Sad Day

[super240sx7185]

Well i was driving home yesterday in the pouring rain car shut off wouldn't crank................2 hours later motors out, heres the results would still run with a skip with sum oil pressure....amazing lol, More pics of the teardown later.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1805.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1806.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1809.jpg

[TravisSW]

wtf!?

Nice. lol

[Landers]

ummmm holy crap?!!? time for a new motor there buddy.

[super240sx7185]

Yea im gonna go around some junkyards tomorrow lol.

[murda-c]

jesus, were you just spinning tires in the rain and bouncing off the limiter or something?

scary to see an engine fail that catastrophically without warning, though i guess it could be like 16 years old and high mileage.

either way it's just a motor, and if you can have it out 2 hours after it dies you shouldn't have trouble getting a replacement in.

[super240sx7185]

Nah i was in heavy traffic couldnt see hardly and it just died taking off. It had about 230,000 miles on it i swapped it in beginning of 06 only paid 350 for so no big loss lol.

[eastcoastS14]

haha looks like my sr after i hit a telephone pole.....swap time!!

[fliprayzin240sx]

Damn, havent seen a whole lot of KAs do that...

[240sx_LE]

did that like two months ago, except mine only made one hole and the rod got stuck on my ac condenser.

[status:one]

gawd damn. thats crazy

[ManoNegra]

Hard to believe a KA can do that without warning.

[nightshiftgarage]

were you stock setup or boosted or mild modded na?any old age symptoms like chain slap or excessive blow by?

[HyperTek]

dude 230k miles.. bout time you replace the motor anyways..

[fliprayzin240sx]

Well you cant really tell when the oil pump just suddenly gives...remember, the stock oil light is just an on/off switch. It turns on, for the most part, your engine is toast.

[Drifters4Life]

WOW lol say good bye motor

[punxva]

wow it looks like my old motor when it rejected boost

[BBSilvia]

damn, time for new motor

[undesiredshoe]

Maybe water got in your cylinders and since water isnt as compressible as air, KABLAMO!!

[azndoc]

Wow, there's got to be more to this story other than going through heavy traffic.

[a_ahmed]

s chassis rust? lol jk

[S13Boosts]

damn thats harsh... time to go SR!:w00t:

[k's_silvia2.0]

I guess it not so super after all huh?:keke:
JP im sure youll find a new soul for her/him.

[Drift N Dragg]

Oh wow after 230K ... Eeeeh I think I may want to look into an engine myself... Wow buddy I hope you get a Nice Engine....

[KAZA]

that sucks...........poor motor

[hijack3d]

Wow... you must've had some bad karma or something recently to have that happen... especially in the rain.. I'm pretty sorry. Too bad you're not in SoCal... I do have a spare block I'm trying to give away....

[muddafakka]

Damn that sucks.

[jskateborders]

Jb weld that shit.

[kingyogi]

thursday i passed thru macon going to summit, we hydro planed twice then finally had to pull over. couldnt see 3 foot infront of the car at all. my s14 was loosing alot of power too for some reason.. good thing it was sold minutes later. weather has been bad since thursday in georgia... still fucking raining right now

[super240sx7185]

Yea its crazy only mods were underdrive pulleys,cai,header,exhaust,walbro fuel pump,all accesories removed,electric fan. I also just replaced the oil pump when i installed the motor, ihave aftermarket gauges and the temp was fine and oil pressure was around 75 as far as i could tell from a/f gauge it was ok(narrowband). The engine used no oil between changes just changed 2300 miles ago with castrol 20w50 high mileage. Anyways my friends dad seems to think the wrist pin broke sending the rod thru the side of the block multiple times since i found parts of the piston on the ground also. Oh and i dint even have enough speed to get out of the road had to push it lol.

[LA_phantom_240]

20w50? Goddamn! Why so thick?

[sijia10358]

wow!! what did you do to that motor?! well...time for a SR!

[INeedNewTires]

damn... i did that to one of my motors too, wasnt a nissan motor though.... which was my explanation why it happened.... take some better pics of the guts man an post em up!

