The 2009 Cookout Recap, Post Your Photos!

[99spyda]

Had an awesome first cookout experience!! Lots of great food and well organized! Definately bringing sunscreen too next time...im a tomato, seriously...

[goodhart]

Forgot the camera so I didn't get any pics, but there is two things I noticed today, 1. Spaz, you gotta clean a little under that hood man, and get an intake already! 2. A certain black 2g needs some dynamat, I think you know who you are...

I had a great time today, lots of cool cars!

[talonite]

Forgot the camera so I didn't get any pics, but there is two things I noticed today, 1. Spaz, you gotta clean a little under that hood man, and get an intake already! 2. A certain black 2g needs some dynamat, I think you know who you are...

I had a great time today, lots of cool cars!

LMAO....what can i say.

[Wolf0573]

I had a great time! Thanks again Curt! :score010:

[slowbubblecar]

Well lets see. My headgasket went between cylinders 3 and 4 and took out a chunk of the head with it while I was on my way to Twack's on saturday. So I ended up going back to Winona this morning to get my dirty ass Stratus and brought that instead. Anyways, here's the pics:

And now on to the carnage pics:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/data/603/medium/SDC10764.JPG

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/data/603/medium/SDC10766.JPG

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/data/603/medium/SDC10765.JPG

I have blown my share of HGs and have never seen that happen before. What caused that?

[cmspaz]

I took about 400 pics. I'm sure Spaz has more.
I'm sure I don't. I got really lazy about it really quickly, I'll be surprised if I took even 100. The current issue though is processing... the trial period on my photoshop ran out, and I don't have any way to activate CS4 that works on 64-bit OSes, so if someone knows anything about that, PM me. I would just use CS2, but it doesn't have native RAW support.

Spaz, you gotta clean a little under that hood man, and get an intake already!
I tried. The power washer in the car wash at work didn't do anything by itself, and I inconveniently forgot degreaser at home. Pretty much left me SOL by the time I got off work at 9.

The big cleaning is going to come when I do timing in the next few thousand miles. Car'll be down for a few days, and I'll be fixing all my valve cover leaks, including both exhaust cam seals, so I'll be washing all the oil off everything after that's done.

[eagle talon guy]

LMAO....what can i say.
For the record.....I wasn't very impressed...

[GSXMatt]

Looks to be a good turnout, what makes Swifty so special that he can just park sideways in the middle of nowhere?

[123abc]

I have blown my share of HGs and have never seen that happen before. What caused that?


I wish I knew. I was rolling onto the gas to merge with traffic in 4th gear, maybe built 5 psi and then all of a sudden I was running on 2 cylinders.

My guess is that the gasket blew but then I tried limping it to Twacks so I didn't have to tow it or anything. With the combustion trying to go through where the gasket went, it probably took some of the head with it.

I will say though that Twack is the man for helping me with this. We compression tested it, diagnosed a head gasket, and then we got the whole thing apart in a little under 2 hours. If the head would've been fine we would've gotten my car together and to the cookout no problem.

[CarRacer]

Very short video I took on the drive there with my phone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjQ-CkkgArE