The drive home was fun and I proved once again, that a h8 don't mean everything. But as I got closer to home it started missing so I figured I would baby it home and see what was up later. Well no such luck. I pulled up to a stop sign and it stalled., it fired back up but had a good size cloud of white. Got it about a mile up the road to a buddys house and parked it in his yard overnight. I will het it in the morning and see if I can pin point it. I am thinking either intake or head gasket.



On a plus note I am going to go look into buying the 40th that I had worked on a little while back.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

could be a the intercooler core. i remember one time at MGM one failed and every one was sure it was a head gasket until the S/C was removed

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

not for sure. will be pulling it apart sometime after i get the 97 "out of the way" either fixed or sold. but there is definatly coolent going through the cylenders. you can smell it and it belches white smoke while running. need to check the oil for coolant and pull the plugs and go from there.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

The LIM gaskets can do this as well. Hopefully, it is something simple and will be an easy fix for ya.

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Yep lim or.head gaskets. I am hoping just lim. But wont know for sure till.I get in there. Making me consider not putting the ic back on tho. I couldn't get it to bleed the air out last time I tried. And I am almost done fighting with it.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

turbo build, A2A I/c setup, no need to worry about fluid to bleed air from

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Sold: 06 Cobalt SS/SC, 99 GTP 245WHP/326 Ft-lbs, 06 R6

kyle it's the 01. it would probably self impode if you tryed to turbo it lol

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

hey hey, be nice. i wont go turbo. i had second thoughts about running it before i even put it on, but decided i had it so why the hell not. i am just having second thoughts again.

besides a cammed low 13 high 12 sec dd is plenty really anyway. i will give it one more try before i give up on it, i think i am gonna try to mount the pump low enough to force prime it. and try one more time.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

actualy the car would not impode the turbo would seize for no real reason lol

you will get it figured out. just remeber the 01 hates mods haha

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

ok, so i finally got the chance to spend a couple hours and tear it down..

so i get it down this far, and find the intake gaskets look fine to me..



so i think, duh.. pull the plugs and see where the issue is, mayby i wont have to pull both heads.. yah that sounds like a plan.. so i pull them..



and really get to looking at them.. (they are in order as if you where looking at the motor from the drivers seat. ie top plugs are front bottoms rear, to the right is the pass side left is driver) and see them and think.. well shit.. thats not good..





so with two damaged on the front i pulled it. and with one looking like it was the coolent on the rear i pulled it too..




and here is what i found.. the rears looked fine, just a blown gasket.. but the front side, not so good.. (the last pic of the piston is my new phone background.. lol..)










so at this point, i have some more work to do......... again........ i will fix, but i am very unsure at this point of how much i am gonna do. i am starting to get a bit discouraged. (allthough i know that part of that is because the extra stress and responsibility with the situation with my dad.)

i will swap over most stuff to the 110k n/a motor i have sitting here. i will swap the cam, timing, heads and upper end (the top end only has a few thousand miles on fresh parts, if that much so i will reuse them as is.), swap over the studs.. i am however debating largely if i will continue with the i/c or not. i am thinking i will do a basic mild xp topswap setup and just pully back a size or two (3.1 or 3.2) and just make the damn thing reliable and put my energy elsewear. even that mild will still be a nice fun dd for summer. but it will sit as is till spring at least. possibly longer. at this point i am in no hurry, i need a break from working on them all summer, and need the extra energy to help mom and dad with all of the latest issues.


when i do get back to it i will probly do some things like projectors, leds, and some other visual stuff, it will still perform but i will do some looks stuff for a change..

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

damn dude
i saw the plugs and chipped pistons came to mind

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my first thought too. i was hoping i was wrong right till i got the head off... lol

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

well at least you collect motors

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i have one more sitting off ot the side ( is the motor that came with the trans i put in the green car.) and i am all out for now. i even took the extas over for scrap!

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

finaly a normal issue with the 01


any idea what could of cuased that to happen? it was running fine for years. think not having the IC wworking correctly did something?

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

I am wonderingif that was a factor. Being pullied down and had it quit flowing and I didn't catch it. But it didn't start missing till the same day it started chugging coolent. And I had the 3.0 on that day and didn't start getting kr till it started missing. So I don't know. I know the setup that the pcm is tuned for so I will replicate the build and just Pully back a size or two and call it good. Thinking about ditching the ic and just driving it for a while. Getting tired of working on it.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

car was pretty quick even with out the IC. i do not think it is needed for that car pluse it is just one more thing to cause headachs

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

Well like I said too for a DD summer car it will still be plenty.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

well i found something to add insult to injury a couple weeks ago while i was out getting the rest of the i/c off and i apperently did this backing into the barn as i felt it touch, then it got loud. but... damn it!!! guess i will have to remove the " dip " huh...

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

dear god that is impressive

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

that rear header hanging in the engine bay, as well as bent!! i should have clarified that first.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

well good thing you picked up the set from the GTX haha

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

Nope should be selling those. I will do liked. Cates did and eliminate the " dip "

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

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Almost glad to see I am not the only one. I did mine backing into my barn which the edge of the concrete is a few inches higher than the ground outside ( I need to do some fill apparently. Raised anything + lowered car = bad.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock