while ago i told you guys im was preparing my car for track, cause its illegal car in finland i finally got everything prepared i installed new and bigger valves,springs gaskets etc..first time the car was working perfectly, and not long i had to leave to do my army service.. and it changed all my plans to buy my friends chris srt but i though i could do it later.. last friday i came and i was positive but like always in my life it was too damn good to be true. and but my car wasnt home.. after couple hours i got worried so i asked my gf wheres my car and she told me that she was going to tell me that she had accident and broke the oil pan.. holy fucking shit.. she wasnt done yet she drove the car to my garage which is 8km away.. you probably know whats going to happend if your driving a car without oil..
no time to waste call my buddy to go check the car, first theres like 1% oil on garage floor and rest 99% of it was leaked on road.. theres not much to do cause i couldnt start the car without oil pan and oil so i put it in gear and start spin the tires to hear any noises.. what fucking noises it sounded like hitting anvil with hammer! i totally lost my mind and took the engine in parts no sleep no rest no eat. and results was piston 1 and 4 had side play and gasket was toasted the turbo and manifold pipe was full of oil.fuck it i had enough i had smoked some pot to clear my mind.. now i came back home and need to get some sleep cause tomorrow is shitty day..any ideas what to do cause fixing is not option untill 3/2013.. if you dont have any ideas just cheer me up cause after all you guys also have srt4, some of you might know what this is like and what im going throw . thank you and good night.
Greddy_t88 you have to consider the addtional damage that, more likely than not, occurred to the rest of the engine. No oil, allows the other internal parts to heat up, drag, shear, slap, bend. You'll have to find out if the block is warped too. It may be a complete loss. Burned & bent valves etc
Bad news all the way around. Not to mention any possible insurance ramifications if your GF hit anyone else or any property etc.
Importing a new engine to Finland would be costly I'd imagine. So if you bring the car back to the US - you can find a new or used engine to reinstall; plenty of them around.
yes deffinately head over to the overseas section and hit up everyone there, some people find wrecked SRT's and part them, or know where to get you the parts you need, some of the americans wreck their cars here and they get picked up quickly to be sold a sparts
I'm with valleyracer on this. It's probably not worth trying to rebuild the engine if the turbo puked and you have play in pistons. Check for wear eleswhere though to be sure. My guess is pretty much everything is toast.
The Dutch brothers might have an engine sitting around.
You can always still buy my car =)
If it was me I would get the GF to fork out the cash to get it fixed.
omg that is so fuuked up man, like the guys said depending on how big the leak was
the whole block could be toast from 8kms driving (
U should investigate first ofcourse but if the damage is like you describe i might have a sollution for u. I still have a block here that i was going to build when time allowed me to.
but since time is always tight... that time could never come.....
Let us know what u find out when u open it up more!
i wish u the best of luck
Since it's just a fact, girls often don't get the mechanical training of guys, I'm still surprised that with the smell, oil spill, engine knocking, smoking, engine oil light on, clanking and clunking, your Gf didn't comprehend that something was drastically wrong here
no tow truck to call, friends to call, no one around at the accident scene to advise that the oil pan was broken and not to drive the car
something is kind of strange here; glad there wasn't an engine fire
The engine is toast. So a new engine would be best, both block and head. Im sure if your pistons had play then they scraped the fuck out of the block and destroyed it. Not to mention your head is probably warped too.
You could try to get an engine in Europe somewhere but a engine alone will be rare, and expensive. Or you could just try to get a whole new SRT-4. Would probably cost more, but depending on how much more might as well.
Or you could try to ship a SRT/engine from the states to Finland. I know SRTs go for about 5,000 to 8,000 in my area. And an engine for about 2,500. Depending on shipping price might be more easier on the wallet.
Can insurance cover it? If so let them deal with it, as long as they don't total it.
And the final option. Drop a Hemi in it and call it day You got a perfect shell, just begging to pimped. You lost your 2.4 engine, doesn't mean you need to put another in it. Think outside the box, like you were when you were stoned that day and do something new. Just DO NOT drop a HONDA motor in it. Unless it a K24 Turbo
Lol an fwd hemi.... that would be a problem with the trans i think
don't think u have a lot of options with swapping, and our 2.4 is one of the strongest options hp wise even with the new stuff on the market!
my gf opinion it was not that bad to drive 8km, in my opinion shes thinking with her ass. for god sake how stupid you need to be to drive car in that condition..
now its too late nobody else is driving this car, cause the damage is already done..
i found many small object in stock in bottom near crank it was size of simcard.. by then i had enough, i needed some moment to cool down.. thinking of repairing its not going to be option at the moment, cause if i rebuild it with stock parts thats just waste of time and i cant live with it. now that engine out its time to go big HP or leave it as it is until i come up something. i dont think dutch boys have all the parts i want, its easier to order all the parts from one place, the think is, in this shitland where i live in, when i order parts from states i have to pay shipping thats +250€ and all the parts i need are around 9K€ im fine with that but i need to pay 23% custom and 10% tax fees of it, seriously WTF is this shit. is only here or how is in ur country guys?
theres video you can see the blocke and me fingering the pistons. more pics and videos soon.
the car is in my friends garage and its getting resprayed with pearl black and for engine i havent made my mind, order new one or buying complete build engine? whats your though?
I don't know about Finland but here in Germany there are PT Cruiser GT's everywhere they have the same engine that we have in our SRT's you just need your intake manifold and maybe a few more other things to swap over. It would be a cheaper option than trying to get a new or used engine shipped.
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