Engine threw a rod! (56k warning perhaps)

OUCH! Damn man that's no good.

i totally agree-there's no freakin way enough water can get into the engine to damage it via short ram-i mean i drive all the time in the rain with he filter in the fender suckin all the water-as long as it's not submerged, i'll be fine...although i am starting to get worried...

Looking at all this makes me not want to get my CAI. Ouch!!

what the hell is injen styled, intake is intake its eather short or long. Long is usually CAI short is usually RAI

we made the mistake of making the intake so that the filter element was right next to the firewall... what can we say we were dumb and 16 or 17 ... lol... yea never doin that again... well i will take what i learned from ru's car and apply it to my camry now hehe

threw a rod! (56k warning perhaps)

threw a rod!











My friends dj and brian helping me out.


freak yeah!

how the hell did that happen?

holy crap dude...

and how did you manage this?

One Word...

"Fuck."

probably mishifted.....rsx-s/celica gts 6spd style....

sadly, i didn't mis shift, i dont suck that bad.

a while ago i hyrdolocked the engine, and i decided to just crank the engine instead of pulling the plugs and pumping the water out. by doing so, i bent the rod in the second cylinder (from the left), and it probably was damn weakened by so, and explains the low compression reading from that cylinder before it went.

as i was shifting to third, at about 3k, i let the clutch back in and BAM metal sounding oil spurting and i am forced to pull to the side.

sorta crazy, some may think i'm dumb. but i've learned the reason for the check engine light coming back on, and that when hydrolocked, pump it out after removing the plugs.

how did you get it hydroed ? through a CAI or what?

shit!!! yea 1zzfe's are pieces of crap! just kiddin... stop hydrolocking ur car dummy. lol sorry ru lol

he was durbin with our homemade cai ... we made it back in the days when celica cai's were the only thing avab. hehe

injen styled intake...

going through puddles, water goes into engine bay, intake sucks it in.

oh boy. Thats why i will never buy a CAI in my life

it was injen styled...not cai

The same thing just happened to my 98 w/78k miles on it. It is an auto though, is this sort of thing common? There was no water or signs of previous damage though.

I plan on swapping a 2000 Corolla engine in, +5 HP.

injen styled meeans IT LOOKS LIKE INJEN.

the junkyard guys told me that the 1zzfe's like to throw rods wit higher mileage, mine happened because it got weakened ...

that must have been more than a puddle that you drove through to suck in water with a short-ram intake.

Can you get the MWR big bore kit and forged rods instead, or is that too expensive?

How much are you gonna be looking at for repairs...yeah man Im begining to think the 1zz arent that strong Ive already probs with mine 1500 dollars to be exact...now im scared every time I race of what shit might happen to my engine. u guys who are gonna do the swap to a 5 more hp engine know u gonna need the ecu as well since ur probaby non vvti ur stock ecu wont probably work...well thats what I was told by one of the mechanics at toyota..

thats like being scared every time you drive youll use gas ::GASP::

or like you saying that every time you spin your tires youre afraid you might wear them down!

i didnt tell them i was racing...i told them i was coming off a freeway exit and i was merging into thick traffic, and i downshifted from 5th to get more torque to get in front of a car, and i hit the wrong gear. they wernt to happy about it. u shoulda seen me. i was scared shitless.

i had to put my stock airbox and crap back in, and they wernt to pleased witht the strutbar goin across the engine bay.

but they did replace the head and block for free...but broke my door handle in the process, and neglected to fix it.

i dont think ive ever sucked water in mine, it sits right where the stock air box was

and you will be fine with a cai of you get a bypass valve, it opens up when theres alot of water around the filter so no water can be sucked in

alright...hm, lets see, i think i know what happened.

first everyone needs to get off their bomb dickityness.

i was derbying through VERY LARGE PUDDLES OF WATER, like deep, it had just rained and there was mud and everyting. so i decided to have fun and what happened was water flew all in the engine bay, MY CUSTOM MADE INJEN STYLED INTAKE was hover over the area where there appears to space in teh engine bay. the intake proceeded to suck in water, thus hydrolocking the engine.


supa prop home dog style to vortex for having humor about it, it was funny to see the rod just hanging ther when the oil pan came off

sucks dude..get it fixed lol

nothing a little duct tape couldn't fix...lol

that does suck but it makes for a fun summer project