Last night, i got in passing lane to get around a car gave it full throttle cuz its a Honda and it was uphill, heard and felt some clunking (not to loud but really noticeable) looked in mirror and saw nothing but smoke coming from my car (not sure wat color it was night) then the car shut off and i rolled to the shoulder.

What happened i figured i would get a few educated guesses while i wait for response from dealer.

Just some additional info that may fit into the puzzle, it was raining ealier that night and i may have got water sucked into the CAI, i also have the timing advanced a tad if that might have had an affect on it.

Any opinions or suggestions please respond. Thanks in advance.

1999 Dx automatic 102,079 miles, no motor work just I/E
at the time of the incident i was doing 80mph if thats of any use.

 

If you hydrol-locked it, then you threw a rod. Could have been bad detonation and you blew out a headgasket. Are there no other clues as to what happened? Dents in the oil pan? Odd oil/coolant leaks? But unless you hit a monster puddle while passing, I don't hink you hyro'd your motor. It may have just tossed a rod for the hell of it. Of course, you could have also broken a timing belt or lost a crank pulley for that matter.

Need to know a little more first.

 

Did you snap your timing belt? Could be alot of things. Tear it down and take a look.

Brian

 

water is irrelevant here. you were already/still driving. hydrolock = instant motor seizing.

so its not that.

maybe something just gave out. check your oil level?

 

thats happened to me a few times. in my case:

one thrown rod
one broken timing belt
one ruined oil pickup

 

List of things blown headgasket (don't know how it can make klunk noise though), probably spun road bearing, or piston slap. You will need to take the car home inspect it, try to crank it with a wrench, then proceed to taking off the valve cover check what's going on. If you don't find nothing then it's something underneath the head.

 

thanks for the help so far, i would love to give you guys a lil more info but it happened at night and i couldnt see anything at all that may have happened, and i had the car towed to my work (Lehigh Valley Honda) so i cant check it now

 

oh yah and i only work saturdays till schools over so i wont get up there to look at it till then but by then ill prolly know wat happened

 

turns out the connecting rod put a nice quarter sized hole in my oil pan.
time to motor shop!

 

i did the same thing to hyundia exel goin 65 in 5th gear god the car was a piece of ****,funny thing though it was still running when i pulled over