View Full Version : How many motors have you blown?
On_Her_Face
01-22-2010, 03:04 PM
Just wondering for no reason. :ninja:
Turbodude06
01-22-2010, 03:11 PM
only one, a $200 350 in my first car, a 1979 El Camino...... Oh YEA!!! Lasted 6 months of pure HELL!!!
TSiFTW
01-22-2010, 03:13 PM
2 but they were both just apex seals in my rotaries. God I miss them.
1 celica gt and 3 LS motors
Turbodude06
01-22-2010, 03:13 PM
We should do a tranny count, now those I have blown up lol....
On_Her_Face
01-22-2010, 03:14 PM
One which was my fault and another motor that wasn't my fault"ish".
allmotorX
01-22-2010, 03:32 PM
blew my d16 in about month and half it was my first 5spd i was still learning
CHADbee
01-22-2010, 03:37 PM
i voted one even though i didnt "blow it up"....i ran through a deep puddle at 7K RPM's with a cold air intake :doh:
ground_shaki
01-22-2010, 03:37 PM
1 a 92 honda accord f22 good times
AnthonyF
01-22-2010, 03:38 PM
AHH fuck. I answered wrong. I've blown 5 in my mustang and 1 in a Dodge Stealth RT. So 6....:eek::crazy:
-Ant.
tdurr
01-22-2010, 03:40 PM
does bending a valve count as blowing the motor?
ranger250x
01-22-2010, 03:48 PM
spun bearings in the miata and mustang. cracked the head(s) on my old ranger. dont know how tht happened. it was never out of WOT. lol
Turbodude06
01-22-2010, 04:07 PM
AHH fuck. I answered wrong. I've blown 5 in my mustang and 1 in a Dodge Stealth RT. So 6....:eek::crazy:
-Ant.
dang 5 mustang motors what were u doing???
jhadleyh
01-22-2010, 04:09 PM
just 1 d16
teh_mugen18
01-22-2010, 04:13 PM
2.....
My first LS motor, locked up on me.
second LS motor lasted for a year, was converted to LSVTEC but was put together wrong and it blew within 5days of daily driving it w/vtec.. threw a rod and put a nice fat hole through the block due to oil starvation and high-rpms.
Kason23
01-22-2010, 04:46 PM
I blew two B16 motors on my SI using nitrous (without fail safes). The SRT motor has held its own but I have messed two turbos up somehow lol
TIGERJC
01-22-2010, 05:06 PM
1 in the mr2 - due to me not getting it tune
1 in the evo - mechanic fault (dont know who)
SmackedInATL
01-22-2010, 05:09 PM
Ask 03CobraAV8R how many Terminator motors he has blown up.
AnthonyF
01-22-2010, 05:19 PM
dang 5 mustang motors what were u doing???
Engines:
1. S/c no tune broke piston
2. S/c no tune broke 6 pistons, head gasket, bearing, everything
3. back up engine, stock
4. S/c poor tune burnt up 6 forged pistons
5. s/c clogged injector burnt up one piston
6. s/c, meth, nitrous, still running in the mustang..
Hopefully I will buy the car back, and blow up the engine and stick something in MUCH larger. :ninja:
-Ant.
collins
01-22-2010, 05:19 PM
Ask 03CobraAV8R how many Terminator motors he has blown up.
LOL. Poor Rick. I think my favorite story is when his crank snout broke. Lolol. The boy has such bad luck with that car.
I, myself, have only popped one engine. It was the original b18 in my old teg. She spun a main bearing at the top of a 2-3 shift. She lasted 193k miles of sheer torture tho, so can't say I didn't get my money's worth.
Got Milk?
01-22-2010, 05:38 PM
We should do a tranny count, now those I have blown up lol....
That's what I thought when I saw this thread. :goodjob:
CeOTiO8
01-22-2010, 06:16 PM
ZERO... Never had driving problems :goodjob:
On_Her_Face
01-22-2010, 06:17 PM
I ruined the head, #6 piston and piston wall on my first motor.
GangstaCoupe
01-22-2010, 06:27 PM
I hurt/blew 3 motors in 09 alone, although it wasn't in a street car.
btstone
01-22-2010, 06:46 PM
0 motors for me
my s2k motor was super strong. i put 650whp on the stock engine and beat the shit out of it....trannies suck though
SmackedInATL
01-22-2010, 08:16 PM
Engines:
1. S/c no tune broke piston
2. S/c no tune broke 6 pistons, head gasket, bearing, everything
3. back up engine, stock
4. S/c poor tune burnt up 6 forged pistons
5. s/c clogged injector burnt up one piston
6. s/c, meth, nitrous, still running in the mustang..
Hopefully I will buy the car back, and blow up the engine and stick something in MUCH larger. :ninja:
-Ant.
