interesting weekend
 

well this weekend i had my friend come over cause he needed me to figure out why his vtec wasnt engaging on his gsr. he had just put a turbo kit on his car and i had sold him my old p28 ecu that was chipped with the same tune me and CHRIS did a few months earlier. kid has the same setup as me. it was running great but for some reason vtec wasnt popping. so i had him come over, i swapped out ecus and dizzys and still wasnt popping. i start following the wires and some how on the engine harness, the vtec solienoid and pressure switch wires were swapped. so i swapped em back and went and took it for a rid. i get it on 5k comes vtec hits no CEL let off around 6k and here a funny as noise durning decel and then White smoke everywhere, car shuts off. I then pop the hood and a few coolant lines blew up. i push it back to my house and do a compression test. 75 175 0 175. was hoping to god it was a headgasket but upon removal, sleeve was cracked really bad. almost 3/4 the way down the cylinder wall and then a few other hairline cracks. Im really confused as to how this actually happened. cause it was only running 7psi. he said he had the motor in a hatch for a few months and it ran great, but then he also told me he wasnt running any fuel managment for a few weeks prior to him buying my ecu. so im ---- out of luck. i told him i have no money to get him a new motor but he can leave the car at my house and ill help/ do whatever i can to find him a motor/help pay for and get it running.
and josh do me a favor, keep your mouth shut until you figure out what actually happened. and no none of mine or my friends motors are stolen,and no this isnt gonna set my turbo project behind. anyway sorry for the long post. i just got pissed when i saw what josh was typing cause it was all bullshit and wanted to clear it up. also any suggestions as how the sleeve could have cracked like this?

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So only one of the sleeves were cracked?

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Man, cracked sleeve on a 7psi ripper? hot dam.
Did you perhaps forget to set timing again when you swapped dizzy's?
That sucks dude.

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sounds like someone didnt set the timing..

http://draglab.com/2003/PR5-14/pr20.jpg

This was my ls/vtec with a good fuel map, but way to much timing @ 12psi.

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Ok so you help the kid and the motor blows how come you have to buy him a new motor. little confuseed

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werd.

He even said that he was running without fuel management for a while before coming to you, so there's no telling what condition the motor was in already. He says it ran strong before, of course it did ::) I wouldn't pay him ----. Maybe feel bad and help install, but pay for it, no.

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he was the one who ran the motor without fuel management for a little bit correct?
so he should be the paying for it, unless you are such a good friend you want to help him finacially.

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word

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is this the same kid hotrex was talking about?

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link to post. did i miss some drama