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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ Dang, the engine blowed up

Posted by: p914 Aug 17 2005, 10:34 AM

Now the question,, what to do what to do?
rebuild or put something else in?
$5000 for a rebuild or twice or more for something different.

Decisions Decisions, maybe sell it?

Posted by: SirAndy Aug 17 2005, 10:37 AM

exactly "what" blew up?

Andy

Posted by: rhodyguy Aug 17 2005, 10:41 AM

craig sent me a craigslist ad for a 2.0 for sale in everett. $800, try a search at cl.

k

Posted by: Joe Ricard Aug 17 2005, 10:41 AM

Yea, is it just a little blowed up"
or really blowed up with parts broken and sticking out.

Posted by: rhodyguy Aug 17 2005, 10:55 AM

oh, sorry to hear of this development pat. would you please post the info and the name of the company that polished your wheels in the "Resources, Parts, and Products" forum?

k

Posted by: p914 Aug 17 2005, 12:23 PM

Well the engine only spins backward and won't go more than a qtr rotation forward. My mechanic at Unlimited VDub checked it out for me. The exhaust valve blew. He says it's rebuildable, he'll only do stock rebuilds though. I've been tinkering with the idea putting a different engine in.

I'll post the polisher info Rhody, It's Eddie not Pat.

Posted by: p914 Aug 17 2005, 12:58 PM

Rhody,
Checked out the guy with the engine in Everett. He has a few other things too and may be interested in converting my 914 to a subaru engine.

I posted the polishing info on the Resources Parts and Products page.

Posted by: Andyrew Aug 17 2005, 01:31 PM

I say subi...

Get some reliability...

Get some hp..

lose some resect (lol, jk)

Posted by: p914 Aug 17 2005, 02:56 PM

I'd like a subaru engine in there and the guy quoted a pretty fair price to convert it . He seems to have pretty good auto skills as he converted a couple of Vanagons. Trouble is he's about 2 hours away. Hmmm.

Posted by: Jake Raby Aug 17 2005, 03:39 PM

I have two known good engines herefor cheap...

One is a VW reman 1800- I'll take 500 for it..

The other is a 2.0 Bus spec engine- 450.00 for it.

Or I'll sell you an http://www.aircooledtechnology.com/store/home.php?cat=307 to repair your old one....And make it better, cooler running and more efficient.

An engine dying is many times the best thing that can happen to your car- Its the perfect time to give it what it deserves!

Every time I blow something all to hell I smile before anything else- Hell we blow them up for fun of it watch this one from a few years ago- Nitrous assisted!
http://www.germanlook.com/Multimedia/Videos/T42003Blow.wmv

BTW- Thats me with the nitrous button administering pain remotely! It took two tries to kill that one, I had to swap to just one carb after the first nitrous shot melted one of them.

Posted by: Brando Aug 17 2005, 06:54 PM

You are a very, very bad man Jake.

What's the info on that 1.8?

Posted by: bd1308 Aug 17 2005, 07:53 PM

what were you trying to accomplish by putting a 5 minute shot of nitrous to a type 1....

sad waste of a engine...

Posted by: Jake Raby Aug 17 2005, 09:34 PM

QUOTE
what were you trying to accomplish by putting a 5 minute shot of nitrous to a type 1....

Its for fun- called an engine blow contest... The money raised is given to charity.

QUOTE
sad waste of a engine

Nope- EVERYTHING in that engine was trashed and not worth a damn to be used in a customers engine.... It was built to be killed from scratch.

I did many other people a favor by destroying those parts before some mass producer got them and used them in an unsuspecting customers engine..

Bottom line is that I love to blow shit up and love it when people say"That egine runs better than the one in my car and you blew it up"........

Here I am building one from all use parts gathered at the show swapmeet while blindfolded- It ran wide open at 6K for 5 solid minutes before the cam broke in half...... I rebuilt it 3 more times before I finally destroyed the case this past May when I burned it with a huge torch in front of the crowd! (BTW- last time I rebuilt the entire engine from the crank up with only a PAIR OF PLIERS)
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Posted by: bd1308 Aug 17 2005, 10:00 PM

I blew up a computer before....

that was fun.

seems like we'd get along nicely, blowing stuff up.

how much NOS did you go through before the engine died...

Posted by: Verruckt Aug 17 2005, 10:01 PM

QUOTE (Jake Raby @ Aug 17 2005, 03:39 PM)

Every time I blow something all to hell I smile before anything else- Hell we blow them up for fun of it watch this one from a few years ago- Nitrous assisted!
http://www.germanlook.com/Multimedia/Videos/T42003Blow.wmv

Awesome video Jake!

What the hell caused the melted intake?

Posted by: Jake Raby Aug 17 2005, 10:09 PM

The melted intake came from a burned intake valve that was lighting up the NOS in the intake..... It also totally melted the carb...

I think I started with about 1800 PSI NOS in the tank and when it was all said and done I had 1000 left

Posted by: Bruce Allert Aug 17 2005, 10:40 PM

where the hell were you with these cheap engines when Punkin needed one??? huh??? well, now it's gone.

I bet the one that blew would'a lasted me 2 years

Love what you can do MAN... love what you can do

......b

Posted by: Jake Raby Aug 17 2005, 10:56 PM

Thanks!!!!

Anyone CAN do anything- It just takes effort!

Posted by: rhodyguy Aug 18 2005, 07:31 AM

you must be refering to bruce steele from small car performance in tacoma eddie. i've seen his personal vanagon with the sub conv. clean conversion. thanks for posting the wheel polishing info. it should be very helpful for or and wa guys. prob the winter for the silver car.

k

Posted by: p914 Aug 18 2005, 08:57 AM

Actually this guy is named Kirk (you and names )
He's a real estate agent in Renton.

I think I'm going to go with a Subaru transplant and sully
up my German engineering

I think we will use an EJ20 engine.

Posted by: p914 Aug 18 2005, 02:47 PM

We decided to go with the 2.5L engine with 165hp instead of the 2.0 or 2.2. It will run a little more $$ but might as well opt for more power since we are doing it.

Posted by: scott thacher Aug 18 2005, 03:10 PM

hehehehe, my plan is coming together. i will SUBvert the whole world

i even know of another member who wants to be SUBverted but i will let him stay in the shadows

Posted by: Brando Aug 18 2005, 07:31 PM

If I went to a japanese motor... turbo subi all the way! C'mon Scott, go to the darker dark side