tylerdj

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When it flooded several weeks ago I hit a very deep spot of water and sucked some up into my engine. So to make a long story short it broke a rod and punched some holes in the sides of my block and had to get towed home. Now I finally got a new engine in it and its running great. Here's some pics of the damage


This is the driver's side





This is the passenger's side

NviouSS

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ouch.

MeentSS02

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tylerdj, meet incompressible fluid. Incompressible fluid, tylerdj.

And that, class, is why engines suck in air (a compressible fluid) as opposed to water (incompressible).

Glad to hear the new engine is in, though. Did you go bigger?

bjamick

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that is my worst nightmare thats y i try to stay out of the rain. ouch i feel bad for ya. but im glad you got a new one put in.

tylerdj

iTrader: (31)

unfortunately no...I just couldn't afford it at the time because college sucks my money lol.

spy2520

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seems like an epidemic of hydrolocked ls1s lately...is everybody running the FTRA/SSRA or an STS kit or something?

tylerdj

iTrader: (31)

At the time mine was 100% stock...but I'll never run the FTRA for that very reason

ROCNDAV

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I was going to ask that. I used to drive my 3rd gen in pretty dreep rain/water (flooded streets) and never had a problem. THe 3rd gens had a similar lid set up (versus lt1's). so you didnt have an FTRA? DO our LS1's just have a stronger vacuum sucking air/water in?

Disturbedtransam

Ouch that has to suck....

GuitsBoy

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If it was stock at the time, wouldnt you have to drive through enough water to cover the lower air box lid, and secondly, saturate and get sucked past the air filter, and then thirdly, get enough water into the intake to severely fill a combustion chamber during a single intake stroke. Not necessarily the full 67 cc's, but enough to send your CR sky high.

I cant believe its that easy to hydo-lock a stock motor without driving it directly into a lake.

jub jub

I have a forged LS6 rotating assembly for sale if your interested, built by Rapid still in shipping container.

Lurius

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Air is a fluid?

-Lurius

Doveman

lol, thats what i was thinkin, and im pretty sure you can compress anything, just not with an ls1

Robb

speedyss

I could see how it is and isnt, air contains water so therefor a liquid.

cantdrv65

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Air flows so yes it is a fluid....

I bet you drove pretty fast through that puddle didnt ya.

3.4camaro

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i think he is refering to air as a liquid in the "fluid mechanics 101" mindframe

Krab

iTrader: (28)

That block is totally salvagable, nothing a little JB weld won't take care of.

Glad to hear your car is up and running again.

And yes, air is a working fluid.

Louie83

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H20 is a liquid.

Air is a gas.

Gases and liquids are the two subcategories of fluids.

<--- Mechanical Engineering Major.....but I learned that in High School....maybe even grade school.

GuitsBoy

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flu‧id  /ˈfluɪd/ Pronunciation Key [floo-id]
–noun
1. a substance, as a liquid or gas, that is capable of flowing and that changes its shape at a steady rate when acted upon by a force tending to change its shape.


Most people confuse fluid with liquid because of things like transmission fluid, wiper fluid, blinker fluid, etc. In actuality, the fluid dynamics 101 definition is the correct one. While there are many compressible fluids, as far as I know there are no compressible liquids.

muncie21

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Hot H2O is a gas
Cold H2O is a solid
If I recall correctly, H2O (water for us common folk) is one of the few (only?) substances that can occupy all three states of matter.