Not even an hour ago, I was driving home with my dad from the shooting range, and it had rained torrents by the time we had finished shooting. I got to my neighborhood uneventfully, to find the streets to be halfway up the curbs with water. I drove slowly and carefully through, but I could still hear the water pounding against the fender shield. The engine didn't falter the slightest bit right up to the house, but as I turned into the driveway, the car tilted uphill and it happened: KNOCK CLUNK POOF... silence. :blink: A huge cloud of steam came out the tailpipe. No more mad Vulcan powah for me. I'm like "oh [email protected]!#", mostly because I knew full well I should have put the cone filter up higher. So far Mom and Dad are being cool about it. I'm not though.
The aftermath: The engine still cranks and runs, but its missing on a cylinder and makes a god-awful rythmic metal-on-metal knocking noise, like a bent valve or broken parts hitting a piston or a snapped connecting rod smacking the crankcase like a flail. I found water in the intake, some got in the oil, no external leaks as of now, but the coolant level dropped a pint. So I may have also cracked a coolant passage or blown the head gasket. I guess I'll do a compression test, then rip off the valve covers and take it from there.
God help me I'm just not that bright... :nopity:
The aftermath: The engine still cranks and runs, but its missing on a cylinder and makes a god-awful rythmic metal-on-metal knocking noise, like a bent valve or broken parts hitting a piston or a snapped connecting rod smacking the crankcase like a flail. I found water in the intake, some got in the oil, no external leaks as of now, but the coolant level dropped a pint. So I may have also cracked a coolant passage or blown the head gasket. I guess I'll do a compression test, then rip off the valve covers and take it from there.
God help me I'm just not that bright... :nopity: