Doppelgänger
08-23-2006, 12:51 PM
So my car suffered a horrid blown motor last year that eventually ended up causing a engine bay fire. That was last november. I finally got the car back from getting the motor replaced at the end of July. What a craptastic time that was.
So, about 2 weeks ago, the DFMM for the JRSC took a dump on me. Something went wrong and it decided to run the injectors wide open. Luckily i was about 3 mi from my hosue and got the car home safely. Diagnosed it as the fuel box adn removed it. Car ran fine, as long as i stayed out of boost when i made sure i did (not very hard at higher rpm's). Well, about a week ago the car was runnign richer and richer upon start up and i had a CEL for a P1170 (mfg. air fuel control device or something like that)aka bad O2 sensor. So i bought a O2 and installed it. Crank up the car....and now it sounds like a WRX again.Great.
Pull the sparkplugs and cyl#4 is covered in oil, look in the cyl and see oil on top of the piston. Checked the dipstick and no contamination in the oil... so its not a headgasket. I had been so carefuul with this motor too, checking the oil everytime i put gas in, kept the BTC at full retard, didnt bang on the car until it was nice and warmed up..sheesh. I did notice that when i got the car back the vaccum at idle wasn't right, it was reading just under 10 instead of the normal 20. We had checked all over for ANY vaccum leaks but there were none, im suspecting that the timing was set too far back (so i was todl that too much retard when setting the t-belt would cause a low vaccum reading at idle)
So yeah, i dont know what the &^%&*% happened. Runnign fine one day, replace a O2 and BLAM! oil in the piston. The block i bough to replace the old motor had sat for over a year, but the shop (i assume) who put the block in, properly primed the newer block after it had sat for so long.
I think she is cursed....
So, about 2 weeks ago, the DFMM for the JRSC took a dump on me. Something went wrong and it decided to run the injectors wide open. Luckily i was about 3 mi from my hosue and got the car home safely. Diagnosed it as the fuel box adn removed it. Car ran fine, as long as i stayed out of boost when i made sure i did (not very hard at higher rpm's). Well, about a week ago the car was runnign richer and richer upon start up and i had a CEL for a P1170 (mfg. air fuel control device or something like that)aka bad O2 sensor. So i bought a O2 and installed it. Crank up the car....and now it sounds like a WRX again.Great.
Pull the sparkplugs and cyl#4 is covered in oil, look in the cyl and see oil on top of the piston. Checked the dipstick and no contamination in the oil... so its not a headgasket. I had been so carefuul with this motor too, checking the oil everytime i put gas in, kept the BTC at full retard, didnt bang on the car until it was nice and warmed up..sheesh. I did notice that when i got the car back the vaccum at idle wasn't right, it was reading just under 10 instead of the normal 20. We had checked all over for ANY vaccum leaks but there were none, im suspecting that the timing was set too far back (so i was todl that too much retard when setting the t-belt would cause a low vaccum reading at idle)
So yeah, i dont know what the &^%&*% happened. Runnign fine one day, replace a O2 and BLAM! oil in the piston. The block i bough to replace the old motor had sat for over a year, but the shop (i assume) who put the block in, properly primed the newer block after it had sat for so long.
I think she is cursed....