It's Cherry Red HELP!
#1
04-12-2009, 02:29 PM
It's Cherry Red HELP!
Where the 3 pipes come off the block to the 1 Is glowing cherry red only on the drivers side it occurs after about 15 min of driving and causes smoke to enter the drivers side. It's severely bogging down the "performance" of the car giving me about a 0 - 60 in 2 - 3 min. I might be exagerating a bit but it is realllllly slow.
#2
04-12-2009, 04:45 PM
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Tokeland, Washington
Posts: 21,637
is the motor overheating? full of coolant? what does coolant and oil look like. color, oil in water, water in oil? what year, model? what does the exhaust sound like, quite, hissing, poping?
#3
04-12-2009, 04:55 PM
No the motor is not overheating, no water or coolant in the oil everything looks normal. It is the 2.8 RS Automatic '89. Exhaust sounds like there is a leak, like a hissing sound. When I was on the gas it sounded as if it was working too hard.
#5
04-12-2009, 05:02 PM
That's what me and my husband were leaning towards however would that only cause one HEADER to be glowing red. Because I assumed that both would be glowing, and there is exhaust passing through although minimal.\
#7
04-12-2009, 05:11 PM
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Tokeland, Washington
Posts: 21,637
not sure about an 89 but the old style motors used to have a valve that evens up the back pressure, they used to get stuck on us. i would guess that if it has a crossover like my 93 (does not have a flpr valve) and it crosses from the drivers side to the passanger side that the closest manifold to the cat would get the air flow.
#8
04-12-2009, 05:11 PM
It has a collector off of the headers before the catalytic conv., then runs back to a transverse muffler with two exhaust pipes. Being that it is a V6 the side that is glowing is the side that has a direct line to the converter. The ceramic gaskets between the actual headers and the downtube was cracked on one side but the side that was glowing was not.