Overheating

[scheides]

Do you stall have all of your stock radiator fans in the car? Not sure they fit with that turbo. Remember I said to put heat shields to cover the turbine housing and o2 housing?

[asshanson]

Stock fans are still there, and they work. I also never had the heat shields for the o2 or lower exhaust areas. It was running just fine, even a trip down to iowa it never overheated. Now in 10 minutes of regular driving it overheats, something definitely broke.

Edit: I put the radiator hose piece back on and started it, I had the cap off and I could see coolant flow into the tube and it looked it like was flowing back and forth a little bit, so I guess it looks like the water pump is working fine??

[turbotalon1g]

Mine gets ice cold in like 10 min. Doent yours? If not I think you have a problem. I mean cast iron disapates heat really well and all. :)

But I guess cooled down to me is different then cooled down to others.

i THINK you have a problem, All 4 of my DSMs have been the same and my cars usually run great.

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[asshanson]

Alright, took it out for a drive, and had my girlfriend drive behind me. She said there was a lot of white smoke coming out while accelerating, and the car was somewhat warm, but not over 200. So we switched spots and she drove back home while I followed, she didn't get on it very much at all but I could still see some white/light-gray smoke coming out under any moderate acceleration. It's mostly water in there for coolant right now, so it didn't smell like antifreeze. It was different than at the dyno day, there all the smoke came out after the pull was done, this time it was during acceleration.

Temps still weren't up to normal, so we drove out to the BP a couple miles away. On the way there it didn't get above 220, but I was being really conservative, no boost at all, and had the heat full blast. On the way back it stayed the same until I turned off the heat and had to go up a hill. Then it immediately went to 140 or something, so I turned the heat back on, coasted down the hill back home and it went back down to 130. Overflow bottle was pretty full, but not overflowing, and not all bubbly.

So I'm pretty sure it's a headgasket, now I have to figure out how to fix it.

[A//// Guy]

Yea it sounds like a blown HG from all the symptons and having no obvious leaks. :(

Have Enes tow it back up here maybe?

[Swifty1638]

bring it back up here. I'm sure one of us can do it for ya.

-A. Swift

[Goat Blower]

Hg.

[Kracka]

Yup sounds like a headgasket to me too. That would be a mighty long and expensive tow, you might be better off having a shop down there take care of it for you.

This really isn't too surprising considering you're running more boost than ever before and you're still on the stock headgasket and studs after 125k miles.

[95talonracer]

The thermostat is under the pipe below the one you removed not that one. Sounds like a HG to me as well. Try checking to see if your thermostat works with the hot water trick and see what happens as well but that wouldnt explain the smoke.

[JET]

A HG really isn't a huge task if you have a garage. I would put some ARP studs in while you are in there, if anyone down there has any. I was scared to do my first one, but after i was done it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.