head. i was wondering i have arp head studs, was i supposed to retorque them after a certain amount of miles?? also , so it is possible for the cometic 3 layered hg to blow rigth??

 

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did it do it right after the headgasket and stud change? if so your head is warped.

mine started to do it again after like a month...i think my head is warped , i have arp studs and a cometic gasket

 

no, it did it a while after i put it on. so it probably is the hg. oh well , only one way to find out.

 

you change thermostat.. i'm not sure if that includes thermoswitch.. do radiator fans come on at all?