all my years of driving and miles under my belt.. I have killed one engine.
Transmissions.. about a dozen
all my years of driving and miles under my belt.. I have killed one engine.
Transmissions.. about a dozen
A buddy of mine's Lemons/Crap-can team blew up 3 engines in the E36 sedan they run. They eventually tracked it down to a faulty ECU that caused a lean condition under specific conditions (or something like that).
slefain wrote: My cousin killed a Slant-6. Some people are just gifted in strange ways.
I've blown up two 225's which I think is some kind or record.
I used to race a carbureted 924. Sometimes it seemed like I went through an engine a weekend.
Oh look, here I come now.
In reply to Knurled:
The point was at least they ran right inbetween rebuild/blowing up.....
Keith Tanner wrote: Sometimes being cheap can cost a lot of money.
A lot of drivers are like the government. They never have time or money to keep anything they own up. However they can always find the money to buy/build a replacement.
Ranger50 wrote: Some people can destroy a cannonball in a sandbox with their bare hands....
Best quote Ive seen today
Rupert wrote: A lot of drivers are like the government. They never have time or money to keep anything they own up. However they can always find the money to buy/build a replacement.
Goes along with "Why is there never enough time/money to do it right, but always enough to do it over?"
yamaha wrote: In reply to Knurled: The point was at least they ran right inbetween rebuild/blowing up.....
There's a joke somewhere in there about Chevys being good engines because even when they are perfect, they still run like crap, so you never know when they're bad.
Bad things happen in 3's????
I blow turbos rather often. There's been 3 on the MX6. Soon to be a 4th.
The strange part was that the motor refused to die, despite swallowing many chunks from at least one of them.
In my case the answer to this question has been 'owning 6 turbo cars and 1 wideband'. But now i am up to 4 widebands!
I am surprised nobody said DSM. Guilty party here.
I was expecting a rotary thread. My friend burned down 3 motors in an fd in a year.
Yup 400,000 miles on my Eclipse
Some people are just naturally skilled at breaking things. I'll never forget my seven or eight year old brother bringing a "broken" football into the house. (One of the seams was ripped wide open from end to end)
A couple tons of linemen fall on a fumble, nothing. My four foot nuthin', 70lb little brother is just kicking it around the back yard and it gets busted wide open. Natural talent, I'm telling you.
Luck certainly is a factor, but I'm with novaderrick on this one. I've seen it dozens of times in the AE86 world,
"Toyota stuff is junk; I just bought this used car last year and I am on my third (pick one) engine/transmission/differential! I broke one, pulled another from the junkyard that lasted four months, and when that broke I got a spare from some dude on the forums for $250."
"Did you rebuild any of them? Did any of them have less than 175,000 miles on them?"
"Rebuild? Are you kidding? That would cost at least $1000 if not more like $1500! I bought the car for $1500. Toyota stuff is just junk!"
Such is the way with affordable older but not-yet-classic sporty cars. 
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