PIMking
15+ Year Contributor
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- Jan 29, 2008
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tuscaloosa,
Alabama
My motor let go last night blew a hole in the number two piston.
One thing I didnt know was when my fiance drove my car to work Friday night she put in regular 89 octane fuel because it was empty. I was in it pretty hard and felt like I hit fuel cut other than the fact that I was blowing some serious smoke. I pulled over opened the hood and the manny was glowing red and oil all over the engine bay. The next thing I did was check the oil, it was normal and no coolant in it but was running on 3 cyl. Had a buddy of mine pick me and take me to my shop at 2am and pick up our flatbed and drove the 40 miles and picked up the car. Now this morning I did a compression test and it was 140 psi on cyl 1, 0 on cyl 2, 140 on cyl 3, and 140 on cyl 4. you can actually see the hole in the piston thru the spark plug hole.
So I know of a 91 that needs a coil that is for sale and has a rebuilt motor bored .20 over with cams, fidanza flywheel, TRE tranny, ACT clutch with NO miles on anything and the body only has 40k on it. he wants 2500 for the car. should I rebuild mine? Becase the head is good on mine tranny grinds a bit in 3rd x case is great. I am thinking of parting out my car minus the turbo manny exhaust uicp bov turbo timer and gauges.
what do you guys think?
One thing I didnt know was when my fiance drove my car to work Friday night she put in regular 89 octane fuel because it was empty. I was in it pretty hard and felt like I hit fuel cut other than the fact that I was blowing some serious smoke. I pulled over opened the hood and the manny was glowing red and oil all over the engine bay. The next thing I did was check the oil, it was normal and no coolant in it but was running on 3 cyl. Had a buddy of mine pick me and take me to my shop at 2am and pick up our flatbed and drove the 40 miles and picked up the car. Now this morning I did a compression test and it was 140 psi on cyl 1, 0 on cyl 2, 140 on cyl 3, and 140 on cyl 4. you can actually see the hole in the piston thru the spark plug hole.
So I know of a 91 that needs a coil that is for sale and has a rebuilt motor bored .20 over with cams, fidanza flywheel, TRE tranny, ACT clutch with NO miles on anything and the body only has 40k on it. he wants 2500 for the car. should I rebuild mine? Becase the head is good on mine tranny grinds a bit in 3rd x case is great. I am thinking of parting out my car minus the turbo manny exhaust uicp bov turbo timer and gauges.
what do you guys think?
