Best christmas present

[RNROBBO01]

Just fitted a redtop to my LS cav fired up first time but sounded abit rough, then calmed down after abit. Took it out for a run within in about 5mins of been out i realised some thing was seriouly wrong but before i could pull over......crash bang smash

Snaped Con rod
Cracked crankshaft
Crackshaft counter weight cracked
Baffle plate ripped apart
2inch hole in front
Hole in back i could put my hand through

[gsi pie]

bad times dude

did you not now the history of the engine? or see it running befor you fitted it buddy?

[RNROBBO01]

What i found in sump

[gsi pie]

to rods snapped good going

[RNROBBO01]

bad times dude

did you not now the history of the engine? or see it running befor you fitted it buddy?

Lad i bought it from took it out of a calibra and he reakons bout 90,000 on it. Its been sat in his garage for a while though. Must hav thrash life outa it though

[Gaz]

Have you noticed that when you buy an engine its never done more than 100k miles its nearly always 90k.....

[gsi pie]

^^^ all red tops are on or below 90k on ebay n most car forums

must be a selling point..............

[Terry]

The oil remaining in the sump doesn't look good. Did you service the engine before fitting, Did you drop the sump before hand?
I always have a good look inside any engine I fit.

[TurboDan]

Now that is how to kill an engine lol!


I'd be seriosely gutted if it were me.

Although Dan richards on here has a very cheap Good running XE forsale.

[chrisvectra]

bloody hell what did you do to that?

[planetc]

Oops
I think that was knackered before it went in

[mr v6]

ouch,theres a lesson on checking your new engine before aswap somewhere there!!

hope you manage to sort another engine ok

[bigmitch]

Thats impressive, that engine must have been seriously f£$ked up
Is it me or is that look like sand in the sump ?

[Adamw5433]

Thats impressive, that engine must have been seriously f£$ked up
Is it me or is that look like sand in the sump ?

It'll be tons of filings.

I'd say a rebuild job if you had a spare block and spare pistons.
But the amount of work involved, you may as well buy another red top and rebuild that.
Run it in and then go from there.

Adam