[Nate's Alero]

Originally Posted by falloutboy

thats 402 thousand kilometers -- holy shit thats about 2.23 times what I got on my '99
*knock on wood*

And she sounds great! I will admit i kinda expected it to blow someday, but i guess it's fine... weird!

Originally Posted by mastershake

I believe it. After all that sand in my oil bullcrap, it still doesn't burn oil... Just made the lifters loud as hell... No rough running or anything.



..... Then again my engine could take a crap at Any moment

Nah, 3400's are bulletproof, look at all the times mine's had coolant soak the crankcase, and the bottom end is still tight!

Originally Posted by mfuller

Make sure you didn't blow the welds off your intake manifold.

Oh no! that can happen? These were milzy's LIM/UIM....

Originally Posted by a.graham52

flashing ses light: catalyst damaging missfire. just an fyi

I'm aware, i used to have a lot of issues with this car eating spark plugs, so that light's done the whole raw fuel dumping in the past.

Originally Posted by colonel6632

i swear to god my eco did that same thing! once just cruising down the highway, another time during a wot 15m after seafoaming and that time there was even smoke. still going good today

So it banged, and it sounded like metal bits from the engine hit the road? I've NEVER had this happen to me, why i thought some part fell off....

Originally Posted by zzyzzx

For one thing you should probably not be doing the who WOT thing. It's like asking for trouble, especially on an engine that has lots of miles on it.

Originally Posted by 03glgold

unless there is damage to the motor, low oil, or extremely poor maintenance then WOT doesn't hurt a thing...He didn't say he held it at WOT which could ultimately cause problems...I WOT my truck which has 303,000 on the motor and it doesn't hurt anything, in fact I tend to have more issues develop if I try to baby it then if I just run it...I can't speak for his area, but I have driven in plenty of places where if you are scared of WOT then you will never get anywhere...the fact is though all cars are mechanical and no matter how well you take care of mechanical objects, or how much you baby them, they all wear out at some point...I could see where you could see a problem with doing WOT after it had happened, however everything seemed fine, and sometimes the best way to diagnose a problem is to try and recreate circumstances

Exactly! My engine is otherwise perfect, oil is clean, no low fluids, new rad, new HG's 25K ago, same with LIMG... so there's really nothing that can happen.... except it blowing up again because of the 02...

Originally Posted by billytheman1188

Now me and the mad scientist have to rip apart the block and replace the piston rings you just fried Nate!

Oh god why! Wanna do a rebuild in the Hotel parking lot i stayed at?

Originally Posted by rocketfast321

This ^^^ My dad's 07 1500 has 70k on it; and when you get on it, it just doesn't feel right. Now my alero @130k and my girls 90 calais @105k both get rode hard at times. The calais will just stove up and wont have any power till it gets rode hard.

In Detroit they have some of the shortest on ramps i ever seen. It's like on ramp going down to interstate (steep hill). Then you have 50' of level ground to move into the flow of traffic that's going 80mpg.

Side note, i did have a weird problem when i first got my 01 GA in 02. 2.4. On wot WOT at would start blowing white smoke like the head gasket went. Dealer said the pcm needed an update.

We have STUPIDLY short ramps here, and cars that don't have a v6 or more usually have to go into the breakdown lane to get up to speed! every time i get on the highway i need to WOT whatever i'm driving...