Ok so heres the story guys: Just finished the build: CP pistons 10:6:1 Eagle h-beam rods, ACL Race-coated bearings, b16a crank micropolished and ballenced, B16a 81.5mm, you guys get the idea. Anyway motor just got put in car and fired up took up road borught back had a small oil leak that we were going to finish the next day. Well early on thursday morning about 4 AM ish Nov 9. Theif comes and steals the car (broke window) rips ignition out starts the car and leaves right outta my friends (builder) driveway. Drives it pretty much the whole state, like 2 hrs.. (Delaware yes its small) and car breaks down on sit of road i assume b/c it leak out all the oil the whole way up) dude steals IC piping and BOV, back seats, Guages, and glovebox. I HATE THEIVES.

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That sucks. I would love to rip their arms off.

 

dude that really sucks.....i hope the person that did this gets whats coming to them....i could think of many cruel things to do to someone like that....hopefully if someone ever does steal my stuff, i dont find out who it is......

thieves should die....but not too fast

 

i kno how u feel dude, i hate leaving my car in just my drive way. if its not in the garage im afraid someone will get to it, especially cuz my friends cars have been stolin

 

this is one nice part about living in ND...the crime rate is incredibly low

 

 

I hate this we always say we hope they get what they deserve but nobody ever really gives it to them and thats wgy it still happens Sorry for your loss man and good luck

 

ugh...thats just crappy..i had my car broken into 3 times when i was in high school...in the highschool parking lot!

 

damn sry to hear about that.. real shitty since u just finished the set up, hope u find them

 

holy moly

 

yep, it was the worst feeling ever.

 

holy ****! is insurance going to cover it?

 

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Lived in Grand Forks for about 6 1/2 years. That's about the ONLY thing I liked about that state. That and KJ108. I miss that radio station. Tanner and Mars in the morning rocked.

 

sorry to hear man. did u have thefy insurance? the only thing one can hope for in a situation like this is A.) The insurance company foots the bill/ or atleast some of it. or B.) You find the guy responsible for it and woop his ***.

 

Well at least you got most of it back. I'd rather have a burnt engine, the turbo, and most of the shell than just a cop saying "Sorry, we'll keep an eye out *giggle*". I'd have the builder give some names of people he knows who lives near where the theif was going, since it had to be someone who knew that guy built cars up.

I also think that's cool the rods didn't break, despite being 'cheap eagles' as some people think. I'd think it would only be $1500 to replace the parts & machine work, rather than a good $4-5k for the entire setup/car.

 

That sux, sorry for the loss

 

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No doubt. It looks like the bottom end got REALLY hot!

I don't think I've ever seen a bottom end with heat marks like that without bent or snapped rods. Usually the lack of oil leads to heat which leads to the rods seizing on the crank and snapping like twigs.

I would say that you are lucky, but you just got your car stolen so I won't.

Sorry to hear about the loss. Sucks that you were so close to finishing the build and then this **** happens.

 

Yea the rods took a beating for sure. BUt you can definatly see where they started to fail. The builder and I have known each other for years, its prolly somone i knew from high school or something. BUt its pretty unlikely I will ever find them. As for the insurence they are not going to cover anything, it was only liability

 

I would shoot um if I knew who it was...that sucks man wtf is wrong with people. best of luck to you, sorry that it happend!

 

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i dont know, but someone needs to figure that out....its not fair that someone like the OP spent a lot of time and money on this and just to have some poor, mouth-breathing f*cker wreck everything....that's not fair

 

Yeah its not fair.....but ive come to find out life isnt fair either....just gotta get through it. The re-build is in the works fellas, fortuantly the pistons survived and the cylder walls arent scrapped up too bad

 

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impossible is nothing bro you can do it if you put your mind to it. make it stronger and faster than it ever was. nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely

 

I put a benson block in a kids car and he forgot to tighten the drain plug on his 2nd oil change. Drove it until the light came on. His crank looked just like that but a little blacker. I had to snap the ARPs off the rods since they were so seized up. What a mess.
Sorry to hear about this, did the cyl walls or head take a beating?

 

WOW,sorry to hear that.

 

head was fine, sent it away to machine shop to get it double checked and cleaned up. Cylinder walls look pretty good, there is some scratching, but shouldnt effect anything, pistons survived as well.