Day 1 wrapped up with one car running and one car not. Here is the butcher's bill.
The D ran flawlessly all day, and we are now doing the standard checks for the end of the day.
The Z however is done for the weekend.
Lugnut came in towards the end of his session with the car overheating. The track workers came by as well to let us know that steam was coming out of the car. Hmmm we now know where the water was going.
I ran to the store to get some guaranteed head gasket repair. We all cracked up at the way the measure the size of the whole and wondered what it means if we are loosing gallons per minute.
However when we went to use it, it was obvious that the hole has grown in size and wasn't going to be patched easily.
We were loosing water at a out the same rate we could put it in. There is some suspicion that the porting work on the exhaust before we put the engine may have cut away too much material instead of having a head gasket issue as we don't have water going anywhere else.
So.... The Z is parked for the rest of the weekend. It was a glorious start to the engine swap and I don't think we will go back, just go forward and work out the issues that this one has.
The D has been running flawlessly and we will prep it to carry us through tomorrow.
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