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I will rebuild the engine from 0 just to be sure btw, forged internals and stock heads with upgraded springs. The car sees to much track time and it has some miles on the odometer now. |
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If the radium kit doesn't include upgraded valves, then no, I'm running the stock one. Do you think that was the root cause? I'm not that mechanically inclined, I understand the basic things from a hw/sw point of view (I work in automotive but not the engineering part), but I let specialized shops do the work. |
can be, change it as soon as you can
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Signs of this are piston ring damage, lifted oil dipsticks, smoke from the tailpipe, fouled spark plugs, gasket seal failure so oil running down the engine, up to engine failure. |
I think you are overthinking all off this.
Have you check any of this yet? KISS https://www.autozone.com/diy/coolant...ir-to-overflow |
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@x808drifter I wish it was something trivial like that... but I'm not that lucky, did all the tests ofc and everything was ok. Besides the car worked well for like 2 years, it's not a new build or something, so something happened. I also don't like the 50/50 solutions like re torquing the heads. Also once disassembled, from my experience, you need to resurface the heads and the block and I want to have a look at the pistons just to be safe. I will rebuild everything just for piece of mind (forged internals, arp studs, upgraded springs etc.). I don't like it since is quite expensive (I need to ship the car abroad and the labour costs are double from what I've seen in USA) but I plan to keep the car at least another 3 years and in the long run probably it's cheaper. At this point I hope the heads/short are reusable and not dameged beyond repair bc finding a replacement could be a pta, but I think I'm ok since the car was still running and there was no sign of contamination of oil or coolant. |
If your heads are bad then I have used ones for super cheap. They aren’t 100%. Just offering.
Good idea on the rebuild while you are in there. |
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