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??
#105573, "RE: to rebuild or buy new" In response to Reply # 1
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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