Fuel's Winter Project: Build It Before It Blows

[skwerl]

Well our starters seem to be quite reliable. I've never heard of one going bad on an s197 Mustang.

Another thought is that maybe the battery is getting hot and losing power? It is right above the starter unless you relocated it to the trunk. Do you still have the insulation wrap on the battery? I still have the battery wrap off my car if you need it.

 

[JoshK]

Battery is in the trunk now.

On another note...the car will do a second gear burnout. Had to go out and try it tonight. Yep, car can still make me come home shaking

 

[Bobby]

Good. I love that feeling.

 

[roberts]

I want that feeling on my car. And i still havnet tried the 2nd gear burnout hope it isnt hard lol. Any tips?

 

[skwerl]

If you try to ease into it then it won't work. You just have to rev it and dump the clutch, then gas it up to about 4-5K rpm once you're spinning.

 

[JoshK]

"Give it the onion" as they say. I dumped the clutch at 5000rpm. Was on dry pavement and hoosiers

 

[roberts]

oh i was trying to go from 1st to 2nd while trying to burnout sometimes it would and sometimes it wouldn't lol

 

[JoshK]

Video uploading of the car right now. Not the fun to watch kind though

 

[skwerl]

Sounds ominous.

 

[BruceH]

Video uploading of the car right now. Not the fun to watch kind though

Did the motor blow at a dyno day?

 

[JoshK]

No dyno day. I decided to drive the car to a town about 45 minutes away to have some fun with a few friends. Had some fun rolling in and out of boost about the whole way there. When I got to the town I noticed quite a bit of smoke coming from the exhaust. I went straight to my friends house and figured it was the seals in the turbo that had finally let go. Decided not to mess around too much and headed home. The car smoked the whole way home and the following video is it running in the driveway right when I pulled in.

The troubling part is the car feels and sounds like it has a miss. There is also a noticeable vibration when putting any load on the engine or transition into boost.

If it were just the oil seals in the turbo then that oil would just be going straight into the exhaust and not into the engine causing a fouled plug right? I am going to try to pull the turbo off tomorrow and see if there is any oil in the pre-turbo piping, but this miss/running rough has me thinking maybe a piston ring went?

 

[BruceH]

Is the oil still oil colored?

 

[JoshK]

Looks like brand new oil on the dip stick

 

[JoshK]

I am asking a lot out of those Moly rings with this setup on 20lbs

 

[05stroker]

I am asking a lot out of those Moly rings with this setup on 20lbs

I am wondering if mine is not a ring issue as well. Well, maybe more of an install issue...

 

[gray1622]

I bet you find oil in the intercooler. I did on mine when seals went out.

 

[JoshK]

Got to turbo off. Nothing looks out of the ordinary here at all. Just looks like normal soot in the up and down pipes and the charge pipes are spotless right after the turbo and right before the tb.









So does this mean that the oil is being burned in the engine and isn't collecting on anything until it gets as far back as the tailpipes since those are cool?

 

[lethe]

Have you pulled any of the plugs yet?

 

[JoshK]

pulled them yesterday RIGHT after it started smoking. I can go pull them again now.

 

[JoshK]

should I start it now with the turbo off before I pull the plugs?