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[Badandy44]

My friend found this... looks like I am buying a 240... lol

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ignature-1.jpg

[TRWeiss1]

Andy, that thing looks freakin SICK!

Mods?

If you got that thing you'd be joining the RWDNYPOC. Currently Will and I are the only members. Well, I guess I shouldn't say that. Idk if Ben still has his Mustang.

[Badandy44]

lol Actually that 240 just looks exactly like my probe. same wheels, similar color, black front lip. haw haw

I am moving to a new platform for my next project most likely a 240. Not that one but one day.

[TRWeiss1]

RWD

That'd be awesome if you got a 240, Andy.

[tour96se]

not those ones though, get the last gen.

[TRWeiss1]

I personally prefer the exact bodystyle of the one Andy posted.

[Domino81]

I wanted a 240 for a long, long time.

[TRWeiss1]

There are actually a few of them running around here in the summer. ONE of them is allegedly quick, but I haven't seen that one around in a while...I believe he ran low 13's, or something like that...

[KLDE Wagon]

I like them both. The S14's are more common and have nice classic lines but the S15's are wicked sleek and sexy. That is tint's Andy... Looks like someone just copied you haha



Jeremy

[TRWeiss1]

Hahahaha, it really does look like someone copied him. ...

Or he copied someone else ...

[TRWeiss1]

Ugh, why does Heather's van have to be such a POS sometimes? Oh yeah, I forgot...It's GM...

Yeah, so the thermostat stuck on her last night, thing almost overheated. Luckily got it up to my mom and dad's without overheating, I went down to Advance to get the t-stat, then started tearing into it...Of course the engineers @ GM in their infinite wisdom decided it would be a good idea to run a collector pipe that goes from the front header to somewhere underneath the firewall (probably mates with the rear header somewhere downstream), which coincidentally happens to run RIGHT by the t-stat housing. The end result is that you really can't get to the lower t-stat housing bolt without taking that pipe off, because it's just too close.

So yeah, I get to tackle that tonight...because by the time I started working on it last night it was after 8, and I said **** that. GM ; You couldn't even make installing a new thermostat, one of the simplest jobs ever, easy. Congratulations. You've gone way past the point of sucking....

[Domino81]

Yeah, but a WP is a 20 minute job. They have their trade off's.

[TRWeiss1]

On that particular engine, yeah...because the water pump is right there...

It's the simple fact that if they had moved that exhaust pipe out even 1/4" it would've been possible to get to the t-stat housing...

[KLDE Wagon]

Tom, that lower hole on the T-stat housing is slotted. Just loosen the bolt and it will pull right up...



Jeremy

[TRWeiss1]

Yep, figured that out and got the t-stat done Hiney, thanks. Doesn't matter though...either HG or IM gasket is toasted. Filled her up with coolant, bled it from the 2 bleeders, and the heat started getting warmer...things were looking good. Temp gauge was about where it had been before the overheating, then took her for a drive. Started heading up Rt. 7 and the temp gauge started climbing QUICK...I turned around ASAP and started to head back, then the gauge jumped back down. I still wanted to head back to my Dad's, but we thought it *may* have been some air in the system...He wanted to keep going, so on we went....

Went past Crocker, then down around the horseshoe....about 1/8 mile from the gas stations in port crane, CEL starts flashing. I asked my Dad if he felt that, but he said no...It felt like it started misfiring. I went to turn between the 2 gas stations, and when the thing came down to idle it almost stalled...Yep, clearly misfiring, meanwhile the temp gauge is climbing. By the time I made it back to Crocker, the thing was BARELY accelerating. It was nothing short of a miracle that I made it all the way back to my parents, as it couldn't have been running on anymore than 3 cylinders at best...Then as I turned into the driveway it stalls and I coasted to the garage...

Shortly after we got it back inside I checked the oil....milky. I check the coolant, SATURATED with gasoline....Meanwhile, my Dad's friend Donny calls and my Dad's explaining the symptoms to him. He's swearing that it's the IM gasket that went, but I'm still thinking HG. My thinking is that the fuel pressure in the rail is what, 35-45 psi? Sure it sprays out of the injectors at a higher pressure behind the valves, but the coolant is also pressurized as it flows from the IM to the head, or vice versa...whichever direction it flows. With how much gasoline I saw in the coolant, I'd doubt that there would be enough pressure to overcome the cooling system and have THAT much fuel mix in if it was the IM gasket. He was also talking about examining the plug, but my thinking was that it's going to be getting wet with coolant either way, whether it's the HG or IM gasket....Either way coolant would still be getting into the cylinder and getting on the plug.

I'm thinking that for THAT much fuel to have mixed with the coolant, it would've needed the pressure of the compression stroke to force it through the weakest link (the blown HG). Then the process was compounded by the fact that the plug was wet and couldn't fire, so with each cycle it pumped more and more fuel into the coolant.

Either way though, whether it's a blown HG or IM gasket the IM is going to have to come off, so I'm going to start there. Gotta pull that off to get to the head, so I'll check that gasket out first. The misfire that got stored in the ECU was cylinder 2, so I'm hoping it's the front bank where the gasket has blown, if in fact it's a HG...heck of a lot easier than getting to the rear bank...

Wish me luck!