Yesterday i went for a drive and noticed that my car was making weird sounds and lose in power when i stoped to see what happen the oil cap was loose and smoke was pooring out. The car also has over heated seence new i have had this car for 3 weeks what happen. Is there anything i can do. It shot a rod 1/2 hour later.

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89 Iroc-Z 5.7 350

 

Were you losing coolent? You also might have lost your oil pump. If coolent was going into the oil, it coats your bearings and causes the heat to rise really quick. Heat is an enemy to engines after so long. What were your gauges reading. You probably lost all lubrication causing you to throw you rod.

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1991 Camaro Z-28 305ci 230hp
1985 Camaro Coupe 331ci 300hp
http://www.geocities.com/speedstar38...Speedstar.html

 

Well, if you lost a rod i'd say any discussion about what the problem was, and what you could've done about it is pretty academic and pointless.
All you can do now is get a new engine.
...ed

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Ed Maher - Moderator @ The Carb Board
92 Z28 Convertible - Quasar blue / Tan top
LB9 4L60 GU2 G80 - stock, soon to be sleeper
-=ICON Motorsports=-

- Definitely prototypes, high powered mutants of some kind. Too weird to live, too cool to die

 

Well the coolent would boil at times and a few days before it went out the oil pressure was not reading any thing.

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89 Iroc-Z 5.7 350

 

There ya go. Just wondering why you were driving it if the oil pressure wasn't reading anything thouhg.I would pf parked it or gotten it into to get looked at.

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1991 Camaro Z-28 305ci 230hp
1985 Camaro Coupe 331ci 300hp
http://www.geocities.com/speedstar38...Speedstar.html

 

i just drained my oil and had quite a bit of water in it. my car stalled out hard before it died. what does that sound like? also huge clouds of smoke coming from exhaust

 

Sounds like a blown head gasket.

 

cool cause thats what i replaced!!!! wasn't looking forward to disassembling the whole engine

 

if it shot a rod, you are going to have to take the motor completely apart and rebuild. i lost a rod one time and pieces of it came out of the oil pan. even if you just spun a bearing, a head gasket isn't going to fix the problem.

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88 S10
Dropped 3/4
18" Boyd Coddington Timeless 5s
406 balanced with 6" Eagle H-beam rods, 10.25:1 JE SRP pistons, Comp 284XE cam; 240/246 @.050, .507/.510, Dart 200cc Ironeagle heads, Victor Jr. intake, Holley 750 vac sec.
12.20 @ 115.25 mph

 

i didn't have any problem adjusting my valve lash though and nothing in the oil when i drained it but antifreeze. keeping fingers crossed

 

Yea, I would've pulled it and removed the oil pan to look if I thought it was a tossed rod. There could be chunks in there from where the rod bolt failed that didn't come out with the oil. How sure are you that you tossed a rod? Explain....

Yep, keep the fingers crossed....