OmegaRenegade
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I find myself in an unusual position where my bottom end of my motor needs repair. Currently i am burning a lot of oil (approx 1L every 2.5-3000km's) and am getting a nasty amount of blowby.
Having had my head fully rebuilt with new seals, lifter and gaskets, my diagnoses is that my rings are fried and quite possibly some other kinds of damage to the pistons, cylinder walls, etc that has yet to be seen.
I have spent a lot of money in this car to call it quits but at the same time i dont wanna be dropping another $4000+ into it at this time.
In the past, whatevers broken i've replaced with upgraded aftermarket parts and my car has progressed to the point its at now, where its not as black and white as slapping something bigger on. I've not heard of too many people who venture into pistons, rings, crank bearings, connecting rods, ect ect.
Does anyone know of a place where i can source out 'stonger' or 'better' parts to replace my stock internals or should i be looking to leave the bottem end stock and just buy another bottom end (new or used) and slap that in its place.
When we rebuilt the head we did a compression test on the cylinders and found that they were all holding about 430PSI or BAR cant remember the units and were all within +/-3 units (BAR/PSI) of one another. So my understanding would be that my compression rings are still good seeing as i dont notice any performance pitfalls, only the massive oil consumption. what is the worst case scenario for driving my car in this state? if a ring totally fails, am i looking at catastrophic damage? (something blowing up) i DO drive my car very hard however in its current state i'm mostly driving for economy and havnt pushed it the way i would have in the past.
I dont have any plans to go much past 200WHP (maybe 250hp tops if this upgrade allows) would still prefer to keep this a daily driver.
In summary,
What vendors, shops are out there for upgraded bottom end parts?
Should i even bother trying to upgrade or just stick with stock?
What are the possible risks of running my car in this state?
I appreciate any and all help on this and thank you in advance for your time.
Thank you!
Having had my head fully rebuilt with new seals, lifter and gaskets, my diagnoses is that my rings are fried and quite possibly some other kinds of damage to the pistons, cylinder walls, etc that has yet to be seen.
I have spent a lot of money in this car to call it quits but at the same time i dont wanna be dropping another $4000+ into it at this time.
In the past, whatevers broken i've replaced with upgraded aftermarket parts and my car has progressed to the point its at now, where its not as black and white as slapping something bigger on. I've not heard of too many people who venture into pistons, rings, crank bearings, connecting rods, ect ect.
Does anyone know of a place where i can source out 'stonger' or 'better' parts to replace my stock internals or should i be looking to leave the bottem end stock and just buy another bottom end (new or used) and slap that in its place.
When we rebuilt the head we did a compression test on the cylinders and found that they were all holding about 430PSI or BAR cant remember the units and were all within +/-3 units (BAR/PSI) of one another. So my understanding would be that my compression rings are still good seeing as i dont notice any performance pitfalls, only the massive oil consumption. what is the worst case scenario for driving my car in this state? if a ring totally fails, am i looking at catastrophic damage? (something blowing up) i DO drive my car very hard however in its current state i'm mostly driving for economy and havnt pushed it the way i would have in the past.
I dont have any plans to go much past 200WHP (maybe 250hp tops if this upgrade allows) would still prefer to keep this a daily driver.
In summary,
What vendors, shops are out there for upgraded bottom end parts?
Should i even bother trying to upgrade or just stick with stock?
What are the possible risks of running my car in this state?
I appreciate any and all help on this and thank you in advance for your time.
Thank you!
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