[Howard92884]

Wow thats crazy never seen that before, my single slammer dropped an exhaust valve and punched a hole through the piston, but thats just crazy right there.

[RedStage]

nasty pics, good luck with the new motor.

[super240sx7185]

Ok heres a few pics of tear down, the rod still spun around the crank, and the piston still moved up and down freely, so im at a loss at what caused this. Oh and the last pic is just for sume humor on this lol.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1813.jpg
Don't mind the dirt had to drag it through the mud by myself to get it under the garage, still raining sigh.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1815.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1816.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1817.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1818.jpg
HAHA
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1820.jpg

[bo2o]

lookz like hydro lock!

playing in puddles of water werent u

[super240sx7185]

There was alot of water on the road and my intake was where the battery used to be so........I reckon it sucked it up sigghh stupid me.:((((

[NiSmOKnIghTsRBS14]

I think u where getting sidewayzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz in the rain and boom bye bye ka :loco:

jk.................

Sucks tho. Time For RB:bigok:

[SnakeKack]

Heh.... you said the intake was where the battery used to be or did you cut a hole where it was and make it cold air???

I just put mine where the battery used to be but didn't make it cold air yet.....Now I dunno if I wanna do this lol....

[super240sx7185]

Yes i cut a hole there and the tip of the filter was slightly through it worked great for almost 2 years, but then again the puddles was deep. Shouldv'e took a different route home.Bad thing is i just installed full energey suspension bushings,power steering rack,tie rods,tension rods,ruca, also strut bars and coilovers 8-9 months ago arrggh so fun to drive.

[mayco_86]

I think u where getting sidewayzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz in the rain and boom bye bye ka :loco:

jk.................

Sucks tho. Time For RB:bigok:

LOL thats funny. It really does suck though. But look at the bright side now you can put a turbo motor or just build that ka to be a ka-t.

[origin_s135]

i'm going to posi rep you for awesome pictures. btw, what kind of motor are you planning to get for the car now?

[super240sx7185]

Im gonna just find another ka to swap in as this was a dd, and mayco how would you expect me too rebuild that ka did u not see the big hole where the block use to be lol. Oh and thanks for the pic comments broke stuff usaully makes nice pics lol.

[super240sx7185]

Hey i got a question guys if i can find a low mileage s14 engine whatt all will i have to swap off my ka so i can run my harness and ecu, or if i get complete harness with ecu from s14 can i swap that into my car? It's a 90 hatch with 93 kade ecu cluster harness.

[johngriff]

yeah, ka's will do that.

[turboeic]

Hey i got a question guys if i can find a low mileage s14 engine whatt all will i have to swap off my ka so i can run my harness and ecu, or if i get complete harness with ecu from s14 can i swap that into my car? It's a 90 hatch with 93 kade ecu cluster harness.
Yea. and you might have to replace the intake manifold, because the emission shit is different in the s14 and s13. Thats what I had to do when I put a s13 KA in my s14.

[drifting.8]

lookz like hydro lock!

playing in puddles of water werent u

indeed... trying to offroad....:barf:
jk
go rb baby.

[sblack13]

I bought a s13 coupe and the ka had two holes on each side. I had it happen on a S14 SR that shit hurt.

Loving the first pic, pulling engines in the mud. I've done it in the snow, but never will I in the mud.

[super240sx7185]

lol Yea i got it towed home and instantly started pulling in the rain by myself, had it out in the next hour or so. Helps when youve one it so many times plus ive got it pretty clean and simple in my engine bay lol.

[spinitsidewayz]

Yes! The solutions to throwing rods. Buy a rotary. lol.

My brother's KA took a dump on him recently too.

[super240sx7185]

lol look closely at the right tow hook and u will see a piece of my 240 that goes with me everywhere in my rx7

[sofo259]

Hey i got a question guys if i can find a low mileage s14 engine whatt all will i have to swap off my ka so i can run my harness and ecu, or if i get complete harness with ecu from s14 can i swap that into my car? It's a 90 hatch with 93 kade ecu cluster harness.

i have a 96' ka in my 93' hatch.. or did, pulled it last night to go in the coupe..

i didnt swap anything over, but you def. will not pass emissions.. egr is different, and the heater hoses are weird between the two (connecting them to the hoses on the firewall)
change the temp sensor to the s13 sensor, change the oil pressure sensor to an s13 sensor..

and change the distributor to the s13 disi.

wala you have a running s14 motor in your s13..

are you on 240atlanta ??

