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Well we where doing my vafc, and my car started to overheat again after we thought it was fixed! Well come to find out my head gasket is blasted! They dont know what other probs till they tear it about but we are pretty sure that i messed up some other stuff to! This really sucks because i leave friday for padre! DAMN CIVICS!

 
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holy crap

"DAMN CIVICS!" <-----Wasn't this your fault? You tried installing v-afc and engine overheats.... [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]

 
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it had nothing to do with the vafc! its was doing it before the vafc but it just happen to be noticed at the same time! Well just to let yall know that it is gonna cost about $550 with gasket and labor!

 
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so... what caused the overheating?!?!?!

 
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the over heating was caused by the head gasket blowing! It blew on the exhaust side and when i give it gas the exhaust presurrizes the cooling system and blows the antifreeze in to the resevoir tank and then blows it all out the overflow cap!

 
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wouldn't this be covered by warranty? or are any of your mods to blame (ie nitrous?)?

 
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55,000 miles no warranty on my car! Honda laughed at me! [IMG]i/expressions/moon.gif[/IMG]honda

 
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thats really bad. Honda should be responsible for this.

 
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they are blaming it on my performance parts such as the VAFC! There is no nitrous on my car right now because I knew thats what they would blame it on! I have only ran 2-3 bottles through my car in a one year period and there has not even been a bottle in my car in 7 months! IM SO PISSED RIGHT NOW ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY! I THINK ITS TIME TO SAY HELLO TO A NEW STI WRX! PEACE OUT HONDA!

 
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dam thats alot for the gask and labor bro....good luck

 
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Speaking form a mechanics point of view, and I'm not flaming or making light of your problem, but if you run NOS through a engine thats designed to get high fuel milage and low emmisions, parts like head gaskets aren't designed for that burst of compression and extreme high heat. Engines in Civics aren't high performance engines and they're not designed to be modified like that.

Honda is not to blame for this problem, if the car was overheating a long time ago you should have had that problem fixed by Honda or a qualified mechanic. If a headgasket is blown on the cooling ring it will do 1 or 2 things or both, leak outside the block which you could see, leak internally which would turn your oil sludgy brown and the car might smoke like crazy. So a good mechanic would have spotted this problem before you fried your engine.

Hopefully you just blew the gasket and didn't hurt anything else, replacing just the head gasket wouldn't set you back to much.

 
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i know what you mean and im not mad about it because you race you will eventully hurt something on the car! its a trade power versus relaibility! But I cracked my radiator at the same time so now im getting new head gasket and fluidine (sp) radiator put in! Its only costing me around $800-900 for both and labor so oh well s**t happens I just want my car back in one piece so i can go to padre! Why did I mess up my dependable car for something that is still slow?