HELP>>>funny engine sounds

[Ben]

Any news on the diagnosis Cuong?

[Cuong Nguyen]

Hi Ben,

sorry no news as of yet, I will drop him an email to see if he has done anything about it. Will let you know the outcome.

[beandip]

It' valve related , sounds to me like a broken rocker arm or a lash pad came off . Dont run it ! pull the valve cover and I think it will be obvious what's the trouble .

[Ben]

I would agree with you beandip, if it had rocker arms or lash pads....

Hopefully it's not tooooo serious & we'll get an update soon!

[Cuong Nguyen]

HI ALL,

news update of the car. It is not good news and it is enough to make a grown man cry...

This engine was in a S14 Silvia and had the GTR engine conversion (RB26DETT) Being in the US, it is a fairly big thing to do as the engines arent thick on the ground as other places such as Australia.

The owner has receipts for US$60K + the cost of the car and labour that he has put in.

This is the car now...

http://www.lilgtr.com/image_display.asp?pid=85

RIP LILGTR

Cuong Nguyen

[SuDZ]

Just getting the engine here alone your looking at about 4 grand or so. Never mind then modding it out.

SuDZ

[Bambikiller240]

He should post those photo's to www.WreckedExotics.com

[Ben]

Too much horsepower, not enough skill?

[kyteler]

Not really a lack of experience.

I had a further look around the website, this explains it for those who are interested;

On the way back from the show, the worst possible thing happened. We were about 20 miles from home when the trailer on the truck started swaying back and forth. Nothing too out of the ordinary as it had been doing this for quite some time off and on all the way back from Chicago. This time, I guess I either had the trailer too close to the edge of the road or the shoulder on the road was a little narrow. Either way, the tires on the left side of the trailer hit the gravel and pulled the rest of the trailer into the ditch. This wouldn't have been a problem had there not been a guard rail there that the trailer clipped head on pulling my truck into it and sending LILGTR flying. When I finally stopped the truck going completely opposite traffic (good this there was none at 4:21 in the morning) and the car was no longer on the trailer. It was pitch black outside but I got out and walked around a little bit. There were lots of ruts in the road from my truck and the trailer. I walked even farther down the ditch and I finally found my car. It was laying upside-down in a mangled heap of metal. It was a total loss.

Now he's trying to get the insurance company to pay out. Good luck to him I say.

[HKSZ]

Hi Cuong, it's perhaps the least of this guys worries now but did he ever give you the final prognosis on that motor?

Steve

[Alfadog]

Now thats just wrong.

Also reading the 'news' about having the car vandilized with paint balls and eggs too... what a pity all this bad luck for him.

Such an awesome car...

[Cuong Nguyen]

Hi All,

Michael is right, LILGTR came off the trailer on the way home from a show.

Steve, the motor was supposed to come out just after the show to have it checked out and rebuilt. LILGTR had ONLY recently got out of the paint shop too!

Very sad for Karl, his car was very nice and very well know too...hope it works out for him in the end.

Makes me think that I should have insurance for my RB26 240Z!!!

Cuong