ELZY
08-04-2010, 02:14 PM
Hi guys,
im brand new to this and this is my first ever forum post lol,
i bought a 1990 EF3 with a DOHC ZC a few weeks ago with 186000 ish kms on it,
i was racing around and didnt see a stop sign that was behind a tree and locked up the brakes and slid for a bit and came to a stop at the middle of an intersection,
the engine was still on and i turned around and went back the way i came,
after about 30 metres there was smoke coming from the bonnet and the car seemed to be running weird so i stopped and opened it up and i could see some oil had spilt on the headers
i had no idea what happend so i got in and tryed to start it again and it made some weird clunky noises and had bugger all compession,
i thought one of the pistons had a hole in it or something so i got some mates to help me push it to their house where i left it for 2 weeks,
i picked it up from their house yesterday using a car trailer with my big bro,
we started it and it didnt make the clunky noise anymore and he was pretty sure it was a blown head gasket,
i thought oh cool thats fixable
i was looking round the engine bay this morning and behind the headers i found a hole about the size of a large chicken egg in the block
it was like this:
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/5389/zcparts20007.jpg (http://img90.imageshack.us/i/zcparts20007.jpg/)
i dont know how it could have happend,
the guy i bought it off said something about thrust washers but i dunno,
your help would be greatly appreciated.
thankyou!
im brand new to this and this is my first ever forum post lol,
i bought a 1990 EF3 with a DOHC ZC a few weeks ago with 186000 ish kms on it,
i was racing around and didnt see a stop sign that was behind a tree and locked up the brakes and slid for a bit and came to a stop at the middle of an intersection,
the engine was still on and i turned around and went back the way i came,
after about 30 metres there was smoke coming from the bonnet and the car seemed to be running weird so i stopped and opened it up and i could see some oil had spilt on the headers
i had no idea what happend so i got in and tryed to start it again and it made some weird clunky noises and had bugger all compession,
i thought one of the pistons had a hole in it or something so i got some mates to help me push it to their house where i left it for 2 weeks,
i picked it up from their house yesterday using a car trailer with my big bro,
we started it and it didnt make the clunky noise anymore and he was pretty sure it was a blown head gasket,
i thought oh cool thats fixable
i was looking round the engine bay this morning and behind the headers i found a hole about the size of a large chicken egg in the block
it was like this:
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/5389/zcparts20007.jpg (http://img90.imageshack.us/i/zcparts20007.jpg/)
i dont know how it could have happend,
the guy i bought it off said something about thrust washers but i dunno,
your help would be greatly appreciated.
thankyou!