jc052685 Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Disclaimer* probably long and borring to others, I just needed to vent..... Whew, so, I posted up the link lastweek of my trip down thee quarter mile with our local high horsepower club (houston performance driving) and I have been cleaning up my mess ever since. On the way back from the track I was having some fun with a buddy of mine and a few other cars that were making their way home also. The car was runnning great and pulling strong. Well, it was until I made my final freeway pull against my buddy in his z32tt. I managed to blow out mmy 5th gear. I was just glad that it was something simple and I could swap it out easily. The next weekend (this past one) on friday night I begain thee tranny swap. All was fine and went pretty smoothly other than the fact that once I got the car on thee ground I realized I grabbed the wrong trannny from storage. I just installed a 4-spd....awsome. Thats fine I figured. I was planning on hitting the dyno this week and the track again this up comming weekend. So I figured I will leave it be. Will be a little less wear and tear on my few good 5spdss i have left and less chance of breaking one. So now thee car is running as of this last friday night and I am wanting geet on thee dyno monday so I decide to start tunning for 20psi. Yeah.....should have left it be. I got to 18psi before thee headgasket let go. #6 blew right out the side. OK, here we go. No problem headgasket, I am thinking 2hours 2.5tops. I had the head off and ready to take to thee machine shop for a check up in 40 min. Everything at this point is great. Take it to thee machine shop and to mine and his suprise he says the head is straight as can be. Happily not having to remove any material I load up and haed back home. Now see, here is were everything starts getting even worse. Head studs out of the block I clean thee threads in thee block and on the studs. Prep the block and head surfaces and whip out the new head gasket. Head goes back onn thee block, studs droped in and ready to torque them down. At least I thought so, they were all fine till the last one gave it up. Yes, I broke an ARP heaad stud off below the deck. AWSOME, friggn great! At this point I am ready to just yank the whole dumb motor and swap it out for one of my standby motors. I give up till this morning. I make it back out there by 10am and start trying to figure how I am going to pull all of this off. I am getting tired of typing and reading so I am going to sum up the rest. I was able to drill and use an easy out, all though I realy dont think they are, to remove the remaining stud from the block. An hour or so later she is running good and I drove her to work tonight. Yep, should be fun tonight, past 4 days I have only gotten about 3 hours of sleep each night. And now I have about 10hrs of a 12 hour shift still in front of me with a dyno run schedueled (spelling?) at 11am tomorrow. end rant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naviathan Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Sounds like an adventure... Sorry about the bad luck, hope it all gets better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LT280z Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Glad to see you got it back together. The same thing happened to me (broken stud) but it was on the exh manifold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_furious Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Holy cow, what a run of rotten luck. I can't say I've ever had it that bad, but I'm sure there are plenty of us here that have had a spate of misfortunes, one after the other. When aux and I swapped the L28 and trans in my Z earlier this year, it was stretched to three days, when it could have been done in a day and a half. It had a few 'Oh, !@#$, we are screwed' moments. With help from friends and some time to breathe, things worked out. Hang in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK-Z Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 I find having patience is best. We all get into those "What do I do next" moments and try to rush things to be finished. But I find that when I find myself like that and take a break, things get done a lot faster, and less screwups. I spend the time planning what needs to be done next, what tools I need and what specs everything needs to be at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc052685 Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 well I did "hang in there" 12.2 @ 115 was the result Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc052685 Posted February 19, 2009 Author Share Posted February 19, 2009 Figured I would update this some lol. So, I dont remember the dates and stuff but here is a summary. Since I have melted down #1,5&6(i have pics i may post) No problem, swaped it out. Noe the car is over heating and has crazy boost creep, along with glowing thee exhaust manifold & turbo at highway cruising. Of course its siting at like 4500-5000rpm (4spd). Been lazy, car parked in the garge. May mess with it this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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