here it is I blew up my 5s about 2yrs ago built a (1)5sgte & that blew up due to low oil press skip forward 6months (2)rebulit the 5sgte it was good until the clip that held the piston rist pin in place flew out skored the wall ,(3)got a stock mr2 5s block then put the 3s head on drove fine for a little bit once again low oil press took that out (4) stock 3s block +3sgte head car drove wounderful for 3-1/2 week. coming home from work driving along ez & then the motor starts to knocks(today) what do you guys think i shoud do??? sell or fix build 1more 5sgte???





This post has been edited by Punch: Mar 13, 2008 - 5:54 PM

why do you keep going 5stge, guess you must like it. did you make any harness changes....

i would drop in a cheap used engine in the meantime, and see what was the problem,

you can try posting your findins in the previous malfunctions.

just dont give up....

cant you just get a brand new rebuilt engine that should perform flawlessly? save money in the long run

but 8 oil pressure gauges and have them all over your interior. you wont ever have a low oil pressure problem.

i ask you this..........how much do you love your car??? if you sell can you deal with the withdrawls??? just like this guy that sold his gts 01.......he told me he misses it soo much but the guy who bought it wouldnt sell it back not even for more than what he bought it for.

hold your car....closethe garage door...and stalk up the bank account. get you a front clip and/or complete 3sgte swap. no more headaches my friend. if you're going to do it do it the right way. i'd hate to see you give away a gem like this.

I use to work at a performance shop & i had the owner look at it the 1st motor he was no help !!!
but i found a dude that did the 5sgte in his mr-2, (EZ from mr2OC)after hours of talkinhg on the phone we found he had the same problem And it was the oil pump, so i got 2 more 5s short blocks gonna try one more time.
thanks guys! i was gonna sell my celi:) and get a tc...

if you change you mind can i have it? I'll give you a dollar

Otherwise you need to go ahead and hold on to it, Problems like this are going to occur (Just not so many times ) but the problems is found out this time arround!

Hope the next try bears fruit Good Luck to ya!!

Thanks ! O yeah this time every thing will go well i hope gonna check all clearance and more insight is going in to this build up. thanks guys for having my back yal are the best!!!!