TSi issues Options

[ncgalant]

Well I've begun work on the new talon. I first pulled the oil pan to find if their claim of a broken rod was indeed true. What I found was worse. The rod was fine. The piston on #4 was in 8000000 pieces. The oil pan was full of piston. This didn't bother me.

What bothered me was when I pulled the turbo. The coolant lines were full of piston. When I started pulling water lines off the engine to pull it, piston pieces everywhere. This doesn't bother me other than the parts that I can't clean easily. I'm assuming the heater core is full of metal. The radiator is full of metal. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I was thinking about throwing in the other motor, but I don't want it full of metal pieces. In-line filters all over? I'm really not sure where to go with this.

[turbohcar]

Depends on what year your car was made or if you want to be sure, drop the transfer case and count the teeth or "splines" on the output shaft. That will tell you how many your car has and you can get the respective transmission. BTW, screw the heater core!! Silly galant, heaters are for kids. The dash isn't all that much trouble and you'll be able to feel the weight savings if it makes you feel any better. See if you can take the radiator to a radiator shop (Ma's in Bloomington or something similar) usually they can get most things flushed out of radiators. In my opinion, you'll probably have to take everything that had coolant in it off and use the air compressor on it to blow the metal out.