or so I think..... A blue charger rt was coming up behind me before an on ramp to the highway. It was a 360 turn on ramp, 2 lanes wide. I let the guy pass me in his lane and then I blew his doors off. I then slowed to let him catch up for maybe just a quick romp on the gas.....When I shifted 3 to 4 the rear of the car just started hopping. New it wasn't my 750mi old viper spec tranny. Car was dead, pulled over to the side of the road and that was that.
Interesting thing though. (and it's at a speed shop right now, diagnosis coming monday). I saw no smoke and it spit no oil. When these engine's go don't the usually shoot a rod through the block or something? Also for some strange reason when the tow showed up the battery was dead. Very Very strange being the car started just fine 5 mins prior. I can't really give anymore instight to a bang or anything because I was BLASTING some country. My whole thinking is that the engine is siezed. The shop thought it was out of the norm as well. I mean....what else could have caused the wheel to lock up like that when shifting 3 to 4. Car was running perfect.
If it is blown I'm going to do a 5.0 or 5.4 ( I want a 5.4 but it appears that HPS is out of business or something so no intake would work well without major hood issues). I may also get a precision hat to run dual pumps, replace my novi head unit with a 2000... Goal with the novi 1000 and fuel system as it sits right now, just swapping in a 5.0 shop said I should throw down 550-600 range. Upgrade the fuel and Novi and add another 100 to that figure. Just the main thing I want is more grunt...so I know I need more cubes.
gosh I wish they were still making that intake for the 5.4l
Interesting thing though. (and it's at a speed shop right now, diagnosis coming monday). I saw no smoke and it spit no oil. When these engine's go don't the usually shoot a rod through the block or something? Also for some strange reason when the tow showed up the battery was dead. Very Very strange being the car started just fine 5 mins prior. I can't really give anymore instight to a bang or anything because I was BLASTING some country. My whole thinking is that the engine is siezed. The shop thought it was out of the norm as well. I mean....what else could have caused the wheel to lock up like that when shifting 3 to 4. Car was running perfect.
If it is blown I'm going to do a 5.0 or 5.4 ( I want a 5.4 but it appears that HPS is out of business or something so no intake would work well without major hood issues). I may also get a precision hat to run dual pumps, replace my novi head unit with a 2000... Goal with the novi 1000 and fuel system as it sits right now, just swapping in a 5.0 shop said I should throw down 550-600 range. Upgrade the fuel and Novi and add another 100 to that figure. Just the main thing I want is more grunt...so I know I need more cubes.
gosh I wish they were still making that intake for the 5.4l