The motor in my celica now rests in peace. now w/ PICS, Bad rod bearing/nice hole in the block Options

[stephen_lee]

Well Saturday I was cruising 410 in San Antonio w/my friend, putting miles on the Integra I built Friday, at about 75. Wasn't speeding, racing, or putting any unnecessary stress on my car at the time. Well an incline came alone and my slushbox decides it needs to down shift. So I'm going up a hill at about 4.5K rpm. and i hear this quiet tapping start. then it slowly gets louder. I call up my friend real quick and tell him i blew my engine, so we pull over at the next exit. I top off my oil and we decide to go back to where we were staying that weekend. 10-15 miles away. So I drive back. Tapping slowly getting worse. So by the time I get into the Garage I'm stuck w/ this:
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This post has been edited by stephen_lee: May 21, 2008 - 8:04 PM

[Dragondog]

i know its bad comparison but my fords engin did the same thing at first my tranny went out had a swap done then my radiator went out fried the engin replaced almost the whole motor then head gaskets AGAIN, then the lifters if im calling them right (pushung the push rods) ((did not have ohc))....lifter had shatterd and the crackshaft had dented and warped........then after fixing...the oil pick up was not working all happend within a year so now i gave up and bought a celica and the ford after a year and a half is still sitting there with half the engin taken apart.........for as long as i knew what a car was i hated fords...and thats y