my ls1 died today !!
03-19-2009, 01:21 PM
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my ls1 died today !! Maybe its just bad luck but I just got my car running and shifting good
and boom there goes the bottom. I dont know how or why. I just got it tuned last week and was having some shifting prob. Got those figured out last night and on the third run it became asphalt !! Just my luck i moved from mustangs to something faster, build it up a little and watch my money go across the road. Hope my heads are ok !!
and boom there goes the bottom. I dont know how or why. I just got it tuned last week and was having some shifting prob. Got those figured out last night and on the third run it became asphalt !! Just my luck i moved from mustangs to something faster, build it up a little and watch my money go across the road. Hope my heads are ok !!
03-19-2009, 10:53 PM
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what the hell happened? how many miles does the car have? is it a 98? do u have a cam? are u running N20? your motor cant just blow like that? if i tried to blow mine up it wont, how did urs just blow up? could be the guy tuned it too lean
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03-21-2009, 07:55 AM
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i bought the car with 117,xxx miles. It had nitrous on it but i removed it. Car ran great had good oil pressure when i drove it home. I put a couple hundred miles on it not many. Bought patriot heads, custom cam, intake and installed. I towed it down to have it tuned and when i drove it home i noticed oil pressure a little low but not bad. After the tune i could not get it to shift right. ( built a4 ) took it back twice never really put any mile on it. took it out the other day and oil pressure really looked wiered. I changed the oil even though the other oil was new. It looked like it had some small gold flaking in it. Took it out again to get it hot see what the oil pressure was going to do and when I went to the floor with the gas that was it. I dont know why? It never lost oil pressure.
I bought a new engine thursday night with 51,000 mile on it. I will have the engine out tonight and let you know what happened to it
I bought a new engine thursday night with 51,000 mile on it. I will have the engine out tonight and let you know what happened to it
03-21-2009, 08:15 AM
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i bought the car with 117,xxx miles. It had nitrous on it but i removed it. Car ran great had good oil pressure when i drove it home. I put a couple hundred miles on it not many. Bought patriot heads, custom cam, intake and installed. I towed it down to have it tuned and when i drove it home i noticed oil pressure a little low but not bad. After the tune i could not get it to shift right. ( built a4 ) took it back twice never really put any mile on it. took it out the other day and oil pressure really looked wiered. I changed the oil even though the other oil was new. It looked like it had some small gold flaking in it. Took it out again to get it hot see what the oil pressure was going to do and when I went to the floor with the gas that was it. I dont know why? It never lost oil pressure.
I bought a new engine thursday night with 51,000 mile on it. I will have the engine out tonight and let you know what happened to it
I bought a new engine thursday night with 51,000 mile on it. I will have the engine out tonight and let you know what happened to it
03-21-2009, 08:29 AM
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sorry bout your luck man. never know what your gonna get when you buy with that many miles on it. atleast you seem to have a replacement for it. keep us posted. What kind of motor is going in?
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I say something with the cam/head install.
It sounds like something had some unesessary friction.
That, sucks but life goes on.
In my last car I kind of did the same thing. Built it, half ***(now that I think about it). Barely break it in then I hit it with a large shot. Next thing I know, I blew appart a hiperutectic piston to pieces from nitrous/gas pudling because I positioned the fogger badly.
Live and learn, I guess. . . . . . .
It sounds like something had some unesessary friction.
That, sucks but life goes on.
In my last car I kind of did the same thing. Built it, half ***(now that I think about it). Barely break it in then I hit it with a large shot. Next thing I know, I blew appart a hiperutectic piston to pieces from nitrous/gas pudling because I positioned the fogger badly.
Live and learn, I guess. . . . . . .
03-21-2009, 08:37 AM
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No, I dought it was in the tune. You put a new top end on a bottom end that had 117,000+miles on it, not to mention no telling how many passes on nitrous and no telling what the nitrous was set at. Did you use a double roller timing chain? If so there might have been an issue with the pickup tube to oil pump. If it was pulling air into the pump, causing the pump to cavitate, it would not be long before one of the bearing smoked. It would also make the oil pressure flucuate and act stupid. I bet this is the cause. Check the o-ring and piping out real good.
Sorry, but you could look at it as an excuse to buy a LSX block and go 427+ci.
Sorry, but you could look at it as an excuse to buy a LSX block and go 427+ci.
