I dont think the block is cracked. The reason behind this is the shop I took it to is very reputable (they resurf our heads when we send them out) and should have caught any imperfections in the block when it was honed/oringed. They have been around for 30+ years, and deal with boosted hondas on a day to day basis.
The history behind the block is this. The eta in the car from factory drove awesome, I was just saving money to turbo it. So I pulled the eta, and oringed/honed the block that had no issues whatso ever. However, I was stupid and lost some rod caps and scrapped the idea of a 2.7i, and pulled the guts from my spare b25 engine and put it into the oringed eta. So the block should be perfectly fine.
ak-. I took the eta out in november, and basically put all I could give both financially and physically into this car. I have spend god knows how many hours on this thing, there were multiple times that I came after work/school and worked on the car into 5am, then went to work at 7am. It was pretuned for the injectors and the setup by whodwho.
However, its not like the car ran excessively lean or anything. Underboost it seemed to run rich, but with all the gauges, I could assume something might have popped up that I have missed. But either way, the best that I could tell is the car would drive phenominal and be so much fun, but when coming back to the shop something would give.
Even if the tune wasn't 100%, there is a few issues with that. 1) how would it have popped that quick even with an oringed block? 2) I wouldnt even be able to drive to a tuner and 3) I wouldnt even be able to afford a tune at the expense or risk that it would still fail.
If I had the drive, I would weld up the head, but honestly cannot afford it. I am really hoping it is something basic that I had overlooked so I do not have to let this car die and go to driving an m42 misfiring e36 everyday. :(
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Are you driving it un-tuned?
I really feel bad for you from all the threads you've made with basically the same problem.Leave a comment:
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Possibly Leaving e30s for a bit after today (turbo gasket problems)
I rebuilt my b25 from the ground up hoping to have something reliable, doubled my budget, and as of today the car needs to go under the knife, after probably running a total of 1.5 miles since November 2012.
The car is an oringed block with all new seals/bearings/rod bolts, all in spec. Head is a freshly resurfaced and pressure tested 885, ALL new rocker arms. Setup is a h1c, whodwho ms, tial bov/wg, fmic, gm iat and afm delete, aem wb sensor, on and on and on.
However, this is the history of the car. A few months ago I had a leaking manifold, I got pissed and ripped the car down the road. Did not hit boost, but on the way back, the car popped the headgasket. The car sat for a while, but adventually put on a resurfed head with goetze, new manifold.
I let the car then idle and bled the coolant out. The car idled for 40 minutes about 2-3 times with no coolant spikes or issues.
I took the car down the road, and it pulled insane. I never really realized it, i turned around, and then one last pull. On the last one I did a 1-2-3 pull, cruise then tried from 3rd to see how it ran. The car really didnt seem to explode steam like the first gasket blew did, but I did notice the battery light came on and the car had died.
When I looked outside, there is coolant literally everywhere. Its all over the block, its covered the whole chassis underneath, and even on the tail lights. When I crank, it does not have compression and has a continuous cranking noise.
Now my question really is this. Since the car had a new head, best oem gasket you can get, coolant was bled, head was torqued with a snapon torque wrench 22 ftlbs 90* 90*, and still popped, what would you guys look for?
I am no longer in a position to put even a few hundred dollars into the car (I am moving out the 1st and dont really have the time/space/want to rebuild the car a 3rd time). If you guys can help me figure out what is the cause of this, I might stick around the e30 world. Otherwise, I will probably just make it an na b25, sell the turbo, sell the car, and get my friends mk2 and swap a vr into it. Atleast I will have some excitement working on something that shouldnt die the second I take it down the road.
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