maybe i'm missing something, but just one of your cylinders took a crap right? non of the other 3 were effected?
so you conclusion was that the bore broke (or pressed in sleeve) which caused the motor to hydro lock.
from the carnage picture I can see half the bore missing, but can't make out whats going on in the picture
Ill get a better pic later on the bore. There is no cylinder left. And thats only my speculation. Well never know what the first failure point was, but with the rod being pressed out like it is and the other of half still connected to the crank, and the black smoke like a diesel truck my son described coming out the tail pipe just before, that leads me to beleive that it cracked (wall was like .115) and sucked in water at 28psi.
So it didn't have a half concrete block like other cars over 500hp seem to?
Sucks your giving up on the volvo motor and going with a common 2jz, the fact you call it a daily is something that amazes me since it always seems to be in bits, what do you do when it's broken? Use the real daily?
The block was filled half way, clear to the freeze plugs. You can see it in the pics.
2jz might be an easy way out, but so is the T5 when the volvo trannys dont hold up, or the 8.8 when rearends start to go. The money needed to make the engine back to where it was is just as much as doing the whole 2j swap. At that point, Ill know Ill have a 500whp gasoline and a 600whp ethynol motor that will giggle at them power them levels. Much more and the street tires wont handle it, and anymore than the track tune and Ill have to cage it.
This car is my DD, I bought it when I had my daughter so I could have a car too, to get my family around in. I just tend to go overboard. Even with the volvo motor, it was very tame to drive and got around 30mpg on the freeway and in town near 20 when I kept my foot out of it. I like the whole body lines of the car, and not many other rwd, turbo's, 4 door family cars out there.
When this thing is down (the fisrt time is was the 16v build, the second time the cam roll pins sheared, and the thrid time I broke a pressure plate from to much launch controlling it, i turned it into a huge project myself this time around, I could have swapped clutches and carried on but I wanted a 6 speed and quicker spool) I have a 4 runner that is meant for the trail, its on beadlocks, dual cases, lifted and soft suspension. Has a 7mge in it and gets like 18mpg, but its a pits to drive on a daily basis. Then I have my tow rig, big ol 10mpg suburban. great to drive, needs shocks, but it blows in the fuel department.
So I have a few intakes to get done, then Ill start the swap. Dont look like it will be very hard. The exhaust is already ran, the fuel system is already plumbed. I need the t56 adapter and bolt it to the tranny, build motor mounts. I may have to move the tranny back a touch, so shorten the first driveline. Ill ebay a header and intake, bolt on my 6262 and finsih out the dp, and hook up the intercooler piping. No motor work is needed. And with the aem ecu, Ill be able to run launch, traction controls, run different closed loop idle and cruise, along with all the nutty datalogging that comes with it oo.
