Blew my engine last night, I was planning on rebuilding it this winter anyways, and now I guess I have to.

It just went as I was turning a corner, it ran like ***, and wouldn't idle right. At least it lasted most of the summer, wasn't too much going on anymore, anyways....

 

poor proctor, now you know why i never drive my car, it cant break if it sits in my driveway....

 

Aww, when I read the title, I thought for sure you were coming out.

 

Buhahah nah, I'll leave that for Leigh.

But the next motor will be a SP, and hopefully a Haltech to back it up...

 

well that lasted longer than i thought it would, so good job

and don't be tempted to do anything too stupid for your next engine

 

RIP Crocodile Hunter.

 

I know of one haltech E11 for sale and possible one 10th AE for sale

 

You selling your car Ian???

 

a sad day indeed...

 

yeah, how hasn't he gotten his own thread here?

he'll certainly be missed

 

Thinking about it.

But I do know of a guy selling a e11 if anyone is interested.

RIP Croc man indeed!

 

Well, we pulled it apart tonight, it was a stuck apex seal, seems something went through the motor, but there is no damage that would make a rebuild with these parts unusable.

So I guess I only need a rebuild kit.

 

Wuss. Be a man and PPort the *****.

 

or halfbridge it and buy a real turbo.

that's what I did, and boy am I glad.

 

How's your car doing anyway?

 

Needs more tuning still.

I fought with stupid clutch issues till I found out that a bent pedal was causing them all along, fixed that in 20 minutes and now its' great.

It'll be at st. thomas next weekend for windsor shootout, on racegas, slicks and skinnies.. hopefully as fast as I'd like.

at 8PSI and pigrich with hardly any timing, it's faster than my 3" exhaust/intake FD at 12PSI. Hoping to run 20+ on racegas if I can get it tuned. I really wish someone around here knew how to tune these cars well, AFR's are pretty easy but the timing map is not.

 

A bridgeport is out of the question for what I want to do with the car it's not an option, eventually, I will be going with a GT35R, and don't want a lag-machine, I want my hp to be usable not living up top around the 8k + range, then I get into longevity issues; I don't feel like building a motor every year or every 10 oil changes.

With a GT35R 350whp is easy achievable, more than that really isn't necessary.

 

Perhaps a rotary is not the best engine choice...

Oh, and so I am ready for the next meet, I figured out how to get my tires to smoke.

 

No it's the engine I want, I just want something suitable for the street, something about waiting till 5k rpm to get full boost doesn't seem like too much fun whereas the GT35R will get full boost around 3-4k, I don't need raw hp, I want a car that responsive. I just know what I want, and revving to 9-10k and putting that much strain on engine components isn't somehting I want.

 

great thread

 

But of course i'm sorry to hear about the engine. Enjoyed cruisin with you this year and hope the rebuild is ready for spring '07

 

Oh don't worry Ivan, it'll be ready; I really hope it'll be done before the new year.

 

Cool...I'll be starting Tina next weekend so there is a tiny, tiny, almost zero chance of me driving the car to the track to say "Hi".

 

well I'll be there friday saturday and sunday, so come down in the insight at least :P

 

Got some pics from the last two weeks.

http://s63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...&addtype=local