I have a 92 maxima with I believe a ve30de first off I'm not losing any money I only paid 150 bucks for it
I know the Guy I bought it from it use to drive great.
anyway 2 of the 3 (left and middle) spark plugs are crushed.
What should I do buy another running engine or try and salvage mine?
any advice is appreciated

 

It had a little knock about 500 miles before it died

 

The spark plugs are crushed? I hope you mean that they are broken in the head or something else, otherwise I would love to see pics of this!

 

No literally ill take pics this evening 2 plugs are crushed like piston or valve hit them

 

If the piston or valves hit the spark plugs, the timing was screwed. Did the chain break or skip?

 

How can the spark plugs get crushed unless they were the incorrect spark plugs that were installed? The piston has a set travel and only goes so far up and down.

 

The only other thing that would be possible is if the engine it self ingested something as a screw or whatever, but I can't image a small piece of foreign material truly "crushing" a plug.

 

Also possible that "knock" was the piston announcing its arrival at the head due to a big-end bearing failure I guess .....................

Could be over-revving and a piston disintegrating...........

I say remove heads and drop sump to look in detail at that particular cylinders before you decide how to proceed ............... any one of those and I would rather replace the motor.

Real strange to have 2 cylinders on different journals on the crank showing up with mechanically damaged upper components - makes me think we are not getting the whole story

 

If that's the case, then there's catastrophic engine failure. Removing the engine and taking it apart will reveal what really happened.

 

Timing chain appears to have skipped but there are to quarter size holes in the timing cover nothing was ingested in the engine and they are the correct plugs th car was running Driven daily till it died

 

Unless you have the mechanical know how & feel up to it I would replace the motor at this point. Its easiest and less down time. You can rebuild original on the side while your still able to drive your car.

 

Agreed - the fact that this thread was even started is a sure indicator that its the best solution

 

Just thinking if it were me. I wouldn't even want to be bothered by it right now.

 

no distributor but 6 coils=ve30 dohc

has distributor and 1 main coil =vg30 sohc

How many miles on the car?is it a 5 speed or automatic? what color paint?

 

It's a 92 gold maxima it has 370,000 miles on car the engine appears to be original has about 3/4 an inch of road grime all over it trans only has about 1500 miles on it ( main reason I bought it ) everything works windows,seats,sunroof,radio all of it works . And again $150
I got my money's worth

 

Oh and it's a 5 speed

 

Buy my engine.

 

How much for ur long block?
How many miles?

 

Don't toss the engine that's in it. At least be sure to keep the upper intake. 5-speed ones are kind of hard to find.

 

Who you telln? I thought VE5 were almost unicorns back when I was looking for mine 3 years ago. Now The only place I see new ones (other than mine) are here on the org or in the jy.

 

I finally found the engine 105,000 miles $350. Good deal?

 

does it come with all accessories (alternator etc)? if it does thats pretty cheap

 

Buy the engine.

 

That's a very awesome deal for a non-cracked block

 

After 4 days and nights it's in and running I thing it has a bad injector or something but I still have my old motor w/ acc
Still needs vacuum lines routed
And my 5 speed intake on it
But getting closer

 

ha! I think I just found the new nickname for my car -- The Unicorn!

 

Mine is primered out right now, but I notice she starting to get looks. (Gotta get an alarm).