Your car was screwing up and you put it to the floor?

If it starts, but makes that jackhammer sound, might as well drive it, cause you cant blow up a blown motor.

How Far in BFE are you? Near Ohio at all?

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I think its a gonner?

Water pump did it?

My car was just acting weird so i was testing it to see what happened.

I live in southern Kentucky, near Bowling Green.

If it doesnt work out with this engine, and you think you can limp it to 30 minutes north of Cincinnati, Contact Tim King and have him drop a new engine in for you.

I can pass you his info if it gets to that point.

If you don't know who he is:
YouTube - Tim King - 8sec V6

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to me it sounds like an oil pump failure... the motor was acting sluggish because it was nothing but friction.

just my opinion.

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I can't see how our pump could ever fail. If the engine is turning, it's pumping oil. It's just a gear connected to te crank in the front cover.

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I was thinking that the radiator might have stopped cooling the engine, and when the engine heated up the head-gasket might have cracked and allowed water in, hydrolocking the engine and breaking a rod. Does this sound possible?

The engine is done it spun a bearing. There is no reason to try to save the engine. While driving the car it could have oval'd out the main and rod bearin hone's. Change the engine and call it done.

Sounds possible, but I've seen many 3.8s hydro lock and not break anything.... We can guess all day, but you will have to tear into it/do some diagnostics for us to know for sure......I wouldn't jump to the spun bearing conclusion just yet, although possible, we dont have enough info

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I've got Boost!! I've got only 1.5* KR left my poor L36 block.....

soz to hear bout your bad news man not cool

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