You're a fucking dumbass. You don't deserve a fast car.
*EFilliated*
01-22-2010, 08:35 PM
(1) My first Car lol (d15b7)
Turbodude06
01-22-2010, 10:33 PM
Engines:
1. S/c no tune broke piston
2. S/c no tune broke 6 pistons, head gasket, bearing, everything
3. back up engine, stock
4. S/c poor tune burnt up 6 forged pistons
5. s/c clogged injector burnt up one piston
6. s/c, meth, nitrous, still running in the mustang..
Hopefully I will buy the car back, and blow up the engine and stick something in MUCH larger. :ninja:
-Ant.
Thats awsome:lmfao:, I would have gave up after the second one honestly:screwy:..... Do consider tuning next time:goodjob:...
collins
01-22-2010, 11:07 PM
You're a fucking dumbass. You don't deserve a fast car.
He's never HAD a fast car :ninja: lol
Evil Goat
01-22-2010, 11:24 PM
put a golf ball sized hole in the side of a piston wall once.....
nothing on the current car but looking to change that this year....going for the stock block record is gonna be fun!
AnthonyF
01-23-2010, 04:32 PM
You're a fucking dumbass. You don't deserve a fast car.I never lost to a 350z..or a car with half my power :rolleyes:
Thats awsome:lmfao:, I would have gave up after the second one honestly:screwy:..... Do consider tuning next time:goodjob:...They sent a "tune" with it, but it couldn't handle it for some reason. Then when I did get it tune, it never ran right for some reason.
He's never HAD a fast car :ninja: lol
You've never raced me. ;) My dad's 06 SRT-10 can vouch for it. ;)
-Ant.
SmackedInATL
01-23-2010, 08:06 PM
I never lost to a 350z..or a car with half my power :rolleyes:
How do you figure it had half my power when I trapped 109 and he trapped 110 when I busted his ass at the track last year Opening Day at SDR. Do I need to dig up a timeslip?:2up:
ueyedgr8tness
01-23-2010, 08:33 PM
1 in a 89 grand pri
2 in a 98 aurora
And ant,u had 1 sexy stang i must admit:)
JDMJAYDC2
01-24-2010, 05:01 PM
1 b16 due to low oil
and my old accord motor a20a3 headgasket blew on me
Black4DrEK
01-24-2010, 05:31 PM
Two
First D16Y8, then B16
patrick4588
01-24-2010, 05:52 PM
a stock gsr and two sleeved built gsr motors.
marcos713
01-24-2010, 05:58 PM
0 for me. hopefully my gsr isnt my 1st....*knocks on wood*
tdurr
01-25-2010, 01:24 AM
1 b16 due to low oil
and my old accord motor a20a3 headgasket blew on me
old school motors ftw! i can change a head gasket on that motor in 2 hours....
40th GT
01-25-2010, 01:55 AM
I blew two in my go kart.
One was due to old age - 20 year old Briggs and Stratton.
The other one (Honda OHV) was from me running it without the air filter. :D
Didn't blow any in any cars.
Humphrizzle
01-25-2010, 02:25 AM
zero
GTScoob
01-25-2010, 02:27 AM
Spun the bearing on my old EJ205 slowing down from a 140mph pull, started knocking once I got down to 75mph or so. But there were 40K of hard miles on that motor and I think it was above stock boost for 35K of those.
TS240
01-25-2010, 02:43 AM
Never technically "blown" a motor but my sr has been through a ton of shit in the last two years.... bent valves, blown headgaskets, warped head etc... Apparently Im getting away with a lot on a stock bottom end.
DG240
01-25-2010, 03:56 AM
3 for me:
1st- waterpump broke on '88 isuzu p/u while doing 80! can you say hydrolock?
2nd- spun rod bearing on s14 ka
3rd- spun rod bearing on s13 ka
Stol3n
01-25-2010, 06:58 AM
LOL. Poor Rick. I think my favorite story is when his crank snout broke. Lolol. The boy has such bad luck with that car.
listening to him tell that story makes me LOL.
In his defense, he does drive the piss out of that car every single day (that it's running). . .I think it's over 100k now.
btstone
01-25-2010, 01:26 PM
You're a fucking dumbass. You don't deserve a fast car.
did he have one?
4eyedbox
01-25-2010, 02:01 PM
Back around '98 I had a thing for trying to add nitrous to the old D15 dual injector engines, as they were dirt cheap. Needless to say, I never got one to hold anything over a 100 shot, regardless of which fuel jet I used with it. I would say all together that Doug, my cohort in all of this, and myself probably blew 15 of these engines. I know of one weekend were we blew 4 from Friday evening till Sunday afternoon.
I blew 2 Pontiac Quad4 engines. The first suffered from detonation and blew a piston apart. The second had a fuel problem with a s/c and ended up going seriously lean and throwing rods through the block.
