Hah, well it has finally happened, my motor has gone.
It all happened while driving home from work as I was getting on the Knoxville interstate heading toward Sevierville. Right as I was merging onto the interstate a seen a red 03/04 Cobra that I was about to merge with. He instantly snapped his head over, slowed down and gave me the "I'm going to leave you in the dust" look. We rolled side by side for a few seconds at about 50, then he gave it a little gas pretty much like saying "Go, i'll catch you NP" so I downshifted to 2nd and took off (spin spin spin) and immediately he got on it. I stayed in 2nd for a second or two and hammered 3rd and for that entire gear we were side by side... that is until I went to slam fourth but so happened to go into 2nd..
Motor reved to about 9.5k RPM's for a half second then I put it in 5th and about shat myself.
Short story long... I now have a car that is making a weird grinding noise at part throttle. When its sitting at idle it idles perfect. The car isnt smoking and makes no abnormal ticking or rattling noise at idle... it is only when I give it about 10-20% throttle and bring it up a few hundred RPM's. The grinding noise is coming somewhere in the bottom part of the head / top part of the block.
Also, when I push in the clutch slowly there is a hard vibration in the petal.
Anyways... anyone know a good place to get aftermarket parts? If it is the motor, I am going to go ahead and get stronger bottom end parts (600+ hp capable). If it is the tranny, I have a good person in town that can build it very well.
I have all the parts at my house to rebuild the head: BC-S3 cams, BC springs/retainer, ARP headstuds, and cam gears so it gives me an excuse to put them in
