Welp, my N/A bit the dust today-

96K miles on it. I'm not sure what died, but signs seem to point to an apex seal or something along those lines. No boiling coolant, engines temps are fine, oil is clean (as it should be, I change it ever 2750 miles). But the motor just runs like sh*t. NO power at all, takes 5-7 seconds to catch after cranking, dies below 2K RPM, just all around bad. I'm assuming she's just toasted (if not, someone can feel free to interject and make my day better).

I wish I had more insight into what happend to it- I run premix with my OMP ENABLED, change oil every 2750 miles (Castrol GTX 20w50), run 87 octane, bounce it off of redline at least once every other day, drive it pretty moderately other then that. It ran perfectly fine this morning, parked it, then it was no more. :-/ It appears to be the rear rotor from what I can tell (typical). Apparently the previous owner must have utterly decimated the motor, it had 82K when I bought it, and I've done everything I could since then. I definitely no longer feel bad about doing the V8 swap now. Oh well, such is life I guess-

 

Compression test?

 

ing. test

 

yea do a compression test all might not be lost! but if it is why must u do a V8 swap ??

 

When I crank the rear rotor I hear "whiff whiff... thunk" LOL, I'm pretty sure it's dead now.

 

yea id say so too