#$@! Blew my engine today #&*#@!
#391
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I'd pass, ticking could be also piston slap, piston tapping the head. chain stretched or rails worn out. Sounds like that engine needs to be torn apart and fixed up before she tick tocks and booms.
#392
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Hey all, I found another motor. It has 41,000 miles on it. Seller will send me pix and video on Wed. Apparently, it is in a car that is still running.
It's $1,000 more than the Texas motor, but 16,000 fewer miles. It doesn't have LN IMSB (as far as I know), but I can pull the LN IMSB out of my motor and swap them. I don't have any history on the car, since it was bought by a guy who buys salvage cars and then he sell the misc. parts.
What do you all think? Is the 16,000 fewer miles worth it? I know that the Texas car was well-maintained (and has LN IMSB installed) until the accident, but no maint. records are available for the other motor.
Thanks in advance.
It's $1,000 more than the Texas motor, but 16,000 fewer miles. It doesn't have LN IMSB (as far as I know), but I can pull the LN IMSB out of my motor and swap them. I don't have any history on the car, since it was bought by a guy who buys salvage cars and then he sell the misc. parts.
What do you all think? Is the 16,000 fewer miles worth it? I know that the Texas car was well-maintained (and has LN IMSB installed) until the accident, but no maint. records are available for the other motor.
Thanks in advance.
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Hey all, I found another motor. It has 41,000 miles on it. Seller will send me pix and video on Wed. Apparently, it is in a car that is still running.
It's $1,000 more than the Texas motor, but 16,000 fewer miles. It doesn't have LN IMSB (as far as I know), but I can pull the LN IMSB out of my motor and swap them. I don't have any history on the car, since it was bought by a guy who buys salvage cars and then he sell the misc. parts.
What do you all think? Is the 16,000 fewer miles worth it? I know that the Texas car was well-maintained (and has LN IMSB installed) until the accident, but no maint. records are available for the other motor.
Thanks in advance.
It's $1,000 more than the Texas motor, but 16,000 fewer miles. It doesn't have LN IMSB (as far as I know), but I can pull the LN IMSB out of my motor and swap them. I don't have any history on the car, since it was bought by a guy who buys salvage cars and then he sell the misc. parts.
What do you all think? Is the 16,000 fewer miles worth it? I know that the Texas car was well-maintained (and has LN IMSB installed) until the accident, but no maint. records are available for the other motor.
Thanks in advance.
Definitely!
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Sounds like good news! Install a new LN bearing on the new motor though. Should be minimal labor with engine out anyway. The LN bearing (or other brands) can only be installed once AFAIK.
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These guys are right down the road from me. They sell salvaged motors for $7 - 8K.
https://www.partsheaven.com/
https://www.partsheaven.com/
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Thats the problem with dealing with companies like ARP. Do all the development, spend all the time and money to work out their issues, then they sell them to anyone. It gets really old, really quick.
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KrazyK, you couldn't be more wrong on this one. This is not good for the consumer, because it just means things in the future will be more protected, making them more expensive. Already we have had to change the way that we are working with others in regard to developing things for them.
Originally BMW rod bolts were being modified to fit the M96 rods, we had to measure housing bore sizes with various torques and work all of it out so they'd work. At that point the decision was made to take those specs and make an application specific ARP bolt for the M96 rod. There was no interest in making an M96 rod bolt when we started all of this with M96 engines. We were laughed at, but that was the standard back then.
Nothing in this industry is more expensive than development.
Originally BMW rod bolts were being modified to fit the M96 rods, we had to measure housing bore sizes with various torques and work all of it out so they'd work. At that point the decision was made to take those specs and make an application specific ARP bolt for the M96 rod. There was no interest in making an M96 rod bolt when we started all of this with M96 engines. We were laughed at, but that was the standard back then.
Nothing in this industry is more expensive than development.
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A developer should get their money/fee then wash their hands of it.
#404
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Jake Im agreeing with you but you cant expect companies like Summit, Jegs, whoever to not carry products like ARP regardless of the engine aplication. I don't think they consider the R&D behind it or even care. Are you saying you want to keep all your R&D for yourself? Didn't you go through the same thing with the bearings, oil. etc? If Summit decided to carry IMSB's surely they would be cheaper than LNE's? Your advantage is that the M96 market is miniscule to them.
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Jake Im agreeing with you but you cant expect companies like Summit, Jegs, whoever to not carry products like ARP regardless of the engine aplication. I don't think they consider the R&D behind it or even care. Are you saying you want to keep all your R&D for yourself? Didn't you go through the same thing with the bearings, oil. etc? If Summit decided to carry IMSB's surely they would be cheaper than LNE's? Your advantage is that the M96 market is miniscule to them.
I see this every day at my company, which produces a very low volume, highly specialized technical instrument that, if we could sell 100 times as many, would probably cost 1/10 as much. Virtually all the cost of the instrument at current volumes is amortized R&D.