[super240sx7185]

Nah im not on 240atlanta and we have no emissions in macon. All the emissions have been long gone from my car since i had the single cam in it lol.

[super240sx7185]

Heres a picture of my car.http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/DSC00217.jpg

[powersteeringless180sx]

damn tat sucks.... at least it was just a KA

[sr20boostn20]

Wow

That is wild.

230,000 is alotta miles though.on the other hand it didnt look too clena in there.

[super240sx7185]

Well it was clean prior to giant pieces of metal spinning violently destroying everything in its path lol.

[Pstl_pete]

It looks like you did the exact same thing my brother did to his KA. Sucked up some water and blew junks out the side of the block.
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5897/dscf0413tu3.jpg

[NemeGuero]

Jb weld that shit.

+1

its still good! its still good! lol

[jackjack]

Jb weld that shit.


:x: .....................

[Harbe]

ka's are built to throw rods

[aguadilla]

man thats to bad, got to love another build though

[agame001]

naw man 230k miles on a ka24de isn't as bad as you think.... well, unless you beat it. then it's a different story. sorry about your mishap. live and learn, right? 2jz time!!

[inertiaticism]

As much as this sucks, it's way cooler than losing a motor to something gay like a spun bearing or cracked ring land.
If you're going to break stuff, you might as well do the damned thing right.

Also, place what's left of your old short block in front of your parking spot to show the new engine that you're not fucking around.
Fear can be a good motivational tool.

[NemeGuero]

ka's are built to throw rods

you're an idiot.

[super240sx7185]

Yea well ka's are built great mine ran strong enough to kill gsr's easily, drove daily and the only reason it broke was because of driver error not the engine's fault. Mine used no oil between changes and never showed any sign of being designed to sling a rod, saying that is just ignorant.

[super240sx7185]

Hi everyone just an update i got an engine friday and cleaned it up today.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1978.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1979.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1980.jpg

[aguadilla]

man, I must say you did a tremendous job cleaning it up. Love the long tube header.

[charlie321]

wow very nice clean up! this one should do you good haha!

[super240sx7185]

Well i completely disassembled it and replaced all gaskets and painted as i went, turned out great. thxs for the comments

[alindeman1989]

that thing looks awsome. What brand of header is that?

[super240sx7185]

It's a obx header fit's great and doesn't leak so im happy.

[JDM671]

omg dude how hard did you push it? O_O nice I hope everything is ok :D

[J ROK]

i had a 91 KA do the same thing for no reason, totally stock. rod #3 out the driverside. just normal driving. on my way to an event.(wish it happened after the event).

[super240sx7185]

Yay its installed and runs great thanks for the support guys.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a42/shadowcat343/CIMG1997.jpg

[bmx22]

20 50 is better for high mileige i use it in my sr royal purple

[SnakeKack]

Your engine bay is what I want mine to look like. What fan setup did you use? And the intake piping where is it from? It looks familiar. I hacked up my AEM but I really don't like the results.

[super240sx7185]

My fans are from a chrysler concorde i think(dad got from work for core because of broken mounts) and my intake is one of those piece together things from autozone

[murda-c]

Hey where'd you get those pulleys?

[posdrift240]

Maybe water got in your cylinders and since water isnt as compressible as air, KABLAMO!!


Thats the stupidest comment I have read!!! :loco:

[super240sx7185]

Theyre unorthodox racing pulleys and theyre discontinued except for the crank one.

[jackjack]

looks good man. rock on.

[SimpleSexy180]

thats a clean looking dohc.

nice job.

[eastcoastS14]

youd think youd have your intake not pointing down this time

[super240sx7185]

Actually it had a extension going down in the bumper that went under water. Needless to say its in the trashcan.

[jskateborders]

Thats the stupidest comment I have read!!! :loco:
O RLY?
care to explain?