Alright guys.
She started up with ease. Primed the oil system to 40psi and then gave her fuel. Took a couple turns and then she finally started. I needed to re-adjust my cold start/fuel ratio and all in all she idled around 1k with a 11.7 AFR.
I had a nice 1-2-3 pulse coming from the exhaust. MY VACCUUM was at -13 on my boost controller.
SOO..then it took forever to warm up to 80*C. Once it got there she keep climbing and climbing and no thermostat was opening by 86* C! I immediately shut the car off and hear my boil over resivoir going ape shit. A few seconds later after I know something is seriously wrong, I turn on my ignition again to see what my water-thermo sensor log is reading and it says 115*C!!
I scream FUCKKKKK. I say, "it's toast, its fucking toast!" Well one one my buddies pops the resivoir cap and a huge burp of air comes out. I check my water temp gauge again(about 45 seconds later) and it is down to 96*C within that 1 minute time frame.
So I THOUGHT the system was burped 100% but obviously not. By now I am thinking the motor is fucked. I mean the fucking gauge read 115*C !! I am sick to my stomach by now.
So my buddies are like "well you have a floor fan blowing on it, your oil temps were only 165*F and you were at idle only (no revs) and really the temp was most likely steam temp from the enourmous air bubble since the temp dropped dramatically from when it "burped", so it will be fine, yeah yeah fine..
..it will be fine..?.."
I on the other hand am thinking of Brians story and am convinced that I have either fucked the rotor housings or definately have a stuck side seal now and again am just PISSED..devasted actually.
So I started her up again after adding about a qauter jug of coolant. I am expecting to see a lower vacuum and hear a sparatic pulse from my exhaust........
She starts up fine.....I have 3 perfectly audible pulses- brap-.brap-.brap and my vacuum
was at -14. I got more vacuum!?!
So I am sitting there just kinda confused and still feeling unsettled. I let it idle for an hour and no changes in pulses or vacuum. Steady -14 the whole way. I do have a very small oil leak coming from my front pulley bolts that is flinging VERY VERY small droplets of oil everywhere. I will deal with that later.
I don't know what to think guys. She shows no sign of overheat conditions and I have no white smoke, no un-even pulses and a higher vacuum.
I guess all I can do is drive her tomorrow for a 100 miles and check my compression.
Is my buddies thinking right and can the motor take a small burst of heat like that. There really was no stress on the motor oil temp wise or even heat saturation for that matter. i don't know..
I am still very sick to my stomcah from the whole situation partly because I didn't bleed it all the way and that was a FUCKING high temp at that water thermo sensor.
Anyone have any other conditions I should look for that are related to overheating?
She runs great but MAN what a cluster.
