skyshadow

Isnt that cool?! Alot of engineering has been put into the combustion engine. Things like cylinders being cylindrical or heads being hemispherical make for a very strong and efficient chamber. In my personal opinion, The basic heat engine (combustion engine) has really tested humans in our ability to overcome. Pretty much any other type of engine is more effficient than a combustion. But, we have made great strides to improve them. I'll get off my soap box now though haa

Tec80

*cringe*

$15k is cheap if it included parts and that much labor. Looks like the 1UR-FSE connecting rods are shot-peened forged powder metal, which is actually stronger than forged steel. It will bend like a forged rod, but only to a certain degree as evidenced by the one that fractured. Just to be safe I'd also change the diff lube since it could have water in it.

roadfrog

BWAAHAHAHA ...awesome.

Herr Oberst Dummkopf

Doublebase

Incredible pictures...the engine looks beautiful when new on the stand like that. Can't believe the damage, wow.

Devh

jgoorn

A moment in silence.

AznRacer

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wow that's a lot of work for only 15k

wbrian63

Why was the transmission separated from the motor with the torque converter still attached to the flex plate?

I would have thought that risks input shaft damage to the tranny and/or snout damage to the torque converter.

Plus, as the floor of the shop attests, doing it this way makes a holy mess.

Edit - it just dawned on me that if the motor was hydrolocked, and knowing now what the rods looked like, it probably wasn't possible to rotate the motor to gain access to all the torque converter/flex plate bolts... never mind ...

I would make sure to note clearly in the repair documents that since the owner refused to allow checking the heads for damage that any additional work that is required later, or is discovered at start up due to problems in the heads is not covered under any sort of warranty associated with the long block work.

Penny-wise, Pound-foolish.

skyshadow

^ figured it out yourself. Exactly sir, solid bell housing and frozen motor.

zeyger

Um. Wow.

Insurance would have definitely written it off. Shame, shame, shame.

I wonder how the interior is going to smell with the flooding...

Meraki Autoworks

iTrader: (8)

Thats not bad for a $15k job, on a $100k car, but I would ditch the car if I were that guy.

1BlinkGone

I wonder if it made one ping only, Vasily.

SkipABeat

How about this Ferrari that stopped dead in a Toronto storm? Witnesses say every car made u-turns except the Ferrari.

Nospinzone

Well he did have the top up!

Pamperme

Exactly, which is why potential ls600hl buyers need to be on the lookout for this ride should it pop up online for sale. And with it not being reported to insurance my guess is it would still show a "clean" , misleading title.