Head gasket failure! I think
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Oh dear, I think that my head gasket failed at the weekend!

I was driving along when a ton of smoke plumed out of the exhaust ( I say smoke, but I think it was water vapor ). When I pulled over it was still smoking lots. I turned it off.

I started it a bit later and held my hand against the tailpipe. My hand wet very quickly and when I checked the rad half of the water was missing.

What do you think? Head gasket?

If so, can anyone recommend someone to put it right for me? Locally if possible (i'm in Harlow, Essex, CM20 3NL)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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So have you lost any water? Gained oil?

Lost about half of the water. I think that it's getting into the cylinders.

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Lost about half of the water. I think that it's getting into the cylinders.

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go for the gasket

Sounds like the gasket! There not all that hard to do.

If you follow the good ol' Haynes manual you can't go far wrong. The main points to pay attention to is, to make sure all gaskets faces are clean and flat before reassembling, torque everything up as stated, have the kettle on ready to sit back and admire your work!

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

Do you think that I should put the £300 ish for labour cost towards a low compression head instead?

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To be honest, if your going down the route of building a turbo then its worth having a go at doing the gasket yourself!

Without a doubt you'll have to take things apart at some point, and in my experience most garages get funny when it comes to working on non standard engines anyway.

300 quid should easily cover the price of a turbo head or to get yours modified, may aswell kill 2 birds with one stone. Lol

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

I already have a std Metro turbo Head, the engine is a genuine Metro Turbo.

I was thinking about getting an Avonbar High Boost head that lowered the C/R so that I could run around 10psi.

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avonbar are very very local to you, do they do repairs?

if not vmax is round the m25 (20mins J13 i think)

however you should try it yourself, we all here to help and its well worth learning

Thanks for the support guys.

I think that I will give it a go at the weekend. What do you think about the low comp head? should I get one and do it now while I have the head off?

Do you think that I will have any problems getting it to run properly with the lowered C/R?

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nothing a RR session wouldnt sort out.

You'll find it will run much better than it currently does anyway after a session on there

Ah if its a genuine metty turbo engine I would just stick with the head you've got and get the chambers inlarged.

I know a man on here (BENROSS) that does a spot on job.

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

if you just want the compression lowering on the head
PM me i can provide this service for you at a very reasonable cost

Cool, how much? and how long?

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