Intrepidation

A G8 ST...oh wait.

Well Ted, at least your fluids are staying in their own compartments

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Yeah I'm not going to Carlisle this year sadly, but if I get everything squared away with my car it'll more than make up for it. Plus next year I can bring my own car instead of riding with someone.

Just got a call. It's the radiator. Thank goodness it's not the engine.

So the entire time I'm thinking wtf happened? When I looked at this motor the car had just come in. It wasn't even in the yard yet. I looked it over, checked the oil cap and looked down the tube to look for white residue and it was perfectly clean. just oil in there. The guy called me up a little while ago and had a thought. The used radiator I bought has an oil cooler build into it. This radiator was damaged a bit on top but that's what they had and said it was good. Well maybe not. His theory is that if the radiator was damaged internally, than the leak could be there and not in the engine. He figures that the car didn't get hot enough and wasn't driven/running long enough for the engine internals to be damaged. So if that's the case than just maybe this mess is savable. We'll see. My spirits are not on the up and up. He's supposed to call after the car cools off and he does some tests.

It does, but the yard requires that the engine be brought back to them. Either wayy It'll end up being another $1,100 to do this again.

Pass.

Well the $h! has hit the fan and things have taken a turn for the decidedly worse. Went over today to help put the hood back on the car to mark the completion of the conversion. There was a minor issue where the plenum was cracked at the base of the PCV hose attachment, but I could just get a replacement for that when I got back from Carlisle. I got to hear it run and it sounded good besides the little sputter from the crack. I followed him back to my normal mechanic's shop. I noticed that the exhaust was visible and white-ish gray. Figured maybe it was burn-off or something. Once we got there and talked with my mechanic, he asked me to give him a ride back, which was not a problem. I noticed when I revved the car I could hear fluid flowing through the car...the Mercury does that sometimes...dunno what it means. Came to a stop light after about a mile, and the car hesitated to move. He figured maybe the transmission was low on fluid. Go another half a mile and suddenly the temp gauge has swung up to almost the red line! I pull off to side street, turn the car off and we pop the hood. At first we don't see anything beside some steam. He opens the coolant reservoir cap, and to our horror, what comes spewing out is a yellow-green soup. I check the dipstick and it is also the same yellow-green soup. So great..oil in the antifreeze and antifreeze in the oil. I mea, I've seen anrifreeze mix with oil, but the oil was still milky brown. Using someone's garden hose, he flushes it with water to cool it down enough, and we limp it the 1/3 mile back to his shop. It's worth noting that the engine never actually overheated. The needle stayed between the 3rd and last marker...but still. So great, all that work, $945 engine, $1100 for the labor and I'm worse off than I was with the 2.7. First thought was either cracked block or bad headgasket.

You know about 13 Tundras had camshaft failures and we made the biggest deal over it. In either case, that warrants a recall in my book.

Wow.

I don't have a netbook, but if I did or Google builds an OS for desktops, I'd love to give it a shot. With that said, I've been thoroughly impressed with Windows 7.

Well, I dunno how helpful this is balthy, but here's a snippet from the Viper ACR review from Autoblog:

Pssh, what a load of horse poop. if I had a chance to be in an R8 I would not look angry at the world.

Oops, sorry to hear.

Nothing wrong with posting dude. I've heard them with true duals and yes they have a nice snarl to them. I don't want mine to be so loud as to drone on the highway though. Something to look deeper into when the time comes.

There hasn't been much for the 3.5 up until recently, now that the LX cars have been out. I've heard one guy getting 400 horsepower out of his. The exhaust will stay sock for now, but it will eventually become dual.

The Buick of the sky? Only cooler and more deadly.

Not mentioning those stick-on portholes made this article lose all credibility. As far as vinyl tops go, they look ok depending on the car. Cars with a more stately design as opposed to more sporting. I don't mind the on on our Grand Marquis, but I saw a photo today of a 300M with one and threw up a little in my mouth. Cars that aren't pretty to begin with, like last gen Monte Carlos just add insult to injury.

It didn't originally, but I saw you editing the post to fix it, so its fine now. However, since this is basically the same as the MT article, it's going to be merged with the MT thread.

Link doesn't work.

I looks right at home in the engine bay.

Optimus is poorly drawn and therefore not worthy of getting my money.