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so for the past couple wweks or so my car has been making this funny smell after im through driving it. not oil, or exhaust, just a real pugnent odor. at first it would appear then go away after a few seconds, but this past week its been getting really bad. then today im cruising on the highway at about 70-75 and suddenly the check gauges light comes on, and when i look down i see my oil temp gauge deep into the red zone. so i immediately pull over and pop the hood, and to my dismay, there's a bunch of steam and bubbles coming from right between the top intake manifold and the rest of the engine, and there looks to be damage from where the stuff was dripping and falling down onto the rest of the engine. i sstayed where i was for about 30 minutes, got it, and drove to the dealer (luckily it was pretty close, but i still had to pull over again once more to let it cool for about 20 minutes as the gauge was about halfway between the 210 mark and 260 mark. as i got to the dealer the guy gave me a lecture about checking all my fluids [img]graemlins/slap.gif[/img] which i admit i hadn't changed the coolant in a while, and said the smell was burning anti-freeze. its not the fans, nor the thermostat i told him i was pretty sure. then i called a friend of mine and he said he just had the problem with his mistubishi starion and that it was a blown head gasket, which was what i was afraid it might have been.
the car is a 2002 a4 pontiac firebird with 24,800 miles on it. mods are fra, lid/filter, rumbler cat-back. still under warranty thankfuly, and i admit i race it from time to time, but im never ever really abusive on the engine. i dont floor it everywhere, nor do i speed excessively or anything. so how could this have hapenned? did the gasket get old and cruddy or was it something my dumbass did?? my friend that blew his said i prob ****ed up the head since it'd been like this for a little while, and it overheated today. think he's right?
its being repaired at the dealer so i know itll take forever :mad: you guys think i should talk to the guys about getting p&p heads if theyre ****ed up enough? what happened??
and this is coming the day that i decided to keep the car and go FI rather than sell it off or transplant an ls1 in it....i think i have to re-think my decision :( last thing: how much power was i losing? it wasnt a major leak, but it was def noticable.
[ January 14, 2005, 09:20 PM: Message edited by: Ju5t_B3at_Me2005 ]
so for the past couple wweks or so my car has been making this funny smell after im through driving it. not oil, or exhaust, just a real pugnent odor. at first it would appear then go away after a few seconds, but this past week its been getting really bad. then today im cruising on the highway at about 70-75 and suddenly the check gauges light comes on, and when i look down i see my oil temp gauge deep into the red zone. so i immediately pull over and pop the hood, and to my dismay, there's a bunch of steam and bubbles coming from right between the top intake manifold and the rest of the engine, and there looks to be damage from where the stuff was dripping and falling down onto the rest of the engine. i sstayed where i was for about 30 minutes, got it, and drove to the dealer (luckily it was pretty close, but i still had to pull over again once more to let it cool for about 20 minutes as the gauge was about halfway between the 210 mark and 260 mark. as i got to the dealer the guy gave me a lecture about checking all my fluids [img]graemlins/slap.gif[/img] which i admit i hadn't changed the coolant in a while, and said the smell was burning anti-freeze. its not the fans, nor the thermostat i told him i was pretty sure. then i called a friend of mine and he said he just had the problem with his mistubishi starion and that it was a blown head gasket, which was what i was afraid it might have been.
the car is a 2002 a4 pontiac firebird with 24,800 miles on it. mods are fra, lid/filter, rumbler cat-back. still under warranty thankfuly, and i admit i race it from time to time, but im never ever really abusive on the engine. i dont floor it everywhere, nor do i speed excessively or anything. so how could this have hapenned? did the gasket get old and cruddy or was it something my dumbass did?? my friend that blew his said i prob ****ed up the head since it'd been like this for a little while, and it overheated today. think he's right?
its being repaired at the dealer so i know itll take forever :mad: you guys think i should talk to the guys about getting p&p heads if theyre ****ed up enough? what happened??
and this is coming the day that i decided to keep the car and go FI rather than sell it off or transplant an ls1 in it....i think i have to re-think my decision :( last thing: how much power was i losing? it wasnt a major leak, but it was def noticable.
[ January 14, 2005, 09:20 PM: Message edited by: Ju5t_B3at_Me2005 ]
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