We left for the Road Rocket show on Wednesday night, the wife and I had been on the road about 4 hours and all was good. Then suddenly there was a bam the tires screeched I pushed in the clutch and looked in the rearview mirror to see a hunk of metal rolling across the road and a oil mist and smoke. I have about 7,000 miles on this motor since it was rebuilt. I have overdrive in the car so I was at about 2400 RPM, and had 75 lbs of oil pressure when this all happened. Looks like a broken rod and when it spun around punched a hole. The rods had a lot of miles on them 400K, but they were reconditioned, but I think it was just metal fatique.
It was good talking with you Friday night. I can't believe the shitty luck you guys had. You should have seen them on the dance floor... not a care in the world.
Hey man good talking with you too...really didn't bug me bad (about the motor)until the day of the car show then I missed not having my car there. We didn't stay long at the car show but did check out most of the cars, felt like a total rockabilly poser driving in our Saturn all weekend. Oh well my RPU should be on the road by the end of July.
been there done that..sucks dude...happened to me with my old 292 at Austin Roundup last year.been tooling around with putting a 390 in my new hot rod also.
390s are a dime a dozen compared to 312 blocks. I have one extra block, but my RPU has a 312 in it and it has 3 sleeved cylinder so I want to keep the extra block for it. Plus an FE is basically a bolt in for the 56.
thats blows dude, you better change your name to un-lucky_1974 end of july on the rpu huh, now you just locked it in, end of july well see ya at porky's!! JEFF
Ya I will be there. I am still lucky remember there are two kinds, I am just having a butt load of the bad right now, it will change.
Same thing happened to my Y block, except when the motor seized, it ripped the cam in 3 pieces too. I'll post the pics of the carnage when I get home. I like the Chrysler in there much better
I didn't realize that was your ragtop when I saw it last year. I love that car. Glad it's a fixable problem you are having and not some horrific accident or something.
Yup its mine...I love the car but it has not been a great relationship between us since I got it... The car was owned by a friend of my wife's family she rode in it when she was 7 years old. So we will never get rid of it, but some days it does piss me off .
Well, no one ever said keeping up a moldy oldie would be all roses...otherwise we'd all be driving disposable cars (i.e. Yugos). I still say you should've put some scallops or a flame job on the Saturn along with some WWWs. It was good swapping stories, laughs and Greek food with you and the Mrs. You know if you ever need a chauffer around Indy that I won't mind toting you both in the Impala....there's enough room for certain. Talk to you soon. Agrv8r Mike
That really sucks, sorry to hear about it. The bright side is now you can upgrade. See ya at Porky's.
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