Speak of the devil.... After 12 years of driving this car and 148k miles... it throws a rod. I am still on the same stock clutch and baffled how that happened? I have not raced or got on it in a long time. I had the GM stage 2 installed one year after purchase along with magnflow mufflers. That's all that has been done to the car. I posted recently about getting horsepower gains for my car. Now it seems I have the perfect opportunity to do just that. Only problem I have is... I don't have that much time to read up all the posts in the forum. If someone could please guide me to where I need to go or who to talk to about getting just a bit more power out of my car. I know stage 2 comes with like 245hp... I would love to have 300+. What can I do to the engine to make that possible? I did read that I would need clutch upgrade and reverse mounts for wheel hop.

No sir! It would have been overheating if I did run out of oil. I always watch the temperature. I left work and noticed it was vibrating a bit harder than normal. I pulled over to check under the car. I noticed the whole exhaust pipe from the tip to under the motor was rattling pretty bad. Since I am born deaf I couldn't hear if it was knocking or anything. But I could feel something wasn't right. It felt like it was much louder than normal when the revs would get up there before I shift in a normal manner. I thought maybe I had bumped something under the car and knocked exhaust loose. Where I worked at... They had this really bumpy rocky driveway where I went slow but I did feel a big rock scrape under the car. I thought that's what knocked exhaust loose. I drove it for 30 mins and it just all the sudden died on me and blew smoke and oil everywhere.

I know it had oil in it. There was oil all over the road when that happened and it was still leaking oil when I pulled over. No one could tell me about the noise the car made as I was making a 50 min trip home from the job site. Had to pay 85 bucks for a flat bed tow truck. My temp was in the 170's when that happened. Then quickly got above 200 in just couple seconds. I'm still wondering why? I was hoping to make it last for another 10 years as I babied this car. But now I got new plans for this car. Hopefully 300+ hp build. If someone could point me in right direction or who to talk to. That would be much appreciated.

Much appreciated! I had just installed these headlights and fixed my remote and this happens. 😩