Blown Motor, Engine Rebuild/Replacement.

COSMO

This time only 3 months..

JWillis72

Oh, I thought it had been down years. I must have missed you got it going.


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COSMO

No unfortunately the last guy who I paid to build my motor and turbo kit was a complete FAIL so I had to have it done all over again.. The last guy had my car for almost a year and now he is a vender on the forum that goes by the name of RJM, aka Robert bobby Ralston.. After blowing up a lot of motors he has finally decided to sell parts from other venders he has replicated throughout the years.

JWillis72

I'm waiting on a motor from IPP but was suggest to use RJM because he was close. I decided not to go that way because of your story!

jwick

IPP

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COSMO

You made a Very smart move going with IPP...

Spooler

I would build my own before I went through this mess. I could build it myself several times if I got it wrong for all the money that has been lost here.

JWillis72

I hope so, I'm using them and Seb to try to have the best I can and get back to the track! I've had the car 2 weeks in the last 10 months and I'm over it!

COSMO

Mind if I ask why in keeps going back to the shop?
I can honestly say that bryan from bbr has taken really good care of me. Great communication, updates almost daily, now consider he had to rebuild an entirely new engine and I'm having him do some top secret custom work for my new setup.. I would highly recommend him for anything and when I buy my next z or supra I'm sending it there for him to do his thing..

JWillis72

I trusted a shop that is big in GTRs that I thought was up to the task. At first the car was never being worked on because 100 GTRs were more important. When I finally got them working on it they sent it to their fab guy where it sat for 6 weeks and when it came back the hood couldn't shut. After going back to them for 3 more weeks it came back mid December. Over Christmas the shop owner fired the only guy that knew what he was doing and decided he was going to do all the work with a couple green assistants. It took him months to get it running right and for his friend to tune it. I had it home for a couple weeks and was on my way to Sebring for a track day when I got off the interstate on to a busy highway and stopped at a light in crazy traffic and the temps started flying up. By the time I could get it out of the road it died, the engine was done because of a leak in the radiator. I have it at a new shop now and so far they have their act together.



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COSMO

Is it forced induction? I'm guessing it had to be causing it to over heat. With mine I installed a thermostat from a g37 that opens 10 degrees sooner than the oem for the z and went an oversized radiator and a vent hood... Did you blow a head gasket and damage anything? heads?

Elmo370z

Best to stay away from any shops in tampa

JWillis72

It a Stillen supercharger, sad thing is I dropped it off running perfect. They changed it to air cooled and I had level 10 build the trans. I had hit something in the road a few weeks before I dropped it off. I'm guessing I damaged the radiator then but it hadn't started leaking yet or it started real small. I was running water and Water Wetter so I didn't smell it, I will be running coolant again until I know it's right. It didn't blow the head gasket but the head warped bad and the oil and water went around it.


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JWillis72

It was a CSF triple pass radiator ( I don't believe it was their fault) and it has a vented Hot Wheels hood ( the biggest vents I could find) I also got the Stillen bumper so I could move the oil cooler and trans coolers away from the radiator. Before the leak the car always ran very cool.

COSMO

Yeah it must have pin holed it somewhere and the heat just made it expand. I also have the csf but not the triple. So far so good on it not leaking but then again I don't track my car either..