head studs? Whats the best?

[Mike Neal!]

Why is it pushing coolant if you dont have a blown headgasket?

If you are worried about headstuds then whats going through your mind is our head raised, and if your head raised, your headgaskets is blown and is the culprit of pushing coolant.


Its not pushing coolant under normal driving. It doesnt get hot or anything. Its just under full throttle high boost it does.. if the head gasket were blown id think it would cause a problem during any driving condition?? but gathering from what I hear about heads lifting Im guessing its doing that. But I could be wrong. I didnt build the motor but when I have to take it apart I would like to know whats the best to use to put back in it. ;)

[Super Bleeder!!]

or you could have an imperfect sealing surface on the head/block. Composite gaskets are good at adapting to non-ideal surfaces.

Are you running a composite or steel HG?

[Mike Neal!]

or you could have an imperfect sealing surface on the head/block. Composite gaskets are good at adapting to non-ideal surfaces.

Are you running a composite or steel HG?


I dont know, it is what was in there when I got it. Its a stock 6bolt. with ARP's. Dont know if its a stock HG or not.

[mike55112]

I pushed coolant for months before my headgasket actually took a shit. Ya I drive an evo but its still basically the same. My problem was my head surface was not machined well enough for a cometic head gasket. Schiedes was also pushing some coolant for a while without any drivability issues. If you have the money, get some L19's or A1's and a oem mls gasket and call it good, but make sure and have your head checked out for flatness

[Mike Neal!]

Is that oem mls gasket good?

[Super Bleeder!!]

You'll still need some really really flat surfaces to use any MLS and not push coolant. I would just run a new oem composite gasket. Plenty of people have made 500awhp with them.

[mike55112]

I was running a cometic gasket at around 450whp and I pushed coolant underboost and the minute I switched to the oem mls gasket, I stopped pushing coolant.

[goodhart]

Shane told me its rather common on dsm's he's seen on the dyno.

Its not pushing coolant under normal driving. It doesnt get hot or anything. Its just under full throttle high boost it does.. if the head gasket were blown id think it would cause a problem during any driving condition?? but gathering from what I hear about heads lifting Im guessing its doing that. But I could be wrong. I didnt build the motor but when I have to take it apart I would like to know whats the best to use to put back in it. ;)


My car was doing a lot of what is being described here and I used a Cometic MLS on a freshly rebuilt motor, It would drive fine all day long for 200 miles, but as soon as I would get into the boost once or twice, the fucker would push out a bunch of coolant and wast to overheat. I'll be going to a Fel-Pro Permatorque and some L19's, many have used this combo after having the same issue with great success.

[Tachyon]

My engine also started pushing coolant like a mofo earlier this year. This was with a freshly shaven head / block, cometic HG, and std. ARP studs torqued to spec using moly. I've recently built a 2.4 with a Felpro permatorque and A1's. we'll see how this one works...

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Its not pushing coolant under normal driving. It doesnt get hot or anything. Its just under full throttle high boost it does.. if the head gasket were blown id think it would cause a problem during any driving condition?? but gathering from what I hear about heads lifting Im guessing its doing that. But I could be wrong. I didnt build the motor but when I have to take it apart I would like to know whats the best to use to put back in it. ;)
Pushing coolant IS a blown head gasket. It's just not blown enough to let coolant into the oil passages or into the cylinder. My car pushed coolant after about 15k miles on a Mitsu MLS gasket and regular ARP studs. Switched to an OEM composite gasket with a little copper spray and it's been fine ever since. OEM Composite gaskets can hold a lot more than people give them credit for.