I was Driving on EC Row Expressway in Windsor on tuesday night at about 9:45 PM with TitaniumMoe following me... he waved me beside him, and screamed "GIVE IT!!" so I did... My mufflers have removable silencers, and I had them out... boost crept to about 14 PSI midrange in 4th, no detonation,.. by 6000 it had bled down to maybe 10-11 PSI, and that's when it pinged.. I let off, stuck the car in neutral, and it stalled.. put it back in gear, got on the gas, and blargh. sounds like a supra. Stopped at a gas station, checked the compression.. 105-105-105 front, 30-30-90 rear.

Pulled the UIM, removed the rear fuel injector clips, put it back together, bump started it and drove 50km home.

STILL faster than my friend's civic But it was vibrating like hell (probably from the uneven compression), and backfired a LOT... huge 3-4' fireballs every shift.

Anyways.... Looks like its time for a new motor. I ripped everything off of it yesterday, and I'll pick up a j-spec this weekend and throw it in.

When I look back though, it's hard to be upset with a motor that withstood:

Overheating (5x, 3-4 times boiling the coolant)
Detonation (just none this bad)
periods with a 4000RPM idle
tuning screwups including a mixture so out of wack that the turbo glowed bright red and bubbled the paint on the hood.. at idle!
timing being 30 deg out (so bad that it wouldn't run if I touched the throttle!
Being put in by 2 17 year olds in frozen garage.

 

daymn I feel sorry for that engine, this time you may want to

a. port your wastegate
b. get a fmic. or
c. get a single stage water injection kit for cheap

 

or better yet!
Turbo upgrade kit,
Good FMIC,
Good stand alone... autronic, haltech, microtech... etc..
new injectors, and a strong rebuilt brand new street ported engine!

But none the less hope you get her on the road again soon... but do you really need it done so soon if you aren't going to drive it in the winter... or are you?

 

Must be nice to be able to just "pick up" a j-spec and throw it in.

 

lol I was thinking the same thing

 

lol me too

 

me three

 

How do you know if it detonated or not? I bet it did detonate ON the boost spike, cracked the seal and it didn't fall apart until a few secs later.

 

dude... who cares? he blew his motor... that sux...
dude port the motor while you got it apart
and the WG...

 

May the next one be stronger and more powerful.

 

ya... you need better apex seals... or it sounds good anyway...
hey relisys is that a WING i see on the back of that car in your sig? it looks like a HOUSE on the back of hte car

 

WG was ported, but obviously not enough.
it sure as hell sounded like detonation...
I'm probably going the upgrade route.
I want it back on the road NOW to enjoy the rest of summer.. and fall

 

Summer's over. It's September, thanks for living in the real world .

I wanted my car on the road for summer, that was 5 months ago.

 

I dont know why you guys want your cars out in summer. I hate it. So damn hot. Summer nights, all of fall, and winter days is where its at IMHO.

 

LOL - Winter in Kentucky is slightly different than Windsor!




Still think driving in the Winter is "Where it's at?"


Sorry to hear about the car man - I know you'll get it back on the road soon!

 

"Ouch baby, very ouch."

 

Huh? Does anybody attend school these days?

 

Got a j-spec, getting it on tuesday.. comes with underdrive pullies and some other crap, too.

yay.

 

Sounds like the time I was going down the highway in my FC for work, and all of a sudden my oil pressure spiked, and then went to 0. Needless to say, the engine was gone.

 

Whoa...

 

I actually had pretty good luck in my FB driving it in the winter.. Before I got the snows on it I spun it twice at like 5km/h, but after that it was fine!