James was telling me about when your car vibrated like mine, one of the seals was hitting the rotor, and think about it, the symptoms i am having right now with my car are the symptoms of a blown engine.

 

Man, I need to see it to tell that. Any smoke? Are you still drivingt it any?

 

Yea tons of white smoke when i first start it for the first 10 minutes, and yes i still have been driving it a little, it seems like sometime the more i drive it, it gets a little better, but it also goes the other at times.

 

Damnit!

 

The seals are located within the rotor on each "corner" of the "triangle".... Maybe you meant rotor housings?


When he said he had gunk on the plugs... and I asked about the smoke..... Coolant seals probably... You didn't have it overheat did you?

Maybe a tired old weak engine couldn't handle that much boost... do you have a FMIC or the SMIC, vmount or what?

 

No it didn't overheat, i have a front mount( GReddy 3 Row ) and a fluidyne radiator, so could a coolant seal have broke and be rubbing against one of my rotors?

 

No, coolant seals don't break, they melt ( in a way ). I had an apex seal break or chip, whatever, and lodge on a housing, causing the rotor to hit it and so to say, lump. This created the lumpy idle and the engine rattling. I also had bad coolant seals, as it had overheated. This caused the car to cut off when it was hot, smoke white, and I heard gurgling noises from the heater core.

Llama is right, the engine could have just been tired and weak, and putting on something liek that after the stock twins just finally broke it down. You would think the 3 mm seals and everything done to that engine would have withstood it. But remember Blake, that engine had how many miles on it when you got it? Then you drove it 10,000 plus miles, at a pretty good amount of boost, and running it hard a good amount. It could have just finally ran out. One things that sucks about the engine shaking is if a seal dug into the housing. Housings are expensive unless you trade your core out and get a reman.

 

BTW, why is your screenname Llama?

 

Because I'm a llama....


Oooorgle.

 

Ok.