Well....the compression results show now that my 550 mile ls turbo motor is fucked. We found out that the day we tried to fire up the car for the first time we didn't know how to set the timing in the aem and we extremely retarded the timing causing insane cylinder temperatures. My sfp manifold was glowing red hot at idle and we really thought nothing of it until it was too late. We shut the car off everytime it happened but the damage was already done. All my hard work and $ down the drain. Now the car has to wait at least a year 1/2 to rebuilt due to lack of money. As a few of you know the car only made 290 whp on 14psi, now we know why, it was only running on two good cylinders. Here are some pics of the tear down.
Here's cylinder 2


Block pic


Cylinder 3

Check out my head and make sure it looks ok

cylinder 2


Cylinder 1 looks good

Me being angry!!

AFter two hours of work, man we work fast when motivated

Depression setting in


More anger!

This has been an all too familiar site for me lately

Thanks for everyone who helped me in this project, another will soon begin

 

sorry to see that man. hopefully everything gets back up and running soon

 

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I don't like that pic...it makes me want to cry . You had a really good setup to. I'm sorry that you spent well earned money and good parts for this to happen because of somethin stupid.

 

i cant see whats wrong, what is wrong, rings? that **** doesnt look like anything major that would take a bunch of money.

 

duck to hear, why didnt u take it to a tuner? someone that knows?

 

We did take it to a tuner. We tried to get the car started on a modded basemap that was sent to me and we ended up making the problem worse. We wanted to drive the drive the car to the dyno. There is aluminum deposit on the cylinder 2,3 look closely.

 

Sorry to see that.

 

Sorry for your loss. Id be pissed as well. At least your still going to build. GL!

 

that sux ,but good luck in the future

 

Did the tuner know what he was doing....so much timing!!!!

 

sorry to hear that man....good luck with the build...hope all goes well

 

Well atleast you can see the good in things, like you can rebuild, but still thats a lot of $ to see go up in smoke.... I feel so bad for you!

 

damn that sucks, i know how you feel. i had kind of the same thing happen to me, but my engine got hydrolocked and bent a valve and messed up a piston. cause some dumbass hooked up a water line to the wrong place!!

 

we will get the engine back together fast. we are going to pull the pistons out Thursday. there's no major damage to the block, i can scrap the metal off with my finger nail. the sleeve is still smooth under the chips. it sucks that it happend but we are learning from this and making the car better.

 

man that sucks ***! Sorry to hear that! Good Luck on your next motor!

 

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WOAH, WTF DID THEY DO, hook that **** up to the VALVE COVER BREATHER!@!!???

 

hone that **** out go .5mm up and give it hell again man

 

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cant remember was ahile ago, but it was some idiot screwed around with some of the lines when he was looking around and i guess switched it up. they rebuilt my engine at free of cost and did ls/vtec instead of full ls like i had before. so in the end i was happy.

 

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I know how you feel man.... I looked like that after my first turbocharger blew in 10minz......**** I might look like that again tomarow when I bring my car to the shop to see wuts wronge with it...

 

damn dude.. this almost made me sick, lol. I hate that feeling when you put a lot of hard work, time and money into something, and before you can even enjoy it, it is taken away . Sorry to hear bro, good luck with getting everything fixed, and working again

 

Thanks for all the support guys. For the past 3 days me and Accordlove have been cranking away on the car trying to break everything down and get new parts on it. I'm taking the block to my machine man to take a look at it to determine if I need to go to a bigger bore or just hone it smooth. The car is only going to get faster. I got gator stage 2's on the way, crower dual springs so I can rev to 8k, and redoing alot of the paint and wiring. All in all I haven't been able to sleep because of this but It'll go back together better than ever. Also, we're going to paint the block, head, and tranny gloss black, heeh.

 

i am sorry to see this **** happen. Rebuild it fast.

 

eat something

 

I'm glad things are looking up for you.

 

damn man! good luck with the next build
just keep thinking about the smilie you'll get when you're done it all.

can you make it to the tuner using the stock ecu and stock injectors?