So we think my buddy blew his engine in a ion redline. no cracks in the block but oil sprayed out the side of the engine around the valve cover gasket and when we removed the spark plugs their were puddles of oil. It still starts and idles. Also two of the spark plugs were completely melted. Any comments?

 

he didnt have ngk spark plugs by anychance did he ?

 

after cleaning the oil off the two melted ones did they look pretty dirty or still pretty clean; light or dark?

 

What color and what are the mods on the Redline?

 

autolite plugs, 80# injectors with e85 tune, 2.7 pulley on time attack s/c. Blew a hole out the bottom of the muffler...the plug holes were filled with oil, have no idea what went wrong.

 

Ahh I thought so, Joes old car. I was going to ask if you filled it up with 93, 91 octane etc when it should have had E85. Sorry I cant be much help though. Good luck with the car. I have been around it many times, quite fast.

 

Detonation leading to a hole in the piston? If plugs were melted it had to have gotten pretty hot.

 

sounds like a headgasket but if your replacing that then time for an engine build!

 

I doubt it was detonation on e85 unless he was running a stupid amount of timing.

 

cracked ringlands... prob 1 and 4

 

i wouldnt put it past 93 percent of this forum

 

Tuning was done by a knowledgeable member on here.

 

Without a dyno, it's pretty hard to accurately tune for E85, regardless of the knowledge you have.

Maybe it was dyno tuned, in which case, I don't know.

 

Pretty sure it was not dyno tuned, almost positive. I can ask the original owner some time tomorrow if I get a chance.

 

yup, its joes old ion. and it was cyl 1 and 4 that had it the worst...joe said it was fuked but idk...

 

Was the IC pump running? It seems that they are dropping like flies this year.

 

Incorrect.

 

idles fine but sounds like ass....car has been abused quite a bit

 

the name "joe"....... defiantly cliche for " I beat the **** out of my car", i don't know what it is, but I would never buy a car off a guy named "joe".

 

welcome to the cracked piston club... STOP driving it unless you really want to replace your sleeves

 

ya when my intercooler pump died without me know and I did a second gear put, my iat2s hit 305* it hit kr so hard it shut the motor off going 40 mph, needless to say it scared the **** outta me. 305* was was just intake air temps, imagine what surface temps, cylinder temps/pressure, and egts were. Scary...

 

I didn't know Joe got rid of his car. Who did the tuning? We need more specifics

 

Guess he's just getting rid of the car as is...

 

How much? God I want that blower.

 

Me first! This is the H62 rotors were speaking of correct?