con

you blew it up already, lol. I think thats a record for you, I thought the dodge truck would go before the vett, O well it will be next :P

J-SMITH69

yea pretty lame. hard to say "i blew it up" unless you considering driving it for 50 miles "blowing it up".

starting knocking a rod, then went through the block

i took the valve covers off and the heads had some sludge in them, lady must've never changed the oil ever. 60k miles... common... probably an abused woman owned car. low oil all the time, stop and go traffic, never changing filter all that bullshit.

i'm gunna drop some more dough. probably find a low mile LT1, convert it to coil packs, and buy a vortech or procharger. depends on what kind of price i can get for a decent motor.

the coil pack setup is ~700
vortech is ~2400
procharger is ~4000 can't be worth that much...

i'd like to find a screw type blower for it. but no one makes them.

its not really a knock on the motor, just on poor maintenance from a woman. LT1s are good motors

Smith-02

this isn't homemadesuperchargedlt1johnny.com

scottsi

you should just junk that ----, its not worth it. It a pain in the *** to work on those cars.

J-SMITH69

i'm not going to r&r the motor. too much of a pain in the *** and i don't have the stuff to do it anymore anyways

well, thats not true i might do it. it depends how much it'll cost me to have someone else do it.

scottsi

It'll cost a ---- ton to have someone else do it, likely 1500-2k in labor alone, and without a lift its damn near impossible. If these are anything like the c5's with the tranny tube you'll have to drop the rear end aswell. Drop the rear subframe, drop the front subframe, along with the trans a torque tube. Only real way is to lift the car on a lift. If youre lucky maybe you can pull the engine out the top but i dont know.

crx2211

Same thing happened to mine except it was about a month and I was wailing on it pretty hard the whole time. I've learned that mileage isn't really a good way to judge how reliable a car is going to be. It's really how old they are and who's owned them.

But yeah man, you just went from having a pretty decent deal to a giant money pit. Older EFI vettes are nightmares and really aren't very quick. There are much better platforms for an LS1; like an FC.

J-SMITH69

yea right, fc aren't better than any vette for a platform

i'd rather pay 2k than struggle with it forever

Tom-Guy

Local guy was knocking off consistent 10.00-10.03 quarters in a 350 whp FC. Big tire tubbed car, pretty cool. I think the body and all chassis mods cost less to get into than your C4 boat anchor?

I like C4, but it'd be a nasty cheap 80s model and it would get the HMT treatment.

scottsi

Sucks but I told you so. I don't know why you didn t inspect the fluids before you bought the car.