Killed the motor on the way home
 

despite having some major ignition and fueling issues today i ran the car anyways.not to well at that.after the first 3 passes with almost no boost due to a bad boost controler i decide to unhook the wastegate for one final pass.this time i get 18psi about 200' out but all the sudden the car starts to buck and i hear a bang around the 330' mark and the car shuts right off.ok so after coasting most of the way down the track i get it restarted,no noise or smoke everything seems fine.Well about halfway home the car starts smoking out the ex system.so i take it over to the shop and do a leakdown test cyls 1 threw 4 avg about 21% well i get to cyls 5&6 #5 had 43% and cyl #6 had 57% :scratch: .im quessing the thing detonated so hard on that last pass that i broke the ringlands,or the rings :shrug: lol last time i try to run that much boost on a stock cast pistion

Well, I think I can safely say... I think you blew the motor when u had thoughts of turboing :lol: Good luck with it.

lol no i blew it when i droped that bone stock motor in the car when i purposly blew up my good motor that had the forged pistion in it.thing that gets me is on the 2 passes i actually made it to the 1/8th mile mark i actually ran decent times
both in the 7.2-7.6 range.just couldnt keep the car under power the rest of the way down to track due to detonation and backfiring

edit make that 7.4-7.7

Thanks for selling us your excuses. My stock 2.8 runs faster than your turbo. Taking the wastegate off, not smart. To be honest, we all expected it to blow up.

But for now, I guess I'll go back to scratching my head about why the speakers in the headrests of the 85 GT haven't caused that car to burn to the ground. I wonder...

:lol: All in good fun.

exactly my na 2.8 was faster then the turbo 3.1 that is in the car now.that thing would pull consitant low 15.s.the first pass should have been my last but i was so pissed.i just wanted to get the thing down the track

Forged bottom end + boost =boom
Weaksauce bottom end + boost = BOOOOOOOOM!

It was a matter of time. Taking the wastegate off...kiss of death.

Hey Al, what do you like on your track burgers?

:owned:
like i said at the nats, ill put 50 bucks on Liz if you run your V6-T against her Fiero :lol:

driving a turbo car with known PCM problems = extra boom.

weaksauce

Oh yeah?

um..yea, :scratch: i said it right in front of you. way to pay attention liz :lol:

its quite alright atleast i got one decent 1/8 out of it 7.6@86, wish i could have made it full track on that pass should have been a nice mid to high 12 sec pass

haha, tsar thinks people pay attention to him.

haha old man thinks he made a funny!

i listen to you space station :)

Do you have the book "how to turbo charge damn near anything"??

If so, I think you saved me 20 bucks jk

But damn man, It sucks I wish You could a pulled a low 12 pass.

stop flirting with the communist

lol so do i,but i should have known better to try to run the car with the problems i was having.theres always next time,ive got a fresh motor on the engine stand at work,just waiting on my aftermarket crank so i can assemble it

First one must get out from 17's - i gotta say he talked alot of crap for someone who ran slower times then most stock cars run...

dont be jealous timmay!

lol well had it been an 1/8 mile track i woulda been fine on the one run,but ehh it wasnt,no big deal next time out i just gota make sure the car is running right.
ecm/ign,fueling problems ftl.dont forget i never made anything further then an 1/8th mile pass
had i been able to make full passes i would have been fine right down in the 12's/13's were i shoudl have been

that kit needs to be rebuilt all together, with time and patience.

I'm such a woman.

:stupid: on the rebuild part, not the woman part

are you sure about the woman part?