My new turbo piping went on, my redo of the pcv valve fromt he oil catch can to the turbo intake was finished, my car was nicely cleaned, washed.... was a perfect day indeed.
Lately the past month, month and a half, my car has been acting really odd... problems nobody ever heard of. The car was pulling fuel away... sometimes just randomly. One day it would be running fine with the a/f ratio, then the next it would pull my fuel away.
Well I soddered my new 02 harness for the primary 02, not crimped it, because of the location I had to move it to thinking that was the problem. I didnt replace the primary 02, because even when I pulled out the harness my car never went into that RICH RICH mode, just stayed stoich. Also I noted my valves making a loud ticking sound after the head spacer was installed. I then turned to the spark plugs thinking they were fouled. When i chaned the spark plugs i noted that plugs had oil on the threads, which troubled me. Thinking nothing of it, I went from NGK 7, to NGK 6 and gapped them at 0.037.
Well today, after how perfect everything went, I took the car out. I then said, its time to open up the throttle. I then stopped on the gas, the car dropped gear, and as soon as the boost hit around 10psi... i heard a puttering sound. thinking great the spark is being blown out, i let off the gas. No check engine light, nothing. I pulled in the drive way, shut off my car, but then realised i had to move it out of the way because we were having the cable guy coming over. When I went to crank it, it wouldnt fire. I was like wait.... wait.... so then i gave it gas, and cranked it again and the car started, but a loud BASH BASH BASH sound was coming from the top of the valve cover. No oil was leaking, no coolent, just loud bash sounds almost like an extremely aggressive valve tap. I checked the oil, no sign of metal flakes or anything. So i was thinking perhaps a valve adjustment is needed. No smoke was coming from the exhaust. However, i looked at the turbo and say that it was smoking itself!?!? The oil seals werent gone or else i would be blowing smoke out of the exhaust so what would be causing this??? This is just odd, i didnt hear a loud boom or anything...?
I then had the car towed to Hyundai, and to my suprise they told me the problem.
1.) My piston rings were melted.
2.) 3 bearings were gone, thus my piston was being launched into the cylinder wall, and valves.
3.) They noted that the piston was almost disolved on the top (2 of the pistons).
They pointed the blame on a few things:
Bad Gas which contributed to detonation.
Decompression of the head gasket
Coolent in my oil from the head gasket being damaged from detonation when my car was leaning out.
My car wouldnt even go into a closed loop mode unless the car was started cold, and it wasnt on for a long period, yet after it was warmed up it did this??? I could smell something burning for weeks, and I believe that when my last turbo went my head gasket was partially damaged, or wasnt seated right, and it severly weakened my motor.
All things set aside, im not going to panic about this. Im authorizing a motor swap, which the dealer will do for me and im being quoted for $1235.00 with timing adjustment, oil change, tranny flash, installation of my new motor, disassembling my old turbo and mounting it on the new motor. The motor im getting is from a friend which only has 25,000k on it (5,000 less then what my old one had). All the seals are brand new, the head is already ported and polished to dmicks specs. My pistons are ROSS Forged low compression, so I wont have to rely on using a head spacer, im getting the job done right this time.
Well, ill be posting pics of this busted engine, if anyone wants it lol let me know ill be more then happy to send you it for fun to look what detonation can do to you!
Lately the past month, month and a half, my car has been acting really odd... problems nobody ever heard of. The car was pulling fuel away... sometimes just randomly. One day it would be running fine with the a/f ratio, then the next it would pull my fuel away.
Well I soddered my new 02 harness for the primary 02, not crimped it, because of the location I had to move it to thinking that was the problem. I didnt replace the primary 02, because even when I pulled out the harness my car never went into that RICH RICH mode, just stayed stoich. Also I noted my valves making a loud ticking sound after the head spacer was installed. I then turned to the spark plugs thinking they were fouled. When i chaned the spark plugs i noted that plugs had oil on the threads, which troubled me. Thinking nothing of it, I went from NGK 7, to NGK 6 and gapped them at 0.037.
Well today, after how perfect everything went, I took the car out. I then said, its time to open up the throttle. I then stopped on the gas, the car dropped gear, and as soon as the boost hit around 10psi... i heard a puttering sound. thinking great the spark is being blown out, i let off the gas. No check engine light, nothing. I pulled in the drive way, shut off my car, but then realised i had to move it out of the way because we were having the cable guy coming over. When I went to crank it, it wouldnt fire. I was like wait.... wait.... so then i gave it gas, and cranked it again and the car started, but a loud BASH BASH BASH sound was coming from the top of the valve cover. No oil was leaking, no coolent, just loud bash sounds almost like an extremely aggressive valve tap. I checked the oil, no sign of metal flakes or anything. So i was thinking perhaps a valve adjustment is needed. No smoke was coming from the exhaust. However, i looked at the turbo and say that it was smoking itself!?!? The oil seals werent gone or else i would be blowing smoke out of the exhaust so what would be causing this??? This is just odd, i didnt hear a loud boom or anything...?
I then had the car towed to Hyundai, and to my suprise they told me the problem.
1.) My piston rings were melted.
2.) 3 bearings were gone, thus my piston was being launched into the cylinder wall, and valves.
3.) They noted that the piston was almost disolved on the top (2 of the pistons).
They pointed the blame on a few things:
Bad Gas which contributed to detonation.
Decompression of the head gasket
Coolent in my oil from the head gasket being damaged from detonation when my car was leaning out.
My car wouldnt even go into a closed loop mode unless the car was started cold, and it wasnt on for a long period, yet after it was warmed up it did this??? I could smell something burning for weeks, and I believe that when my last turbo went my head gasket was partially damaged, or wasnt seated right, and it severly weakened my motor.
All things set aside, im not going to panic about this. Im authorizing a motor swap, which the dealer will do for me and im being quoted for $1235.00 with timing adjustment, oil change, tranny flash, installation of my new motor, disassembling my old turbo and mounting it on the new motor. The motor im getting is from a friend which only has 25,000k on it (5,000 less then what my old one had). All the seals are brand new, the head is already ported and polished to dmicks specs. My pistons are ROSS Forged low compression, so I wont have to rely on using a head spacer, im getting the job done right this time.
Well, ill be posting pics of this busted engine, if anyone wants it lol let me know ill be more then happy to send you it for fun to look what detonation can do to you!
