This is gonna be a long one!
As the title says ,the supra died on me last nite. well i cant say it actually died but its gonna need a rebuild.heres how my wonderful day started yeasterday! 1st i volunteered to work,went there fixed a buncha cars. had extra time so i went through my guage wiring and sotered them.
went to clean the car,and while in the process of doing so i lean over a little too far to get the sponge and my damn cell phone falls outa my pocket into the buckest of soapy water,so ofcourse that doesnt work for the time being. i pull it apart and put it outside in the sun. now thats over and ive finished cleaning my car ,
im heading home.meet up with a pack of mustangs and a couple lightning's . looks like there on a little cruise . i pay them no mind,which is not like me. i usually am ready to race and thing with wheels! but anywho theyre goin slower than i like to on the highway so i cruise on past them not getting on it at all still in O/D. and well i guess the FORD crew didnt like that so here comes a ford lightning up beside my reving his engine!!! NOW ITS TIME! i click O/D off and mash it. lol the lightning pulls away like i was sitting still.
no biggie! then here comes a cobra, at this point im running about 90.he pulls up beside me. i slam the pedal again,this time holding my own. had him the they nose of my mk3,but neither of us were goin anywhere further than that,so i call it even. he slows down,and now i have a new vette Z06 on my right,and another cobra on my left. ofcourse both of those cars fly away as soon as we all smash the gas! so im cruisin again,all the other stangs cruise past me. and the same stang and vette that past me line up,and go at it .never sen a stang on the road pull so hard in my life without breakin the rears loose! this thing leaves the vette sittin there like ms.daisy!
anyways all thats over now,and ive been driving my car VERY HARD for about 8miles now. take a quick look at my guages everything is readin to the good.im about 30min. from home. and i hear this weird metal to metal noise,well my IC pipes make noises sometimes do to the tight fit against the metal! but it got a little louder,so i put the wndows up and it just kept gettin louder and louder. so i slowed down ,took another look at my guages and im just about to touch how on the temp. so i let off the gas and it just shut off at 60mph,i coasted up a ramp,and to a gas station.
pulled into a space,hopped out and checked oil 1st,it was clean as i changed no more than 200 miles ago.no coolant in it. pulled the 1st plug to chck the cylinder for coolant. nothing in there. so i let the car cool for a good 1/2 hour while i try to get my cell phone to work still so i can get a ride and a tow outa there. phone would cut on ,let me dial and as soon as some oone awensered it would shut completely off and reboot itself.so i pulled it apart sat it on the roof of the car for some sun .
i still wanted to know what was wrong with the car,so i turned the key and it just clicked. i thought to myself"dont tell me the damn engine is locked up". only one way to test that so i grabbed my ratchet and 19mm socket slid under the car and turned the crank by hand. engine was'nt seized .finally i see that one of the battery terminals are corroded . i pull both of them off,clean them put them back on and the car fired up....but has the worse case of rod knock ive ever heard. closed the hood,and put the phone back together and it works,so i call a couple ppl,and get one of my freinds with a trailer to come and get me and the car.
got it home,had to start it again to drive it up my driveway! as you can see i had a real good day yeaserday. Sooooo now that's outa the way. here is where i cant make up my mind what to do! NOW i have the supra which i have about 2k tied up in total with a blown engine basically,and i have a sr20det that im picking up within the next 2 weeks which will still need another 500 put into it befor its runable and will still need a chasis to put it in. one has to go! i will have to sell one to have cash to rebuild the other. but the hard part is deciding which one.
i know that if i part out the supra and sell the chasis i could get around 2-3k ,which would be enough to get the sr running,and a chasis and still have a couple greens left over. if i decide to keep the supra i will have to take out a loan to pay for a rebuild.i become attached to my vehicles and hate to get rid of them but you gotta do wat you gotta do! i could try and put oversized bearings in the and as this is the type of knock i have,but id rather do it right to have that peice of mind. so yo all have read this long speil.what do you think????
