Get over it? He paid 28k for it jackass. May have a cracked intercooler? Who the hell pays 28k for a ****ing project car? NO ONE. Mint low 10 sec Cobra? Sounds far from mint to me. LOL! This is hilarious.
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Get over it? He paid 28k for it jackass. May have a cracked intercooler? Who the hell pays 28k for a ****ing project car? NO ONE. Mint low 10 sec Cobra? Sounds far from mint to me. LOL! This is hilarious.
Well, it is one thing for a car to be sold "as is", which you don't often see when you are dropping 26 large, but generally speaking, the main issue lies in the fact that the cracked i/c wasn't disclosed. Then if the buyer still bought the car, he would at least know it needed to be fixed prior to driving the damn thing!:idea: Obviously the seller had to have known about it, and figured that the "as is" thing would cover his ass. This is just dirty business, is all. Between the cost of the i/c, and the r&r of the blower to replace it, that is minimally $1k, so I don't see how you can take a no big deal attitude about it. Maybe you are independently wealthy, or something, but for most of us, a grand is a very big deal!:bash:
way to be an internet tuff guy. Get to taking it apart, it could be as simple as a failed O-ring on the intercooler lines, and your here talking about pistol whipping people and burning down shops over a 20 cent part. way to be a hard as. There is a problem solve it and move on with life.
VERY improbable that the intercooler was cracked when buyer took possession of the car....... The car will not run, or will run like crap at the best with water in the heads and short block.
Yup. Plenty of people have had cracked intercoolers and once the water gets past the intercooler and into the motor after draining tr res., they either run like crap or don't run at all.
I didn't look at the location everyone lived, but if the seller had water in there and was in a cold climate, it very well could have been frozen and cracked at some point when they were test driving it. Maybe the crack was small enough that the car still felt strong during the test drives slowly became worse and by the time the buyer got it home and ran it for the short time he did, it full drained the system.
The red/orange rust color could even be fuel additive or torco or something like that. I am not there so it could be actual rust.
The problem is, there are too many scenario's with this situation. With the info provided I don't think you can figure out exactly what happened.
Good luck with the fix. It sucks it happened, but unfortunately it does happen.
If there was no fluid to come out of the crack it would run fine...
How does the leaking coolant go from the intercooler to the oil pan? It's sitting in the bottom of the lower intake manifold and has to come up and into the heads and out the intake and exhaust valves as they open. Thus, it literally seeps from the combustion chamber and past the pistons into the crank case. Or through the exhaust manifolds and out the tail pipes.
The spark plugs don't like being deluged with water and neither does the air/fuel ratio. I have seen this happen first hand on 4 occasions. The car will eventually not run as long as water is still circulating through the motor. It MAY run like crap for a short period of time until the combustion chamber is totally compromised.
There is a lot of heat production in the supercharger area and any ice around there will melt in a very short period of time......90-120 seconds maybe?
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i couldnt have said it better myself!! If the intercooler was cracked PRIOR to the sale, the motor would not have run (well barely)... you cant compress water and it wont allow the cylinders to light.... it makes no sense whatsover... but, im just some stupid guy that knows nothing.. (except maybe some common sense and how to make a car go 7s on a BFG drag radial) LOL
He said himself the intercooler reservoir was empty. There was no water to compress. Worst it could do is bleed some boost into the intercooler system. Just because you go 7's doesn't mean you're an honest person. :dw:
Wow Kaiser...... No disrespect, but where did the water go????
Hey D3racing, if Bob is such an idiot why does your boy Evil want him to tune his car?? Are you talking for yourself, or Evil?? Also Evil went on 2 drives in the car, he's said that himself. It started and ran fine then. 2 weeks later it doesn't. How is that Allgo's fault??? Maybe you guys are to blame?!!
Good Question, because obviously it could only be drained from the intercooler...you'd never be able to remove the line from the pump with the pump on to drain it...You know, like anyone would want to do before they open it up to inspect a problem. Only maybe this time he decided he'd fix it later? Regardless of where the coolant is going I find it nearly impossible to assume that in the summer heat the buyer was able to crack the Intercooler in a few days LOL!!
^ haha, summer heat in April in Wisconsin.... Summer heat doesn't start until June in those parts. Not everybody has summer heat year round like you Texas guys....
Just looked up the highs and lows up there. You have a good point. That's crazy. 40's as a low in late April? That's just downright nuts. :lol1:
Didn't read the whole thread but IF the car was in this condition before you bought it and didn't catch it then it's all your fault. Fluids should be checked when purchasing a car, bottom line. Even though its still kinda f*cked up for the seller to have done such a thing.
Sorry Kaiser, I was joking. :beer: See Post # 127.
something doesnt add up... if the resevoir was empty from the original OWNER, how did the car dump a gallon of water out the exhaust?? So, this water was in the motor just hanging out for 2 weeks and one day decided to dump out after the car had been driven a few times??
I fail. Sorry, working on the second cup of coffee as we speak! :sleeping:
LOL! :lol1:
I'm sure like any half intelligent person when he saw it was empty he filled it.
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