ugh learning curves suck!!!!

motor 1.0 (d16a6 original to car) died because of blown ringlands (had them all along just did not notice because they were blown when i bought the car).
Motor 1.5 (rebuilt motor above) died because i did not check bearing clearances when i put new pistons/rods/rings in my a6 and now...
Motor 2.0 (d16z6 block; a6 head; was supposed to be a full on z6 but the longblock i bought had bent valves) is dead because of improperly gapped rings.
This motor was a successful failure though. It ran strong for a while then developed some nasty blowby and i was hoping i could coax it along until i built my budget "built" d16z6 here in the next 2 weeks but i guess not. I thought the blowby was from prematurely worn rings (flooding trying to get the motor to crank when i put it in; stupid wiring gremlins) but turns out that running less than stock gap on a high boost (12+psi daily) application leads to rings expanding and ------- up ringlands. oops. So today one of my pistons finally let loose. And to top it all off my turbo finally took a ---- on me. about damn time; that little greddy td04 hunk of ---- was long overdue for a permanent nap

Now i am without a car and in need of payday's to be sooner. anyone have a spare d15/d16 long/short block they'll sell me for cheap so i can get back up and running n/a for a while.

 

atleast your learning. i did a head gasket on my 89 accord 3 times. by god, by the time i did it the 3rd time i knew how to do it right...lol

 

hahaha funny you say that; when i bought the car it had a blown HG; we replaced it; it blew in 3 days (dont reuse head bolts on a boosted engine); bought some arp studs a new gasket and ran that for probably 2500mi until i noticed the fuct ringlands :-/

 

the headgasket thing was my first major engine project at so it took me a few trys to get it done right. now i can pull a head in 30minutes because of the learning experience. 1st engine swap took almost a week. 2nd took one whole day(8hours), working by myself.

 

i had a d15b block that i just threw in the gabage cuz nobody wanted it

 

You never know when that D15 block would serve you...
I had one in my shed for 3 years...was going to throw it away...well now it's in the car getting it's daily doses of 10 psi... .
Runs awesome...Good backup engine...

 

i got a full d15b2 block, minues intake manifold, exhaust manifold and oil pan. 50 bux plus shipping
and its yours

 

I have a complete running Y7 oil pan to valve cover on the stand if you are close to CT.

 

i'm in texas....

gimme shipping quotes u guys

 

CSaddict, how much you want for that Y7? Willing to part it at all?