69 Camaro at Best of Show

[Matt@BOS]

Originally Posted by Chad-1stGen

Sucks to hear about your motor problems Matt :/

Good luck with an easy diagnoses.

Thanks Chad!

Had the guys down the street at JR Competition do a leak down test on the car. Cylinders 5,7 and 8 are all pushing air into my coolant. Needless to say, I'm pretty upset. Re-sleeved blocks should be brought up to temperature and then need to have the head bolts re-torqued, so long as you're using ARP bolts, for example, and not torque to yield factory ones. This is expressly stated by Steve Demirjian of Race Engine Development who re-sleeved the block for Steve Rupp. Between Dick and I we must have asked the shop that dyno'd the car to be sure to re-torque the head bolts half a dozen times. The last time Dick asked, they said they checked a bunch of them and they were tight. What the hell does that mean??? I wouldn't be so upset, except for the fact that in this scenario it is hard to imagine the head gaskets failing for any other reason...

Good news is that it doesn't look like I have water in my oil.

Matt