ColinRX7

My motor took some abuse back in the wintertime, so I didn't drive the car the whole winter and redid my engine wiring and setup my distributor..



So I fired it up again recently, and the abuse it had gone through cracked a water seal groove and/or damaged a water seal



After driving for a while the car would leak compression into the cooling system



I didn't realize this was the problem until I was already like an hour and a half away from home



whoops



So we headed back, me and the ladyfriend, pulled car over twice from running too hot (not overheat, just too hot, and add coolant buzzer = bad news)



We stopped at my work since it's on the way back and flushed the cooling system entirely (she's just as if not more mechanically inclined than I am), we had thought maybe it's just got air trapped in the system and the motor is OK



Well turns out that's not the case



So Whatever car gets home fine running a bit hot



I tried this diesel engine block treatment for cracked heads, and it seems to have worked! By this time I'm already organizing my parts to rebuild a different engine, but I figure why not try some **** out on this bad-boy, nothing to lose, I have other blocks...



So anyways I followed instructions, which consisted of specific procedures and tons of flushing after you let it cure



So that's what I did, and I beat the car after flushing again, rode the engine around town like it was going out of style, and no compression leak, no add coolant, it's fine!



Yay!



So I take it to work



Halfway to work, add coolant buzzer comes on and it's now overheating, so I call my boss I'm like I'll be a bit late my car is toast



At this time I'm furious, and I'm thinking, Okay I have two other 6p s4 blocks that are rebuild canidates, this this is way too hot, it'll be warped, no sense going easy on it the whole way..



So I stuffed it in 1st, blew a doughnut and headed home



full tilt the whole way



pegged H whole way



add coolant buzzer whole way



I got about 2 minutes from my house wide open throttle in 5th, I heard a big boom and alot of **** went flying everywhere (fluid and stuff) but it was still running, so I kept going full out..



Right into my driveway!





I popped the hood, I blew the upper rad hose in half entirely.. Like not just blew a hole, I mean blew it in half



and there was chunks of **** everywhere from that block treatment



I think it plugged something or there was extra floating around, or maybe it tricked my cooling system into thinking there was no air bleeding into the system.. who knows



But my whole passenger side inner fender was absolutely caked with this chunky ****, and I flushed the cooling system until it was clean and nothing was coming out prior to this situation



Moral of story



Don't try the heavy duty block treatment, It plugged my stuff up!

ColinRX7

I should clarify the abuse it went though was -30 C weather, injector locked in open position, car stalled, and I tried to crank the engine, and it hydraulically locked trying to compress pure gasoline

boxrs4sale

good story.



now get to work.

ColinRX7

nobody shares the love of blowing my upper rad hose



guess you had to be there







FYI driving **** really hard until stuff blows up is WAY more fun than you think

1revnrex

[quote name='ColinRX7' date='Jun 10 2005, 11:19 AM']nobody shares the love of blowing my upper rad hose



guess you had to be there

FYI driving **** really hard until stuff blows up is WAY more fun than you think


[/quote]





I used to run parts for a Cadillac dealership when I was younger and they had me driving this piece of **** S-10 with a crappy *** 300k on the clock 4.3V6. The mechanics were always bitchin about having to work on it all the time and the owner was too cheap to just buy another truck. One day on the way back from a run I placed the transmission in 1st and floored it until it started to knock like crazy and pulled into the dealership. The mechanics clapped as I drove by pooring smoke and I got a 2000 Blazer to run parts in.







Moral of the story is sometimes you just gotta blow **** up. I share the love.

vosko

blown coolant seals make me angry! i drove my old FD with blown coolant seals when i got it for a year. then the oil seals went too........vroooooooooooooom shift *insert city block of smoke behind car* haha

94touring

I learned two things from your post. 1. don't use heavy duty block treatment. 2. your girlfriend is butch

ambassador_josh

[quote name='94touring' date='Jun 10 2005, 12:37 PM']your girlfriend is butch




[/quote]











Pics of the destruction?

boxrs4sale

[quote name='ambassador_josh' date='Jun 10 2005, 12:13 PM']

Pics of the destruction?


[/quote]





pics of the girlfriend ?

ambassador_josh

While we're on the subject, Dramon, get some pictures of this sister of yours.