Thanks for all the options on a motor. Im keeping my eyes open for options.
A good point was brought up btw (you detectives). Why did it blow? Well I have a secret, I knew it was running bad. On a cold start it would hesitate and backfire if i gave it too much throttle. This would only go on for a minute. As the car warms, it goes away - hence hard to locate the problem. I assumed this small problem would develop into a bigger one that I could easily find and solve. Well that one fateful day, I forgot about my cold start issue and gave a new club member (njstangers.com ftmfw) a rev to the sky at his request. Thats when it sounded like a bang followed by a rod bouncing around in the block. I now assume I had a fuel issue causing that problem. Its not the tune cuz it DID run well for at least a year and a half. Any ideas? Cuz ive been avoiding the fact that either way im gonna have to fix that too.
