JBrown

Let a friend borrow my car yesterday. Called me up and said, smell antifreeze and white smoke out of tail pipe. Anyway, what are the reccommendations. I had the motor rebuilt about 20,000 miles ago and he put a stock gasket in there. Dont want to drop a ton of money but I figured while I had the head off I might want to get some porting and polishing. What is the recommended gasket set up and anything I should do to the head while I have it out.
Thanks John.
By the way I am assuming that the gasket went because it was over 90F and he was in traffic and decided to get off and beat the **** out of the car. He said boost was about 20lbs. I have a dual stage boost controller and I assume it was put on high setting by accident. I usually run 15-17lbs.

caster951

I would at the least go with a widefire headgasket this time around, but I am sure some will suggest an even more drastic route.

jmporsche944

Hey John, i heard through the grape vine that you were thinking of selling the car?

I just got done doing a headgasket, took 4 days including a day to paint the stuff, no big deal. Throw a widefire on this time.

KuHL 951

An eye for an eye I say...beat the **** out of him. At least make him help pay for it. Sorry to hear you're having this problem, I never loan my car to anyone, especially my two sons.

Cory9584

I say go cometic with upgraded studs and never worry about it again

evil 944t

I'd say, figure out why it blew first, then repair it. Also, If your car over heated, check your head for cracks or warping.

lart951

++++++++1

What's your air fuel ratio? 20psi with pump fuel? widefire gasket ain't nothing .
Bottom line tuning is the key issue.

Mark-87-951

I would go with what Cory9584 said as long as the sufaces are within tolerance for a metal head gasket and especially if the friend pays for it, which I think he should, or at least a good portion.

JBrown

My friend is taking care of the bill. That is not an issue.

TRP951

im assuming it blew b/c the boost was hihg for pump gas

JBrown

It had pump gas in it. I think that is why it blew. 20lbs I think is to much on pump. I am going to have the head ckecked out when I get the head off.

ittia

Thats a good friend.

Loquat15

Never let a friend borrow your Porsche. I did that once, blown headgasket... funny thing was... it was on an NA model... oh well.

gvr4111

I'm pretty sure you can run 20psi on pump gas if you had a good tune/chip. what kind of setup do you have? I have been running 20 psi daily and it runs just fine. what kind of a/f ratio do you set it to? I'm really suprize to see so many people pop thier headgasket on this board. I bet most of them comes from bad tune/chip.

for the headgasket, I would go with wildfire and either stock or arp head studs. might as well send the head to machine shop and straighten it out. if you are opt using the mls head gasket, I would def. get the head straighten and use a copper spray on the gasket.

good luck man.

JBrown

I am running all vitesse. Stage 2 set up. Stage two turbo, MAF, SMT-6 and Johns chips. Did not get to fine tune.