racinskittle

Well, I think I blew the motor or POSSIBLY something in the tranny. It's just ------ weird how it went.
Story....
This afternoon I did a compression test. 180 psi across all 4 (nearly perfect)

I was following the GF back to her house. From stop, I slammed on the gas, the revs rose fast like normal, but right at 5500 RPM. KABOOM! Sounded like something POPPED (cept really ------ loud), and then it sounded like a chunk of my downpipe was dragging underneath my car for a while. Sounded exactly like metal dragging and bouncing off the pavement, which I thought was wierd as ---- (usually you get the rock sound from the oil pan). The oil light went on, and I believe the car shut off (which made the light go on just like when you kill the car), but something was still spinning(grinding?) and finally the engine just seized.

Almost everytime i've seen or heard a car blow up there was a puff of smoke, the sound of pebbles being ground around in the oil pan, a hole on the block, and ---- leaking/stuff on the spark plugs.

Well, there was ------- NOTHING. I pulled out the dipstick. Oil looked perfect, spark plugs were great, No hole in the block. No antifreeze spilt anywhere. No puff or cloud of smoke when it blew. Timing belt seem ok from where I could look at it.

This is what's making me wonder if the pressure plate/clutch/or i guess (although unlikely) the flywheel basically exploded jamming up the tranny and in turned binding up the starter so the car couldn't turn over.

Ill have it back home tomorrow and torn apart by the end of the weekend, I ill let you guys know what happened, but until then.....

ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS OR EVEN EXPERIENCES WITH WHAT THE HELL MAY HAVE HAPPENED?!

Thanks

Dan Any questions feel free to ask. (And I just brought back my spare engine this afternoon, what kinda luck is that? :P )

RENR

wow sounds like fun. maybe it is just something in the drivetrain. i hope u take a lot of pics, good luck

Spenser

so the engine is seized? try turningit over manualy at the crank first. Yeah, you probly broke something inside the tranny, does the car itself move? how about when in gear?

tranceminister

Yeah maybe an Axel snapped or something Not sure why a CEl would come on because of that, but who knows. Let us know what you find, this is interesting.

Spenser

he never said a CEL came on.

racinskittle

Thanks for the replies guys!!

I actually am thinking know that the timing belt skipped teeth. There was a loud sound (kinda like detonation) and then the metal scraping noise was probably the pistons hittin the valves.

sohc_mshue

was the timing off when you looked at it?

quadnie

Tough break dude. Good thing you are experienced in blowing motors up. Is it completely sized? Can you turn the crank at all? Try and go a few rotations (if you can) and see where you sit. Don't forget to pull the plugs first so you don't have to muscle it on the compression strokes.

Oh yeah, I think you have your title backwards.

ComputerJLT

check the timing and drop the tranny if you think it blew up.

TMonarky

Sounds to me like broken valves.