Someone blew up their car today....

[Predavore]

Originally Posted by scheides

Also, regular boost leaks are your friend. When you do a lot of stuff to get a car ready, it's an easy thing to overlook!

I disagree. Boost leaks are bad!! Make sure you DON'T have any!!!

On the other hand, boost leak CHECKS are good! Do THAT every once in a while. :P

[scheides]

Originally Posted by Speedfreak

You know he blew his frost plug or you are guessing?

And there normally isn't "damage" do the deck or head with a simple blown head gasket. The damage will show on the gasket itself.. thats the purpose of the gasket. However if you look at the pics, you can see different areas that show some burn/darkened areas where combustion may have been pushing past the circumference of the cylinder walls.

If there was pre-ignition or something more violent, then you'll see damage to the hard parts.

Ahh ok, My bro had a headgasket let go on his 1G and it took a small gouge out of the head from the gasket being pushed back.

Yes the water you see splashing and the pop you hear in the video he posted was when the frost plug popped out.

Originally Posted by Predavore

I disagree. Boost leaks are bad!! Make sure you DON'T have any!!!

On the other hand, boost leak CHECKS are good! Do THAT every once in a while. :P

RIGHT! BOOST LEAK TESTS ARE GOOD! Not actual boost leaks. They are bad.

[Speedfreak]

Originally Posted by scheides

Ahh ok, My bro had a headgasket let go on his 1G and it took a small gouge out of the head from the gasket being pushed back.

Yes the water you see splashing and the pop you hear in the video he posted was when the frost plug popped out.

OK, but like the other guy corrected your post about boost leaks(simple brain fart when typing).. for the same reason I made my comments. Only because newbs will read your posts as golden and then when they hear a HG has blown(on any car/engine).. they will believe that damage to the head or block is the norm, which it isn't. I understand that damage does and can happen, like it did to your bro, but it isn't the norm for a blown HG.

And I didn't hear much on that vid because my laptop speakers suck, but that is generally what a HG blowing under load on a dyno looks like(some worse and some not as apparent), so it's not obvious to me that it was a frost plug.