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09-09-2007, 07:14 PM

#21

oxfordgt

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RE: Motor Fried

If your motor is seized you need to find out what caused it before you do anything. If its just seized then you dont need new heads, cams, intake unless your oil pump quite then you will.

09-10-2007, 07:50 AM

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ripped camel

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RE: Motor Fried

Wow that sucks! Like others said my first quest would be to see what the hell happened. There's no reason for your car to die like that at 60k miles! I know people that are past 150k miles with full bolt ons & nitrous who have no problems.

Maybe someone sabotaged your car. Just a thought.

09-10-2007, 08:48 AM

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swooshonln

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RE: Motor Fried

did you forget to change your oil??

09-10-2007, 11:44 AM

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2002GTAUTOVERT

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RE: Motor Fried

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did you forget to change your oil??

i dont think that would do it.. i think forgetting to put oil IN would do it...

09-10-2007, 07:54 PM

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SmallFeesh

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RE: Motor Fried

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ORIGINAL: 2002GTAUTOVERT

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ORIGINAL: swooshonln

did you forget to change your oil??

i dont think that would do it.. i think forgetting to put oil IN would do it...

Well.... if you went long enouph on the oil it would lose its lubrication properties, get burnt, the filter would probably dissinigrate and get filter element in the motor... that would do it... plus it would most likely be REAL low...

Motor blew at 60k?? Possible... if the oil was bad or low, if it was redlined enouph,... especially on bad oil... if it overheated... got oil? got water? Got antifreeze?

09-10-2007, 11:30 PM

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Gar4pt6

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RE: Motor Fried

im thinkin ur gunna need the whole new motor ooba...there were 2 qts of oil when u drained it after and i think thats from when it overheated a couple months ago and could have burnt the rings...it has been smokin when u got on it since then u kno?...only thing that i dont get is why the oil level was fine when u checked it a week ago

09-10-2007, 11:55 PM

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Hyper00

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RE: Motor Fried

What recent mods have you done? ...or maintenance?

09-11-2007, 12:12 AM

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Gar4pt6

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RE: Motor Fried

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What recent mods have you done? ...or maintenance?

he did headers/midpipe ~ a month ago...thats when the smoke started as far as I know...maybe due to there not being 4 big a$$ cats in there anymore

09-11-2007, 12:31 AM

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Hyper00

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RE: Motor Fried

Check the crank like somebody mentioned earlier. If you can turn it then the motor is not seizedand you may find the culprit by visually re-doing the installation.

However, if it cannot turn then the motor is seized. That could be from numerous reasons, i.e. anything fromhydro-lock to bad fuel. In that case,you won't know until you open it up.