I mean the very outside corner. Where the head meets the block. I'm wondering if the gaskets will set as they heat up with time or should I just plan on taking it apart again.When you say "corner of the head"; do you mean the very outside corner or where the head meets the intake? If the latter; odds are good the intake is not sealing well... Not unusual when the heads are milled & the intake isn't IMHO.....
What is IMHO?I mean the very outside corner. Where the head meets the block. I'm wondering if the gaskets will set as they heat up with time or should I just plan on taking it apart again.
ok you see the leak as being at the lower front corner of the head, but i believe that the leak is where the intake meets the head. why? because you had the head milled, but you probably did not have the intake also milled, and as such you have changed the relationship between the intake and the head.
most of the time when the amount taken off the head is small, there is enough "tolerance" that there is no issue. however production tolerances being what they are, and with tolerance stack being what it is, there is the possibility that you ran out of tolerance and now have a small leak. it wont get better over time just worse.
what you need to do now is measure how far off the manifold is from the head, and determine how much the intake needs to be milled to bring things back into tolerance.
perfect example of either imo or imho either way you should check this scenario... makes allot of sense...
Iirc, you used all the **** we talked about in one thread
Unfortunately I was not there for the whole install as the car was in ATX and I was in Houston so I'm going to ask the shop that did it. I just drove about 50 miles and it ran very good but got a little hot at the end. Need to get a tune ASAP.Did you use rtv around the coolant ports when putting on the lower intake?
Ok thanks for the help I'm going to look into it.ok you see the leak as being at the lower front corner of the head, but i believe that the leak is where the intake meets the head. why? because you had the head milled, but you probably did not have the intake also milled, and as such you have changed the relationship between the intake and the head.
most of the time when the amount taken off the head is small, there is enough "tolerance" that there is no issue. however production tolerances being what they are, and with tolerance stack being what it is, there is the possibility that you ran out of tolerance and now have a small leak. it wont get better over time just worse.
what you need to do now is measure how far off the manifold is from the head, and determine how much the intake needs to be milled to bring things back into tolerance.
Ok thanks for the help I'm going to look into it.
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