Well this is the second headgasket I've blown on this motor (so I think). I think that the head bolts are stretched. I was going to re-ring it anyways, so I already have all the parts to replace the head gasket. I don't think it helps having the exhaust and intake manifolds hanging off the same side of the head, and me not putting the support bracket back in (lazy idiot!). Also, I'm sure driving it around as hard as it could go because I was trying to get rid of my pinging wasn't helping me any either.
So now my goal is to somehow find new headbolts or studs that I can get NEW to replace the old factory ones so that I'm not putting stretched bolts back in this time. Should be really interesting to try to find something that will work. Hopefully some NOS OEM bolts will be hanging around somewhere that I can pick up.
The strange thing was the car ran great all the way home last night. When I went to start it after sitting, it cranked half way over one turn and just stopped. Like something was blocking up the engine. Pretty sure there was some water in there. I was hoping to drive it for a couple more weeks but I guess that I'll be putting it off a while. :sadface:
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