My situation

Well recently I took my head off to have it resurfaced because I was starting to overheat bad and thought maybe my headgasket went. When I got it back I installed it but when I started my car every couple seconds a waterflow of coolant would come out of the radiator(shooting up about 12"-24" high…pressurized)…(i was trying to bleed out the air bubbles) to anyone that knows there engines really well would automatically think a cracked head or sunk sleeve, so I took the head back to have it pressure tested and the machine shop told me that they couldn’t get the head to leak keeping it on the machine for over an hour at 60 PSi, so my head is fine. my next step was the block(which I didn’t want to deal with because GE has never had a sleeve problem with there new design “HD” in the past 5 years or more). last year I had GE sleeves installed. might I say it is some of the best machine work I’ve ever seen. I called GE and the guys over there want me to send them the block so they can pressure test it to see what’s wrong and deck it, or whatever else they need to do.

so in all, GE is a stand up company so far, I will keep you guys updated. they say they stand up for there sleeve work so we’ll see. I just removed everything off my block and planning to get it to them this week. anyone else experience something similar to this? care to give me some insight… the block and head will both be pressure tested and will be using OEM headgasket when it comes back so I’m hoping no more problems in the future.

just shipped off my block today. can’t wait to hear what’s going on with it.

Got word back today from Golden eagle, and my Block is fine. no pinholes or cracks or anything. that’s good to hear, so my block should be back before the weeks end. I also took some good advice and had it O-ringed for a better seal, and they decked it again. so thumbsup for Golden eagle.

got my car running again. everything looks perfect and running perfect. the O-rings really helped and is looking good, so I think I’ll be OK. my setup:

golden eagle sleeved/O-ringed B18A
Pauter rods
Ross 9:1 81.5mm pistons
OEM bearings
Supertech valves
rocket dual valve springs and retainers
880cc injectors
AEM Fuel rail/FPR
etc etc… it’s great to have it back.

what do you mean by o-ringed? never heard of that.

they actually put a grove onthe top of each sleave around all of the cylinders where you place a copper ring, before you put on the head gasket and ultimatly the head.

Supposed to provide a better seal than the HG alone.

OP thats an impressive set up, how much boost do you plan to run?

I plan to get another turbo set-up. right now I have a T60-1 and I’m going to max that out. I want to get a SC61 or even crazier GT37R. I’ve seen good power on both of those.