Last night from bad weather... my car got hurt bad.

The car in front of me splashed water into my intake, and i hit a big puddle right after. Water got sucked into the motor. It's definately toast, there's holes in the side/bottem of the block.

I'm really contemplating giving up on this... all that time/energy....

hate to say it, but i got owned by a puddle of water

Anyway, I may be returning to stock depending on how much response i can get.

Here's what's for sale.

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=249477

 

are you sure? my cousin and i drove in water up to the door and the car shut down.. we pushed it to the side of the road and in about 8 hours it started back up..

if its toast.. sorry to hear man

 

Well, there's nice holes in the side of the motor... and you can hear nice thunks, clunks and smashing going on in there...

 

heres a 400$ fix for yea http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33615

 

yeah i've seen it.... best deal i'm seeing is about 450 shipped to my house

 

That really sucks. You had a SCCAI, right?

Any pics of the damage?

 

How did the water splash onto the intake filter?

Damn though, holes in the engine.... sad....

 

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My filter sits behind where my right foglight would have been.

 

I say rebuild.

 

yup.. boost + broken motor = opportunity to rebuild and run lower compression with stronger parts

 

That's right where mine is...with no fog-light.

 

Mine too. I've got my driving light still in place, but this is scary. If it starts raining hard enough to flood around here I'm going to disconnect the intake at the blower inlet 'til the roads dry up.

 

Monsoon Season thats not a good time in Austin

 

thing is, it was only 4-5 inches of water.

 

damn! so how does water in the engine make holes? i dunno, im curious. thanks

sorry about ure loss...

 

Water doesn't compress well.

Water fills the combustion chamber.

Engine tries to compress it...can't.

Rod breaks because something's got to give.

Engine keeps spinning.

Broken rod goes through block.

 

Ummmmm, you got full coverage on the car?
Let the insurance buy you a new engine. what happened is considered a no-fault accident usually- just like if you'd been caught in a hailstorm and ruined the paint, or a deer ran out in front of you and FUBAR'd the front end.

 

Really? I never would have thought to contact insurance about something like that.

 

It says later in the post that you were only in 4-5 inches of water. I was s/c in the past and always wondered what would happen if the entire filter was submersed while running. I know the s/c is like a huge vac, but I thought that the whole crossover pipe would have to be filled and completely and then the upper intake also. Of course it would only need to fill one cylinder partly with water to create a non-compressible charge so I guess my whole theory is shot. Sorry to hear about the blown engine, but good used ones are available.