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#16
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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).
#17
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
-Ben