my suggestion also

 

start the car. pull the dip stick. put thumb over it. feel air?

pull the oil cap. smoke comming out?

does it sound like a subaru.

 

I'll try this out tomorrow. Definitely sounds like a WRX.

 

yea dude f the cel is blinking its blown.. thats what mine did.. smoke comes out of the oilcap and if you put soemthing behind your tail pipe ull probly get some oil on it

 

do you have access to a shop?

 

I have a friend who knows a ton about cars and has all the tools i'd need he says. Probably just gonna work on it in my garage.

 

Actually no...if it sounds like a truck during acceleration it may also be a broken flex pipe as was suggested.

 

that wouldnt make the cel light flash.... if the cel flashes... its bad... real bad lol... trust me just happened to me im in the porcess of waiting for **** and getting my car backtogether

 

haha, I've had the blinking cel

It's the cars way of saying "WHAT the HELL do you think your doing!!"

 

Didn't read that. Hmmm...yeah I've never had a blinking cel.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say blown 2nd piston, prove me wrong ecotec.

 

you are blown for sure bro... Mine did the same thing... After only 14000 miles... it sucks but its true... Dont let anyone tell u different... Put all the stock parts on the car and go to the dealer.. if they start to bs you then just get a new motor...

 

Sorry to hear about your problems. Can you gives a little more detail about your setup? Any other mods? How long have you been running that setup? Did you tune the car yourself?

 

and yet, people thought i was nuts for pressing the issue of getting an egt gauge before any mod

 

ppl always wanna cheap out and get away w/ whatever they can. EGT and a wideband would do wonders

 

i have been looking at the square egt gauges since i already have 4 round ones. Unless I had a custom dual steering wheel gauge pod, im pretty much outta options lol.

 

So i'm close to ordering in a ton of engine upgrades...which ones do i pick now?? Definitely blow a piston.. so i need a new set of those..then what

 

full engine build bro. PnP the heads you will love me for that, if your going to rev over 7-7200 then get new valve springs, diamond pistons stock compression, gasket kit.

Basically if you plan on revving high your going to need the extra parts, if not, you really just need the pistons, arp headstuds, gaskets and stuff like that. My boy is doing his build now, i will copy his parts list for you.

 

get an egt with .5 analog output and tie it in to interceptor!

yes do not buy a new/used engine build your for approx 1000 depending how wild you go... i did mine for 800 with diamond cometic and arp.

 

That would be perfect, thanks a ton man!!

Where do i buy all this?!

 

http://www.turbotechracing.com/produ...dCategory=5616

 

are you sure it's a blown piston man? i had the same symptoms as you, cel flashing, exhaust loud like a wrx but only when on it, and it turned out to be that my spark plug blew out of the hole and stripped the threads, so it was just sitting there. figured maybe...

 

 

Oucchhh that is crazy. Definitely pretty sure it's the piston, but i'll check out the plugs.

 

any news on your situatuon

 

Yep news is... Bought a compresion tester.

Piston 1 = 180
Piston 2 = 180
Piston 3 = 160 This piston must be damaged but not fully blown or something.
Piston 4 = 180

I put in new plugs... Ordering in the goodies shortly once i figure out he build i want to get. So far i got some good advice... heh.