ok my friend has a maxima with a blown headgasket, yes its blown coolant in oil. we want to take it to my moms house to do a swap. since we both live in apmts. How far can u drive on it? its like 25 miles highway from his house to my moms. if we put fresh oil and coolant in it would it make the drive?

 

Yeah, it will make it 25 miles no problem.

 

Well depending on how bad it is blow. Most likely it is just minor enough to unseal and have coolent coming out of the water jackets like it is right now. You should be fine like Wizard said for 25miles. but not to say you should drive it without gaskets. =p

 

25 should be cake. keep the revs down though

 

kool so just keep shifting roung 1500-2000? and since hes going to buy an engine at the pick and pull. were going to try this http://www.rxauto.com , till we get the new swap, since we saw it on tv last nite. what ya think?

 

What is the reason for swapping in a new engine instead of doing the head gasket?

 

well we both were honda guys b4 we made the switch so still dont know alot about the vq30 and also itll be easier to just swap than take everything apart as were going to be doing this in my moms backyard.

 

Yea i have driven for a year on a blown headgasket. Just depends on how bad it is. Are you swaping another 30 or steppin to a 35?

 

idk yet what hes gonna do, im just donating my moms yard and a pair of hands, its his project really. hes always on here but his lazy *** never makes an account so i gotta come ask. i think hes probably gona stay 3.0 tho, unless he comes up with some cash for a 3.5. So u can drive on a blown headgasket? but first u gotta find out what caused it to overheat in the first place right? cause if not the same thing that blew the gasket will keep damaging more stuff right?

 

nah **** that bro beat the crap out of that thing

 

if he's just swapping motors rather than rebuilding it, hell yeah.

 

anybody know anything about that rxauto stuff? because itll probably be a lil bit till we find a good engine. i had known his HG was bad i woulda sold him my car. lol

 

make sure you drain the oil and put water in in... make sure you fill it right you would not want to put to much in it