Project GC8 AKA USDM STi Killer

[DoughtCom]

Well I have good news and better news. Firstly I would like to apologize for last night's emo session. Basically I was driving and saw it overheat, tried to stay positive and say "oh it's out of coolant." I did put new coolant in it and drove it and it seemed fine, then it started overheating again. I still tried to be positive and look in the engine bay and I could hear what sounded like a hissing noise coming from the DS head area. Looked underneath the car and saw coolant spraying everywhere from where it looked like the head. So naturally I assumed it was the head with the limited recourses I had at the time.

My car problems have just been one after another so I think I hit my limit last night and I apologize.

The good news is it wasn't the head gasget, it was the heater core feed hose. Which happens to be RIGHT NEXT to the head gasget area. It was spewing coolant onto the head and therefor looked like a blown gasget from the angles I was looking. I fixed that and it's fine.

The BETTER news is I found my boost leak I believe and the car is retarded fast now as it holds boost to redline now, instead of tapering to 10PSI. It makes so much torque on the dry pavement I can't keep traction through 1st, 2nd and part of 3rd. I do think I'll need a retune though with this amount of boost, I'll be logging it this week.