Engine Clanking -WTF!!!

[Febo]

On a positive note, I drained all the oil. The oil has, well, 1 mile on it, and it appears to be pretty clean.

I'll slowly be getting the head off the car to see how it looks inside and see how bad the cylinder walls look. I'm going to go ahead and assume the head is shot. Any body have a single roller rocker they'd be willing to part with?

I got a whole bag of em. and a lifter, and valve spring. I also have a head if you need it. Just let me know.

[asshanson]

Did something somehow get into your IC piping and through the manifold into the engine? I don't know if that could have caused that to happen to the spark plug, just a guess. Maybe dropped something when you were putting it all together today?

[1QUICK4]

You said you had just washed your car right?

Did you spray under hood? Could've hydro locked that cylinder but It would have happened right away possibly cracking a piston skirt.

Probably not what happened though as you would've noticed right away.

[Halon]

Thanks for the concerns everyone.

To answer some questions. Andrew, I suppose it is always possibly that somehow, something was inside a pipe that I didn't know about. It wasn't all that complicated to put the TB on. 4 nuts. And None of them were missing. If something is in there, I suppose I'll see it tomorrow when I have the head off. Maybe I've been missing a 10mm socket and I don't even know it yet, and it'll show up in Cyl 1!

Brian, yes I had just gotten the car washed. It was the Holiday gas station's drive thru touchless wash. My hood does have a big hole/vent in it, so it's possible that some water could have gotten into the engine bay. But to hydrolock the motor, I'm thinking that woul dhave happened instantly right? I mean, I drove for maybe 2 minutes after getting out of the car wash, and the car was running just fine. THen all a sudden, out of blue while in 3rd gear going a whopping 45mph, the horrible sounds started.

Tomorrow will hopefully shed a little light on things.

[asshanson]

Ah didnt know it was just the TB you put on. Not likely then.

Sorry to hear man, hope the damage is minimal. I'll probably stop by tomorrow if you'll be home working on it before 9.

[95talonracer]

Sorry man! Same type of thing happened to me on Sunday. Car overheated so i put coolant in and went to start with the radiator cap off and it looked like a fountain gushing out. This is by the way what happened to me on the way home from getting my car from a fresh head gasket job!! Turns out that the head is warped and this has been my problem for the last year with pushing coolant and going through 3 different kinds of head gaskets.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Use a straight edge to check the head when you do a head gasket. It doesn't take a lot to warp a DSM head from overheating.

[Matt D.]

Fucking cars... :( Brandon, let me know if you need help wrenching in the evening this week.

[Sparky2211]

Damn, sorry to hear about that. It crazy how one minute a car will be perfectly fine and then BOOM, its like night and day. :( Hope you get it back up adn running in time for dyno day.

[turbotalon1g]

sorry to hear b man let me know if u need something