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Old 02-15-2011, 10:22 PM   #12
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Re: Blueprint Engines 383 - My Bad Experience

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Originally Posted by geezer#99 View Post
Curious if your heads have been ported. I knew of a similiar problem. The heads had a port and polish job. The guy porting the heads got a little close to the water jacket. No crack just a pinhole that only showed up when the motor was fully warmed up. A pressure test showed nothing wrong. A sonic test revealed the bad porting job.
Check it out. A possibility!!
Heads are not ported/polished. Hey, shouldn't a hole show up in a pressure test? I thought that was the point.
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