Ive had enough of this car!!!! I just put around 15k in this stupid motor and just got it back from my machine shop. They started it and broke it in and I am now in the process of putting the intial 500 miles on this motor. I have about 170 on it now and the boost is set at about 5-7psi. I dont boost it much in the initial 500 but do boost it a little as I have heard that helps with the rings seating. My tranny is slipping bad between 2nd and 3rd gear and I have an appointment to throw money at it on the 3rd of march. I am going for a complete overhaul and a performance shift kit. So here is my problem.... I was merging onto the highway from a stop and since the tranny is in such bad shape I pretty much have to manually shift it through the gears if I want to gain any speed otherwise it goes through first and second and than just revs freeley untill I let off the gas and it eases in 3rd. Well while I was doing this I hit about 6psi and shifted to 2nd again hit about 6psi and into 3rd and than I saw knock!! About 2.1-2.5 and once in third and into fourth at about 7spi I got 3.5 counts!! WHAT THE F**K!!! :frown: I am so pissed I originally pulled the motor cause I was seeing 35 counts at times at about 5 psi and come to find out it was the camshaft, which had been poorly installed and screwed up my lifters, pushrods and rockers which were just flopping around. Sometimes I will see a bit when I boost a little in 3rd (if the tranny lets me) when I decelerate (up to about 2.1 counts) What is going on here??? I had a really nice build on this car (see sig) and the engie temp and oil temps are perfect. running about .42 tps at idle, 42 psi of pressure on the fuel gauge, never above 160-170 on the tranny temp gauge. Is this because my tranny is toast? Maybe something in it is kncoking around in there or broken or just the vibration from the slippage causing my knock sensor to pick up some residual? I cant hear the motor knocking but that dosent mean its not there. Please help, I am at my wits end here :frown: .....
-Andrew
-Andrew