Pictures of disaster...

[ggeiss240sx]

Well heres some pics for you guys. Notice the back cylinders are filled with a black fluid mixed with a gritty substance. Also look hard an you will see how oval the first cylinder is. WOOT!

Like said before, I bought the car in this condition so dont flame me for keeping poor care of it. The motor I have coming will have a metal head gasket and ARP studs before I even drop it in. Gonna drop the gas tank and see if it has a foreign substance in it since this was the second motor this guy put it there must be something amiss. Unless he was a total dumbsh*t.

 

[socc924]

Sorry to hear it man... what was wrong with it though. Was it knocking or smoking or something?

 

[socc924]

sorry man... just read ur other post. Ignore mu dumb questions

 

[whopwood]

It's hard to see aything with that mangled HG in the way. Take that off, shop-vac the water out (not wipe with rag, that just packs crap in your rings) and post new pics =p

Carbon buildup is normal, that just shows that the driver didn't do a good job of blowing it out regularly

the liquid is coolant that spilled in as the HG seal was broken.

 

[tte]

I think the 1st cylinder is ok...it is the head gasket which is deformed and looks oval..

Cheers,
Roy

 

[souprat]

pretty. peel the old hg off. you will be able to see which coolant passages were leaking into the cylender. lets also see a pic of your valves, are the faces of your exhaust valves all black or are they white? mine were black due to bhg in #1 and #6, 2 3 4 were nice and white.

 

[IJ.]

Might be an idea to keep all of this in one thread!

I got tripped up not seeing a previous thread just like Socc did.

Gonna be interesting when you pull the Pan!

 

[siman]

:icon_bigg Nothing to worry about...that was the stock headgasket ( material ) anyways...nothing seriously bad.

 

[MKIIIChucky]

cant wait to see what my oem hg looks like when i pull the head !!! i just dont wanna do it till i get the parts i need , mhg & arp hs..