Blown Head Gasket repair w/pics

Devicehead · 10-21-2009, 09:25 PM

Hi boys n' girls. New to the boards here. Thought I'd chime in on my rebuild project: 1987 Turbo.
The Story:
After a brief road race with a guy that works a couple doors down from me, the car started running bad with missfires and the like. After about a few failed attempts at quick-fixing it, I decided to finally thrash into it and get to the root of the problems.
Pulled the cylinder head and found the culprit!

Head Gasket - Blown between Cylinder 1 and 2. Fail. -.-
After further inspection of the lower end, (Block and pistons) I decided the whole engine was going to need rebirthing. So I sent the block and head out for re-machining.
While that was going on, I decided a fresh engine was worthy of a respectable home so I gutted the rest of the car and prepped it for competition re-assembling. >

And Then things started to brighten up a bit...

Then the engine arrived...

I'll have more pics of the head and other stuff later but, were getting close to going back in with the powerplant.

10-21-2009, 09:25 PM	#222
Devicehead Stock Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Maryland Posts: 5	Hi boys n' girls. New to the boards here. Thought I'd chime in on my rebuild project: 1987 Turbo. The Story: After a brief road race with a guy that works a couple doors down from me, the car started running bad with missfires and the like. After about a few failed attempts at quick-fixing it, I decided to finally thrash into it and get to the root of the problems. Pulled the cylinder head and found the culprit! Head Gasket - Blown between Cylinder 1 and 2. Fail. -.- After further inspection of the lower end, (Block and pistons) I decided the whole engine was going to need rebirthing. So I sent the block and head out for re-machining. While that was going on, I decided a fresh engine was worthy of a respectable home so I gutted the rest of the car and prepped it for competition re-assembling. > And Then things started to brighten up a bit... Then the engine arrived... I'll have more pics of the head and other stuff later but, were getting close to going back in with the powerplant. Last edited by Devicehead; 10-21-2009 at 09:42 PM.