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Okay here's the deal. I broke a valve spring on my E7's and had them overhauled. After getting the heads back I put the car back together with ROL Extreme Hi Temp headgaskets, ARP headbolts, Fel Pro intake gaskets and it overheated and smoked like a bastard.

Rip the heads off again using the same type of head and intake gaskets, and now it still smokes but didnt run it long enough too see if it overheats, I'm stumped. Everything is good to go. ARP's torqued to 85ft lb's using pipe dope on the lowers and 30 weight on the uppers and the lower intake torqued to 25ft lbs.
 

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Did you use pipe dope on the threads that go into the water jackets?
 
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I hope, I used pipe dope on the bottom bolts by the headers.


I need to get this car runnin right, there's an eclipse at work I need to terrorize before winter.:SNSign:
 

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Hum... was it over heating before? Probably not, but lets eliminate that just to help out.
 
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Nope.
 

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Have you tried flushing the coolant system? Maybe when you did the swap, some debris came loose and is now blocking one of the water jackets?
 
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srothfuss said:
Have you tried flushing the coolant system? Maybe when you did the swap, some debris came loose and is now blocking one of the water jackets?
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But would this cause the smoking from the exhaust? I'm going to try it and hope for the best.
 
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