blew my engine
Well sadly my engine blew today. i just purchased the car a week ago and it gave up on me. the guy i bought it from daily drove it and it seem fine. i test drove it and it seemed fine. so today i was warming up my car to take my friend out for a drive. it warmed up to 180ish and the fans turned on. i reved it up and around 7k the engine blew and died. antifreeze was gushing out of the engine. i jacked it up and found the problem. the center intake housing cracked. the crack is right below the spark plugs. its a hairline crack that goes horizontally and is about 3 inches long.
i was shocked at how that happened and that it wasnt the apex seal that died. i havent pulled it out yet. im hoping that the housing just cracked on the outside. has this happened to anyone? do i have to rebuild the whole engine or do i just buy a center intake housing. |
sorry i meant rear rotor housing lol
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Post a picture of the damage.
Plates being cracked can be caused by binding of apex seal fragments, rotors, plates & housings trying to occupy the same space at the same time, while not meshing (something was out of place. I've seen a rotor housing break out a 2" chunk in the load zone. |
It sounds like you may have rolled an apex seal & it got smashed so hard into the housing that the housing cracked to reliev the pressure.
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How many miles were on the engine? If it isn't locked up do a compression test before you pull it, then you'll know for sure if it's fuber with a 0 - 0 - x psi reading. What was the compression on the engine the last time you tested it?
Sorry it happened, I've been through it myself recently :) |
I'll take a picture of it tomorrow. It supposedly had 30k on the motor. It has 3mm apex seals and it was a new shortblock. The engine is locked up now. The compression test were normal. Above 7psi on both rotors
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take it to ben /karack, hes the best :) hes over by the orleans
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Originally Posted by CYM TKT
(Post 10675625)
take it to ben /karack, hes the best :) hes over by the orleans
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^ Rotary Evolution
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so my car is all prepped up for me to pull the engine tomorrow. unfortunately the engine is seized so i have to pull the tranny out with it.
i should have a picture of the crack tomorrow, sorry for the delay. im gonna have ben check it out, hopefully its not bad |
I'm just going to leave this here... $750 if you come get it.
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talk to J.T.P here since you are in Vegas.
he's got a shop in Long Beach and does Formula D. |
Originally Posted by jspecusa
(Post 10679744)
talk to J.T.P here since you are in Vegas.
he's got a shop in Long Beach and does Formula D. |
If I am reading understanding correctly.. from what you wrote in the 1st post... and that you say the motor is now seized..
Sounds like you had a catastrophic engine failure.. where the rotor internally comes off the stationary gear and crashed into the rotor housing.. breaking/cracking the rotor housing.. I have seen an engine that this happend to before. I broke it down (was not easy to do.. had to beat it apart with a serious hammer) all of the internals were destroyed.. The shortblock was all trash.. You where free reving the engine to 7000 rpm? Why? |
Originally Posted by Japan2LA
(Post 10680330)
If I am reading understanding correctly.. from what you wrote in the 1st post... and that you say the motor is now seized..
Sounds like you had a catastrophic engine failure.. where the rotor internally comes off the stationary gear and crashed into the rotor housing.. breaking/cracking the rotor housing.. I have seen an engine that this happend to before. I broke it down (was not easy to do.. had to beat it apart with a serious hammer) all of the internals were destroyed.. The shortblock was all trash.. You where free reving the engine to 7000 rpm? Why? |
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so its a lot worse than i thought
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this was the crack i was talking about first
but i was way off |
wow! ...that sucks! id say you would have been better off with a little carbon build up... more than a rebuild you have there.
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you can see the rotor through the crack! thats crazy.
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needs a rotor and a housing for sure ..but may have damaged the adjacent housings and even the crankshaft
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Originally Posted by gravytraindg
(Post 10680475)
needs a rotor and a housing for sure ..but may have damaged the adjacent housings and even the crankshaft
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wow thats screwed
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Originally Posted by Japan2LA
(Post 10680330)
You where free reving the engine to 7000 rpm?
Why? I guess it is the sort of thing that would seem cool in a video game. |
dude, that blows
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Originally Posted by moconnor
(Post 10680488)
Can't imagine why anyone would do this. It betrays a serious lack of mechanical sympathy.
I guess it is the sort of thing that would seem cool in a video game. |
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