Thread: ve-t having issues with water pressure

I just threw my gtir kit on a fresh ve crate motor from soken. The motor is in great condition and very clean. Internally wise the motor is untouched. I was coming home and the radiator blew a huge hole near the top, I bought a bran new one, then hoses started to bust so I started yo replace each hose that busted as I went.the rear heater core hose, then the plastic T for turbo water supply. Then the top radiator hose was getting swollen and finally gave out. Now the rear hose behind the block blew out, also my rad cap was sizzling so I put another good de one on and still sizzles so I bought a z32 tt cap and fixed that issue. If anyone can help as to why its building so much pressure in there thatd be great. Thanks

Anybody ever had this issue? i vote boost blowing through the coolant system from a bad head gasket but what else can it be?

That sounds about right. The only other thing would be a dead head in the water system somewhere.

yeah i'd do a compression test for sure.. maybe you can test the cooling system with one of them tester things?

Yeah Autozone has a coolant pressure tester you can loan to see of its loosing pressure

So possibly I got a bad motor?

More like a bad gasket. Do the compression and coolant pressure test