Well today with all my recent good luck... I start the car with the ring lands already cracked in #1 and #4 cyclinders. And all I hear is a loud boom then clank clank clank. So I immediately shut the car off. Look under there see little chunks of metal.... Which looks to be pieces of my block and a piston! So I check the compression and its the same as before except cyclinder #1 = 0 :( The compression was 0-174-180-120. I still can't find the hole that the piston shot from though....So I guess my options are to either part the car out or go with a VT short block I havent decided yet.... The block had a nice 5k miles on it too...but stock internals.
Pics!

Motor

Chunk of the block

Piston?

More piston?




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Wow, that sucks. Get some pics of the block when you find the 'window'.

Yah, I definately will we looked for the hole for like 2 hours couldn't find anything. I'm prolly gonna pull the motor and see what I find hehe.


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Originally posted by TapRooT
Well today with all my recent good luck... I start the car with the ring lands already cracked in #1 and #4 cyclinders. And all I hear is a loud boom then clank clank clank. So I immediately shut the car off. Look under there see little chunks of metal.... Which looks to be pieces of my block and a piston! So I check the compression and its the same as before except cyclinder #1 = 0 :( The compression was 0-174-180-120. I still can't find the hole that the piston shot from though....So I guess my options are to either part the car out or go with a VT short block I havent decided yet.... The block had a nice 5k miles on it too...but stock internals. Pics! Motor Chunk of the block Piston? More piston? 1998 Eclipse RS-T Aim= masterkoronor Email krwadd02@louisville.edu

This is why you don't start your car when it's fucked up!
This is a leason for everyone else out there...

And why would you do a compression check AFTER picking up the piston? LOL, just seems a slight waste of time to me... haha.

Sorry about the bad luck there bro.

yes, i also have to ask, on why you started it?

how long was it turboed without a built engine?

I put a big ass hole in my first block from sucking water up in it from a CAI. I got my insurance to pay for it by sticking the stock intake back on and saying that I drove through a deep puddle.

told ya. sorry kiddo




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I still had to drive it daily. As it was my only car.... But it had been turbo for almost 5 months... Mostly pushin 5-7 psi. Then in the last month pushin round 10...


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Originally posted by TapRooT
Then in the last month pushin round 10...

Stock pistons fail at that boost level.

Edit: And yes I know I am stating the obvious.

Originally posted by Ryan_Hes

Originally posted by TapRooT Then in the last month pushin round 10...

Stock pistons fail at that boost level. Edit: And yes I know I am stating the obvious.

:rolleyes

wow. 5 months only? i daily drive my car at 6-7 PSI but sometimes when i get into the mood. I boost it to 10-11 PSI. I've been turbo'd for about 1 year now and my engine is still running good. -=)

Luck of the draw :( Sometimes they blow up fast somethings they last ya never know. We'll I'm buying me a 1st Gen TSI AWD for now until I get the motor built up.. if I wanna go back to the RS haha :)
The t3/t4 also puts out ALOT more power at the 10 psi boost range then the HRC 16g does which is probably why it went bye bye


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well depending on whats wrong with your engine you could still start it up. when I cracked my piston I could still drive it, just I tried not to as much as possible. That's why I got my Z.

Sorry for the loss!:-( By the way, I ran a WRX STI at the track and I smoke him. And my turbo is a small TEO4H @ 10psi, similar to the T-25. It looks like that car is overated. If I were you, I spend the money on the Eclipse, new forged internals and a good fuel system. You will be spending less money at the long run.:thumbsup

Originally posted by customrsturbo
By the way, I ran a WRX STI at the track and I smoke him. And my turbo is a small TEO4H @ 10psi, similar to the T-25. It looks like that car is overated.

Overrated? 300 horse is nothing to sneeze at, I'm guessing you lined up against an overrated driver. What times did you run?

Back on topic, those are some big pieces you found there. Save them as momentos. :afro

its just a fleshwound!

Originally posted by HadesOmega
That's why I got my Z.

Hades got a Z?! :-o

It was only a matter of time.. afterall, FF can't drift! :)

Its not a 350 :P Still a Z though.

If the eclipse wasnt so cheap I would have bought a 300Z

Originally posted by Chamuko
Its not a 350 :P Still a Z though. If the eclipse wasnt so cheap I would have bought a 300Z

Hehehe join the Z and eclipse owners club ....

That sucks, sorry to hear about that. Good luck with the aftermath.

Sorry to hear about the bad luck. Im still running 5psi.. About to jump up to 8 or 9 when I get this sidemount on. Hopefully I wont run into such an issue so soon!


-Chris

Update on the car... Removed oil pan found that it was actually a whole rod that broke and went through the block. There was no rod at all in #1 cyclinder and looked to be a melted piston. The whole in the block was right above the crank so I'm hoping I didn't mess the crank up also....


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Hence the reason my car will never see above 5 psi without a forged rebuild.

When running boost on stock bottom end, it is not a question of if it will fail, but when. Some last longer than others.