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280SX
02-26-2009, 01:15 AM
The oil cap looks like the oil is mixing with the coolant, like I may have a bad head gasket, but, the oil on the dipstick is good, and there is nothing inside of the coolant reservoir, or radiator.
The car is a 1989 Nissan 240SX, with 1995 KA24DE swap and a fairly simple turbo setup. The car is still on the stock ECU and the only means of management/tuning right now is an Apex'i SAFC.
All internals are 100% stock. The car is also smoking like crazy and I think it may be because of either the cracked head, bad ring lands, or bad valve seals.
I would really like everyone's opinion on this so I can get this stuff figured out ASAP. Thanks in advance.
cc4usmc
02-26-2009, 01:25 AM
You're going to need to learn to search if you want get along with people on Zilvia.
Koopa Troopa
02-26-2009, 01:57 AM
When I cracked the head on the Starion it didn't smoke or do any of that craziness... Would just piss coolant out the side of it.. I prolly cracked a water jacket though...You prolly cracked both but that's pretty insane. You over heat it recently?
drifter_for_life06
02-26-2009, 02:22 AM
by nothing in the res/rad do you mean no coolant or no oil? if no coolant, you probably burnt it all off and thats why its smoking...HG
project-D180
02-26-2009, 08:25 PM
your gonna have to take that head off and check it..same thing happened to mined and come to find out alll of my intake vavles were bent
280SX
02-28-2009, 01:28 AM
When I cracked the head on the Starion it didn't smoke or do any of that craziness... Would just piss coolant out the side of it.. I prolly cracked a water jacket though...You prolly cracked both but that's pretty insane. You over heat it recently?
The car hasn't over-heated recently. I was actually recently told that it is a possibility that one of my oil pickups has been clogged or something along those lines?
by nothing in the res/rad do you mean no coolant or no oil? if no coolant, you probably burnt it all off and thats why its smoking...HG
Well, the radiator is full, but, when I popped the HG on my Civic, there was oil mixing in the rad.? Is that not common?
your gonna have to take that head off and check it..same thing happened to mined and come to find out alll of my intake vavles were bent
I figured just as much. I guess I will go and pick up and HG tomorrow. What size should I use on a turbo'd KA? 1mm metal Cometic?