I decided to go on a highway test before my trip to Gainesville. So I decided to drive the turnpike to the Florida Mall. On the way back, all the sudden I check my mirror and there is a huge cloud of smoke about as wide as my car, kinda whitish. As soon as I saw it I glanced at my oil press guage and saw I had no pressure, and pulled over immediately, popped the hood and looked under the car to see what looked like a oil/water mix flowing like a river off the back of the oil pan.

I think the head gasket blew but I have no good answer why. Its a brand new fel pro head gasket, only a few miles on it because I changed it when I changed the cylinder head a few weeks back. I also had used new head bolts and I am 99.9999999999999999999999% sure I torqued them in the right sequence to the correct amount of torque.

Can anyone describe what detonation sounds like to me? I am starting to think that all this time that noise I was hearing was detonation. I guess that driving around town at 55 or below it was mild enough that it didn't do much damage. But maybe at highway speed 70+ with short little 85mph sprints, that it could have been too much for it and blown the gasket. I don't know, just a thought. (also considering that the engine is holding fairly high rpms at highway speeds because of a 3spd non lockup)

I don't have time to fix it myself, so its going to be towed to a shop this time. We'll see what the damage report is then. If its not to much I might just pay them to fix it good. If its a lot or if the crank is bad from the oil press drop, I am gonna say to hell with it. Maybe I'll drop a turbo engine in it, maybe I'll just get a different used car, maybe a Shadow or Neon. Who knows. I guess I'll figure that out if the time comes.