Hey guys. Had a bummer of a day today. Find out I owe Uncle Sam eight grand (working independent half the year sucks!) and my car died on me within about 5 minutes of each other.

Situation - this morning I noticed my car was shifting hard - difficulty getting into 1st from a stop, had to match revs pretty carefully to shift between higher gears. This was irritating and I thought it unusual but I just kinda dealt with it.

A couple hours later, I'm heading home, rolling in 3rd about 40 mph, and I gas it to accelerate, the car pulls for a sec and then I hear a loud bang/snap noise and the engine just starts revving freely. Like I popped out of gear or something. But then if I clutch it and try to put it in any gear it makes a really bad grinding noise. Neutral is OK, and I still had enough speed to coast someplace safe and wait for a tow truck.

Car is a '96 GSR, Type-R tranny, B20B turbo engine at the moment. Clutch was an ACT extreme pressure plate with a Clutchnet unsprung street friction disc. Those are the only details I can think of that would be relevant. The tranny/clutch were acting fine up until this morning, and the only other problem I've been having is some vibration from my CV joints; I was getting ready to replace the driveaxles because of this.

I'm hoping somebody has some ideas what could have gone wrong here. I'll be tearing into it tomorrow but it would be nice to have a little insight before I go digging.

I think my plan at this point is to get my stock engine rebuilt to stock specs, sell off the turbo / EMS / everything else, drive the car bone stock for awhile and get OUT. This has just been too much trouble, and I don't want to deal with it anymore. If anyone can help me get over this hurdle I'd appreciate it though!

Thanks

 

well i can't really help you with your problem, but eight grand?!?!?!?!? Man that must really suck.

 

Yep. It would have been over 12k if we hadn't done some clever writeoffs.

Working as an independent with no taxes withheld sucks. I should have been setting money aside from each paycheck but instead I put that money into a down payment on a house, assuming that the deduction for paying interest on the house for the rest of the year would mostly balance it out. Problem is, the house wasn't completed until 4 months behind schedule so I only got 3 months of interest deduction. My own fault, more or less.