1G Help! I think my engine blew up.

[Prymal]

I have a 1991 ESi Turbo.

So today I was driving my car and took it for a pull to about 4000 and as a slowed down at stop light my car started to jitter and died which is not normal I have never had my car just die like that. When I started the car back up I saw a huge amount of white smoke float over my car. The car idled at the stop but sounded pretty rough. When I took off from the light I saw more white smoke so I pulled over and the car died again. I started the car and got more white smoke and a constant stream of white though the tail pipe. I revved the engine twice and built up an 8 foot tall dense cloud of smoke so I shut the car off and left it on the side of the road.

Does anyone have suggestions as to what might have happened?

 

[Prymal]

I would but i do not have the time in my day or any of the tools. I need my car up an running within a week while working 10 hour days and spending time with me wife. If i was a bachelor i would be all about doing it myself but at this point in my life it is not worth it.

 

[snakeyes711]

You could buy six hundred dollars worth of tools, and do it this weekend. Just explain to the wifey, "hunny worst case I spent the day fixing the car,a nd now have all the tools I need in the future to do any other auto repair, now that'll save US thousands of dollars in the long run"...

 

[Spoolin4Ever]

What's up with the car?

$600 would be really really cheap, considering you would want to put a new timing belt, water peump, timing belt idler tensioner and tensioner pulley, and balance shaft belt and pully (if you still have the BS belts). So if not a dealer, maybe as low as $1000, or if at the dealer about $1400+/-. Is my estimation.

It'd be worth doing it yourself but only if you took as long as needed to do it correctly, if at any step you are unsure, you must stop until it is perfect, otherwise you could goof it up, that would make it possibly more expensive in the long run. However, if it was successful, you would save a lot in the short, and also long run because you could do your own tbelt jobs going forward, saving you money every 60k.

The parts needed and special timing belt tool needed is about $400-$500, including the timing belt and parts I mentioned.