Engine Blown ….Any advice?

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Wow, sorry - how did it happen?

you're planning to buy? or sell?

EDIT: looks like this is your car. My vote goes to a new engine from JR if the wallet will allow and....IF YOU REALLY, REALLY LIKE TO KEEP THIS CAR.

[QUOTE]Wow, sorry - how did it happen?
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Nothing special... just died going 45mph...engine light... no power... clanking noise....

Such a beautiful car...the engine block looks new
Selling?fixing?

Will have engine rebuilt if heads are not gone....else replacement engine....will go from there.

Ouch! Just driving 45hp.
Quite a few options:
1) new 3.6,
2) upgrade to a 3.8 (see Jake)
3) LS1
4) Electric
5) sell as is
6) sell for parts.
You have done so much I would look at 1 or 2 if you have the cash flow.

Ya .... lots of options...

[quote=Chris996;10455717]Sounds classic. Sounds like the story behind the 17 others it will join in our storage area if you decide to ship it down for resurrection. We consider Virginia "local" in regard to shipping the car down as most of the cars we have here now are from the west coast.

As crazy as it may sound, the engine may not be "blown" and we may be able to repair it, even if that means a complete disassembly. At our level such a project is not complicated.

Or it looks like a nice, well kept car (Its never the nasty, abused daily thrashed cars that experience engine failures) and my wife has been looking for a cab 996. So either we can repair the engine, reconstruct the engine, or offer you a fair cash price for the car.

Call the office tomorrow and speak to Dean at 706.219.4874 extension 627. If I am available, I have no problem speaking at an advanced technical level as well. I should be in the office until noon tomorrow, when I head downstairs to the lab for the remainder of the day.

We have a truck heading to the shop from the northeast this week, if he has space remaining he'll be passing right through your neighborhood, more than likely.

First thing you should do is to pull the trouble codes.

I agree that pulling codes is a good initial action; however the majority of full engine failures that find their way here never threw a CEL and have zero fault codes stored.

The fact that he did experience a CEL is troubling as it screams that the car was probably attempted to be restarted after the initial failure (creating more damage that we refer to as "being driven to death") or that the failure wasn't instantaneous; though its symptoms may appear to suggest that it was.

beautiful car, you keep it so clean!! what a friggin bummer

Wow, that is a great looking car. Sorry to hear about the engine troubles.

P0300 p0301p0302 p0303 p1341 p0344

Sorry to hear the engine trouble. Looks like the best scenario is the bank 1 camshaft sensor (p1341) went kaput. I think if the IMSB went, the engine probably won't have time to flag error codes.

Can you check the sensor, remove the camshaft plugs to check all timings are correct while hand cranking the engine a couple of revolutions? I think there's still hope. Can you describe the clanking sound more and whether you tried to restart the engine (not recommended at this point). If cam timing checks out and no interference is felt, probably worth to replace the sensor with a new one and try to start it?