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So I think I might have a bad head gasket, because my engine keeps stalling out when I try to start it (I have to give it a lot of gas just to get it going and it sputters real bad, then once I let off the gas it stalls). I've noticed lately that I've had a little bit of white smoke/steam coming from my exhaust, but I have chalked it up to the recent cold weather. I looked in my coolant reservoir and it is significantly lower than the last time I checked it. These symptoms make me think it's probably a blown head gasket.
So here' my dilemma. I've been planning on putting in the 290 hp GM Performance Parts 350 crate engine to replace my L-48 in the coming months anyway. But since I can't even drive it right now, and I'll have to take off the heads anyway to fix the gasket, I figure why spend the money on a crate engine when I could add new heads and maybe even a whole top end kit and get more power than the crate engine? So I'm looking at the Edelbrock 2098 top end kit with the Performer (60899) cylinder heads. Also, this kit includes the same performer intake I planned to get for my crate engine. Anyone have any experience with these heads and/or kit?
The benefits of the crate engine are pretty obvious. Most notably the fact that everything is new and it comes with a warranty, whereas if I add these parts/kit to my engine and something breaks I am SOL. Of course with labor and misc other parts the crate engine will end up costing me quite a bit more $$$. What do you guys think?
Here's some links for reference:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/EDL-2098/
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/EDL-60899/
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/EDL-7102/
So here' my dilemma. I've been planning on putting in the 290 hp GM Performance Parts 350 crate engine to replace my L-48 in the coming months anyway. But since I can't even drive it right now, and I'll have to take off the heads anyway to fix the gasket, I figure why spend the money on a crate engine when I could add new heads and maybe even a whole top end kit and get more power than the crate engine? So I'm looking at the Edelbrock 2098 top end kit with the Performer (60899) cylinder heads. Also, this kit includes the same performer intake I planned to get for my crate engine. Anyone have any experience with these heads and/or kit?
The benefits of the crate engine are pretty obvious. Most notably the fact that everything is new and it comes with a warranty, whereas if I add these parts/kit to my engine and something breaks I am SOL. Of course with labor and misc other parts the crate engine will end up costing me quite a bit more $$$. What do you guys think?
Here's some links for reference:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/EDL-2098/
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/EDL-60899/
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/EDL-7102/