Specs & Mods
- Ownership Status
- Currently Own
- Year
- 1990
- Model/Trim
- Plymouth Laser RS Turbo
- Turbo Type
- 16g
- Drivetrain
- FWD
- Transmission Type
- Manual
- Build Type
- Street
- Mods-Bolt-on
- FMIC,act clutch act flywheel, jacks transmission kit A,ECMLink v3, aem wideband,750cc injectors,2g MAF , fuel lab FPR 515.
- Mods-Engine
- Stock
- Mods-EMS & Logging
- ECMLink , wideband
- Mods-Drivetrain
- Stock
- Mods-Handling
- Stock
- Parts Wishlist
- 272 cams, jmf intake man, eagle rods wiesco piston, awd tranny with quaife lsd, coil on coil pack, hks BOV
- Background
- This is my first dsm. I have a buddy that introduced me to these cars years ago and finally got one. It is 1990 Plymouth laser rs. I was told the only thing this car had was injectors and a hacked MAF. So When I got the car it wouldn’t go into gear long story short so I had to come down with the tranny. Before ordering my act clutch and flywheel. So I took the trans out and broke it down after I bought my trans kit A from jacks transmission. I am a diesel mechanic so I know something about what’s supposed to do what do on so on. So I break down the trans, first of all breaking it down I also had to come of with my gears. Basically I bought a garage type shed I can leave the car under to work in. I got everything I need tools wise, bought a press a welder I got grinder grinding wheels etc. so trying to take my gears off I broke the sleeve in the input shaft side of the gear cluster and said f*** it I’m breaking shit, I’ll just send the tranny off to jacks and have them put it back together Sence I am new to this, in the meantime I ordered a used tranny online to drop in so I can get moving with my project. I got new used tranny in. Fmic installed got the ECMLink and wideband all in. I’m having
Issues now with thinking I have a blown head gasket. I’m basically at a stoping point on what to do now, so any input would be nice so I can get my baby going. I want to drive this car daily and make it a race car for the future plans
Here is a post I made on DSMTalk and yet to get a response from anybody
I’m running into an issue with my car. I did a pressure test on the coolant system with the valve cover off (I took it off cause I was going to clean it sand it and basically repaint) so first I noticed my oil was milky when I checked my dip stick. I took off the oil cap and it’s milky there too. That’s when I decided to pull the valve cover out and see if I could see anything. When I pressure tested the coolant to about 8 to 10 pounds coolant shot out of the head like out of the holes you see beside the cams and it looked to be spraying out of my lifters. Coolant now! I’m hearing it’s a blown head gasket but idk. I did a compression test and I guess you can say that the compression was good. It’s weird because before I started messing with the car the oil wasn’t milky and before I made some changes I even did a oil change and changed the oil filter. With the car staying in one spot and being worked on here and there? How could have I blown the head gasket. I’ve never even got to drive the car yet. I’ve been to busy pulling the trans out installing act flywheel and act 2600 clutch, installing FMIC etc. I got ECMLink latest version but now I’m stuck in I don’t know what to do next. Please help
