The motor exploded....

[Reid]

Nah, that's normal. Must be your imagination

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[The Creature]

Mickk, where in the world are you? In little old NZ, Japanese imports is like water here, there are parts for everything from 1980 and up.

If you find locating an engine impossible in your country, I can find you several in minutes here that you can take a look at if you like?

Was there any other damage when the con-rod came out? IE loom; gearbox; cooling system?

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[n00bl3t]

Is it an SR20DE or a GA16DE?

Motors for those cars sell for $500 if you search well enough.

However, both those engines are bulletproof. I've seen them run 10psi boost (I know, turbo-ing a FWD from a physics side is weird) with no problem. I would honestly say someone was on the 7.5k redline or past it for a while, because the oil pump failing is not a regular thing at all.

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[The Creature]

Unless of course they were low on oil in the first place. That or the sump was crushed to inhibit the oil pick up.

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[Warhalk]

by the look of it, it's an old car, right? like 2000-2004?

Thats old? Dam i drive a 98 Honda Civic. Then again it also only has 121 000KMs on it.

May have just been a defective part. Had a 79 Pontiac Lemans that had a defective oil pump from new, that dealership never could diagnose until the engine siezed up at 100K. Pump would kick in and out on its own, until 1 -45C day it just went poof trying to pump almost solid oil.

[SMGSterlin]

Even my 2002 Nissan Pathfinder is more than 10 years old.

I love it though, based on the 5 days I've had it, it seems like a very good car.

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[Mickk]

Mickk, where in the world are you? In little old NZ, Japanese imports is like water here, there are parts for everything from 1980 and up.

If you find locating an engine impossible in your country, I can find you several in minutes here that you can take a look at if you like?

Was there any other damage when the con-rod came out? IE loom; gearbox; cooling system?

Perth, Australia is where I'm at.

No other damage, just a big hole in either side of the block.

@ Nooblet;
The motor in question is an 18L (L18e)

@Sterlin;

Second hand Japanese vehicles are outstanding value for money and some of the Japanese cars made for import seem to be almost bulletproof in some respects.

My current car is a 1995 Lancer Executive.
As far as I know the engine hasn't been touched, except for routine maintenance and it still starts first time every time.

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[Captain]

That's normal, fuel needs air to combust so...
perfectly normal to me

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[n00bl3t]

@ Nooblet;
The motor in question is an 18L (L18e)

I was thinking N14 pulsar, not N13.

I cannot help you much there. The Holden engine in that is nasty.

I think a CA18DE might bolt on to the mounts though, as a cheap replacement. Talk to a mechanic about that, because I am not too sure.

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It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.

[Mickk]

@ Nooblet;
The motor in question is an 18L (L18e)

I was thinking N14 pulsar, not N13.

I cannot help you much there. The Holden engine in that is nasty.

I think a CA18DE might bolt on to the mounts though, as a cheap replacement. Talk to a mechanic about that, because I am not too sure.

Found out that it has disc brakes all round, which was fairly advanced for a car in those days.

Also, I found piece of the con-rod, the bearing end of it.
It's not in real good shape.

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