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97Killa CAM · 08-12-2008, 09:08 PM

i blew my engine tonight and was wondering what price range am i looking at to get another one put in. price with labor roughly?

and btw it is the wierdest thing that i've ever seen on an engine. there is a hole in it, like something hit from the inside and just busted a hole in it.

Ravie_g · 08-12-2008, 09:09 PM

TAKE A PIC!! lmfao dont waste time.

97Killa CAM · 08-12-2008, 09:11 PM

alright ill go out in the garage ill have pics up in 10 mins tops. it might not be to visible with it still night out but ill see what i can post up.

97Killa CAM · 08-12-2008, 09:29 PM

ok here is a pic of the entire engine to give you an idea where its at.

then here are some closer shots of the HOLE.

97Killa CAM · 08-12-2008, 09:34 PM

For those that would like to know the story as to how this happened. I was driving down the road and the car infront of me had to make a left turn and stopped because of oncoming traffic. So i stopped behind the car as it was a one lane street. As the car turned i acceletated and might of kind of sort of floored it :-/ and heard a loud pop. I thought it was my tire blowing because my steering wheel seemed like it locked up. i pull off to the side of the road and notice smoke coming from under my hood. i pop it open and notice engine oil over my entire engine. i kneel down and a puddle half the size of my car of oil sitting under the car. So if you know what the hell happened please let me know and what my best solution would be. new engine? or not worth it and just get a different car.

/rant

Venom_5 · 08-12-2008, 09:42 PM

wow, this is the second 5S-FE to do this during the summer of 2008... wtf is going on

97Killa CAM · 08-12-2008, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Venom_5

wow, this is the second 5S-FE to do this during the summer of 2008... wtf is going on

really? its strange to me i have no clue how it happened.

94cylcamry · 08-12-2008, 09:55 PM

Looks like that same ish spot also...geez that's weird. Makes me sort of uneasy with my 5SFE lol...

JustinC25 · 08-12-2008, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 97Killa CAM

For those that would like to know the story as to how this happened. I was driving down the road and the car infront of me had to make a left turn and stopped because of oncoming traffic. So i stopped behind the car as it was a one lane street. As the car turned i acceletated and might of kind of sort of floored it :-/ and heard a loud pop. I thought it was my tire blowing because my steering wheel seemed like it locked up. i pull off to the side of the road and notice smoke coming from under my hood. i pop it open and notice engine oil over my entire engine. i kneel down and a puddle half the size of my car of oil sitting under the car. So if you know what the hell happened please let me know and what my best solution would be. new engine? or not worth it and just get a different car.

/rant

Looks like you threw a rod. This is caused typically by lack of lubrication.
(Is that an orange can of death that I see in the pics) I once saw a camry come in to work with a fram filter that had a smoked head from lack of oil. The anti flowback valve had come out in chunks and become lodged in the oil galleries not allowing any oil to flow to the head, and causing failure of the head. This is how I got my Camry so cheap($150).
A customer brought it in as a no crank, and it had thrown a rod on #4. The customer said his daughter was driving it for the last year. It was 12,000 miles over due for an oil change by the sticker.
It had 165k on it when I bought it, so apparently no one had ever checked the oil, and it burned up all that it had in it. Causing the rod to fail and punch through the block.
I still have the piston and rod from it. I will take a pic and post it, once I find it. ( I just moved) It makes a really cool paperweight.

Justin

Albuynp Ryeno · 08-12-2008, 10:01 PM

It's always cheeper to fix what you have then to buy another car and start fixing.

***ASG14*** · 08-12-2008, 10:19 PM

Holy crap, exact same thing happened to someone else a couple months ago

bigbluemonkey502 · 08-13-2008, 11:51 AM

yeah that shiney thing inside the hole is the crankshaft, and notice the lack of connecting rod, just threw the rod and windowed the block. thats rough. judging by the position on the hole id say it was number 2 cylinder that went.

Ravie_g · 08-13-2008, 08:36 PM

Ouch...harsh. Well you already know what happened, and for your initial question, i would say fix it...if you dont like this car, and was planning on a new one then knock youself out. but you have a gen4, not an old gen3 or anything. so im sure the labor and an engine will be less than half of the value of your car. price wise i have nothing. i live in canada and from what ive read here prices are wayyy higher over in the us for some reason.

bentley3805 · 08-13-2008, 10:36 PM

the same thing happened to my engine. this is weird because this is my 2nd engine in this car. this time I want to do and engine swap to something more powerful. i was thinking of going with a 2JZ-GE VVTi from a supra do you guys think it would fit? and would it make a big difference in speed? or would i be better off with another 5sfe

***ASG14*** · 08-13-2008, 11:00 PM

^ Sell your car and take the bus please.