Is My Car F'd?

[blageo23]

So today I took a more indepth look at the damage. See for yourself. The main bearing isnt too bad, it has one kinda bad groove. now the rod bearing thats a different story. thats has like a little spot of goodness on it. the rest is peaks and valleys. What would you suggest I do? pull the engine and replace bearings and stuff? Can this be done with the egine in the car. The car isnt coming out til spring so i do have the time. Let me know. also the BS bearing I was talking about turns out to be in the back not the front.

[Outlaw1]

Was there any machine work done? Who did the actual assembly of the shortblock? You will not get around tearing the ENTIRE engine down and starting from scratch.

[blageo23]

Had the block hot tanked and honed at kath on rice st. And I did the whole engine buildup.

[Outlaw1]

Had the block hot tanked and honed at kath on rice st. And I did the whole engine buildup.
What was the clearance on the mains/rods?

[niterydr]

I would recommend a full tear down. Tough break.

[TheBlizzard]

This is a tech thread, so if you don't have any technical advice then shut the fuck up. If you two want to tug at each other panties do it somewhere else.

As far as your motors goes blageo I think you already know where you stand. You must have messed something up during the rebuild or overlooked something. But in actuality thats how you learn. Its up to you to find out where you messed up and not do it again.

Oh yeah if you do it again, I would stay clear of the Topline rebuild kits. Unless they have done something totally different recently I haven't heard anything good about them.

[niterydr]

Yeah the topline rebuild kit is mostly junk, but I wasn't going to adress that. The "norm" now is to use the cheapest most inferior part available (this is across the import community). Its how companies like ss autochrome and all the other knockoff/bastard companies stay in business.

[AJ]

This is a tech thread, so if you don't have any technical advice then shut the fuck up. If you two want to tug at each other panties do it somewhere else.




I cleaned some of the garbage out.

Tough break.

[blageo23]

I actually read into topline on dsmtuner. And like over half the people said it was good and they had no problems. And I figures SBR is a good company from what I have heard so I figured that they wouldnt sell junk.

[niterydr]

Its not nessessarly selling a 'junk' product, to them they are selling something in demand. The topline is good for the money, but compared to bearings I'd recommend, they are junk.