motors done.....oil and coolant in everything....turbo blew from the coolant and oil that ran through it..... brand new pistons hit my head crushed the 4th pistons spark plug and i have yet to take it off to see any more damage....im pretty sure the heads gonna be warped ......and i dont even want to take it apart now im just done and so frustrated with everything cause there was no reason for this to have happend.

 

Who rebuilt it for you in the first place?

 

me..

 

Ouch!

 

damn.. theres allot of depressing news on CSS this morning.

sorry to hear abt ur car man...

 

yeah that **** is done man i think everythings cracked warped and you name it and all i was doing was pulling onto the parkway at like 13 psi hahaha

 

Theres atleast 2 people that blow there engines in cobalts everyday. goodluck atleast you will only have to waste money on parts and not to build it.

 

check and re-check.

just because someone says something. doesn't mean you should torque it to that.

they make plastigauge for a reason.

 

that sucks man, sorry to hear that

 

Trix, What Motor You Running? I Have An L61 Head If You Need It

 

plastigauge? why have i never heard of that and i did everything to the correct torque specs as per gm and the golden eagle head studs i bought

thanks and paul has almost an entirely new engine just laying around so if i trully need to ill go to that but man im so suprised at how this turned out

 

the only way the piston would smack the head is if something in the rotating assmebly let loose.

wrist pin, rod cap, broken rod. or the crank snapped.

if a rod snapped, you'd have a hole. if a wrist pin broke, you're cylinder walls would be trashed. and a hole.
if the crank snapped, you'd have ocean front property.

 

lawl

 

yea something let loose and there is coolant in oil and everything its actually pretty funny and depressing at the same time so i cant wait to take a look at everything after its fully apart ill take pics and post them for everyone

 

I'm really sorry to hear that man. All those custom parts down the drain, what a shame. Don't feel too bad though because my Integra's motor has to be rebuilt as well. Not nearly as bad as yours, but considering I just put a new-used motor in it right before I left, it's a shame. Good luck with the new motor whether it be stock or a built one.

 

Time to go back stock and get rid of this car

 

yup i agree

 

**** Lsj are dropping like flies around here!

 

fix it for ya .

 

I am really sorry to hear about your loss. I hope it isn't as catastrophic as it sounds.

 

It's because kids with no experience are attempting to build them. If you've never even heard of plasti-gauge then how do you know where your bearing clearances were? Or did you just tighten them and say yup it's good.

In your video you say an attempted launch and someone needs an LSD. You can launch a car just fine without and LSD. The LSD helps keep both wheels spinning around a corner. I have no LSD in my car and I can show you every burnout I've ever done, any tire warm up at the track, any patches I've laid (there's many right here out front of the shop)...that both tires are gloriously moving in unison.

Also, when you hit the rev limiter...you're supposed to shift ;-) That's where your motor went. Did you even properly seat the rings?

 

so this was a built motor that went down the drain?

if so I would be beyond pissed...

 

first off **** you man for calling me a kid ill knock you the **** out for calling me that cause i built this **** with my father who is an engine builder and yeah I'm not a ******* professional but whats your problem i only made one poor decision in all of this and that was to use the stock rings with the new pistons but i only followed that via the GM build book which told me to use the stock rings.

and ive never heard of a plasti-gauge sorry? used Brand New stock bearings on the rods.

used brand new rod bolts tourqed them to gm specs

used brand new diamond pistons and stock rings. the stock rings is where i made my mistake and i did let them reseat cause i honed the walls

and it wasnt even a ******* launch paul put it up as that i was just trying to see what i could do with the newly installed turbo kit and it was from before i even rebuilt the motor


and yeah it is and i am pissed and even more pissed that someone would call me out and say i made a mistake when i didnt

thanks man and i fear it is as bad as it sounds.

I think piston number 4 let go and the bolts off the bottom of the rod either stripped or stretched themselfs and let it hit the head causeing either the headgasket to go or the head to crack and or warp

 

damn man.
dont **** with a man when he's down.
But anyway man, if your block is toast. I'll bring the other block to my house and I'll build it right in my garage for ya. Keep me posted on the damage. I'd roll out there, but I just got home from the upstate meet and I'm exhausted and sunburnt to ****.