Engine carnage

savage217 · Post by **savage217** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:23 am

I finally started pulling my engine out of the car. Took my intake manifold off and this is what was discovered.

Tomorrow I plan on finishing the engine removal. I do not expect I will have the head off until sometime this week. I found a local engine for a killer deal so I should have the car back and running within 3 weeks I would think. Cant wait to see the bottom end.

Post by **dinoracer** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:06 am

Ouch!

I think a lot of us have BTDT- Part of the fun of driving "Flat-out"

Good plan to get it back together before the snow flies; The first event of 2012 sometimes arrives while there's still snow on the ground in front of the storage garage, and pushing cars thru mud to get them to where they can be worked on sucks

savage217 · Post by **savage217** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:31 pm

Got the engine out and the head off. Engine is in bad shape. I don't even know if the block is salvageable. Cylinder 4 was pretty gouged.

brucesallen · Post by **brucesallen** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:03 am

That's what Nitromethane will do.

6PAK72 · Post by **6PAK72** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:29 pm

OUCH.

So sorry.

savage217 · Post by **savage217** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:59 am

Looks like a valve retainer failed. This is odd, as I had the retainers replaced while I had the machinist do a valve job a couple years back.

breakaway500 · Post by **breakaway500** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:24 am

I have never seen a retainer fail in that manner before. Wow. That is bad luck for sure. Damn,that piston crown is nasty!

Chrispy · Post by **Chrispy** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:34 am

Ouch, poor piston.

brucesallen · Post by **brucesallen** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:23 pm

Chrispy wrote:Ouch, poor piston.

JB Weld can fix it.

Post by **dinoracer** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:51 pm

You'll need to sleeve that cylinder for sure. Unless there's something particularly valuable about that block, I'd replace it with a low-mile junkyard one.

savage217 · Post by **savage217** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:10 pm

I am planning on JB welding the piston back together and smoothing it out. I will just wire brush the cylinder walls and then throw it all back together after wiping it down with a clean paper towel. Should do well.

I bought a used s52 out a 51k mile rear ended car. It was still in the car so I was able to a compression test and oil pressure test, etc. It all came back positive so I am buying it either tomorrow night or sunday sometime.

brucesallen · Post by **brucesallen** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:31 pm

savage217 wrote:I am planning on JB welding the piston back together and smoothing it out. I will just wire brush the cylinder walls and then throw it all back together after wiping it down with a clean paper towel. Should do well.

As long as you use lots of STP.

savage217 · Post by **savage217** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:58 pm

Finished the tear down. Hopefully I can sell most of the parts and put it toward the new engine.

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