slidingsky

I was driving down the road when I heard a subtle knocking noise and noticed the oil light started to come on while I was sitting at a red light. I knew what was about to happen so I just let all of my pissed off emotions go and just kept on casually driving. It finally turned into a loud rod knock and I lost almost all engine power a mile later so I pulled off into a parking lot.

I waited till about 12am and tried to drive it back. It was going good until I had to drive up a mild incline, that's when this happened.





I ended up getting it towed to the house but this is the thing, I drove it from where the tow truck dropped it off to the garage for teardown.

Not to bad for 3 cylinders and a gapping hole.

WagDatto

There was a video on youtube a while back of a similar thing. Some kids just sat there revving the poor KA to redline until the inevitable, and they threw a rod through the block. The car sounded like ass, but they ended up driving like 10 miles before it seized up and wouldn't start again. Pretty insane when you just had the motor spill blood and guts all over the street!

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JesusFreakDrifter

also the one on the hwy when he spun a bearing and could only run 30 but was doing like 60 till it spit out the side of the block

WilloW

Nice carnage, you sure killed that fucker.

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The Chad

My god...poor, poor KA. But that certainly does speak well for a good design Glad to see you got home safely...sucks that you need a new block though. GL with everything,.....
.... and at the KA's funeral make sure to tell it how strong it was in the end.

NI_YON_Zenki

how does 1st amendment tattoo go from all thru cali, then leaps! to GA?

oh, & cool beans it was so late at night, musta been an experience!

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J ROK

Mine did the same thing, Towed it back to the shop, and just for fun tried starting it and it ran for a good 10 minutes.

los_inc

just jb weld it and call it a day
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UNISA JECS

Im just curious to what lead up to the spun bearing, when you or if you tear it down be sure tp post any clues to what may have starved the oil pump.

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OfourTHREEfive

Make sure you apply it well.

idriveattz32

and let it cure for the suggested 24hr period!

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Onitsukagirl

owchie... dang.. I did something like that to a $500 240 trying to drive it home with a knock.. I felt so bad. That was the first motor i have blown up.

khoadogg

and keep constant pressure.

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slidingsky

Yeah this is my first piston engine that I have "blown up" although I have went through a couple 13B RX-7 motors but they don't really give way like a piston engine does.

This is my daily so it was sad to see it go but oh well, KAs are a dime a dozen and I'm already replacing it with another one.

slidingsky

One of the guys in Augusta used to go to Cali alot for Tattoo conventions and thats where he met the owner of 1st Amend , I honestly didn't know they had the ones in California until the Tattoo convention here in Augusta when the owner from Cali showed up.

I know the Augusta guys are great at what they do and they are pretty cool outside of work as well. Duno about the other locations.

jackjack

sweet hole. i dig it. but seriously though....... yeah, ka's rock.

burnsauto

+ rep for limping on a dead engine lol

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SIXSEVENONE

i had a pic just like that too but mine was done with nitrious! this is the only pic i found of mine

!Zar!

So you respect KA's because it ran after you were dumb and it didn't have oil?

Ugh.

Ok.

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slidingsky

Wrong.

It had oil, I duno why it started to fail but it did. As I said this was my only car that I drive all the time which had 150k miles on it. I haven't done anything that would jeopardize the engine to fail since I bought the car in June.

Tops*

Yeah, I don't think KA's were built to handle 9,250rpm (avatar).

Probably why she blasted a rod.



It should just buff right out from what I see...

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slidingsky

Yeah that's the same Avatar I've used since having an RX-7 over 2 years ago.

altalti

Nice canrage I definetly put a whole through one of my ka's block I picked up pieces of my shattered piston. Poor little Ka.

exitspeed

You might wanna get that fixed...lol.

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Yellow4g63

My old Toyota paseo did that to me wayyyyyyy back in the day. It shut off after it spit the rod out the block. Then I started it again ftw! and drove home 2 miles on 3 cylinders lol. Oiled down my drive way tho but who cared I was pissed.

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Mi Beardo es Loco

iron has no give, so it cracks. I find that aluminum blocks are better for FI. Although, the LS series blocks are pretty quality.

berz

and that is why datsun nissan cars are the shit!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Silverbullet

man, you should see the hole in my S14 block! LOLL same spot!

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CrimsonRockett

We should start a club!



Thing was still running with the rod sticking out like that.

I love me some KA's.

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2,1

damn I hope my KA doesn't blow up like that...but then again it only has 30,000 miles on it.