Well my car was running for 2 days before the horror story took place. I just got done replacing axles, a thermo, and installing my new set of rocker arms. With replacing the axles I could not even drive my car over 5 mph with out there being a horible shake/vibration!! So I cored those axles and got some ABS ones to replace them. With that said my car was running for the 1st time in about 4 months with vtec (.25over ITR pistions, C5 block, P&P,tit. retainers,68mm TB,ect.) My car was running in top notch in my opinion other than it could of used a tune. But on the second day of my car being back together I was on my way home and it starting knocking very badly about 1/4 mile away from my home. So i get home and shut it off immediatly. So the next day I got out and check it before work in the mourning and there is about a 8 inch diameter puddle of oil on the ground (hope the block is still solid!!!) and when i drain the oil there is all sorts of bearing metal on the end of my magnetic drainplug
and it appears for some reason my filter is almost dry.<<<those being the bads. But one thing I am thankful for is that it is not "ceased" I can still turn the engine over by hand and it feels perfectly normal. With all that said is there any advice or ideas on what actually happened?? (I actually think it is oil pump failure) but I would appreciate any help, thanks guys....... in the meantime I better start saving$$-drew

 

Did your oil light ever come on? do you have an oil press guage? When my oil pump shattered the oil light came on immediately and the guage went to 0 (duh), but I shut it off as soon as the light came on and I saved the internals. I didnt leak any oil though, where did your oil come from? Take off the oil pan and look for chunks of ****. You probably messed up your internals if you ran it with no oil for a little while.

 

Well oil light never came on, and i still oil in the pan... or did until I drained it and no I do not have a gauge

 

where did the puddle of oil come from then?? That doesnt sound like an oil pump failure

 

0 oil pres is the first sign even worst with the oil on the ground check for a hole in the block or maybe the oil filter aint their any more

 

no whole in block, Any ideas on why my motor popped? still freakin over HyA

 

its possible that something got into one of the oil galleries blocking off flow, and you would still have oil pressure (correct me if im wrong). just a guess. i wouldnt try and crank this motor any more though

 

How would it be possilbe to retreave somthing from one of the oil gallies if that was the case? Correct me if im wrong but arent most of those pretty much out of reach

 

ttt

 

check the oil pickup. Also did you ever figure out where the oil leaked from???

 

No I havnt found where the oil leak from yet. Right now I am in the process of working mad overtime because either way I know a gut feeling this is going to be expensive. So in 2 weeks it will be time for the teardown again. (grrrr I have only had this motor for 9 months)

 

do you know which side of the engnie the oil came from passenger side or driver side.

Theres not much that can go wrong with these engine other than the oil pump faiures like people said above they usually go bad right way and dont really drip oil but rather theres no pressure. If you have leak of some sort then something externally is leaking and causing the problem.

 

hmmm well it never leaked until the day it popped

 

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thats a good question!

 

the backside of the oil pan, straight down from the oil filter. So basically in the center of the motor

 

is it not leaking from the oil pressure switch area did you blow out the seal from the black box.

 

TTT