Re: Blew my headgasket, hopefully!
 

:y

Re: Blew my headgasket, hopefully!
 

if the subby sound is on and of i.e: clears up when reved...than its your headgasket. if the subby sound is constant it's a broken ringland.

Re: Blew my headgasket, hopefully!
 

Eh, I would check the spark plugs first. You could have just fouled one of them.

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wishful thinking pwns you. Sure it COULD be somthing like that but how many times have you seen a honda foul its plugs and sound like a suby, boosted or not? Im going for ringland pwnage here, because i know better.

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I can attest first hand to broken ringlands, I just went through that issue with my b16. Car was running good, then all of a sudden...suby sound. I was hoping it was the hg too, but no such luck. Replaced the hg and rebuilt the head and I still only had about 28psi from cyl. #1. Pulled it all off, popped the piston and rod out, and sure enough...both ringlands were broken. Take this as your first lesson that boosted stock-block hondas suck balls. Best bet is do what I did if you're cheap...get a good rod and piston complete from someone (they're still pretty cheap), make sure the number stamped on the new rod is the same as the old rod, swap the bearings and rings over, slap it back in and run it. I didn't even hone the bore, and I still pulled a 220psi compression check from that cylinder. ;D

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Well I went out and tried to start it today and it cranked a little slower than normal and there was a pretty good bit of white/light grey smoke coming out from the breather filter on the back of the valve cover. Im assuming the little bit of oil I saw splattered in the engine bay could be coming from that? I pulled the spark plugs and they all look pretty decent except for #3 has some light oil deposits on it. could that be from broken ringlands letting oil up into the cylinder?

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Do a comp check, or a leak down, that will tell you whats up. Just go pick up a ls and make a lsvtak :y

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For him I wouldn't suggest LSVtec. If he can't properly diagnose what is wrong with the engine I doubt he has the skills to properly build an LSVtec. To do it right takes a little bit of know how.

Do a compression check and get back to us. Don't keep asking Q's, Compression check, now get to it!

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Seen it plenty. Plus, why the ---- are you gonna just assume it's something else without checking the easy ---- first. That's just stupid and arrogant. ---- it could be a spark plug wire or even a terminal on the cap.


First time I messed up some ringlands, the motor sounded fine and ran fine, just couldn't boost without a ton of blowby. It really depends on how bad it is.

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its ur headgasket... hondas + blown headgasket = sic sound lol, ive blown two headgaskets and each time hte car sounded like a subaru. i even drove my old zc with a blown headgasket for like 2 weeks cuz i found the sound sic lol.