About to take a drive with a buddy to pick up a clean 1994 Integra gsr 4 door. 100 percent unmolested car with 220k on the dash. 2300 bucks for a car we could part out for double. I'll post details once we get it back from pensylvania.
So I have this PoS Explorer I'm fixing this weekend. Kinda nervous don't want to break anything but I REALLY need my car back lol. Gotta put new head gaskets on, and replace the spark plugs, new coolant (Not only because oil in coolant, but because most of it boiled off), new oil, going to figure out how to make it run leaner because it smells like gas when it runs, and I need a new temperature sensor, cause I think mines stuck (No cab reading at all, don't think it was letting the fan engage to cool the motor). But yeah. It's junk but it's my junk, also needs new motor mounts thing shakes like a leaf when you floor it.
So my Mustang seems to have developed this quirk where if I stall it (learning a new clutch), it floods. It's very fun to sit in traffic with a car that refuses to start. /s
Makes sense, really. Cylinders fill with unburned fuel which fowls the plugs. It's easy to flood a throttle body injected car, but I'm proud of the fact I'm able to do it with multi-point.
So a friend of mine got this on a trade, His plan is to flip it, but it seems to have an overheating problem we can't be bothered to attend to, so right now he's taken to turning the clutch into dust by doing FWD reverse donuts.
You know what's really cool? When the grocery store's electronics section has some CGI-animated kids' movie on repeat, and you stop and watch for a while because you're not really in any hurry, and you realize that the studio obviously has a secret gearhead on the payroll somewhere because all the cars in the background, even if they lack badges and aren't completely true-to-life, are still fully identifiable by make and model. So far, I've seen this in store loops of Finding Dory (Ford box truck which may have actually had a Ford badge on it, Crown Victoria cop cars, Subaru Forester on the freeway) and The Secret Life of Pets (cartoonized but still very recognizable Dodge Nitro and Mini Cooper). It's like one of those guys is one of us and it's so satisfying to see.
Like the 83-88 K5 Blazers in the newest Monsters movie? Yeah they've got aftermarket taillights and the front side markers are a bid odd, but the body lines are almost dead on.
So my friend blew up his new project car wich he bought 2 weeks before so tommorow we'll pull it apart and look whats wrong with it but i think it was a lack of oil. What do you guys think?
If you don't tell us what's exactly happen we can't really guess. Could have been anything ^^ What car it was? How many km? Type of engine?
And other important things like did it leak oil? Did it burn oil? If it did either of those, he probably missed a fill and it went boom.
Friend of mine just took delivery of his new Alumi-Ford today. 6.7 PowerStroke, 450 HP/ 925 FT-LB's, He hasn't had it out much yet, but on the first time merging onto the highway. by the time he reached the end of the on-ramp, he was doing 115.
