DivineCivic

I tried using search and didnt find anything that was a reliable source of information in answering my question.. So I'm relying on you guys to help me.. Anyways, I have a stock 2000 Dx Hatch, 70k miles on engine and chassis (daily driver), babied and very well tooken care of, oil changed at most every 2500 miles, car was 400 miles fresh into an oil change, so I was led to believe that the oil was good for a few more miles, (I use regular castrol 10w30). So heres the story, I was on the main stretch by my house cruising at maybe 45 and my engine started knocking out of no where, I'm like, hell no, wtf.. I should have immediatly stopped my car, the knocking just started and it could have possibly of been fixed, but my dumb stubborn ***, decided to take the closest back road, to take it as easy as I could being that my house was only a few blocks away. So, I'm driving about 15mph and the knocking still seams to be minor. Well I'm pulling up to my driveway and BOOM! my engine co completely blows, a few peices of my block bounce around in my engine bay and on the ground, along with the biggest cloud of smoke I have ever seen. So heres the mystery (to me anyways), my car never leaked any oil, there is not 1 drop of oil where my car parks in my garage, and the oil pan bolt was securely tight, also my car didnt burn any oil, no smoke to be seen what so ever, I was just wondering if any of you had any feedback for me, or if there is anything I can do to prevent this next time..

civictildeath

sounds like a rod broke. nothing you did could have stopped it if it wanted to break. just maybe a bad one got through at production.

civiccoupe94

time to swap in a B series!!! i think its going to cost like 800 or so to rebuild that D. just spend a feww hundred more to get a B series..

whitecat31

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DivineCivic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">So heres the story, I was on the main stretch by my house cruising at maybe 45 and my engine started knocking out of no where, I'm like, hell no, wtf.. I should have immediatly stopped my car, the knocking just started and it could have possibly of been fixed, but my dumb stubborn ***, decided to take the closest back road, to take it as easy as I could being that my house was only a few blocks away. So, I'm driving about 15mph and the knocking still seams to be minor. Well I'm pulling up to my driveway and BOOM! my engine co completely blows, a few peices of my block bounce around in my engine bay and on the ground,</TD></TR></TABLE>

Could you take some pictures for us? It could be a rod, but I don't know. Of course at this point, I and everybody else are going to tell you how LUCKY you are because now you have an excuse to SWAP an engine in.

Good Luck

civictildeath

wait 70k miles?? i smell warranty and brand new engine. check your warranty over and then you can sell the good engine to buy a swap

DivineCivic

The stock warranty ran out at 36000 miles, the last owner didnt get a new one. I purchased it at 55000 and I never got one, so thats my fault.. Everytime I try to upload pictures for you guys, my computer freezes, any suggestions..? =/

JDMallTHEway

1. get a new computer.
2. get a new motor.
3. cry for all the money you just spent.

The DX Rex

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JDMallTHEway &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">1. get a new computer.
2. get a new motor.
3. cry for all the money you just spent.</TD></TR></TABLE>

lol i second that

DivineCivic

My computer cost 2200$ alone, not including the monitor, I dont need a new computer, something just needs to be fixed..

Oops.. 22, not 32..


Modified by DivineCivic at 7:34 AM 4/24/2005

parasonic

Unless you're running a quad Opteron workstation, you were ripped off.

Turbo_y8

1 delete all the porno
2 i bet it holds alot of porno tho

sockvtec

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Honda_project98 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">1 delete all the porno
2 i bet it holds alot of porno tho </TD></TR></TABLE>

whats a computer without ****??? lol

EeeJayEight

get a mac... solves problems

jmorris

Back to the original problem- Sound like a bad rod- factory issue probably. Looking at 4-600 for a new engine- just spend the extra and buy a cheap B18B1 swap.

gtowni3

lol <TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by parasonic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Unless you're running a quad Opteron workstation, you were ripped off.</TD></TR></TABLE>

GO GSR MAN!!!!

JDMallTHEway

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Yea you did get ripped...what are your specs, maybe i can give you some ideas.

As far as your motor, it's blown, its not so important why, as to what are you going to do now. I recommend an LS swap, as that is rather affordable, or you could stick a y8 in there, that would probably be easiest, cheap enough and give you some more power while your at it.

CRXified

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HAHAHAHa on what planet?

whitecat31

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I am getting side tracked here from HONDA to computer stuff, but what the heck did you pay 3200 for? Is it a lap top?
Anyway, I am not sure why you can not upload a picture. It might be something due to the trial user status. I don't know much about the trial user status, except the 5 post limit, and the fact I can not BUY anything from the classifieds.. GRUMBLE.
Anyway, it could be a computer problem. Set up another website, and see if you can download the pictures there and then send a link to that site. http://www.myspace.com lets you upload photos.

I would like a breakdown of your 3200 dollar computer though.
Monitor?
CPU
Motherboard and Chipset
Videocard
Sound..built in or sound card
Memory RAM, type.. DDR?
Hard drive
Operating system
Any other peripherals you feel like volunteering.


Some of this info is easy to get using the Direct X diagnostic tool
Go to Start. Go to run. Inside the run box type DXDIAG. This will launch the Direct X diagnostic tool. You can use this to see what your system has, and possible test your Videocard.
To be honest, I can't imagine what NON LAPTOP is worth more than 3000, especially when you can get top of the line computers for under 2 grand.

I am only helping with this, because I was the numbskull who asked you to post pictures.

JDMallTHEway

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mac kills my inner child

Otherguy

LOOK GUYS HE WAS A NERD AND BOUGHT A DELL!!!

If you did buy a dell your a smack tard... i built this for about a grand and i bet it will out preform your **** =P




When i comes to computers, i know my ****...

1995Ex_Sedan

Does that AEM sticker give it 100 Mhz?


It had to be asked.

2000DX

Crazy catch can setup!

97civicdx

Its got some BLING too. hehehe

Cypher0117

you only have two hard drives...weak...i got 4 put some neons in there and get some water cooling and get rid of the stock heatsink on your video card about put a good one on...stock heatsinks suck!

as for the blown motor. i would have to say scrap it and get a swap

Otherguy

There are 3 hard drives in there... they are...

2x Seagate Barracuda 400GB 7200 RPM 8M Cache
1x Maxtor 300GB 7200 RPM 16M Cache

And i dont think your overclocked pentium 2 could handle my ****... so shut up...

And the AEM sticker b00sted 125mhz~!!!! cant forget about mad v-t3C!!!!!!

And just like your car... my ownes yours, so shut up and why dont you try to water cool your car so you can over clock it so you can keep up with me!