With my BMW, I have torn the S50 up twice. The first time the cylinder head cracked and it hydrolocked #3 or #4. Then the last time I bent 2 rods from boost spikes.
I blew up a friends s/c 302 in his foxbody when we took it to Colorado in '97. That was the last time that I ever drove a Mustang.
I blew several (4 or 5) B18's when first stepping into the FI Honda world back in '98-'99. Finally got it right when I took it to get tuned in FL. However upon first arriving, I didn't think that the drunk ass guy could even stand up, let alone tune my car. Well he did and his tune lasted 20K+ miles of pure abusive driving until the car got stolen.
I won't go into all the air cooled motors that I blew other than asking, "Have you ever seen a 1600cc blow 2 foot flames back through the carb as the carb is being blown off the engine?"
AnthonyF
01-27-2010, 04:16 PM
did he have one?
Yup yup. Ü
About to have another one since I sold my truck. Then comes heavily modding the bike. w00t w00t.
-Ant.
Machado
02-02-2010, 05:15 PM
None! my Rotarys are reliable :taun:
4eyedbox
02-06-2010, 03:36 PM
None! my Rotarys are reliable :taun:
Lies, all lies!!!
Nobody believes that a rotary is reliable.:D
h22 jones
02-11-2010, 02:54 AM
Well after reading this thread i believe i have tosted more motors than most people have owned cars lol.
1 crx -blowed head gasket
2 crx-locked up cam
3 crx-spun rod bearing
4 crx-dropped valve (3 transmissions)
well that was 6 months after i turned 16 and im 31 now lol and thats how i learned to work on hondas.
5 94 toyota spun rod bearing
6 92 mazda b2600 spun rod bearing
7 93 hatch with h22 siezed up
8 94 si hatch turbo h22 blown piston rings
9 95 accord f22 spun rod bearings
10 95 accord f20b spun rod bearing
11 95 accord built h22 fly wheel came off fucked up crank
12 95 accord built h22 different fly wheel broke in half shot through transmission fucked up block
13 95 accord built h22 fried piston injector stopped up
14 93 si hatch built h22 broke timing built messed head up and broke crank.
15 93 si hatch built h22 fried piston
16 93 si hatch built h22 fried piston types pistons want work in sleeved block.
17 93 si hatch built h22 new forged pistons 252 hp all motor 2000 miles runs great for now lol.
jdm-civic
02-11-2010, 03:30 PM
threw a rod through the block in my ls swapped crx si
superboost
02-12-2010, 07:01 AM
3
Dropped valve, smacks piston, piston drives valve into head, pierces water jacket.
Overboosted, stupidly removed fuel cut, bent two rods, cracked a piston, cracked a cyl wall.
Wrist pin let go, piston beat into head (nice ported head too) rod beat out wall.
Machado
02-16-2010, 10:37 PM
Lies, all lies!!!
Nobody believes that a rotary is reliable.:D
:tongue1:
aaronfelipe
02-16-2010, 11:36 PM
I refuse to participate in the poll as it might JINX me.
Lankhoss
02-21-2010, 01:52 PM
I was practically forced to blow the first motor in my car, since GM wouldn't replace the bad oil pump.
teh_mugen18
02-21-2010, 02:10 PM
3
Dropped valve, smacks piston, piston drives valve into head, pierces water jacket.
Overboosted, stupidly removed fuel cut, bent two rods, cracked a piston, cracked a cyl wall.
Wrist pin let go, piston beat into head (nice ported head too) rod beat out wall.
lol..i like the nice, vivid descriptions of internal engine destruction in that post there.. :(
Dwisforme05
02-22-2010, 12:19 AM
Engines:
1. S/c no tune broke piston
2. S/c no tune broke 6 pistons, head gasket, bearing, everything
3. back up engine, stock
4. S/c poor tune burnt up 6 forged pistons
5. s/c clogged injector burnt up one piston
6. s/c, meth, nitrous, still running in the mustang..
Hopefully I will buy the car back, and blow up the engine and stick something in MUCH larger. :ninja:
-Ant.
i know you know better then this. why would you ever run an S/C on a 4.0 without a tune. on any motor for that matter.
as for my answer, i havent blown any( knock on wood) my motor is running just dandy lol
AnthonyF
02-23-2010, 10:07 AM
i know you know better then this. why would you ever run an S/C on a 4.0 without a tune. on any motor for that matter.
as for my answer, i havent blown any( knock on wood) my motor is running just dandy lolit was there "mail" tune. which was supposed to be fine for the psi that was being run. Oh well. Live and learn.
LAST time i will ask, I still have those ford racing 39.5# Injectors. Do you need them? Or already have a set? Know anyone that needs them? $100, plus i have the PC BOV & a 10psi pulley for a PC.
