I'm pissed! last night (6-10-03) i went to bill's house so he could put the video's that tim took of us at the track on his computer.... after beatting bills computer with a bat we got it to recored the vids. and after i just about died from his cats it was time to go. everything thing was fine on the way home.. nice ride home.. got home went to sleep.... about 3:00am i wake up feeling like sh*t i finlly get back to be and wake up to go to work and i start my car and i get a NICE BIG white with blue tint cloud of smoke out the tail pipes! so i'm like SON OF A BI*CH!!! the rings are shot!

anyone around the Joliet area have room ad want to help me rebult my motor?? i don't have any place to do it :-(

 

Holy **** mike! Damn man, it wasn't smoking when you drove off though?

I guess they went on the way back home though. Crud. What do you think caused it so far? Any guesses? Or are you just gonna wait to make a diagnosis till you pull it apart?

 

Are you sure it just isn't bad valve seals?

How much smoke was there? Was the smoke only there on startup?

Or was it there constantly and get worse with throttle?

I would hate to think bad rings with a fresh rebuild recently.

 

it would be constant and gets worse with throttle.... so that means the rings... i'm so pissed !

 

the rings where gapped for a 150 shot of NOS and i think that the rings may of been put in upside down ans plus there isn't a rev limter on my car so that doesn't help. my guess is that it that the rings where messed up from day one... i just hope to hell that the walls are not messed up cuz i don't want to have to bore it out again.

 

****UPDATE****

the rings are fine. its a blown head gasket Or a cracked head.... most likely a cracked head i know it has to be one of the two cuz i looked at the oil dip stick and there was anti-freeze mixed in with. and with how low my anti frezze is it has to be a cracked head. i think its time for AFR heads....


again.... SON OF A BI*CH

 

Just because the antifreeze is low doesn't mean it's definately a cracked head. Drain your oil and see how much of it comes out.. Changing head gaskets is an easy job on our cars, if you know what you're doing it should only take you about 45 min. to get the suspected head off and see where you stand. Seeing how you had no problems on your way home, then all of the sudded this happened the next day, I'm willing to bet it's a head gasket rather than a cracked head.. Although if your engine was getting too hot, the sudden overheating and cooling can crack heads..

 

Nope it never ran hot till i drove it home from work Wenday. and it only want hot for about 30mins... but i think it really messed up the motor..... loud valve train sounds (not rod knocks) so i odn't know if i just want to dump the motor i have now and put in a 305 and is even beffed up them min for $1,700 or put $3,500 into it and get a 350 ZZ4 from Jegs but i don't have $3,500 so i don't knwo what i want to do yet.

 

Just because you are getting valve train noise doesnt mean that something is really messed up. If you have antifreeze in the oil I doubt that it is lubricating like it should which could cause some noise. If you dont know which head it is I would do a compression check until you find it and take that head off to inspect.

Good luck.

Ben

PS, if you do end up replacing the motor and you think that you might be able to afford the 350 some how I would go that route.

 

we are pulling off both heads cuz they are both goign to be messed up. as frot he 350 i don't have the money for a 350 rigth now. i'm goign to buy a short block and slowly put parts for ti and get it built the way i want... i don't want to go cheap when i get my 350 built

 

-=crosses fingers for a quick and painless repair=-

you know it won't be :-(

 

hey bud,

just logged on to hear your pain.
My condolensces. It is too bad this happened so soon.
good luck with the repairs.

 

its all cuz of bill!!! damn him for not haveing a way to play DV's LoL i'm just playing bill it my fault.... we found out how it happen :-(

 

ok i finlly got come pics of how bad the car is smokeing at Idle and some pics of the vavle train with the sh*t oil.

the pic of the smoke is how bad it smokes as soon as you start it up. its gets thicker the long the motor as been running. i wiwn't want to run the motor that long

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/xxmy91fir...reBird&.view=t