This is a d16a6 with vitara pistons and eagle rods, built head with a t3 .60/.63. ARP studs and y8 metal headgasket

I was just out tuning the car, went out for a brief drive to get some base numbers to work (no boost) and everything was cool

Then I richen'd it up under boost (like 11:1) and went for a boost run, held 10 psi fine (going to run 15)

Did 2 rips with some light driving around town and then I did a 2-3 pull and pretty much right when I shifted into 3rd and gave the gas ******* steam goes EVERYWHERE

Pull over to find the upper rad hose just split on me, right in the middle, 1" long like someone stabed it with a blade. I quickly grabbed some electrical tape and wraped it up tight as expletive about 10X around, buttoned down the hood and drove home, car ran semi hot with the gauge 4/5ths of the way up but I would just get up to speed (80km/h) and kill the motor and coast. Did this for the 2km trip home

Now my question. This rad hose might notta been new but it wasnt fucked, it was still stiff

I have arp's that are torqued down 3-5ft/lb's passed the recommendation

Is my head lifting or did something else happen? Im scared to even drive this ******* thing now, let alone at 15psi

 

your headgasket is toast man, same thing happen to me tunning, blow off my rad house, gasket was gone.

 

Hmmm time for a stronger headgasket. Ditch the oem one if it isnt up too par with your ride. Cometic or something

 

What does your high cam ignition table look like?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by PrecisionH23a &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">What does your high cam ignition table look like?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah, What head? If it's an A6 then no VTAK....

 

i would get the head resurfaced since you overheated it

 

Welcome to stock d-series sleeves. Why is your base timing set to? Total timing at 15psi?

 

haha, one bored says just replace the hose it was just a bad one

honda-tech takes it to the extreme with headgasket problems, head resurfacing etc

I swapped the hose out with a new one and its fine, no problems

 

Total timing @ 15psi is 15.5degrees

 

i ment to say if its the headgasket problem
i would get the head resuface while its out

 

what headstuds you using?? what Tq?

 

i too noticed that my radiator was swelling and would eventually burst, but luckily i caught it!


i just bought new samco radiator hoses, which can hold more pressure in case this ever happens again...
i would get your head checked, since timing seems alright..

 

seems to run fine with the new hose

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by W O T &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> car ran semi hot with the gauge 4/5ths of the way up but I would just get up to speed (80km/h) and kill the motor and coast. Did this for the 2km trip home </TD></TR></TABLE>

If the temp gauge was up 4/5th of the way, that's not just semi-hot...that's overheating the **** out of the motor. My guage is mounted into the upper radiator hose and when the gauge gets to about 240-250* then the needle in the cluster is just at the 1/2 way mark. Sooo if you're at 4/5th then your temps were <U>way</U> hotter than 250

 

Take the head off bring it or have it checked for straightness along with the block.

Slap some arps, and a OEM honda y8 Gasket and torque the head studs like this 10ft,20,30,40,50,60-65

 

If you actually read the thread, I used arps and a y8 headgasket in this motor

And it was just a fucked hose

 

If the ignition is too low, the combustion will be moved further to the exhaust stroke.
causing overheating to the cylinderhead/exhaust.
And altso creates higher watertemp.

Might want to consider rising the ignition a bit, and monitor the knock, with a knocksensor.

 

what the hell? pinks and WOT are the same person..he answerd you guys questions under pinks instead of wot i guess by accident..
from past topics ive found they both listed the same exact setup..eagle rods,vitara pistons,built head,same turbo,same turboedit,both in canada....what the hell..90% of the people on here that have 2 active usernames are scammers

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by PINKS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">haha, one bored says just replace the hose it was just a bad one

honda-tech takes it to the extreme with headgasket problems, head resurfacing etc

I swapped the hose out with a new one and its fine, no problems</TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by PINKS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Total timing @ 15psi is 15.5degrees</TD></TR></TABLE>


and they both type the same way with the same stupid spacing of the sentences..

 

Ive got probably 5 accounts bud. I forget about them, remember them. I post at 3 different locations where Im the only one who goes on the site, whatever account is signed in I post on

Check my posts though, Im defientely a scammer. All i do is help for FREE you detective