long story short, 22 psi found a weakness in the sleeve of cyl. 2. The sleeve pushed out the cylinder wall and coolant eventually flooded out my engine. A number of things caused it to happen. Flooding of the engine from my progressive controller shorting out probably helped the most to push it over the edge, but she held on as long as she could.

 

dont worry about it hes gonna drop an ls9 in it

 

drew, seriously, stfu with all your ls9 cobalt bull **** already

 

its basically the same thing as an lsj.

 

^rofl

BTW, my intake is made of polymer, same stuff the FAST LSX manifold is made of. That material is one of the best at reducing heat soak.

 

ya that was my next guess lol

 

...custom CF intake?

 

I'd drop an ls9 in my ride, no doubt...(lol), if it wouldn't twist my chassis into an unsalted pretzel.

 

no, sorry I don't believe in putting rice on my car.

 

you could have just made one from cheesecloth...

 

rofl^

 

it'd be good until it collapsed. But no heatsoak, right?

 

I guess, lol.

What's the word on your car lately. Any new relavent info?

 

wat compression pistons are u going with?

 

I'm trying to find a shop right now that will let us do the work to get things apart and back together. Hopefully by next week, we'll be able to get the block out to prepare for machining.

Compression is going to stay stock. Gameplan is slightly different this time around

 

take the block out of your car in your driveway. Like I did.

what's the gameplan this time around?

 

you're going to have to suggest how I would go about doing that.

details will be in pm. You first.lol

 

Jack up car, put jack stands underneath. Unbolt subframe, drop from underneath. Pull out from under car. Sounds a little easier than it is, but that's about how it goes.

 

i see, how many people did you need to bring the subframe down?

 

I had 1 other guy help me, but it's do-able with just yourself. You need 2 jacks to lower the subframe. Put a 2 "2x4's" on each jack that extend out from the front to the back and have a jack on both the passenger and driver's side. After you unbolt the subrame, as well as all the electrical connections/wiring harness/motor and trans mounts/exhuast header, you just lower both the jacks down to the ground.

 

y not raise it a little bit like 10:1

 

I just don't know how much that is going to throw things off.

 

Ralli has the right idea Deathscythe. It's very similar to doing the clutch in your driveway, except the engine is still attatched to the bell housing. I wish I could help, but life just took a **** on me and my wife. We're just gonna have to deal with it one day at a time.

 

sorry to hear that man. my condolences to your family.

 

sorry for taking so long to post these, but here's the damage, albeit it with the head gasket still on.





So now I'm weighing my options. Sell my car (lol), or make the block bulletproof.