Here are some pics of my head and block and gasket. My entire head has turned into a milkshake however the colant in the radiator and around the sleeves are clean. Any ideas how this could happen or is this common? I also have a Blox intake manifold on my gsr, is there a possibility to connect a colant line in the wrong postion cuasintg colant to mix with the oil? Thanks for all your help!

Also I am tuned with uberdata on a p28 it looks like its running a lil rich huh?

 

I think you may installed the headgasket up-side down

 

all these views and not much info??? The gasket was installed straight from the factory last time. Im more concerned that something else went wrong...

 

Is there anyone running a blox or skunk IM on a gsr if so can you post pics of the coolant lines that connect to in throttle body and manifold?

 

I have a BLOX intake manifold on my LS, I actually eliminated all of the coolant lines going into the throttle body and IACV (I looped the IACV together). This was the only way I could prevent coolant from getting sucked into my engine, I dont know why. I even tried using new gasket after new gasket. It runs like a champ now.

 

Buy you live in a hot area huh? I live in a colder climate so I'm not sure if it would work for me...any chance you could post some pics of that loop?

 

Yeah if you live in a colder area, I wouldn't do it...

I cant get a good shot of it because my CRX's engine bay is so cramped with Wilwood proportioning valves and ZEX crap, but basically all I did was connect to the 2 nipples on the IACV together. Anywhere I no longer used the coolant lines, I simply capped them off with these rubber things from autozone and clamped them down good with little mini metal clamps.

I'm not sure if you saw this yet, but here ya go:
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1141806

Good luck man.

 

It shouldn't bother it too bad if hes in a cold area, we did the same thing on a 91 Firebird Formula and have weather that gets down in the single digit numbers and haven't had any problems.

 

Thanks for the advice so far! Is there anyone else out there that has had coolant issues with blox manis?

 

Blocking off the throttle body in the colder climate isn't very much fun. It will act like it has a bad iacv, until it heat soaks, then my idle would usually calm down.

As for your headgasket, while it may be something with your intake, i doubt it, you were getting coolant in your oil.... it does happen with blown headgaskets. I don't see how a intake manifold would cause issues with coolant getting into the oil though.

 

So I am hopefully sticking with the idea of a blown HG but does anyone know what the point of the valve on the actual intake mani itself is for? Does it allow some colant to enter the mani or is it just radiating heat?

 

There should be no coolant entering anywhere on the manifold. Looking at the back of the manifold, lower right there is a coolant fitting that essentially just makes a continuation of where it flows out of the back of the head.

Your problem is 100% head gasket related. Even if you did route a coolant hose wrong, say to a vaccum port of the intake manifold, you would simply be burning coolant in the combustion chamber or hydrolocking the motor.

Your gasket failed in a spot where coolant was more pressurized than oil thus you only have coolant in your oil and not oil in your coolant. Replace the gasket, use some copper spray since I doubt you will have the block or head resurfaced and call it a day.

 

just get the head checked for any warpage if it got that hot, if not just get a new gasket and figure out why it blew.

 

Are the heastuds stock on this motor. If so, you possibly could have lifted the head and stretched the studs slightly. This will allow coolant to get into the head an create the "Milkshake" effect. Other than that the headgasket looks pretty good. Your problem does not lie in the cooling line situation.