Coolant in my intercooler? WTF?

[goodhart]

Ok, so last night I finally got the talon in the garage where I could work on it and maybe get some of my new parts put on, and figured I would start with taking off the bumper off and take off the FMIC and all the piping since all of that is going to be replaced. I pick up the intercooler after unbolting it, and whoosh! out comes....antifreeze? WTF?!?!

Now, before the car went down last summer, I figured either the turbo or the headgasket was junk, so I decided just to replace them both since I wanted to go bigger anyways. Now I am wondering what exactly this could be and what kind of damage it may have resulted in. I am just hoping it didn't wash out the piston rings too bad to casue damage.

So what do you guys think?

How exactly could coolant get all the way in the intercooler? (there was about enough to fill half a soda can.)








p.s. 95tsi and myself wil lbe pulling the head off tomorrow to see what things look like, I will have more pics and details tomorrow, but I am still curious in the time being as to what it may be.