Selling the Vibrant 93'......maybe

[buddha93]

Well, it's been a good week and a bad week. Good because I got a really nice black 93'. Bad because I just wasted a freshly built 331. :cuss: I'm a dumbass!

So since the motor has to come out anyway, I'm thinking of selling it if the interest is there. I can put it back to 99% stock fairly easy with all of the parts I have pigeon holed away.

It must be somebody telling me something, bad karma, or maybe ole' Red is just jealous of it's new garage mate....LOL!

 

[Kevins89notch]

Don't be upset, a friend had to have his dart 331 rebuilt twice. First problem was racing it before tuning it. 18psi lifted the heads, and shot out a freeze plug at about 100mph which caused him to do figure 8s down the interstate. He had it fully rebuilt, and within 500 miles, he swapped vortech head units, and the new T-Trim sucked in a silicon hose, shreading it, and tossing it through the intake into the heads.

 

[buddha93]

Don't be upset, a friend had to have his dart 331 rebuilt twice. First problem was racing it before tuning it. 18psi lifted the heads, and shot out a freeze plug at about 100mph which caused him to do figure 8s down the interstate. He had it fully rebuilt, and within 500 miles, he swapped vortech head units, and the new T-Trim sucked in a silicon hose, shreading it, and tossing it through the intake into the heads.

Ya, thanks for the moral support. Believe it or not, I'm not that upset.......more aggrevated and annoyed. I now have a bunch of work I hadn't planned on doing that I don't have the time before. If it would have happened just from beating on it or racing it at the track, that's one thing. But to go the way it did is just plan stupid on my part. Not to mention the financial aggrevation. There are plenty of things that I need to be spending money on, and this car isn't one of them.

Oh well. Everything else with my life is great, so I'm not going to complain.:thumbsup:

 

[WillyB93]

"Ole-Red" Must be mad at you for the new purchase!!! Well that sucks but she can hang out in the spare parking spot for awhile!!!

 

[buddha93]

Ya, I suppose......dunno. LOL!

Got everything off, tranny out, and it's on jackstands. Motor will be coming out as soon as I get my buddy's cherry picker.

 

[WillyB93]

Do you think you totally trashed it or just the bottom end???? If so it maybe an easy fix???

 

[buddha93]

Ya, is should be bearings and God willing a simple polish of the crank journals. I'm not going to speculate too much.......don't want to jinx myself. LOL!

 

[WillyB93]

Well good luck hopefully an easy fix, but i have seen things come apart and make a nasty mark all through motors too!!!

 

[93Cobra#2771]

Sounds like someone ran a little low on oil...

That's my guess.

 

[buddha93]

Sounds like someone ran a little low on oil...

That's my guess.

Let's put it this way, when it was all said and done I recovered less then 2 quarts of the seven I just put in. Not a pretty sight.:nonono: