I only got a year use out of my brand new GM Goodwrench 350 Crate Motor. I'm still puzzled as to what caused it to "commit suicide". I kept real good of the motor and never abused it (ok a couple of passes and burnouts, street races) but nothing that could of caused it's demise. Ok here's the deal: I had a hilborn scoop poking thru the hood, cuz i liked the look, it was just atop a single Holley carb nothing bad *ss. I forgot to cover the scoop one night and it decided to rain, for 2 days off and on! and the car stayed parked. On the third day when it cleared up, I went to start the car and to my suprise, the car would not crank. It acted like it was stuck and would not crank over. I kept cranking it and finally got it to start after a loud "cling" like a hammer hitting an anvil sound. The engine sounded normal but a couple seconds later disaster. It sounded like a war going on internally in the motor, like metal hitting metal real loud and I quickly shut off the car. Now I'm no mechanic so I didn't know what happened and at the time I was out of funds to take the car to get looked at. I put the car on jackstands and thru the car cover over it and it's sat like that for this whole year, and I now I drive a 2007 Saturn Ion, great on gas, but nothing like the cutty that I miss so much! well the other day I got under the car to snoop around and noticed that on the rigth side of the oil pan was a tear like something shot out, and I got to thinking that's probably the loud noise I heard, something shooting out the motor, can anyone shed some light on what they think could be wrong? I really want to get it up and running again, and have some good friends I've made at work that want to help me, but I don't want to start to pull the motor and bite off something bigger than I can chew, with funds and all. I can pull the motor and all but the machine work and all that I'd have to get done elsewhere. any comment is appreciated
this is the motor pre scoop and with scoop 😢
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this is the motor pre scoop and with scoop 😢
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