good replacement head gaskets?
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As I stated....no detonation.....checked plug color....perfect. had over 100 miles on it.....I cycled the igniition 6-8 times. The T-Max dials it right in. Just bad luck 
Last edited by traveler; Apr 19, 2013 at 07:02 PM.
You can't tell by plug color on a fuel injected bike. rich lean it will look the same.
I know you're not going to want to hear this and you think we all don't know are heads from our (_}_)'s but you need to install forged pistons while it is broke down. the cast pistons won't take the abuse from the turbo.
This is a different beast now, when you blew the head gasket, it actually lifted the head from the cylinder. It can cause so much damage it's hard to even imagine. bent rods, broken pistons, head studs ripped from the block, twisted cranks. This isn't something to be playing guessing games with and be beating on until the tune is right.
How do I know this stuff? I ate 3,000 in repairs on a blown small block Chevy. Took out the block, the head, a piston a bent rod. It was all custom, and should have cost me 5,000.00 I didn't know I blew the headgasket on my very 1st hole shot and rode around all summer like that. there was a torch of a 1/4" between the head and block, burned a slot all the way through the rings and wrist pin of the piston, bent a rod into almost a c shape. and it would still haze the 14x32 goodyear slicks. I didn't relize some thing was wrong until I kept my foot in it long enough that the oil pan pressurized and sent 4 quarts of oil out the dipstick all over the windshield,
This is a different beast now, when you blew the head gasket, it actually lifted the head from the cylinder. It can cause so much damage it's hard to even imagine. bent rods, broken pistons, head studs ripped from the block, twisted cranks. This isn't something to be playing guessing games with and be beating on until the tune is right.
How do I know this stuff? I ate 3,000 in repairs on a blown small block Chevy. Took out the block, the head, a piston a bent rod. It was all custom, and should have cost me 5,000.00 I didn't know I blew the headgasket on my very 1st hole shot and rode around all summer like that. there was a torch of a 1/4" between the head and block, burned a slot all the way through the rings and wrist pin of the piston, bent a rod into almost a c shape. and it would still haze the 14x32 goodyear slicks. I didn't relize some thing was wrong until I kept my foot in it long enough that the oil pan pressurized and sent 4 quarts of oil out the dipstick all over the windshield,
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I hear ya.
I mentioned it earlier...I guess you missed it, no biggie.....I'm putting forged SE flattop pistons in it along with the MLS gaskets from Cometic.
I have a Vortech supercharged 4.6 mustang GT at 10 psi.....thank God the engine in it is holding up. fk'r REALLY runs hard!
trust me, I believe you, and as you well know, once an engine goes from running on vacuum to positive pressure, you are in another world entirely.
~Joe
I mentioned it earlier...I guess you missed it, no biggie.....I'm putting forged SE flattop pistons in it along with the MLS gaskets from Cometic.
I have a Vortech supercharged 4.6 mustang GT at 10 psi.....thank God the engine in it is holding up. fk'r REALLY runs hard!
trust me, I believe you, and as you well know, once an engine goes from running on vacuum to positive pressure, you are in another world entirely.
~Joe
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Here ya go:
clean burning cylinder head:
Piston clean as well:
Where the head gasket blew out....it acted like a blow torch on the sealing surface of the cylinder and the nearby stud....so new cylinder and stud to go with the forged pistons.
Cometic MLS gaskets as well.
That will solve the issue.
~Joe
clean burning cylinder head:
Piston clean as well:
Where the head gasket blew out....it acted like a blow torch on the sealing surface of the cylinder and the nearby stud....so new cylinder and stud to go with the forged pistons.
Cometic MLS gaskets as well.
That will solve the issue.
~Joe
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