I'll let you all know what happened.
I had the car at the track and was on my second
practice! lap when I heard this loud vibrating sound,
kind of like a belt fallen off.
Then all of a sudden I was surrounded in smoke, no
loud bang, well not that I noticed through my helmet
anyway.
I know my head gasket needed replacing because I was
losing oil from there but I almost checked the level
daily so i'm sure I had enough oil.
It looks like it was oil surge because another car had
the same problem.
And that track is known to blow a few engines now and
then.
Bye,
Andreas
1989 405 ????
soon to be a possible 405 Gti6 Turbo?
--- Jackthegkr@aol.com wrote:
> When my 405 was rear-ended and totaled, I went to my
> friends and mechanics at
> Custom Auto works in Mill Valley, CA, and they had
> another 405 sitting there
> with a hole in the side of the engine block. This
> was due to having run the
> engine out of oil, causing a rod bearing to seize
> and then BLAM, through the
> block goes the connecting rod! These 405s are
> notorious for burning oil, and
> many have subsequently been thus broken. The upshot
> in my case was that I
> bought their car, transferred my engine into it and
> off down the road. I had
> previously sunk $3500 into an engine rebuild, so I'm
> now in good shape, but
> poorer.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Jack Turk
>
>
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