Help with a turbo Dodge

Yeah, head gaskets were notorious for going on these cars. Especially if the car sat for a long period of time then saw a lot of boost. Usually it took me about an houd and a half to do a gasket swap. I always bought two and kept one in the car. If you don't have a cal for +20 injectors it will usually run rich without a adjustable fuel pres. regulator.
 
glh_turbo22 said:
Yeah, head gaskets were notorious for going on these cars. Especially if the car sat for a long period of time then saw a lot of boost. Usually it took me about an houd and a half to do a gasket swap. I always bought two and kept one in the car. If you don't have a cal for +20 injectors it will usually run rich without a adjustable fuel pres. regulator.
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as for head gaskets, I ended up using a Mopar Performance Head gasket, good for up to 13:1 CR, and it never blew when I was running 25 psi

before this gasket, I was doing a head gasket every other saturday
 
The current gasket has a Mopar Performance stamp on it. I'll go with a Fel-pro for now, since that is all I can get at the Parts store on a Saturday.
 
I never had trouble with the felpros at all they supplied chysler with gaskets back in the day there prob pretty similar..

I change gaskets alot because i was trying to run 40 lbs of boost on +40's and a stock pump lol didnt work to well
 
Wow, I don't know how this car made it to my house. First the wastegate was ran right to intake vacuume, second the baro solenoid for the map was bypassed, blown head gasket plus a number of missing nuts and bolts.
 
glh_turbo22 said:
Wow, I don't know how this car made it to my house. First the wastegate was ran right to intake vacuume, second the baro solenoid for the map was bypassed, blown head gasket plus a number of missing nuts and bolts.
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lol sounds like my first red one that think was a basket case and half
 
Car runs awsome now, of course with all that power now the clutch took a crap. In third gear if you stab it it just breaks the clutch loose and goes nowhere. New clutch is going in today.
 
I had a very similar issue with my TII spirit and it turned out to be the MAP sensor. verify that there are no vacuum leaks present and or that the connection to the map sensor has not been severed.
 
A little late for that...car is runnig great now. I just finished putting in the clutch last night and now all that's left is to reinstall the half shafts and reconnect all the piping. Should be done tonight as long as nothing goes wrong.
 
The car runs very strong. It actually hauls ass. For kicks I embarassed a new body Mustang GT on I-94 near Dearborn last night. I walked away from it pretty easily.
It was a complete basket case when I bought it, but Kevin got it in good order for me. He swapped the head gasket, and clutch, hooked up the fan, fixed the bypassed heater core and all the rigged up vacuum lines and sensors, and put a tune on it with his laptop.
The drivers seat was all loose with broken bolts, etc... and half the interior was covered in leaves and helicopters from sitting outside for probably years. The paint was so faded it actually felt chalky, and turned from red to kinda orange. I rubbed the paint out and cleaned the interior up, and added a set of Konig wheels I had on my Fiero. I have a guy lined up to paint it in the next couple weeks too.
It has some rot on the underside that needs to be fixed too. A mig welder and some Por-15 to the rescue. :)
I'll take some pictures when my new camera battery comes in.
 
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