That's exactly what basically happened to me yesturday. On the way to the races Sunday (had intentions of going to different track but my uncle's car was down and long story short, I decided to just run at my local track) we stop at a gas station to fill the generator up with fuel. I go inside the station to pay for the gas and my Dad's outside fueling and he just happens to be looking under the car (while its on the trailor) and sees something drip out from the driver side header. He checks it out and it turns out to be the unsightly milky/foamy fluid you get when water and oil tries to mix. BAD BAD BAD sign.

So half brocken hearted, a quarter pissed off, and a quarter sick, we decide to just turn around and go back home. No sense in running the car like that and risking really f-ing something up. So we get back home and procede with digging in to whats happened to my car. Mind you it ran perfect one week ago, and hadn't been turned over since I loaded it up last Sunday.

We take the hood off and I pull the dipstick out, expecting to see that ugly foam...nothing. Just oil and its right on the full mark. Ok, we take the driver side valve cover off, once again expecting to see foam every where and once again, nothing. We pull the plugs out of that side, all of them are hitting perfect. We take the header off that side, the exhaust ports are as dry as powder and white as snow. Again, everything is hitting perfect. Its then we (actually Dad) looks down and sees a big hole in that header right where the breather tube is brazed into it. And that my friends was my problem, which turns out to be no problem at all (atleast nothing engine threatening).

Apparently, those breathers (which are designed to suck pressure out of the engine) sucked a little oil (because one of the rubber "seals" was turned around backwards) and when I had washed the car the night before, water had seaped into this hole and that's where the "foam" that we thought was major problems had came from. Talk about a big relief!!

Anways, we brazed the hole up in the header, and that's where my should be improved performance will come from. That hole explains why my car ran off when I raced it in an 1/8th mile a couple weeks ago. It never lost any time in the short times, but it fell off a couple hundredths and lost 3 or 4 tenths of a mph. That hole in the header would cause that.

So, I went from thinking I had major problems to finding out there was no problem at all! That's the good thing. The bad thing is I had to miss a race, lol.

Friggin hell, you had me scared.

Stop doing that....


Good to hear you're back in the game!

Friggin hell, you had me scared.

Stop doing that....


Good to hear you're back in the game!

Lol. Imagine how I felt! We got my uncle's car fixed just awhile ago. Had two bad wheel cylinders on the back brakes (drums on back, but he has discs on front. mine is bass ackwards and has drums on the front and discs on the back, lol). That's what knocked us out of going to the different track Sunday. Changed master cylinders on it Friday night and rear brake lines and still could'nt get any brakes. And that's not good considering his car will run 110 mph in the 1/8th.

Anyways, this weekend we're going to an 1/8th mile track again (Bluegrass Raceway Park in Owensville, KY). I'm hoping to beat my slow 7.453 @ 90.488 mph since we've found that hole in one of my headers. If nothing else I hope it doesn't fall off like it did in that last 330 ft like it did the last time we went to an 1/8th mile.

Be pretty good braggin rights to go to a track we've never been to and clean house with everybody! lol.

All I read was blower...im so disappointed

haha good to hear theres nothing wrong...what do these breathers look like? and where in the engine compartment are they?

Yeah, I though you were supercharging the thing from reading the title.

Lol. Well, probably should have said "Went from being blowed up....."

Oh well.

They just set on the valve covers, in the holes where an oil cap normally would have went. They have a rubber hose that goes down to the collector pipe on the headers and into a check valve. There's two little rubber graumets (sp?) that you push the breathers into, and if those are turned around backwards, then it will suck oil, and that must have happened.

There's one on each valve cover. They're supposed to keep a lot of pressure from building up inside the motor I think. That's about the extent of what I know about them, lol.

clap clap clap
yay

glad your motors ok

[sigh of relief]
glad to hear it was that simple

[sigh of relief]
glad to hear it was that simple

Yes sir.

If it hadn't of been, then it was either call it a year or have about a $2000 or so credit card balance, lol.