Props for filming everything overnight and early in the morning during the diagnosis. My ADD ass can’t even form words when I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong with my car.
My first time building K I bought a head off ebay, cleaned it, resurfaced it, did the valves and built the block only to find out the head had a hole in the valve chamber. I had this same issue till it ended up hydrolocking itself. Still got a good tune off it and ran its ass off.
I've watched the pain and the joy of discovery building you race engine, couple of things I knottiest K24s vibrate without the stock balancer (I am not a expert K) but to help dampen this I use a ATI Honda K-Series Super Dampers Honda K20 / K24 it helps the other thing is you may have lifted the head so no obvious gasket problem, the crack in the exhaust could be from the vibration of the motor and torsion from the mount that your turbo and exhaust are making, love the channel don't give up your doing great.
@@hikari_rennwerke Yup, even though at the end of the day I don't think my plate was an issue, I'm swapping to the tractuff plate to avoid even the possibility of an issue.
@ I think you’re right, I don’t think it was the plate at all but definitely that crack, if it was pouring water through the crack into the head, definitely forbidden milkshake making!
You might want to look into water-meth injection for your egt problem... not that hard to tune but helps a ton. Also, if you put too much water-meth, you'll just missfire, you can't really hurt the engine here. Sad to see this happen tho, I was pumped for some track content!!! I feel like you might have lifted the head a tiny bit by overpressure in the coolant system. A crack in the exhaust port makes for pressure spikes in the coolant system. Just a wild guess but it would explain the water in all 4 cylinders. Do you run a coolant pressure sensor? You'd be able to determine a blown head gasket or a cracked head there.
@@maximilianstobinski2469 headgasket showed no signs of compromise. Next time the motor runs it will have a coolant pressure sensor and better EGT protections.
@wingman703 I'm a bit of a mechanic and it's not my first time seeing Hondas blow head gaskets😅 The cracked cylinder head was a bit of a shocker though. Never seen that one before
@@wingman703 but yeah, a spike in coolant temps typically means that a large amount of coolant is leaking somewhere, or large amounts of air is getting into the cooling system in a short space of time. Typically, it's a result of a cracked block, blown head gasket, or in your case, a cracked head around the water jacket. Lower EGTs are usually a tell-tale sign as well
Have you considered joining the dark side? A junkyard l92 can get your turbo k24 numbers na with even more area under the curve… temps are a lot easier to manage that way. Yes subframe solutions are expensive but a tkx is “relatively” cheap and light and your rear end solution is already borrowed from the v8 crowd. It’s the ultimate seat time solution here… just think about it. How did Bronson develop his brakes? How did Johnny develop his aero? It’s the natural solution. You must join us, it is simply inevitable 😂
@wingman703 Expensive stuff (compared to normal coolant), still a liquid obviously but you need to flush the engine out first with product to remove any residual water and then fill with the waterless coolant - as the name suggests there's no water in it so it doesn't boil and therefore the cooling system isn't under pressure, it's good to 180°C, you can open the header tank at running temperature without worrying about steam burns and boiling hot coolant spraying everywhere and once you've initially treated the engine you can reuse it as it barely degrades.
@@bigfoottaylor8812 I doubt that's a good thing to run on track, we're not allowed to run anything but water so we don't have another fluid to lay down on the surface when your race car goes boom.
First video I have seen of yours and love it. Thanks UA-cam your algorithm didn't suck ass today.
Time for a proper k series head with traditional exhaust ports
Props for filming everything overnight and early in the morning during the diagnosis. My ADD ass can’t even form words when I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong with my car.
Type R head baybee
My first time building K I bought a head off ebay, cleaned it, resurfaced it, did the valves and built the block only to find out the head had a hole in the valve chamber. I had this same issue till it ended up hydrolocking itself. Still got a good tune off it and ran its ass off.
