Well I was gettin my car tuned and this was the outcome

 

Mak th people tuning it pay for it lol. Buy a new block. What bottom end is this? If it's an LS, bare blocks can be had for $100 or less.

 

what's the setup? looks like nothing new sleeves and internals cant fix.

 

resleeve.

 

It's a gsr b18c1 block.. Had a t3t4 60 trim on it.. Should I go with a ls block? Or should I just get this one sleeved and rebuild the gsr motor? What's better for boost

 

Or does it matter if I get low compression pistons?

 

But buying another block will be a hell of a lot cheeper than sleeves.

 

Lower compression pistons are better for boost. I'm guessing it's a gsr head?

 

sleeve it and have a stronger block

 

the gsr block is a bit better due to it's factory girdle.

what was the reason for the sleeve cracking? there appears to be some signs of detonation on the pistons if i am seeing it correctly.

 

It was a stock gsr head with arp head studs.. But I have no idea why it cracked.. Obviously too much boost lol....

 

If I was to ship this off to Golden eagle is this fixable?

 

Yea, it's called re-sleeving lol (I'm sure you know that), not much else you can do. Hope you got some dough bra.

2 options.

1 resleeve
2 buy new bare block or assembled shortblock.

 

it depends on how far down that crack goes.

 

That's why I have been telling him to just get a new bottom end. So much cheaper than getting the "fixed" or resleeved.

 

So if I go with a with a new block how do i know this isn't gonna happen again? I thought by getting it resleeved it will be alot stronger then normal....

 

you still don't know what caused it to crack though, right? the color of your pistons lead me to believe you had a blown headgasket.

 

It never smoked or anything though.. I don't know what caused it to tell u the truth

 

I'd resleeve it so you don't crack your sleeves again. How much psi were you at when that happend?

 

They were at 15

 

What size turbo?

 

Yea a little bit of positive pressure isn't going to cause a sleeve to crack. And getting it sleeved will make it stronger, but it's gonna cost you a dickload of money. Like stated above, you aren't sure what caused this, but my guess is that there was already a hairline crack forming just from being an old engine, but if you buy a new block just make sure cylinder runout is in spec, basically a perfectly good factory sleeve is not going to do that, even with a little positive pressure ("boost" as they call it).

 

T3/t4 60 trim

 

Ehhh, yea I still highly doubt 15psi on a 60trim would cause that. Only if there was already a hairline crack forming to begin with.

 

I dont know too much about boost. But could the wastegate have failed and boost spiked for a second and blow the block?