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Major porblems with my motor

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sadc

15+ Year Contributor
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Feb 17, 2008
Kapolei, Hawaii
I BLEW MY MOTOR!!!

i think LOL....well heres the story

I have 1997 mitsubishi eclipse rs-Turbo
I got a garrett t3 turbo with custom down pipe
sidemount IC
Turbo xs BOV
12:1 Fmu
running 0-5 lbs of boost daily sometimes 8lbs when im feeling dumb
ngk spark plugs and thats what i was running for like 3 weeks max. I know i know i didnt tune it or get fuelpump or a safc back then or injectors back then
Now I do have the injectors and the safc. So anyways for the past hummm week and a half I had something called a "lifter tap" usally when you dont have the right amount or oil pressure also when it gets dirty. Or so I heard. I knew it wasnt piston slap because it wasnt a countinous taping, only when rolling or at low rpm i hear lifter tap. When im at WOT its not there oh and also at start up its not there.
The past two days its gotten worse. When at idle I can hear it with my windows rolled up and everything. So today I went to go install A SAFC(super Air flow Contoller) Made sure everything was right and set my safc to what I needed it to be so my car no longer starves of gasoline. First 30 sec of startup my car was shakeing. After that started to hear metal to metal. Turned it off and looked at where my Exhaust Mani and my turbo connects and there was oil. Looked at my exhaust and there was Pure white smoke.
So two things come to mind of what happed.
I ran really rich and blew a gasket. ill try to get vid of it and try restart it tomorrow. and show exactly what is happening. If my motor did blow. Can I just replace the pistons and crankshaft? oh yea and gaskets. thanks for reading

Heres the vids watch them in order
YouTube - Mitsubishi eclipse engine problems

YouTube - Second part of mitsubishi eclipse problems start up


stephen
 
Sounds also like a bad bearing. I'm curious why you think you can just slap on an AFC and blind tune?
 
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