Car has been sitting for around 8 months. Last time it was driven it was clean.
Started up(roughly, missing, a mess)4 months ago in a mad dash to get to NOPI(didnt finish the car in time because of this, good thing I guess!), and has sat ever since. So, Im thinking the four month startup was fatal somehow.
Compression #s were 150 across the board(yesturday), 9:1 JE's in 85mm GE sleeved B20Vtec. For some reason the car wont start, so Im starting to think something is severly NOT RIGHT.
I wiped one side of the valve cover clean, the other side I didnt touch. So is THIS what blown headgaskets look like?
Any good recomendations for OEM replacement gaskets bored to 85mm? I was thinking GE...

 

I think cometic makes a 85mm, but I'm not 100% sure. Larry @ Endyn used one for my 84.5mm bore

Dammm that's messy!

 

I told you not to use cholcolate ice cream under your valve cover Tinker. It's all about the spicy mustard

 

if that pictures for real, then THAT is messy!

 

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110% real, heh. On the head gasket I would just pickup a GEM overbored head gasket.

 

Looks like a lovely coolant/oil mix to me... I would run a leakdown test first to see if you find anything special beyond the headgasket... I hate Cometic headgaskets, we went through 3 of them on Will's motor when it was just being broken in (so that was in the first 1000miles with no boost)... Even on the higher boost setups the overbored GE's seem to work best for us... Have Fun

 

I was just informed that it was a Cometic(I havent been in the motor yet, came in the car). So, Vince you have a PM!

 

Just wondering.....but why would letting your car/engine sit for 8 months cause a blown HG?

Just worryign cause my car has been sitting for a while.

 

well, the 4 month startup was on a Hondata basemap, and we found we were missing a sensor in the dist.(long story). We never drove with it like this, but idled for a bit. There has always been a leak in the front pass. corner of the head/block junction, but I figured it was the common LS/Vtec leak. Guess not
Heads coming off tomorrow, hope to go we find good pistons/cylinder walls.

 

ahaha, my beaters valve cover looked like that..still pulling the head though...its cold so im going slow

 

it kind of looks like assembly lube.

i hope you cranked it a bit to get oil pressure before starting that thing.

 

*uNf*

Check alignment dowel fitment. If the head has been milled and they haven't...

 

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Yes, thats what I thought too...I was thinking maybe its condensation? The motor only has 3-400 miles on it, so i guess technically it COULD be lube. But thats a lot of water in there, and there has always been a lil drip from the front pass. corner of the head gasket. I think its time for a HG anyway, besides Im itching to get into this motor, as I have yet to do so

 

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Check alignment dowel fitment. If the head has been milled and they haven't...</TD></TR></TABLE>
Will you finish please J. Davis? Im a complete nincomp00p when it comes to engine building(remove, replace, check clearances, and bolt it together)....

 

whats it taste like ? ha ha thats nasty more than likely head gasket

 

MMM! delicious!

this is mine

 

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i did a hg on a single cam that looked like that but dark brown

 

DUDE!! f*cking EEW MAN!!!

 

Do any of you find that that **** irritates your eyes?

When I pulled my motor apart after finding I had a coolant/oil mix, my eyes were burning.

 

after flash burning myself 14 times per day for the past year, my eyes are shot...so nope, no burning

 

mmmmmmm i need some bread and turkey

 

hehe, funny, I was thinking the same thing!