I am thinking about buying this Lt1 motor and would like some advice on what to look for and what to listen for that would indicte a serious problem.
This is the motor description and what it is currently doing.
Lt1 350 with ported heads and intake. Lt4 hot cam, 1.6 roller rockers. Pacesetter mid length headers and magnaflow cat back. Msd optispark, Taylor ignition wires, recent spark plugs. Cold air intake. PCM4less tuned ecu. Car put 319 horsepower to the rear wheels on a mustang dyno. Was told motor had about 10k on a rebuild when I bought the car and we've put another 20k or so on it.
and now being New England these cars sit all winter and was recently started and run. This is what the owner said:
Fired it up this year (2013). Was going to trade it whole for a truck but started running hot and drinking coolant this morning.
It's never overheated but always ran at 160, was a pretty constant 210 Sunday when we had it out. Not dripping anywhere, puffs white at idle, and pressurizes the coolant hoses right away on a cold start. Not positive but I'm pretty sure it is a head gasket.
I'd compression test it if it wasn't such a pain to get around the headers. I'm just at the point where I've had enough. If you are still interested I'll let it go very cheap if we get to that point.
for now the oil still looks clean but who knows. I'd advise going through it to be safe but entirely up to you. If it comes to a part out I'd probably ask $500 for it. Heads, hot cam, roller rockers, I'd give the harness, ecu, all accessories, everything. At that price I'd include the msd opti too. It's not on it. Needed a cap/rotor so I put an eBay opti on it for the end of last season.(2012)
So what do you guys think I should expect?
Puffs of white smoke =New head gaskets?
I there is Coolant in the oil would mean trashed bearings right?
Take a valve cover off and look for rockers? what should I see? Aluminum rocker arms? are there stamped steel 1.6 rocker arms?
Need help, I just wanted to do a straight swap of the stock LT1 in my 280Z
This is the motor description and what it is currently doing.
Lt1 350 with ported heads and intake. Lt4 hot cam, 1.6 roller rockers. Pacesetter mid length headers and magnaflow cat back. Msd optispark, Taylor ignition wires, recent spark plugs. Cold air intake. PCM4less tuned ecu. Car put 319 horsepower to the rear wheels on a mustang dyno. Was told motor had about 10k on a rebuild when I bought the car and we've put another 20k or so on it.
and now being New England these cars sit all winter and was recently started and run. This is what the owner said:
Fired it up this year (2013). Was going to trade it whole for a truck but started running hot and drinking coolant this morning.
It's never overheated but always ran at 160, was a pretty constant 210 Sunday when we had it out. Not dripping anywhere, puffs white at idle, and pressurizes the coolant hoses right away on a cold start. Not positive but I'm pretty sure it is a head gasket.
I'd compression test it if it wasn't such a pain to get around the headers. I'm just at the point where I've had enough. If you are still interested I'll let it go very cheap if we get to that point.
for now the oil still looks clean but who knows. I'd advise going through it to be safe but entirely up to you. If it comes to a part out I'd probably ask $500 for it. Heads, hot cam, roller rockers, I'd give the harness, ecu, all accessories, everything. At that price I'd include the msd opti too. It's not on it. Needed a cap/rotor so I put an eBay opti on it for the end of last season.(2012)
So what do you guys think I should expect?
Puffs of white smoke =New head gaskets?
I there is Coolant in the oil would mean trashed bearings right?
Take a valve cover off and look for rockers? what should I see? Aluminum rocker arms? are there stamped steel 1.6 rocker arms?
Need help, I just wanted to do a straight swap of the stock LT1 in my 280Z