As the title says ,the supra died on me last nite. well i cant say it actually died but its gonna need a rebuild.heres how my wonderful day started yeasterday! 1st i volunteered to work,went there fixed a buncha cars. had extra time so i went through my guage wiring and sotered them.
went to clean the car,and while in the process of doing so i lean over a little too far to get the sponge and my damn cell phone falls outa my pocket into the buckest of soapy water,so ofcourse that doesnt work for the time being. i pull it apart and put it outside in the sun. now thats over and ive finished cleaning my car ,
im heading home.meet up with a pack of mustangs and a couple lightning's . looks like there on a little cruise . i pay them no mind,which is not like me. i usually am ready to race and thing with wheels! but anywho theyre goin slower than i like to on the highway so i cruise on past them not getting on it at all still in O/D. and well i guess the FORD crew didnt like that so here comes a ford lightning up beside my reving his engine!!! NOW ITS TIME! i click O/D off and mash it. lol the lightning pulls away like i was sitting still.
no biggie! then here comes a cobra, at this point im running about 90.he pulls up beside me. i slam the pedal again,this time holding my own. had him the they nose of my mk3,but neither of us were goin anywhere further than that,so i call it even. he slows down,and now i have a new vette Z06 on my right,and another cobra on my left. ofcourse both of those cars fly away as soon as we all smash the gas! so im cruisin again,all the other stangs cruise past me. and the same stang and vette that past me line up,and go at it .never sen a stang on the road pull so hard in my life without breakin the rears loose! this thing leaves the vette sittin there like ms.daisy!
anyways all thats over now,and ive been driving my car VERY HARD for about 8miles now. take a quick look at my guages everything is readin to the good.im about 30min. from home. and i hear this weird metal to metal noise,well my IC pipes make noises sometimes do to the tight fit against the metal! but it got a little louder,so i put the wndows up and it just kept gettin louder and louder. so i slowed down ,took another look at my guages and im just about to touch how on the temp. so i let off the gas and it just shut off at 60mph,i coasted up a ramp,and to a gas station.
pulled into a space,hopped out and checked oil 1st,it was clean as i changed no more than 200 miles ago.no coolant in it. pulled the 1st plug to chck the cylinder for coolant. nothing in there. so i let the car cool for a good 1/2 hour while i try to get my cell phone to work still so i can get a ride and a tow outa there. phone would cut on ,let me dial and as soon as some oone awensered it would shut completely off and reboot itself.so i pulled it apart sat it on the roof of the car for some sun .
i still wanted to know what was wrong with the car,so i turned the key and it just clicked. i thought to myself"dont tell me the damn engine is locked up". only one way to test that so i grabbed my ratchet and 19mm socket slid under the car and turned the crank by hand. engine was'nt seized .finally i see that one of the battery terminals are corroded . i pull both of them off,clean them put them back on and the car fired up....but has the worse case of rod knock ive ever heard. closed the hood,and put the phone back together and it works,so i call a couple ppl,and get one of my freinds with a trailer to come and get me and the car.
got it home,had to start it again to drive it up my driveway! as you can see i had a real good day yeaserday. Sooooo now that's outa the way. here is where i cant make up my mind what to do! NOW i have the supra which i have about 2k tied up in total with a blown engine basically,and i have a sr20det that im picking up within the next 2 weeks which will still need another 500 put into it befor its runable and will still need a chasis to put it in. one has to go! i will have to sell one to have cash to rebuild the other. but the hard part is deciding which one.
i know that if i part out the supra and sell the chasis i could get around 2-3k ,which would be enough to get the sr running,and a chasis and still have a couple greens left over. if i decide to keep the supra i will have to take out a loan to pay for a rebuild.i become attached to my vehicles and hate to get rid of them but you gotta do wat you gotta do! i could try and put oversized bearings in the and as this is the type of knock i have,but id rather do it right to have that peice of mind. so yo all have read this long speil.what do you think????
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