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My buddy paid 3500 for this engine from a guy and only made 1 pass and he did this the next time when he was in the water box
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This is why u shud check a used engine
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yeh It also broke distibuter in half broke gears on cam cracked block and busted two pistons heads look good but they are at machine shop now being checked
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WHAT WAS THE STORY ON THE MOTOR WHEN HE GOT BARELY USED OR SOMETHING?
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guy he got it from was shootin nos to it but he says only a 100 shot but i think it was more that that he bought the engine when the gut beat him by 3 cars in a race
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not knowing how many passes were on it, I would have pulled it apart and checked it out.
Hell, I just bought a 540 from a friend that only had 20 passes on it and the first thing I did was pull it apart to make sure everything inside was good.
Inside a motor shit happens, you cant see it unless you look for it, or wait till it shows itself outside the motor.
Hell, I just bought a 540 from a friend that only had 20 passes on it and the first thing I did was pull it apart to make sure everything inside was good.
Inside a motor shit happens, you cant see it unless you look for it, or wait till it shows itself outside the motor.
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i know of several reputable engine builder that have lost new engines warming then up on the dyno, even before they got to the power pulls. parts fail all the time. Your friend should have at least pulled the pan and inspected evrything while it was out.
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X2, if the distributor broke and the cam gears went, sounds like the oil pump might have locked up. Course it's hard to say with that much carnage.
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I tried to tell him to take it apart first bu a hard head leads to a softh ass
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and lighter wallets...
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Always bad when you lose your hard earned money.
I hope for $3500 he didn't expect a P/S engine.
A complete motor for $3500 sounds awfully cheap.
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bad deal
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WOW! Not like everything I build is a big HP race engine, but in over a dozen years I have NEVER "lost" an engine warming it up on the dyno, matter of fact, one serious problem in that many years.. A friend of mine who had worked for a cup team for years, said wait till you get the dyno, it will exploit your weaknesses, well when it comes to them staying together or not, guess we don't have to many weaknesses.. :-D
Unfortunately, I have fixed countless engines after someone THOUGHT they got a good deal on a used engine, this is pretty common place.. In many cases people are just unloading a bunch of used up junk.. The piece of the rod in that engine looks like nothing more then a cheap entry level rod..
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every engine i have gotten used and was meant for street or strip i would get it rebuild..you never know whats been done to it or how hard its been ran..
hard to some is extreme to others
hard to some is extreme to others
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