Re: Bad/Good news, mostly bad

["Dave Ewing" <rabbit16v@prodigy.net>]

Very interesting!!!  It almost sounds as though your oil return holes in
your head are plugged with something and running at such a high rpm pumped
all the oil up top and starved the system.  Did the temp gauge show anything
out of the norm?  Check the compression and if it is ok, I would probably
try to start the thing and see if you hear anything weird.  Keep us updated
this is really curious!!

Dave

> Saturday, November 24, 2001 10:30pm
> hey guys, something happend last night. i was comming home from Santa
Maria,
> getting it on with some riced out BMW. we were holding it at 115 from
about
> Nipomo. when i got to Arroyo Grande (its about 10 miles from Nipomo), i
> heard a buzzing noise, i look down...shit, my oil light. look at my oil
> pressure guage...dead, nothing. i swerve to the off ramp and turn my car
> off; im now coasting down the offramp. when i got to the bottom shoulder i
> pop the hood. as i pull out the dip stick, its smoking a little. i think
to
> myself, "This, is not good..." i check the oil filter, its still there and
> its hot as hell. look at the drain pan, drain plug is still there. no oil
in
> the engine compartment, or in my muffler pipes. i did, however, see little
> whips of smoke coming out of my tail pipes when i was going to get more
oil
> (Kmart was right there). i pour a gallon of oil in it and wait a bit. as
im
> pouring in the oil, it starts smoking a little out of the oil fill cap
area
> and i think to myself, "Damn this engine got hot". now im starting to
worry.
> we let it sit for five minuets and check the oil level, at first it says
> there is nothing, but new oil is impossible to see in the dark. i touched
> the dip stick and there was oil on it, fresh oil. i turn the key...one
> little turn over...then nothing. wait about 10 more minuets, doesnt even
try
> to turn over. so im like..."FUCK! The engine seized!". i live only about
two
> or three miles from where i was, so i had AAA tow me home.  thats the bad
> news. the good new is that now i really have some guption to put in that
new
> engine. i also had fun with another car worthy of my race (at least it was
a
> BMW, not a Honda).
>
> Monday, November 26, 2001
> well today i went out to see how bad it really was. car would not even
turn
> over. i checked under the car for leaks, there were none. i also check my
> oil level, it was double what it should be. i drained out
> a gallon of oil (that was how much i put on on the side of the road) and
put
> my car in 4th. i tried rocking the car, and luckly, the belts started to
> move. i am now able to push the car in gear for a little
> bit, before i have to start rocking it again. i also have it turning over,
> but it wont start. i will take the spark plugs out to see if there is
> anything weird on them (i dont really know what the hell i am looking for,
> they were *brand new* Bosh Platinums too!!) i will also see how the engine
> turns over with the plugs out and if i am getting compression. does anyone
> have any idea wtf happened to me that night?
> could this be a failed oil pump? is there any electrical that could be
> wrong?
>
> -Craig
>
> "Nightmare" '88 16v (in Critical Condition from a massive heart attack)
>
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