hosrom_951

Bill: Very true, and you forgot that we are talking about 15+year-old gasket as well. The typical life of a head gasket is more/less 10 years or so in vurtually any car (off couse, depending on various factors, but speaking generally).

IEATV8s

very true Bill. From the looks of things so far, there was water in the #4 cylinder and the headgasket looks to be at fault. I had the head taken off and inspected and it looked perfect, but to be safe I had it sent off to a machine shop where it will be examined more closely as well as be rebuilt (figure this will save me somewhere down the line). Ahh, yes, sort-of on a tangent, I had my car dynoed prior to the head gasket failure and it put 350 to the wheels with the stock exhaust minus a test-pipe. I will be having a complete SFR exhaust from Stg II headers back bolted on and will do another dyno to see the new #'s.

-Ben