Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Hey people I'm new to this forum and this is my first question.

Last night I loooked at an R32 GTS-4 and judging by the milky oil under oil cap and bubbles coming through the radiator, it has a blown head.

The price tag is $7,500 and but he said he'd sell it for $6,500.

It's a nice car other than the engine but it will need a new head. I'm just wondering what would be the approximate price to get the head fixed up on the RB20DET?

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/331740-rb20det-blown-head/
Share on other sites

Anywhere from $1200 to $2500 depending if its straight gasket install to new head bolts headservice new tbelt & waterpump while your at it... Depending on what its got tere a few r32 still running well you can pick up for close to what hes asking but we dont know the car in question

Thanks for the info krazyzie32.

I've been doing a little research and have found out that the slight milky residue in the oil cap could just be a build up of moisture due to the cold weather and the fact that the guy hasn't driven the car up to operation temperature for a while. It has been sitting out in the open in a car park at his work for a number of weeks. It's not a brown colour and it's not a massive build up, simple a few droplets of water making it look whitish. I'm thinking and hoping it's condensation.

There is no milky residue on the dipstick which is a good sign. I'll have to check for sure that there are no bubbles in the radiator while it's idling. Also I will make sure there is no white smoke coming out the exhaust and check that there is no coolant smell.

Hey people I'm new to this forum and this is my first question.

Last night I loooked at an R32 GTS-4 and judging by the milky oil under oil cap and bubbles coming through the radiator, it has a blown head.

The price tag is $7,500 and but he said he'd sell it for $6,500.

It's a nice car other than the engine but it will need a new head. I'm just wondering what would be the approximate price to get the head fixed up on the RB20DET?

Do a compression test and a radiator pressure test. but the 25 idea sounds great, >_<

I bought the car for $6250 and yep it was just condensation in the engine! It hadn't been driven for ages, just started up once a week but never got up to operating temperature. I took it for a bit of a spin and a little bit more white milky crap acumulated and now nothing!! It's all sweet!

So happy. I'm loving this car!

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • By popular demand.. it was a coil. Got my hands on 1 new OEM coil, replaced with the one that made the less noise difference when I unplugged it while the car was running and started the car up. No stutter and the engine light was gone. I guess I’ll buy the other 5 they have lol
    • No, code 21 is very straightforward. It can only be the things described in that diagnostic flow. In fact it has no way of knowing that the spark plug resistance is out of spec.
    • Hi, SteveL Thank you very much for your reply, you seem to be the only person on the net who has come up with a definitive answer for which I am grateful. The "Leak" was more by way of wet bubbles when the pedal was depressed hard by a buddy while trying to gey a decent pedal when bleeding the system having fitted the rebuilt BM50 back in the car, which now makes perfect sense. A bit of a shame having just rebuilt my BM50, I did not touch the proportioning valve side of things, the BM50 was leaking from the primary piston seal and fluid was running down the the Brake booster hence the need to rebuild, I had never noticed any fluid leaking from that hole previously it only started when I refitted it to the car. The brake lines in the photo are "Kunifer" which is a Copper/Nickel alloy brake pipe, but are only the ones I use to bench bleed Master cylinders, they are perfectly legal to use on vehicles here in the UK, however the lines on the car are PVF coated steel. Thanks again for clearing this up for me, a purchase of a new BMC appears to be on the cards, I have been looking at various options in case my BM50 was not repairable and have looked at the HFM BM57 which I understand is manufactured in Australia.  
    • Well the install is officially done. Filled with fluid and bled it today, but didn't get a chance to take it on a test drive. I'll throw some final pics of the lines and whatnot but you can definitely install a DMAX rack in an R33 with pretty minor mods. I think the only other thing I had to do that isn't documented here is grind a bit of the larger banjo fitting to get it to clear since the banjos are grouped much tighter on the DMAX rack. Also the dust boots from a R33 do not fit either fyi, so if you end up doing this install for whatever reason you'll need to grab those too. One caveat with buying the S15 dust boots however is that the clamps are too small to fit on the R33 inner tie rod since they're much thicker so keep the old clamps around. The boots also twist a bit when adjusting toe but it's not a big deal. No issues or leaks so far, steering feels good and it looks like there's a bit more lock now than I had before. Getting an alignment on Saturday so I'll see how it feels then but seems like it'll be good to go       
×
×
  • Create New...