i'm looking at a motor from a car that was in a pretty violent rollover accident. most everything on the motor is intact since the body folded around it and protected it (not like in a head-on accident, for example), but i'm wondering if there is anything i should look for that might cause problems due to the motor having been run upside down, even if it was for a short period of time.

tia.

 

anybody?

 

your probably gonna be ok

 

i'm wondering about oiling issues. is there anything that shuts off an upside down car? like how rear-impact switches work?

 

Do you mean when the car started to rollover and stuff did the car lay on its topside with the motor still running? Well im sure some sort of way if it did the only way it would still run is however much fuel was left in the fuel lines because once the car was to tip over the fuel would move to the topside of the gast tank. The pickup on the fuel pump is on the bottom side so if it did run it would prolly at most run for 5 min...doubt it did any damage at all.

 

are you able to comp. test it even crank it