Took the car to the track for the first time this season and she let go on the first pass.
It was all a blur to me really and im still in shock about the whole thing but somewhere between shifting to 4th and the return road I lost all oil pressure. At first i thought oh well it could be the gauge acting up again, Ive had a few issues with the Nexus oil pressure gauge. Then i see the oil light on the instrument cluster and thing oh fuck. Yet the car is still running, moving and idling all on its own. Now im confused
I shut the car off and rolled into the pits and pop the hood. Everything seems to be in order, check under the car for oil and everything is bone dry, not a drop anywhere. No holes in the block, nothing.
Check the oil and as usual the dipstick reads nothing due to the moroso deep pan. Go to the store by the track and getsome oil and it took 2 quarts or so which means there were 5 or so in there to begin with so it wasn't a lack of oil. Start the car after adding oil just to see if the noise was gone....Nope clackity clackity clackity and it seemed to follow the rpms. At this point im packing up and calling my buddy to come with his flatbed to take me home
Spun bearing? Oil pump failure? at this point who knows. Im only going on 4 hours of sleep right now so im not in a very good mental state to be making decisions but I do not know what to do at this point. Soem of the ideas I've had were to part out the car and return it to as stock as possible and sell it, To pop a stock motor in and go back to 10psi, pop a stock motor in and leave it N/A, and sell/trade most of the performance parts, or to fix the motor.
I do not have the time or the money to be tearing it apart right now nor the resources to do so as I have never done this myself. I am pretty sure I will be done for the year at Min.
It was all a blur to me really and im still in shock about the whole thing but somewhere between shifting to 4th and the return road I lost all oil pressure. At first i thought oh well it could be the gauge acting up again, Ive had a few issues with the Nexus oil pressure gauge. Then i see the oil light on the instrument cluster and thing oh fuck. Yet the car is still running, moving and idling all on its own. Now im confused
I shut the car off and rolled into the pits and pop the hood. Everything seems to be in order, check under the car for oil and everything is bone dry, not a drop anywhere. No holes in the block, nothing.
Check the oil and as usual the dipstick reads nothing due to the moroso deep pan. Go to the store by the track and getsome oil and it took 2 quarts or so which means there were 5 or so in there to begin with so it wasn't a lack of oil. Start the car after adding oil just to see if the noise was gone....Nope clackity clackity clackity and it seemed to follow the rpms. At this point im packing up and calling my buddy to come with his flatbed to take me home
Spun bearing? Oil pump failure? at this point who knows. Im only going on 4 hours of sleep right now so im not in a very good mental state to be making decisions but I do not know what to do at this point. Soem of the ideas I've had were to part out the car and return it to as stock as possible and sell it, To pop a stock motor in and go back to 10psi, pop a stock motor in and leave it N/A, and sell/trade most of the performance parts, or to fix the motor.
I do not have the time or the money to be tearing it apart right now nor the resources to do so as I have never done this myself. I am pretty sure I will be done for the year at Min.
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