Bummer!! Depending in what happened to the valves when the belt failed, you may have broken valves stuffed into the tops of your pistons - remember my "special" piston? In any case, unless the piston cracked and scored the cylinder wall, the crank, rods and block should be OK to reuse.
If you're going to build a new bottom end - spend the extra $$ and find some nice forged pistons (read: light). Considering your luck with motors - DON'T HELP ME prep my car for the '00 season <G> - just kidding. --- [email protected] wrote: > Can someone tell me why every 16V car I buy throws the timing belt > right > after I buy it? Anyone? Damnit, damnit, damnit. So anyway, I'm > on 95 South > in the middle of a blazing snow storm, on my way to Richmond to see > the GF > for Valentine's day(damn this holiday), and about halfway there, I > hear BANG, > and the oil and battery lights come on. The car is off and I am > coasting to > a stop on the shoulder. OK, I was just doing 80 in 5th, so that > comes out to > 4K on the rev counter. So I try to start the car....and it spins > over way > too fast to be good. So I go out and push on the belt....and it's > loose. > Fuck. From this point, it becomes a 2 and a half hour battle with > AAA to get > me a tow truck while I sit on the side of the highway with NO HEAT. > I will > not bore you with the details, but let me tell you, AAA has not > heard the > last from me about this. Anyway, I need opinions....what's the > probablilty > that I trashed the pistons, too? I know the head is gone, and > that's not > really all that important to me, I have 3 sources for 1.8L heads. > But if I > am going to need a bottom end, too, I am going to have to go > shopping. I'll > be pulling the head off tomorrow, but I'd like to have some sort of > idea of > what to expect here. > > -Dave > '91 GTX 16V > _____________ > List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com > To remove yourself from this list, send mail to > [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of > your message > See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com > Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org > ===== Matthew Yip [email protected] http://www.geocities.com/mgyip/ '87 GTi 16v - x2 '88 M5 '99 F350 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
