Time for a rebuild

**Red4Mula** · 08-30-2007, 04:51 PM

I Blew a head gasket, so I was taking off my heads to get them magnafluxed etc, well when I took them off today I found this...

http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=holeye6.jpg
http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=head2rh3.jpg
http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=headsi3.jpg
http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=causehd1.jpg

So it looks like it has to be rebuilt, which is a good thing, but a bad thing when you're broke lol...

**Empatho** · 08-30-2007, 04:54 PM

that doesnt look good

**Red4Mula** · 08-30-2007, 04:56 PM

Yea

**Empatho** · 08-30-2007, 05:00 PM

that sucks since you said you're broke, but now you can stuff a 383 in there

did it just happen out of nowhere or where you pushing hard on the motor?

**Red4Mula** · 08-30-2007, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by Empatho

that sucks since you said you're broke, but now you can stuff a 383 in there

did it just happen out of nowhere or where you pushing hard on the motor?

Yea 383 sounds very nice... I am broke lol, had a lot of things that had to be paid... Well, when it happened I was at a stoplight and 3 cars who were racing each other, 2 hondas and a mustang pulled up next to me. I just washed n waxed my car so I didnt really wanna race, so I didnt bother lookin at any of them, light turns green they take off, I take off normal.. We were in town so they shut it down at about 75, I catch up to them and pull up next to the mustang, and he asks me to rev up so I do, then my tb stuck open and my car started to redline like crazy, so i turned the car off, then turned it back on same result, still redlining, then boom, blew the gasket, coasted it to a sonic parkin lot, and chatted with the guys who were racing for about 3-4 hrs lol..

**M-Ten** · 08-30-2007, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by Red4Mula

Yea 383 sounds very nice... I am broke lol, had a lot of things that had to be paid... Well, when it happened I was at a stoplight and 3 cars who were racing each other, 2 hondas and a mustang pulled up next to me. I just washed n waxed my car so I didnt really wanna race, so I didnt bother lookin at any of them, light turns green they take off, I take off normal.. We were in town so they shut it down at about 75, I catch up to them and pull up next to the mustang, and he asks me to rev up so I do, then my tb stuck open and my car started to redline like crazy, so i turned the car off, then turned it back on same result, still redlining, then boom, blew the gasket, coasted it to a sonic parkin lot, and chatted with the guys who were racing for about 3-4 hrs lol..

wow that would suck!!who won the race.. the hondas or the mustang?

**JwMonE99** · 08-31-2007, 12:04 PM

I hope the mustang, sorry about your car, but wouldnt it be cheaper to do a motor swap? Hell even throw in the LS1

**VTR99** · 08-31-2007, 02:50 PM

Cheapest, fastest way out would be a junkyard motor. On the other hand a stroker kit would be the ticket if you could come up with a grand or so.

**FuhBreezeE** · 08-31-2007, 03:01 PM

LT4! The beast of the 93-97 age.

**M-Ten** · 08-31-2007, 03:13 PM

why not get a LS7

**VTR99** · 08-31-2007, 03:17 PM

You might want to bid on this one...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/98-Ls...QQcmdZViewItem

**JwMonE99** · 08-31-2007, 06:19 PM

Hmm with 3 days left I dont think the price will stay that low. But down here I got a few quotes to drop an LS1 into an LT1 body for $3500. Does that price sound around fair? The motors are usualyl 1,500 and 2 grand into labor and all the tuning ect. and I think transmission was included too i need to check on that