Morning guys. I need some second, third and forth opinions. In my car, is the following: B18C5 Block, ITR transmission, intake manifold and cams. It had a B16 head on it with a Mugen headgasket until last night. I got ahold of a mildly built 2000 ITR head. So, i got a new mugen headgasket, new ARP bolts, new gaskets and etc. I switched it all over last night, and now it seems that i have no compression. Now the only think I can think of, is that I didnt drain any of the fluids when i did this. (Im an idiot I know.) I put the studs in, put the headgasket on (with copper spray), slid the head back down, (Thats a pain in the *** by yourself) and torqued all the bolts to 75lbft with ARP assembly lube.

Now because I didnt drain the fluid, some coolant got into a cylinder or two, i soaked it all up with a paper towel and that should be good. The one thing I DID do which I wish i didnt, was crank the engine over before i torqed any of the headbolts. Im wondering if this forced coolant or oil into the headgasket area and now its not sealing. After i tightened it all down, you could almost hear the sound of water squishing when you turned the crank. So... any of you guys have any ideas why I wouldnt have compression?


Modified by JDM_Ej at 11:52 AM 5/10/2005

 

interesting... was your timing belt connected when you turned your crank? If not, you probably manually bent your valves. ya know, like when the the timing belt isnt connected, the valves that are down stay down. So when you turn the crank, you will actually force the piston to contact the "downed" valves. probably bent if you went a full rotaion.

it happens to the best of us. i did it. haha, a timing belt install that went terribly bad. Went ahead and just bought a new motor after that. yikes.