Coming to work today, car was running fine and all the sudden car died and an assload of smoked poured out the exhaust. Smelled like coolant so hopefully its a headgasket which i have. If not im screwed. After its running again, its getting stripped and traded in. This sucks....

 

You wanted this to happen?

 

it's a sad thing man. i feel for ya. but truthfully, boost and high compression don't mix.

 

it had 9.5:1 pistons in it, and this motor was rebuilt earlier this year....

 

time to get a lightning homey!

 

sucks to hear man... you pulling everything yourself?

 

i dont know what im getting....probably an m3 or somethin....im hoping that just the headgasket went and didnt screw anything up. im also trying to get a shortblock and just swap back over to stock stuff. i really dont know how im going to go about it until i pull the head off and see what else is fucked. Im broke, so its frustrating. If anyone has a b16a2 shortblock, let me know

 

if you had a rebuilt low compression bottom end you may have well just done the gasket. what kind of head gasket did you have? check the oil to see if it's got coolant in it? hope everything works out ok, i have a friend who has a connection with a few people on honda engines, i'll give him a call and see if he knows anyone who might have one laying around.

 

 

oh god a fellow boosted si down for the count.