I have just installed a hondata IM gasket, it has new coolant and everything. now when i drive it, my temperature rises beyond normal (sometimes almost touching the "H"). i don't know whats wrong, can anyone help me out with this problem. oh yea, and my car dosent sound the same any more, it sounds like its tryin real hard 2 accelerate. thanks !

 

also, when i stop my car, all the coolant from the radiator is gone (was full before driving) and then i put more coolant back into the radiator (full again), and then i go for a drive, same thing happens, when i stop, its gone. any help would be appreciated, thanks !

 

Look real hard for where your coolant is going. You better hope it's leaking out somewhere, otherwise it might be your headgasket.

Coolant leaking into your cylinders should make white "smoke" (really steam) in your exhaust. Coolant leaking into your oil will make your oil milky & gunky, like brown cottage cheese.

Did you have the heater control way over to full hot? Bleed air out of the coolant bleed valve? Maybe you left a great big air bubble in the heater core & you're gradually working it out...

 

it seems like its leaking from behind the motor. and you're right, there is white smoke comin out of my exhaust, and yea, i had my heater control all the way over 2 hot.

 

There's a few places back there for it to leak. Heater hoses? Little hoses to TB & IACV? Seals on that tube running from waterpump to thermostat? Find it & fix it first. You can get some kind of fitting to pump some pressure to your cooling system when its cold. Otherwise it only leaks when its hot & it evaporated right away. Pressurize it cold so its easier to find the leak.

Then if you're lucky the white smoke in your exhaust is just normal. Does the exhaust smell sweet like antifreeze? Does it go away when the muffler warms up?

 

yea, the white smoke smells like antifreeze and it does go away after the car warms up

 

Smells like antifreeze = bad.

Goes away when it warms up might be a good thing, but don't get too excited yet.

Since you just changed your intake manifold gasket, check that. I think it's got coolant passages through there, right?? Maybe that's where the coolant is coming from. Otherwise I'd say headgasket.