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Spinner
03-23-2005, 06:36 PM
Should took a pic, but I was going to put my head on today, and the motor was FULL of water, as in the entire crankcase all the way up to the intake. It was covered, hood shut, AND towerls. Amazing. Drained around 2 gallons of water BEFORE oil even started to come out... I have no luck. At any rate I cleaned it up and ran some oil through it and primed it and I think its okay. Weird though, theinside of my car was soaking wet too, and it doesnt leak... so I thought.

Hopefully itll fire over in the morning
TurboL67
03-23-2005, 06:52 PM
hmmmm. :wtf:
SS2win
03-23-2005, 07:30 PM
Musta had a flash flood? The biggest thing you have to worry about is the bearings getting water on them if you prime it well before you fire it off it should be OK. once you get it fired put a can of sea foam in it and drive it long enough to boil out the water. change the oil and filter again and you should be ok.
Spinner
03-23-2005, 07:34 PM
yeah, gonna put a lot of oil through it.
Z06BoZ
03-23-2005, 07:39 PM
you told me earlier thats just weird dude?!?!?!?
Spinner
03-23-2005, 07:39 PM
My luck is just nonexistant I guess. Thats what I get for flaming import drivers.
slmdLS1
03-23-2005, 07:55 PM
My luck is just nonexistant I guess. Thats what I get for flaming import drivers.


you are head honcho at "bad luck racing" :shrug:
Osceola16
03-23-2005, 08:34 PM
Hate to hear that...sounds like ya got my luck
brandboZ28
03-23-2005, 08:43 PM
Chris, Mark and I had the same problem on his car once. Craziest thing. The hood was closed and everything but somehow, water filled that thing. It gave us a crazy scare when we got it up and running and we found a watery leak under the car. Drained the oil and changed it a few times and everything has been fine since.
redmach1
03-23-2005, 10:27 PM
Don't sweat it.... run it for a little bit, make sure everything is ok (valve lash, etc) and then do an oil change. Get the engine up to operating temp and then drain the oil for at least an hour. You'll be fine.
Spinner
03-23-2005, 10:36 PM
Im not too worried, when I primed oil pressure returned to it so I think it'll be okay. Gonna run the first batch of oil and change as soon as it heats up, then again after a day or two.
97TA
03-24-2005, 01:15 PM
if it rained with the motor open and the hood shut, the water can still get in easily. hose your windshield down with water when the hood is closed, then check under the hood, it'll be soaked.
slowLX
03-24-2005, 05:27 PM
if it rained with the motor open and the hood shut, the water can still get in easily. hose your windshield down with water when the hood is closed, then check under the hood, it'll be soaked.
is the camaro special? cause it doesn't happened on all the cars my family owns, (i don't know about the mustang yet)
97TA
03-24-2005, 07:26 PM
does your family own a camaro? Not all types of cars are the same. :joystick:
Spinner
03-24-2005, 07:28 PM
-shrug- two oil changes and it runs like a top.
lowdime904
03-25-2005, 12:46 AM
-shrug- two oil changes and it runs like a top.


AMEN
Spinner
03-25-2005, 01:20 AM
AMEN

:shrug:
sstony
03-25-2005, 09:15 AM
MAN--you must have one of those new hydrogen cell cars that gives off water as only byproduct :lol:

chris--the car looked and sounded bad ass. glad its up and running again :rice:
lowdime904
03-25-2005, 01:45 PM
:shrug:
amen to it running well :taunt:
93zm6tally
03-26-2005, 08:00 PM
-shrug- two oil changes and it runs like a top.

Bo's right, same thing happened to me after a cam install. It took me two oil changes before it was completely water free.
Spinner
04-05-2005, 10:16 PM
-shrug- two oil changes and it runs like a top.

...except for losing compression. 388 inches coming soon :wicked: