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Old Oct 6, 2003 | 11:50 AM
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Sweet Mary & joseph, I've done it again. This one a bit more serious though.

I was going through the gears getting on it pretty hard (translation: showing off like an ass), when I was spinning in second, at 1 full bar boost and about 5k RPM, all the sudden a bang and no power whatsoever...

I limped back to VR-4ever's house, it would nearly die at idle but try to keep itself running, then immediately try to die again. When I give it throttle it has no power at ALL. When I had it parked for a minute, I looked underneath it and I saw some antifreeze coming down the bell housing area (well, it was a bell housing on my truck, I don't know what it's called on the Supra...whatever). Anyway, I couldn't see oil in the radiator or anything like that, and although at FIRST I though there was oil in the puddle of antifreeze in the driveway, I realized that it was imagination running wild because when it dried a few hours later there was no residual oil there.

So naturally I want to suspect that it is the head gasket gone to hell. I didn't hear any knocking or unusual noise, EXCEPT for the sound of exhaust coming from the engine compartment. Sooo...since I'm sure of the problem (top end of the engine), now I need to know what I can do about it. Checkered Flag Toyota wants an ENORMOUS sum of money for this job, no freaking way. So basically, I nee doptions for a head gasket job with shops...who do you know?!
-Merf....the luckiest dude on DragVA