i hear ya, mine has had the engine out for two years.... college puts projects aside for a while i guess...

il give ya 500 bucks for it! non runnings car ya know... i have to come and get it ;) just joking with ya... honestly you have a car we all would love to own, its like our savior on the forum, between that car and the pikes peak hill climb car that the person who owned that destroyed (in my opinion) be removing the roll cage, so i am happy to hear it is being kept in a good place, under cover, with proper storage, should be one for the museums some day in the future, i hope.

I would love to see when im 60, a TGP at the Gilmore Car Musium in michigan, or a simular car museum....

if you can afford the dyno time, do it, it will help alot with perfecting the performance of the engine

the problem with just attaching the line to the intake would be the fact that its just hiding the problem, and if the car has cats, and its sucking in alot of oil, it will clog them up pretty fast...

is it just me or is it a sad day for TGP's?

custom length pushrods = not that bad.... if your going to dish out the cash for all the stuff for the top swap, custom pushrods are chump change...   http://wot-tech.com/shop/all/custom-length-pushrods/prod_78.html

mines looking like its going to be a jack stand racer for another year :(

1500 miles is very little to break in an engine, but if the clearances were not machined properly when it was rebuilt, or they did a cheap rebuild with just throwing in new rings instead of actualy re doing the surface on the cylinder, it could do that its whole life...

another common problem is when people install rings without a ring installer, crack them, and then they break in the first few thousand miles you run the engine, causing excesive blow by and hence, oil coming out of orifices of the crankcase... probably especialy under boost...

no doubts about it that is has something to do with the cylinder's not sealing up properly, and then you get into boost and all that pressure is blowing by the rings, causing excesive crank case pressure and oil coming out the breather...

not realy much you can do about it other than rebuild the engine or hope it breaks in enough to where it goes away, but this should happen within the first 1000 miles for sure.... 




heres what you can try to help break it in, my engines, airflow, and dyno instructor, a brilliant man by the name of Bill Wagner, told us his stratagy for cylinder ring break in...

go out, accelerate the car on a road, keeping it in the same gear, up to about 3-4 thousand rpm, let it engine brake down to about 2k rpm, keep doing that for 30-60min....

varry the acceleration rate up to the 3-4k rpm too, go realy realy easy, go full out, go medium, etc.... towards the end of the time u can bring it up to about 4500 if you want...


good luck man, hope it breaks in for ya... otherwise your gona need to tear that baby down and put in new rings and hone out the cylinders...

yes u can do a top end swap with 3400 heads and intake

just saying, u may want to revise ur price, why is it more expensive for both?

seems a bit pricey to me...

yea lets try and keep the 90* v6's out of our turbo GP's

well id love it if it was as simple as throwing a turbo and chip on the existing engine, but the existing engine has a really hard knock... its actually out of the car now and i plan on tearing it down this summer to see what happened...

would it be worth puting a 3400 in the STE Turbo and putting the stock 3.1 manifold back on? i know that the ports are smaller, but the turbo could make up for it and im just looking for a touch more power while keeping it a completely stock look, im more into restoring it than power at the current moment...

personally i would pick a 3.4 due to the fact there cheap, easy to obtain, and alot of people have swapped them, with the 3.5 u run into a few issues especially if you get the VVT one...