Well i rebuilt my gsr about a year ago i put new pistons in the bottom end and i had the head sent out to a local machine shop to get new valve seals ,cleaning and new valve spring/ retainers put in. torqued every bolt to spec and put the new ARP head studs in aswell. Well i finally got around to getting it started yesterday. After a couple tries it finally turned over and fired up. sounded good until oil started pouring out of a 2 inch length between the block and the head. and i when i mean pouring it all came out. but the areas around the whole head were sealed,no leak anywhere around the cam gears header intake distributor or the intake manifold except the corner in the back near the distributor that it poured out of. so i immediatly shut it off. i dissasembled the head and took the head off. i got down to the headgasket and there was no oil on any of the pistons. but the one corner of the head gasket near the area was bent down. could this of been the problem? or could it be something i else? it wasnt an OEM honda headgasket it was just a oe replacement. AND this motor was previously running before the rebuild without any oil leaks. i checked the head and block for any warpage with a straight edge too just to be sure before i bolted it all together aswell. any insight would be great.

 

I think you had the headgasket on upside down.

 

yep, sounds like a case of the headgasket being put on backwards

 

could have been that. if you checked the head for warpage than it shouldnt be that. buy an OEM honda gasket, clean the mating surfaces really well, use a few layers of copper sealant on the heagasket and try it again.

 

upsidedown head gasket. i have done it before. not very proud of it. oil comes shooting, and i mean shooting out the back of the block. flip that bad boy over and reassemble.

 

wow... no one even mention the dowels??? make sure the dowels r on there properly.. sometimes they dont go all the way down

 

not having the dowels in would be completely obvious in my opinion. the head would obviously be off. thats just me. i mean thats the first thing i notice before even setting the head onto the block.

 

If you had the head milled and did not remove any material from the dowels they can bottom out early when torquing the head bolts. I saw you said the head was sent out to a machine shop. Did they do any type of machining on the mating surface?

*Edit: Wow, I completely missed the date on that sorry guys

 

I had a similar problem. It turned out to be my intake manifold not clearing my alternator bracket well enough. Had to take it to the machine shop and have them shave some material off it.

 

It would be nice if the people who made these posts would check back in with the solution or an update to make thread actually worth a damn.