Ok, so I am trying to figure this out, there is no water in the oil. When I ride around the car stays cool, I actually take off in it real good and the car starts overheating and I shut the car off pop the hood and the overflow is filled and squirting water out of the top. I am wondering if the waterpump needs to be changed? I put maybe a quart of water in it and the radiator is full again. Car has a new thermostat and just been put together, has 650 miles on the build. This is getting irritating because I hate when I play with it I have to stop and put water in the car?? Does not smoke and does not skip. There are no check engine lights either. Car is a turbo'd LS/Vtec.

 

most likely the head gasket or need to resurface your head, same exact thing happend to me.

 

I thought if a head gasket popped it would smoke or skip or something at least?

 

bump, anyone have any other ideas?? I was told that maybe my radiator cap is letting air get in. Anybody had that happened before?

 

if the radiator hose builts pressure fast (cylinder head needs to come off-more than likely warp)

 

but the thing is I don't know why the head woud be warped, I took it right off my b16 and it was fine, put it on this and it started that.

 

well looks like I may end up just having to take the head off and check it.

 

i would check your cooling system first before anything. I hade a hole in the overflow, and it used to over heat like yours. I got a new one, than my car wus doing the same thing, I checked n checked m checked sum more, didn't find anything that could have been wrong. than I noticed that my radiator cap seal wus messed up, allowing pressure to be released, causing the over heating ( wusn't cooling the coolant properly). check your cap and for any small leaks in your radiator

 

a warp head maybe fine when its allmotor
in a turbo car problems come-out quick

 

-with a faulty radiator car fluid would come outta the cap or over flow as soon as it warms up
still you would not get a pressurize cooling system within 30 sec.

 

yeah but the car was turbo'd with the b16 in it too.

 

did u bleed the coolant of air?
have u pressure check ur cooling system?

 

No i haven't yet, I am going to go and see if I can do this today, I have had to work all week and today was my day off.

 

if u don t have the tool
here s where u can get a cheap one
don t buy a 300 snap-on like me lol.......

http://search.harborfreight.com/cpis...sure&Submit=Go

 

awesome thanks man. I have a friend that lives about 25 mins from me he has all this stuff, but I need to buy one myself lol.. thank you for the site.

 

Well come to find out the headgasket is blown .. oh well i've done started to pull the head off, should have it going again tomorrow.

 

first and foremost ......you need to get a pressure test done on the cooling system and on the radiator cap,...fyi if you running a motor swap and have not changed the radiator to a dual core then you car will overheat due to the fact single core radiators can not efficiently cool down a dual cam motor under load the car will heat up ....

if this was done first then you would have found the B.H.G

 

I did go and have a pressure test done today that's how I found out the headgasket is blown, so I have already got one and am putting it on along with a new waterpump and timing belt. Should have the car going tomorrow. and also I have changed the radiator to work with the dual cam motor.

 

nice!!