So i finally blew the engine up :(
 

hey guys, been a while since ive been on here

changed my setup alot, first manifolds i made my self, soon brough some higherflowing front mount ones and modified them for external gate and a Vband

anyway, i added 570cc injectors, 600hp fuel pump and played round with a few other things, anyway i was boosting along last week, then parked the car, started it up to go to a mates house, pulling out noticed a patch of oil in the driveway, remembering id made a mess changing the oil fittings earlier that week i ignored it, boosted to my mates and all round then parked it at his house, went to start it up to go home and it started making a real bad and weird noise, limped it home and it still came on boost ok but i left a patch of oil at his house, on later insepction the patch of oil at home was fresh, annnd found oil sperting out of my rear main engine seal,

to my horror i found the rear main seal was no longer inside the engine, i knew it was on the way out but damn... soo the engines prepped to come out tommorrow to look a little harder, this things been a pain but ill get there

might drop a new short block in it but then i have to change headgaskets and i have some race series ones in there atm ($120 a set) plus my current engine has new valve springs, valves, stem seals etc

just incase you've forgotten my car here it is again, 1989 Holden Calais V6 (Buick LN3 block, 3800cc)

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Re: So i finally blew the engine up :(
 

so can you actually rid people in the back seat??? and gl luck getting it back together not a bad looking car other than the wheels eeeewwwwww

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your wheels are hideous and your car is lower than ricer low. it looks like ass


bad ass car though. setup looks awesome

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Older 3800 parts are a dime a dozen here for us yanks. I am sure a rear main seal could be easily had. At least you did'nt melt a piston.....

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Damn son, ---- ugly. I love it ;D Hope you get it back together soon, GL

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:-\

that car looks like a cross between an escort, a cd-5 accord and a galant

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lol, its a modified opel (i think omega?)

and they released it here, yeah the buick engines are a dime a dozen but they've all done lots of K's (ie miles for you yanks)

i reckon i was close to throwing a rod tho

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yea, my mom had a van once that blew the rear seal, it started knocking pretty quick after.

it was all cause of a stuck PCV valve

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i found like 30x metal chunks the size of 5c peices in australia (about 1cm in diameter) somethings definatly broken, crank will come out soon

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It's fine, put it back in.

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i think thats all it was, a tensioner for the timing chain

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It's ------- night here, you're the devil!

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lol, its 6:30 pm now anyway

final conclusion
spun a few big end bearings, rooted up my main bearings andddddd cracked the tensioner.. not to mention cracked a few pistons

verdict.. new bottom end

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This is your engine telling you it needed more boost.

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+1 on both.

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reckon it will buff out?

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im a painter, it should

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Damn, while your at hit, check this site out since your in this deep.

http://www.3800stroked.com/

kind of expensive though.

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C.O.M.E are over in aus too, i know of a coupple of v6 strokers (4.2L i think)

anyway, they arnt that quick, its easier to extract horsies from boost rather than cubies with the v6 as our versions dont flow the best in the heads soo boost gives it the kick it needs

anyway i pick up my new motor tonight, $50 and im laughing

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got my new motor

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Gonna do anything to beef up the engine? Maybe replace those tensioners before they go out on the new one?

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i reckon the tensioner developed stress cracks due to excessive heat, becuase of the keying issue the engine got soo hot that the manifolds were glowing, now im talking about N/A manifolds, i also was running heavy duty valve springs so that can put a bit more strain on the timing system, either way the heat did it, because i found stress cracks all through the heads

this motors got some history
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnpnjaYNsI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCByCFFgy2Q


its been super charged, turbo charged , dragged, drifted done way too many burnouts and only pinged once badly in its life, now its going to get turbo charged again
this engine has run countless 13 second passes...

either way the engines still in good shape to run a few more passes

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