when you least expect it.... (w/pics)

[Gorilla Unit 33]

Well heres how it goes. Me and EvilTalon are on our way to dog box racing in NJ to drop off his DSM last monday arround noon time. Were on the jersey turnpike just cruising at 60 in the slow lane since we almost got ran off the road numerous times by these tractor trailers needless to say and our exit was 5 miles away (7a). sitting in the slow lane in 5th gear about 3800 rpms...

all i heard was a vacum type sound booo and a few tings and clang's and immeadiately the motor shut off. Then the smoke, look in my rear veiw my buddy in his DSM cuts off traffic and flys arround me, more smoke, and me just sitting there starring stunned into the gauge cluster llokgin for some sort of sign check engiine, low oil, something yet i was met with no reasoning NOTHING whats so ever. There was never any knock , i compression tested the motor every oil change always came out perfect accross all 4 yet no sign of this happening. It wasnt even like i was beating the **** out of my car i was truthfully driving like my grandmother. No explaination for what happened, yet. Although i found peices of my block scattered accross the lanes and shoulder.

I get out pop the hood just a continuous cloud of smoke, and every time a trailer passed us the smoke would clear and i would just see oil sprayed up against the firewall. I was pissed and stunned at the same time, then realized i was getting ran over by my car because i was in such a rush to look under the hood i left it out of gear without the e-break on. haha


NEVER get towed off the NJ turnpike from Turnquist garage/towing company. Some of you may know the NJ turnpike only lets contracted tow companies by them on the turnpike to pick people up, which sucked cause the guy could utter only the smallest of words in english. Not to mention the idiot hooked up the chains on the front support and when pulling the front onto the bed the chains got caught on the lower part of the bumper cracking the lip (note i knew the lower lenses were ****ed up, i could careless with the new front end is coming, and the passenger side was missing one screw as u can could see). i tried to point it out to him and he didnt wanna do anything just kept pulling it up onto the bed. get to the garage cost me 80 bucks just to get off the turn pike! then when he dropped the car s that the AAA guy could put it on his flat bed he scapped the whole front end on the last 6ft of bed ****ing the whole front bumper up. Chipped & spydered paint all over the front bumper. (he tried to say it was like that, then i had to hold my friend back from going after the guy cause it was deffinately not like that, thank god i had my video camera with me and had pictures on the side of the highway before we got picked up and after he dropped us off! because the owner is saying that the tow truck driver said it was like that before he pulled me up and dropped the teg off

Anyway so make a long story shorter AAA guy was cool as **** and only took him 5 minutes to get there, needless to say he could get the car on and back off the flat bed without any rebbing or scrapping anywhere. Although it cost me 200 bucks to get from where i was at in jersey to my place outisde sw philadelphia. where it now sits in my friends shop. We believe the rod spun, and i think the head is fine thank god. take a look!





















so what are my plans now... well as some of you know i had some k series parts, **** THAT idea now, and a full turbo kit just shy of a slim fan. So now im having an LS botom end full balanced, built and professionally blue printed from Mahler engine service who built turboteg's 400 some+ whp turbo integra. 9 to 1 compression and basically "bomb proof" should be back on the road and boosted in 4 weeks. although there goes all my tax return money i will have fun though finally boosted with nothing to worry about.

[Honest_Bob]

That sucks big time! Good luck.

[EvlEgl]

Ouchhhh...Well look on the bright side.

Boost Pwns All!

[SpoolinDSM]

and this was the teg and not the dsm? im astonished lol

[AMF Racing]

seems like you didnt check your vtec fluid. gotta have 50/50 mixture in this cold weather it can freeze causing vtec damage. sorry about the motor man, but sounds like it will be back together and a monster soon enough!!

[SpoolinDSM]

please tell me thats a joke? ^^

[Gorilla Unit 33]

Originally Posted by EvlEgl

Ouchhhh...Well look on the bright side.Boost Pwns All!

your right, i was only selling my car to buy my friends built turbo d-series that ive been totally amazed by the power it puts out.

Originally Posted by SpoolinDSM

and this was the teg and not the dsm? im astonished lol

I know thats what i said! lol

Originally Posted by AMF Racing

sorry about the motor man, but sounds like it will be back together and a monster soon enough!!

yeah ill be saving for a tune and then after that ill be looking for a better manifold and bigger turbo. id like to keep the power useable through out the the rpm band instead of going huge like some of the honda guys and only getting power top end, but who knows my preferance may change

[SpendOne]

3 letters man....DOH!!!

[BlackBulletTSi]

damn LJ that sux to hear bro. They really did screw that ish up

[EvlEgl]

Word... Can't wait to see the beast back in action...By that time I should be out on my 2 wheeled animal

[streetAssasin96]

damn dude, good luck with everything. it sucks i didn't even get a run with you, when i picked those parts up. probably cause that shady homeless kid rolled up on us with a bag of f-ing doritos in prospect park. haha

let me know how that bottom end turns out, 06civsi and i are building an ls engine right now.

[Gorilla Unit 33]

Originally Posted by EvlEgl

Word... Can't wait to see the beast back in action...By that time I should be out on my 2 wheeled animal

yeah and i wanted to start saving for my bike to buy in april cause me and some friends have a big ride planned for myrtle beach in May. looks like ill be driving following them instead or riding... Atleast ill be comfortable and able to keep up with some of them lol

Originally Posted by streetAssasin96

damn dude, good luck with everything.let me know how that bottom end turns out, 06civsi and i are building an ls engine right now.

yeah man thanks. The bottom end is going to be sick, turbo teg's came from the same place he works there also. Ive already been looking at dyno charts for similar setups and there pretty nice. dont worry about building the whole motor man just build the bottom end and drop your GSR head on it and have an LS vtec.

[jc8889]

You got NO luck at all man, sucks. **** happens for a reason..... I think.

[EvlEgl]

Nice...Ill Be In myrtle...You should caravan down with us we got like 13 bikes 3 trucks and a 20 foot trailor.

[Turbo s60R]

Holy ****!!!! why does tht **** always happen on highways????

[Crzyguy972]

thats asame

[wgknestrick]

This really sucks for you and I hope you can get it back on its feet.

But who would've thought that out of 2 cars (Honda and DSM) pulled over on the turnpike (with one of them broken down) that the DSM would be the car that saves the day with it's reliability.

[EvlEgl]

Omg A Honda Broke The World Is Gonna End

[99SL2_Modder]

At first as I was reading, I thought you were talking about the DSM smoking and making weird noises and that he blew past you so that you would know or something.

Bah..

DSM: 1
Honda: 0

Poor teg.

[james_ls]

That sucks dude.

Best of luck with everything.

(What front-end are you doing... 98+ or JDM??)