Night Terror

I was looking through some of my pics i have online and went into my H/C/I picture gallery (btw the HCI was a failure, blew a head gasket on start up and ruined the block. 1 motor swap later im back to a stock 87 motor lol)
Its only the damn Exhuast Valves... i looked at my bros stock E7s and they don't look anything like that... they like powder white...

http://www.putfile.com/pic/8481826/?action=zoom

http://www.putfile.com/pic/8481827/?action=zoom

http://www.putfile.com/pic/8481824/?action=zoom

Gary H

How can blowing a head gasket ruin a block? All the exhaust valves I remember have been white. They get alot hotter than the intakes.

Timspony

Perhaps the car sat with a blown head gasket for a while before it was fixed?

Night Terror

coolant got into the oil... and sludged the entire block into a muddy mess

jtmustang

^^^^ ahh that would not ruin the motor pull it out and tear the pan off or pull all apart clean and throw back together with new bearings and gaskets and fire it up.

projectresto83

This is true usually. I usually see heads look like this too but then I pulled the heads off of my car and both valves and the plug were an even brown color. They were not E7's though, they were a pair of 1978 truck heads.

mjr46

maybe a little lean but nothing to worry about as you have bigger concerns now

NYMustang50

it blew a head gasket? did u have the right head gasket on there? I noticed when I bought my car since it sat and he did the job himself and it wasnt completed and running if I did just finish and start it I would have blow both head gaskets due to being normal headgaskets for a block a head that was machined for o ring gaskets..

Night Terror

erll i put udrf GT-40s on it... and a used Trick Flow intake... unless one of those had a crack in them, which i highly doubt becuase i inspected both THOROUGHLY for hours lol (in the aftermath to figure it out) and the only thing that made sense was maybe i fudged the head gasket up during install or i put it on the wrong way... idk

but it happened... and wanted to see if it meant anything becuase the miss fire i had on that engine underload is happening to this new motor that hte original owner had no issues with... so im just doing detective work, hoping 1 day to solve my 10 month persisting misfire... lol

fordboyyfm

the pics look like it was runing a little lean, are you sure you had the gaskets on the right way?