After everyone I talked to, that walked me through everything, and after all the changed parts, it really was a head gasket. And from what I've been told, this is very atypical in how this head gasket blew, for the modern Hemi. Meaning I didn't have any coolant in my exhaust, simply blowing coolant out the gasket. Walker took these shots for me, as I was in Chicago when the repairs began. You can see in these pictures, where the coolant was leaking, as the gasket is clean as a whistle, where the coolant was blowing out. In these following shots, you can see parts of the block and pistons that were cleaned by the leaking coolant as well. So the following has been done: Valve seats repaired to leak-free, heads re-surfaced & decked (only fractions of millimeters), new header gaskets, new head gaskets, new ARP head studs. This HAS NOT been a fun $1700 to spend, but I was probably loosing substantial horsepower from this, as it's plagued my baby for almost two years now!!! And I feel GREAT knowing that the culprit has been found, and the Charger will be back to 120% working order when this is all done. WHEW!! SHEESH!! I should have the car back by mid-week next week.
Glad I could shed some light on this for MYSELF, but also for the Modern Mopar community. Fuggin sucks being the "pioneer" in such a shitty area, lol.....
At least now you found and adressed the problem, now you can really enjoy the car Chase, you sure earned it! Fredrik:friends:
You mentioned the head studs being loose...where the nuts properly torqued? What is Walker's opinion on what happened?
