pploco wrote:perhaps you should turn the boost down on the car - be a shame to have a passenger soil your hard work.
I'm with this guy! :stupid:
Looks like you're spending too much time on your seats and not enough time on my mani! :slap: :wink:
Hanks URQ 2.6L Autopsy
Oh, and I am sooo sick of the under the dash wiring of the early URQ. For whatever reason, my windows wont work at all, my dim light is non functional, as is my passanger rear lights. The worst one though is that all of a sudden, my rad fan is not kicking on above 93C like it used to, which causes overheating on flog sessions. It has affected my blower fan for my vents inside the cabin as well... Urrrgg.. Must do fuse box swap..
The frowny face is becuase I think I may have had an injector misshap, and one of the pistons may or may not have a broken ring or something. Four of the plugs show no signs of detonation, but one does. It happens to be the cylinder that was not wanting to open at idle when I got the car back up and running these last few weeks. I cleaned it up, and it appeared to work. Wideband readings were 12.0:1 timing was pretty safe. I'll have to tear it down and see what is wrong. I took a friend on a ride doing a second to third gear pull, shifted into third, and it missed hard, and smoke filled the rear view mirror. Pulledi into a gas station, and popped the hood only to see oil spewing out of the catchcan and breather setup.
It happened in a fairly rough part of town. There are some appartements that share the parking lot with the gas station. A man in a brand new A6 4.2 pulls up and gets out saying" Clarksen called this the car of the decade in 91, The audi quattro".. He fit the mold of people that stop and look at the car. 40 years old and can remember his teenage years that was during the rally days. So I was there with another skinny fellow and the audi stranger, and SWAT pulled up and raided one of the condos. He looks over at his kids sitting in the car for the last 15 minutes, and says,"I probably should leave so my young kids dont see this happen"... It was funny on a few levels.
It is a pisser though. Happened today after I found out my heatercore was leaking in the s6. I woke up with 800hp worth of 20vts and I go to bed with none. I'll post an update as soon as I pull the head.
It happened in a fairly rough part of town. There are some appartements that share the parking lot with the gas station. A man in a brand new A6 4.2 pulls up and gets out saying" Clarksen called this the car of the decade in 91, The audi quattro".. He fit the mold of people that stop and look at the car. 40 years old and can remember his teenage years that was during the rally days. So I was there with another skinny fellow and the audi stranger, and SWAT pulled up and raided one of the condos. He looks over at his kids sitting in the car for the last 15 minutes, and says,"I probably should leave so my young kids dont see this happen"... It was funny on a few levels.
It is a pisser though. Happened today after I found out my heatercore was leaking in the s6. I woke up with 800hp worth of 20vts and I go to bed with none. I'll post an update as soon as I pull the head.
the good news is that I have prett much a spare bottom end I bought with intentions of doing my s6(wisecos and scats, with arp hardware). I need a block though with stock bores in good shape.
Darin, you are more then welcome to come help out. I will probably haul the car back up to park city for the tear down though. You should come out to Daves tonight at 5 to help me put my s6 back together. We can swap bad fortune stories and cry together. I need to get ahold of Brent in Ogden too and see if he knows of a block I could use, and to see if he could get me a deal on machining for the rotating assembly.
Hank
Darin, you are more then welcome to come help out. I will probably haul the car back up to park city for the tear down though. You should come out to Daves tonight at 5 to help me put my s6 back together. We can swap bad fortune stories and cry together. I need to get ahold of Brent in Ogden too and see if he knows of a block I could use, and to see if he could get me a deal on machining for the rotating assembly.
Hank
I figured it was only a matter of time, but it's still a bummer! :( It's not like that motor hasn't been run hard a time or two however. At least you still have summer school finals you can put your heart into. 
Find a low mileage 5ktq that you can take the MC for the block and I can have the 016. I'll go halfs with you. Sorry to hear Hank. I guess when it rains it pours up there in Salt Lake.
Find a low mileage 5ktq that you can take the MC for the block and I can have the 016. I'll go halfs with you. Sorry to hear Hank. I guess when it rains it pours up there in Salt Lake.Bummer to hear, Hank :( . A few words of advice after what I went through trying to find a bottom end--
-81mm blocks setup for piston squirters and such are a bitch to find. Having to buy a car to get a block = stupid.
-The MC blocks seem to suffer from lots of bore wear around the top of the top ring's stroke, even in well cared for examples. I looked at a couple of motors out of 140kish cars, relatively low miles, but they had as much bore wear as 190-200k motors...the pattern made me wonder if it was due to the short MC rods, or the tall ring landings. 3B/AANs, even with similar mileage and seemingly regardless of useage history, always seemed to be in better condition, with no bore damage or lip developed...they're just spendy.
-2.3 blocks seem to be in good condition much of the time and are common as shit. Noone wants their stock NG/NF/7A bottom ends. The MLS gaskets work with 82.5mm bores, and I bet you could find a free motor, freeing up some cash to buy 82.5mm pistons...
Good luck!!!
Sam
-81mm blocks setup for piston squirters and such are a bitch to find. Having to buy a car to get a block = stupid.
-The MC blocks seem to suffer from lots of bore wear around the top of the top ring's stroke, even in well cared for examples. I looked at a couple of motors out of 140kish cars, relatively low miles, but they had as much bore wear as 190-200k motors...the pattern made me wonder if it was due to the short MC rods, or the tall ring landings. 3B/AANs, even with similar mileage and seemingly regardless of useage history, always seemed to be in better condition, with no bore damage or lip developed...they're just spendy.
-2.3 blocks seem to be in good condition much of the time and are common as shit. Noone wants their stock NG/NF/7A bottom ends. The MLS gaskets work with 82.5mm bores, and I bet you could find a free motor, freeing up some cash to buy 82.5mm pistons...
Good luck!!!
Sam
Sam Stone
SeStone wrote:Bummer to hear, Hank :( . A few words of advice after what I went through trying to find a bottom end--
-81mm blocks setup for piston squirters and such are a bitch to find. Having to buy a car to get a block = stupid.
-The MC blocks seem to suffer from lots of bore wear around the top of the top ring's stroke, even in well cared for examples. I looked at a couple of motors out of 140kish cars, relatively low miles, but they had as much bore wear as 190-200k motors...the pattern made me wonder if it was due to the short MC rods, or the tall ring landings. 3B/AANs, even with similar mileage and seemingly regardless of useage history, always seemed to be in better condition, with no bore damage or lip developed...they're just spendy.
-2.3 blocks seem to be in good condition much of the time and are common as shit. Noone wants their stock NG/NF/7A bottom ends. The MLS gaskets work with 82.5mm bores, and I bet you could find a free motor, freeing up some cash to buy 82.5mm pistons...
Good luck!!!
Sam
Good advise Sam. I think I am going to go the WR route because do have pistons already, and I will just bore it out to 81mm. I would love to run a 82.5 piston and pick up some free displacement, but I dont hav the money for pistons. I wouldstill have pistons squirters and I would have fresh bores. That is the plan as of now. I may even weigh the JE's against the Wisecos and see if I can match their blueprinted weight by shaving weight, and then keep a rotated asssembly that is balanced. My motor felt silky smooth at 8500, and I dont think I can go back now. I have a hunch that the wisecos are lighter than the JE's though..
Hank
I can see the nastyness down the spark plug. I will try to yank the head off on Saturday to get a better idea. It si blowing out oil like crazy though. Best case senario, a ring busted, and didndt screw anything up. I have not checked compression in a while, but I had a slight puff of smoke at start up, and hopefully it was just a ring.
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Highlander