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105563, to rebuild or buy new Posted by spooled420, Aug-09-07 09:56 PM
ok looks like im in doo doo,my girlfriend was using the car to go to the store anyways make a long story short my wastegate line tore and it looks like she overboosted it,smoke just poors out of the tailpipe and doesnt want to fire up so i pulled theplugs and poored a liitle bit of lucas oil in the cylinder put the plugs in and it fires up so i think the ring/and orlandings are sol,so im debating getting a used lowmilage engine and start fresh or building the blown motor or mabee start fresh and also build the blown motor slowely in my garage...what would you do??
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105571, RE: to rebuild or buy new Posted by red96rs, Aug-10-07 09:25 AM
Kill her, Slap yourself for letting her drive it, and Rebuild.
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105573, RE: to rebuild or buy new Posted by RoninEclipse2G, Aug-10-07 12:27 PM
when my engine let go I got a used low mileage motor (thanks deej!) and I'm now building the old one, but it's very salvagable. might want to do a teardown to make sure the block isn't toast
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