water in the exhaust header wtf just had a full engine rebuild!!!!

hello chaps any ideas why water is in the header exhaust i took turbo off to change over to the md321t and iv not used the car since fri night till today and cranked engine over to only get soaked to the fecking skin in antifreeze/water from my knowledge it is either the head gasket or the exhaust ports leaking thro... the inlets and exhaust ports are ported and polished up but i cant see it been cracked as it will of been inspected on the engine build up i recon

take the headers off & see which one of the exhaust ports are wet at least that way you can narrow it down to a particular cyliner. Smae issue as mine which turned out to be a nice split in no4 cylinder wall, hopefully yours isn't as teminal.

maxboost wrote:

take the headers off & see which one of the exhaust ports are wet at least that way you can narrow it down to a particular cyliner. Smae issue as mine which turned out to be a nice split in no4 cylinder wall, hopefully yours isn't as teminal.

yer i ran out of light time at half 6 so had to pack tools away so pist off spent a fortune onit im gona pull the headers off tomoz thats what i was gona do tonight but its chill time

well iv took the headers off and yep there is water come out of pot 4 the hole closest to the starter motor cracked liner i recon as spoke to chris @ eclipse. its in a 2.5 block i did have a water leak and it was come from the water pump we fixed that now this leak is real bad summit like 3 drips per second

mark you have nee luck with engines you like hopefully cludge itl not be as bad as marks as he says good luck matey

Put a bore scope down the cyliner to have a peek without having to remove the lump & head, but the way its looking lokks like it will probs have to come out anyway. Hope its not too bad bud.

if its a cracked liner its not going to be driping constantly into exhaust, pressuming valves are shut, excessive porting can cause heads to crack when subject to the hot gasses

Andy

Andy Kindon wrote:

if its a cracked liner its not going to be driping constantly into exhaust, pressuming valves are shut, excessive porting can cause heads to crack when subject to the hot gasses

Andy

im hoping its just the head that is cracked to gutted lads just spent a bomb on upgraded internals

If the head has been ported then they have got too close to the water jacket in that area and split it. there isnt much meat there to be taken off (and tbh not much benefit either as mine runs to 780bhp unported)

Shame but sounds like new head or pair of heads need IMO

Who did the head work ?

dynamix wrote:

If the head has been ported then they have got too close to the water jacket in that area and split it. there isnt much meat there to be taken off (and tbh not much benefit either as mine runs to 780bhp unported)

Shame but sounds like new head or pair of heads need IMO

Who did the head work ?

hi duncan self ported my self took away the valve seat and lowered the raise in port same as i do to the motocross bikes iv seen a mate of mine who is willing to weld it up for me so happy days if its just the head

dynamix wrote:

If the head has been ported then they have got too close to the water jacket in that area and split it. there isnt much meat there to be taken off (and tbh not much benefit either as mine runs to 780bhp unported)

Shame but sounds like new head or pair of heads need IMO

Who did the head work ?

nowt like rubbing it in mate with the 780bhp

big deano wrote:

dynamix wrote:

If the head has been ported then they have got too close to the water jacket in that area and split it. there isnt much meat there to be taken off (and tbh not much benefit either as mine runs to 780bhp unported)

Shame but sounds like new head or pair of heads need IMO

Who did the head work ?

nowt like rubbing it in mate with the 780bhp

haha i a nar that is awsome power that i just want my scooby to run nice with no water leaks or knocks or bangs from the shockers had enough of pulling money out now wish i just scrapped it now to be honest

clundgelicker wrote:

dynamix wrote:

If the head has been ported then they have got too close to the water jacket in that area and split it. there isnt much meat there to be taken off (and tbh not much benefit either as mine runs to 780bhp unported)

Shame but sounds like new head or pair of heads need IMO

Who did the head work ?

hi duncan self ported my self took away the valve seat and lowered the raise in port same as i do to the motocross bikes iv seen a mate of mine who is willing to weld it up for me so happy days if its just the head

Sorry wasnt trying to rub it in just saying it isnt really necessary and quite a risk without proper flow testing of the heads before and after. I think you would be better off putting new heads on it tbh as it is difficult to add material sufficient to strengthen it up and quite a risk considering the price of gaskets and time to take the engine out again if it isnt right afterwards.