I've watched the pain and the joy of discovery building you race engine, couple of things I knottiest K24s vibrate without the stock balancer (I am not a expert K) but to help dampen this I use a ATI Honda K-Series Super Dampers Honda K20 / K24 it helps the other thing is you may have lifted the head so no obvious gasket problem, the crack in the exhaust could be from the vibration of the motor and torsion from the mount that your turbo and exhaust are making, love the channel don't give up your doing great.
Damn, didn't realize you were so close! Cars are pain.....
Bummer about the cracked head!
Hopefully can get that sorted, maybe a TracTuff water plate setup too?
@@hikari_rennwerke Yup, even though at the end of the day I don't think my plate was an issue, I'm swapping to the tractuff plate to avoid even the possibility of an issue.
@ I think you’re right, I don’t think it was the plate at all but definitely that crack, if it was pouring water through the crack into the head, definitely forbidden milkshake making!
Loved working this project with you, hate the end result. But sometimes that’s how things go. Ever a thing we can do, you know where to find us 🤙
@@Rotard-mb5ys I'll be by in a few days 😄
You might want to look into water-meth injection for your egt problem... not that hard to tune but helps a ton. Also, if you put too much water-meth, you'll just missfire, you can't really hurt the engine here. Sad to see this happen tho, I was pumped for some track content!!! I feel like you might have lifted the head a tiny bit by overpressure in the coolant system. A crack in the exhaust port makes for pressure spikes in the coolant system. Just a wild guess but it would explain the water in all 4 cylinders. Do you run a coolant pressure sensor? You'd be able to determine a blown head gasket or a cracked head there.
@@maximilianstobinski2469 headgasket showed no signs of compromise. Next time the motor runs it will have a coolant pressure sensor and better EGT protections.
Water meth is goeated!
My first thought as soon as he said coolant temp was at 235 and egt was at 200 when it's normally at 950 was that the head gasket is blown😅
@@RiqueRacing pretty damm good guess. I wasn't quick enough to put the high coolant temp+low EGT together 😆
@wingman703 I'm a bit of a mechanic and it's not my first time seeing Hondas blow head gaskets😅
The cracked cylinder head was a bit of a shocker though. Never seen that one before
Bro, when are you building my K24?
@@dmcharlestt4945 I work on BMWs now😅
@@wingman703 but yeah, a spike in coolant temps typically means that a large amount of coolant is leaking somewhere, or large amounts of air is getting into the cooling system in a short space of time. Typically, it's a result of a cracked block, blown head gasket, or in your case, a cracked head around the water jacket. Lower EGTs are usually a tell-tale sign as well
welp, if you want to switch to the a2 style head, i have 2 k24 heads sitting on the shelf
@@lobuk516 already have two on hand, one's prepped for the machine shop, the others being used for mockup. Thanks though.
Have you considered joining the dark side? A junkyard l92 can get your turbo k24 numbers na with even more area under the curve… temps are a lot easier to manage that way. Yes subframe solutions are expensive but a tkx is “relatively” cheap and light and your rear end solution is already borrowed from the v8 crowd. It’s the ultimate seat time solution here… just think about it. How did Bronson develop his brakes? How did Johnny develop his aero? It’s the natural solution. You must join us, it is simply inevitable 😂
@@elementaljosh you make a lot of great points
But TURBO WHISTLE GO WHEEEEEEEE
Once you've decided on a fix, rebuild or start again, may I suggest waterless coolant?
@@bigfoottaylor8812 what is waterless coolant?
@wingman703 Expensive stuff (compared to normal coolant), still a liquid obviously but you need to flush the engine out first with product to remove any residual water and then fill with the waterless coolant - as the name suggests there's no water in it so it doesn't boil and therefore the cooling system isn't under pressure, it's good to 180°C, you can open the header tank at running temperature without worrying about steam burns and boiling hot coolant spraying everywhere and once you've initially treated the engine you can reuse it as it barely degrades.
@@bigfoottaylor8812 I doubt that's a good thing to run on track, we're not allowed to run anything but water so we don't have another fluid to lay down on the surface when your race car goes boom.