Hey guys. Thanks for your time.

Fast and quick rundown.

My charger started blowing oil out the motor.

( Engine runs quiet and dead silent ) no ticking or rattling..

No smoke from tail pipes at all.

No over heating.

P0303 code stating misfire cylinder 3.

Swapped coils around - code remains.

When the oil cap is removed the engine tries to suck the cap on - place your hand over oil fill and you can fill it sucking on your hand.....

Hard acceleration causes - oil tube going to breather to blow off and blow oil everywhere.

Engine has hard misfire. Unplugged number 3 coil make little to no change....

Can rev engine without abnormal noises......

Oil pressure is - 20 at idle - 45 to 48 at 2000 rpm.

Temperature stays between 225 and 204 depending on how hard it's being driven ( 225 ) has been the highest iv seen.

No coolent in oil.

No oil in coolent. ( There does appear to be a gold spark flakes in the COOLENT ) stop leak?

Iv got a blow by issue but am unsure what the main cause is......

I know the head needs to come off.

Can anyone with good experience with the 5.7 direct me to what is most likely the issue.

Blown head gasket ?

Cracked head?

Chipped valve?

Cracked block?

I need to get this thing apart quick and I need to get it back together quick and properly.....

Are the heads repairable? Are they known for cracking and just effecting oil and not coolent...

Should I bank on replacing heads?

I don't wanna buy a new head and then find out the old head just needed resurfacing or such. Any advice?





Background -



I just purchased a 06 dodge daytona - it has 193k on the dash..... It runs and drives amazing. It appeared to have no issues until today or at least the day after purchase.

I have a post that goes into more details about purchasing this vehicle and why.....before I bought it I put it through it's paces - it showed no issues other then a slight misfire at idle - but disappeared with the slightest applied throttle - it had codes for p0303 and p0203 - both codes for cylinder 3 - one being ( cylinder 3 misfire detected ) and the other pointing to the enjector on cylinder 3...... I figured it was a week injector as the issue went away when actually driving.......

The day we got the car - we put 450 miles on it. We had 0 issues.....



The next day I fired it up and had no issues - drove to O'Reilly's and got a 180 thermostat.... When I came out and started the car - it was ticking and ticking hard - revving it did not make it any worse but the noise remained consistent with the RPMs of the engine.....

Being a hot head and thinking I just got screwed I pulled out of O'Reilly's wot - on it hard..... All of a sudden the noise got alot quieter..... We drove it around a bit and eventually the noise disappeared.....



This noise appeared to effect nothing - the misfire at idle was no worse - the car accelerated and revved the same as before.....



After the noise disappeared - I drove home and changed the thermostat - topped coolent off and drove around for a bit ...... 0 issues ........ Got up this morning - drove to parents did the Thanksgiving thing and left ....

On the way home I notice the check engine light flashing and a dinging..... Then I noticed a surging from the car.... I pulled over and ran codes. ( The injector code was gone but the cylinder 3 misfire remained )

I got back on the highway and gave it a fast burst at wot (thinking it had a dirty plug)....... When I went wot - smoke rolled out the back..... Pulled over and found the tube going to the air box had blown off and dumped oil..... The misfire at idle is now pressent throw the whole rpm band.....



Any thoughts guys.?