Overheating, weird color coolant, coolant all over engine.. pictures
Originally Posted by MRC Motorsports
looks like a boil over, dont think anything is to messed up..Look like some rust from the radiator floating on the surface..
the brass looking pipes on your cooling system are prone to rust for some reason. i have taken off a few of them that are corrosive and rusting looking.
i am guessing that he ran low on coolant and then boiled over his car....
i am guessing that he ran low on coolant and then boiled over his car....
Sorry for another dumb question. The fluid line is normally on the bottom of the overflow unless it's the Greddy kit, would that have anything to do with the "explosion" type of overflow?
wow that sucks could be acouple of things do a leak down on the motor and or look for little bubbles under the oil cap. for me this hasnt happend to me on my VQ but one of my high powered SR20s ive had cooling issues after some hard 542hp runs on it =)
Back with pictures of the oil..
also i filled her up with coolant, then took it for a 10 min ride through town.. then a 5 min ride on the highway... Temp needle never went higher than normal .. which i think is about 1/3 or so... Jules i am going to drive it for the next two days and if everything is ok.. i will head down to NJ on Sat
but here are the pics anyway
also i filled her up with coolant, then took it for a 10 min ride through town.. then a 5 min ride on the highway... Temp needle never went higher than normal .. which i think is about 1/3 or so... Jules i am going to drive it for the next two days and if everything is ok.. i will head down to NJ on Sat
but here are the pics anyway
Originally Posted by MRC Motorsports
Yeah oil looks ok...Most likely, air in the system or Thermostat stuck..
I will pray to the car gods for you that everything goes ok. Cooling problems are a pain cause it can be so many thing my last built turbo gsr had a cooling problem it was a pain in the @SS never really got it fixed but oh well. Hope everything go's ok.
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U wont mix coolant with oil if u are blowing combustion into the water jackets. we have open deck blocks with MLS headgaskets and large headgasket breaches allowing coolant to flow into the oil are quite rare.
A good test for headgasket breach due to combustion pressure of FI - these will NOT appear on TK tests - is to simply boost a couple of times, pull over and check the overflow bottle. Pull the lid off and smell the coolant immediatly. Also look at the texture of the coolant, if it is like a fizzy drink and has small floating greyish/black particals in it, its a headgasket issue.
I still maintain that is it a heagasket breach. I say this for 3 reasons.
1) The coolant looks suspisiously murky with particals in it. You radiator will NOT contaminate with rust like that unless u are running straight water, then u have much bigger problems.
2) The overflow tank empty. This means that pressure has purged the coolant out. If it was a normal overheat, it would seep out and not splatter like it has (coolant everywhere on the airfilter/piping etc) and still be full.
3) If it was an thermostat/bubbles issue, the car would still overheat. The OP said the car was fine for the short drive he took it on.
A good test for headgasket breach due to combustion pressure of FI - these will NOT appear on TK tests - is to simply boost a couple of times, pull over and check the overflow bottle. Pull the lid off and smell the coolant immediatly. Also look at the texture of the coolant, if it is like a fizzy drink and has small floating greyish/black particals in it, its a headgasket issue.
I still maintain that is it a heagasket breach. I say this for 3 reasons.
1) The coolant looks suspisiously murky with particals in it. You radiator will NOT contaminate with rust like that unless u are running straight water, then u have much bigger problems.
2) The overflow tank empty. This means that pressure has purged the coolant out. If it was a normal overheat, it would seep out and not splatter like it has (coolant everywhere on the airfilter/piping etc) and still be full.
3) If it was an thermostat/bubbles issue, the car would still overheat. The OP said the car was fine for the short drive he took it on.
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FYI
I had the same issue.... Air bubbles or the thermostat so I replaced the thermostat with a nismo and fill the resivor as well as the radiator and as you pump the line the lines the bubbles will surface out the top of the radiator with the cap off.This worked for me.
I had the same issue.... Air bubbles or the thermostat so I replaced the thermostat with a nismo and fill the resivor as well as the radiator and as you pump the line the lines the bubbles will surface out the top of the radiator with the cap off.This worked for me.
Originally Posted by Sharif@Forged
How long have you had this kit installed, and has it been tuned? Are you running the original emanage blue?
One thing I noticed about the Greddy kit is that the "overflow tank" fills from the top. The cooling system is designed to have an expansion tank that has the tube from the radiator neck going to the bottom of the tank, so that when the system cools, it can draw fluid back in. Don't know if this contributes to your problem.
Originally Posted by doug
i am not sure.. only Jules could tell you .. he did the install and tune
Without timing control, too much timing can cause the overflow, even at stock boost levels.
Originally Posted by Sharif@Forged
Jules as in Julian??
Without timing control, too much timing can cause the overflow, even at stock boost levels.
Without timing control, too much timing can cause the overflow, even at stock boost levels.
hey doug the oil does indeed look normal(not to far from your next change either) but congrats! i would just get some water wetter, and perhaps a thermostate. if you got extra cash and track the car id invest in a oil cooler and larger radiator! Best of luck bro