Subzali’s 1FZ-FE head gasket repair - turbeaucruiser

[rover67]

Remember what you have is the CARB info for the kit... so thats your golden ticket. Keep the turbski get a new manifold, maybe redo some hot/cold piping like Wes says. OR maybe you can weld up your own J pipe setup to work with stock manifolds and get the turbo near where it was before. Some Weld El's and a sawzall and you can mock it all up then take it off to fully weld it or have it welded.

I will say that the one peice treadstone manifold seems like it is so big to be a singular part... lots of thermal expansion possible there (cracks). Do people say they are reliable? If so maybe just do that or turboglide? If not the J pipe route it may be cheapest?

 

[subzali]

During the holidays and cold weather this project really stalled. I had just about got to the point of pulling the upper intake plenum, but had not quite gotten there yet. I did some thinking, and I thought: Bruce and Ricardo are right. Before I tear this down and commit to a lot of $$ right now (since now is not a good time to spend lots of $$), I should do a couple more checks and see if it wasn't just the radiator that blew. I had noticed that the radiator was leaking at Kenosha Pass, and the radiator blew in Conifer. Not exactly hard to figure out the connection between the two.

I pulled out an old spare radiator and plopped it in. I put the turbo back on, and late last week I ran it up to temp. It runs beautifully. Perfect temperature.

I then went to the auto parts store and got a combustion leak detector that you fit to the radiator and test the fluid changing color. Nothing. Nada. No color change at all.

So I'm going to run it and see what happens.

 

[wesintl]

that's good news. run it!