-Ant.
Dwisforme05
02-23-2010, 03:53 PM
it was there "mail" tune. which was supposed to be fine for the psi that was being run. Oh well. Live and learn.
LAST time i will ask, I still have those ford racing 39.5# Injectors. Do you need them? Or already have a set? Know anyone that needs them? $100, plus i have the PC BOV & a 10psi pulley for a PC.
-Ant.
i already have some injectors but give me a week or so and ill ask around. Post them up on the Mustang collective they will sell im sure. i know a few guys on there just got procharged.
tdurr
02-23-2010, 07:48 PM
Never technically "blown" a motor but my sr has been through a ton of shit in the last two years.... bent valves, blown headgaskets, warped head etc... Apparently Im getting away with a lot on a stock bottom end.
x2. bent a valve on my car twice... and almost a 3rd time, and i even put the hg on upside down once :doh:
DVSRX-7
02-23-2010, 07:50 PM
0 :D
squirrel
02-27-2010, 08:58 PM
4 motors. (1) d16a6 (2) d16a6/z6 (3) JDM boosted ZC (4) b18a1 :goodjob: all in the car u see below :goodjob:
bdydrpdmazda
02-27-2010, 09:00 PM
1 for me... the 2.5 outta my Spec V...
SLow_POke
03-03-2010, 08:35 PM
i was a nitrous junkie.
1 DOHC ZC on nitrous
2 b16's one droped a valve, ecu had no reve limiter
the other blew 2 spark plugs to shits and one cylinder took a dump
1 y8 neglect that motor
1 d16 neglected that motor.
2 302's from my 67 merc. my guess poor oil flow. OPG went dead for 10 seconds vefore it took a dump. the other i simply did not built properly smoke the shit out of a few z06's though :D
1 350 on my k5 :( i loved that bitch was my off road beast :D
1. 02 civic engine (friends car..lol)
2. 88 Nissan Pulsar head gasket went
3. 92 Civic hatch - (2) B18B's, (1) B16A, (1) B18C
4. 98 Integra - B18B.. developed rod knock. Still counts though..lol
That's 7.
The 92 hatch was all in just 5 months. That's gotta be a record, right?
wanganU13
03-12-2010, 04:07 PM
1 in a 89 grand pri
2 in a 98 aurora
And ant,u had 1 sexy stang i must admit:)
why were you racing theses cars?
wanganU13
03-12-2010, 04:09 PM
Back around '98 I had a thing for trying to add nitrous to the old D15 dual injector engines, as they were dirt cheap. Needless to say, I never got one to hold anything over a 100 shot, regardless of which fuel jet I used with it. I would say all together that Doug, my cohort in all of this, and myself probably blew 15 of these engines. I know of one weekend were we blew 4 from Friday evening till Sunday afternoon.
I blew 2 Pontiac Quad4 engines. The first suffered from detonation and blew a piston apart. The second had a fuel problem with a s/c and ended up going seriously lean and throwing rods through the block.
With my BMW, I have torn the S50 up twice. The first time the cylinder head cracked and it hydrolocked #3 or #4. Then the last time I bent 2 rods from boost spikes.
I blew up a friends s/c 302 in his foxbody when we took it to Colorado in '97. That was the last time that I ever drove a Mustang.
I blew several (4 or 5) B18's when first stepping into the FI Honda world back in '98-'99. Finally got it right when I took it to get tuned in FL. However upon first arriving, I didn't think that the drunk ass guy could even stand up, let alone tune my car. Well he did and his tune lasted 20K+ miles of pure abusive driving until the car got stolen.
I won't go into all the air cooled motors that I blew other than asking, "Have you ever seen a 1600cc blow 2 foot flames back through the carb as the carb is being blown off the engine?"
And the 2010 jackass award goes to 4EYEDBOX!
04sleepa
03-20-2010, 01:54 AM
2..one from an 96 eclipse with 140,xxx on it. who ever had it before me raped ittt. then the replacement from the junkyard lasted about 2 weeks ha
AnthonyF
04-07-2010, 02:19 PM
The 92 hatch was all in just 5 months. That's gotta be a record, right?I dunno, I blew a back up engine in 2 weeks. lol
-Ant.
.:Stirfry:.
05-03-2010, 10:15 PM
none. :D
Z0_o6
05-03-2010, 10:34 PM
the most damage i've done so far is to push the headgaskets on my subaru with some C16 and 30-32 psi.
KevinT707
05-04-2010, 11:22 AM
1 - Spun a bearing on my old JDM B16 from running a dry 75 shot (tuned).
I've gone through several trans and clutch kits though..
DeeAOne
08-16-2010, 02:57 AM
1.
the KLDE that i swapped in spun a rod bearing.
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